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A lobby is an individual or pressure group
that sets out to influence government action.
The lobby is prevalent in the USA, where the
term originated in the 1830s from the
practice of those wishing to influence state
policy waiting for elected representatives in
the lobby of the Capitol.
Subject by: George Sweeney