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America's first lobbyist? Sign reading No Lobbyists Beyond This Point is posted on a marble wall inside the Maryland State House, with an arched hallway visible in the background. Political cartoon shows Uncle Sam as a lion trapped in a net labeled Lobbyism, with a small rat labeled Col. Mulhall nearby and the U.S. Capitol also caught in the net in the background. Representative Alfred M. Phillips stands beside his office door, looking at a sign reading Come in! Everybody welcome except professional lobbyists. A group of lobbyists in business attire walk up the steps toward the United States Capitol building in Washington, DC, with its white dome visible against a clear sky. A person in a frog costume stands near the office door of Senator Maggie Hassan at the Hart Senate Office Building, with flags and the office nameplate visible.
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America's first lobbyist?
Benjamin Franklin traveled between the colonies and England to lobby against the...
© John Parrot—Stocktrek Images/Getty Images
Drawing the line
A sign in the Maryland State House in Annapolis marking a part of the building that...
© Daniel Huizinga
Not a new problem
A 1913 political cartoon from Puck magazine portrays the federal government...
Udo J. Keppler/Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. (2011649612)
Sign of the times
Democratic Rep. Alfred N. Phillips poses next to the sign on his office door in 1937....
Harris & Ewing Collection—Prints and Photographs Division/Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. (2016871098)
Lobbying at the Capitol
Lobbyists representing a multitude of professions climb the steps to the U.S. Capitol...
© Dennis Brack/Alamy
Lobbying's extremes
Members of the Portland Frog Brigade standing in front of Sen. Maggie Hassan's office...
© Riley Harty—ZUMA Press Wire/Shutterstock.com
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