Strauss: Lobbying Is Needed

By Robert S. Strauss
Special to Roll Call
June 6, 2005, 12 a.m.

I am not a lobbyist. But I have been in and around government and politics since before I came to Washington, D.C., in the early 1970s to lead the Democratic Party. I’ve known a lobbyist or two in that time and hired many of them at Akin Gump. Lobbying is at times maligned, perhaps rightfully so. But it is also a fixture in our democratic system of government, and essential to it.



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