Interest Groups, Lobbying, and Participation in America
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: August 13, 1999
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 170
ISBN-13: 9780521639620
Subjects: Political structure & processes; Pressure groups & lobbying; Politics/International Relations; Political Science; Politics / Current Events; USA; Pressure groups; Government - U.S. Government; Political Process - General; Political Science / General; Political Science-Political Process - General; Pressure groups--United States; Lobbying; Political participation; United States
First sentence: In the summer of 1982, Senator Bob Dole, then chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, and Representative Dan Rostenkowski, then chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, introduced legislation to withhold taxes on interest from bank accounts and dividends from securities.