Grass-Roots Lobbying Tactics Evade Public Eye - Roll Call

Grass-Roots Lobbying Tactics Evade Public Eye

By Kent Cooper

Posted March 22, 2013 at 9:21am

As part of a lobbying campaign to persuade Congress to regulate the fees that merchants pay when customers use debit cards, the firm DCI Group scheduled hundreds of Hill meetings and generated more than 31,500 constituent calls to congressional offices. See Roll Call article. Retail Industry Leaders Association PAC profile. Retail Industry Leaders Assn. lobbying profile.

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