Examples of lobbyist in the following topics:
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- For example, food industry lobbyists and healthcare lobbyists recently clashed over the issue of school lunches.
- The food lobbyists succeeded in blocking the proposed reforms, even writing rules suggesting that the tomato paste on a pizza qualified as a vegetable.
- Many lobbyists work in lobbying firms or law firms, some of which retain clients outside of lobbying.
- Lobbyists can also be one type of government official, such as a governor of a state, who presses officials in Washington for specific legislation.
- Most corporations do not hire lobbyists.
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- The United States is a representative federal democracy driven by elections in which citizens' and lobbyists' diverse interests compete.
- Although individual citizens are the only ones who can cast votes, special interest groups and lobbyists may influence elections and law-making with money and other resources.
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- One example of this is a corporate oligarchy, or corporatocracy—a system in which power effectively rests with a small, elite group of inside individuals, sometimes from a small group of educational institutions, or influential economic entities or devices, such as banks, commercial entities, lobbyists that act in complicity with, or at the whim of the oligarchy, often with little or no regard for constitutionally protected prerogative.