Congress: We The People - Lobbying Congress
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Man (lobbyist) wearing business suit and carrying a briefcase gets off a bus
Group of men wearing business suits (lobbyist) entering the Capitol.
Chamber of Commerce convention
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April 26, 1982. Remarks at the Annual Meeting of the United States Chamber of Commerce. Ronald Reagan Accepting important challenges is the Chamber's stock-in-trade, and a new one begins today: How about the first business satellite television network system in the world - a system that can reach every community in this country to promote and strengthen our enterprise system?
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DO NOT USE Video conference Ronald Reagan fields phone calls from people concerned about business issues.
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John LK Thomas, US Chamber of Commerce, We ve got people who are glued to television sets out there. All right. Let s get on television and let s communicate with them.
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John LK Thomas, US Chamber of Commerce, what he believes it s going to do. And he doesn t have to say Write a letter to your Congressman . Again if he lays this out in the proper kind of terms people are going to see this as an issue that is important to them either positively or negatively.