ENVR 2900 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Clean Water Act
18 Oct 2017
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Class #8 guest lecture: robert rio, senior vice president of associated industries. Speaker: robert rio, lobbyist for industries, from aim (associated industries of ma) Lobbying: legislative lobbying vs. agency lobbying (e. g. lobbying against the dep) Lobbyists are the specialist on a subject - to educate to legislator. No. of bills that get filed and passed per session: In ma (has a 2 year session) - around 6000-10000 per session. Step 3: house or senate committee for hearing => support or oppose. Every bill has a public hearing assigned by the committee. Nobody has to show up - co. s usually don"t show up (they don"t want to take a s. How to measure success (i. e. cost/benefit - extremely hard to measure in environmental bills especially) Step 4: during deliberation by committee, all parties work together to iron out the dif. After the hearing, one-on-one session : work for the lobbyists. Long process (no time limit except the end of the session)
