This policymaking has taken place with low visibility and very little opposition to the benefits provided for veterans. Members of Congress chairing the relevant committees and subcommittees and their aides, key agency administrators from the US Department of Veterans Affairs, and representatives from interest groups such as the American Legion and the Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) have interacted and dominated policymaking (Freeman, 1965). A classic iron triangle has been veterans’ affairs policy. In what are called iron triangles, or subgovernments, policy on a subject is often made by a relatively few people from Congress, the bureaucracy, and interest groups. As one lobbyist observed, “A lobby is like a night flower, it thrives in the dark and dies in the sun” (Goldberg, 2011). Opposition to a group’s activities is difficult when they are not visible. Interest groups are often most successful when their activities are unreported by the media, unscrutinized by most policymakers, and hidden from the public. Congress exempted auto dealers from the regulation. After President Barack Obama proposed putting automobile loans under the oversight of a new federal consumer authority aimed at protecting borrowers from abusive lender, the dealers’ lobbying arm, the National Automobile Dealers Association, organized opposition, including trips to Washington for some of the eighteen thousand dealers to meet and plead their case with their legislators (Lichtblau, 2011). Automobile dealers are influential and live, as do their employees, in congressional districts across the country. The status and distribution of an interest group’s members also contribute to its success. Monetary assets allow groups to contribute to political campaigns through their political action committees (PACs). The Business Roundtable, composed of the chief executives of the two hundred leading corporations, has them all and thus has access to and influence on policymakers. Send us feedback.Successful interest groups have prestige, respected leadership, political skills, and ample finances. These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'interest group.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Laura Blasey, Los Angeles Times, 2 June 2021 But law enforcement is a powerful interest group, and its advocates have been able to stymie reforms for years, frustrating people like Orr who want to see major changes to Alabama’s asset forfeiture laws.Ĭonnor Sheets | al, The cancelation of corporate licenses for Park’s group meant no more tax deductions or tax benefits as an interest group. Sergio Carmona,, 11 June 2021 There’s a story for every interest group and time period, often with a trademark flying saucer and an undercurrent of distrust in authority. Robert Poole, WSJ, 30 June 2021 Temple Beth El of Boca Raton launched a multi-generational members-only interest group program in late 2020 to connect congregants with one another. 2021 Moreover, if such a huge gas-tax increase were possible, every transportation interest group would demand its share of the new revenue, shortchanging the interstates. 2021 Legal fees in defense of the 2011 redistricting cost taxpayers in excess of $4 million, and WHEREAS, the state and congressional districts belong to the citizens of Wisconsin and not to any legislature, interest group or political party.Įvan Casey, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 5 Aug. 13) that the committee be dissolved and restructured as a community interest group.Ĭleveland, 14 Oct. 2021 Kline, who serves as chairman of the committee, proposed to council Wednesday (Oct. Recent Examples on the Web Neda Deylami, who lives on the North Side and drives a Tesla, was a founder of Chicago for EVs, an interest group.
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