corporate lobbying

Type: Concept

As of November 2026, corporate lobbying has been mentioned in one podcast episode on The Diary Of A CEO (Nov 2025).

Lobbying is a paid activity in which advocacy groups hire well-connected professional advocates, often lawyers, to argue for specific legislation in decision-making bodies such as the United States Congress. It is often perceived negatively by journalists and the American public; critics consider it to be a form of bribery, influence peddling, or extortion and lobbying was illegal in the United States in the eighteenth and much of the nineteenth centuries. Lobbying is subject to complex rules wh