Lobbyists Research Paper

The Great Napoleon Bonaparte once said “Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent” [CITATION Napnd \l 1033]. The goal of the thousands of special interest groups and the tens of thousands of lobbyists in the nation’s capital today spending more money than can be understood in order to support and promote their agenda to the legislature with the goal of obtaining votes and support to make their agenda become reality and policy. The lobbyists prevent policy from being signed and they help to ensure policy is signed. With that said the next question comes as to are these lobbyist effective in changing federal policy?

Lobbyists have a certain agenda in which they are fighting for on a daily basis. They contact legislatures in order to sway the vote in the way in which to support their agenda. There are a lot of occurrences where lobbyist sway votes to prevent certain policies from
If a special interest group needs a specific federal policy to succeed they will lean on the shoulders of their lobbyists in order to ensure that the required supporting votes are gained to ensure that the policy is approved.

The major question still lies as are these lobbyists effective in changing federal policy? It is in my personal opinion lobbyist can absolutely be effective in changing federal policy as long as they have the voter support that they need. It is very similar to a fire; a fire will not burn if it does not have the fuel that it needs to burn. The same is with lobbying for policy, if the votes are not there to support that particular policy then the policy will not become signed. This could be in the favor of the lobbyist’s agenda which would make it effective, but if it hurts their agenda because it fails then they have not effected change in the federal policy that necessarily supports their agenda.

The Federal Lobbying Act was passed by Congress in 1946.Prior to this, there was