Author: Joseph Gibson
Publisher: TheCapitol.Net, Inc.
Keywords: congress, advocacy, successful, capitol, advice, executives, dynamics, candid, folkways, guide, practical, parlaying, understanding, congressional, persuading
Number of Pages: 156
Published: 2010-02-24
List price: $24.00
ISBN-10: 1587331640
ISBN-13: 9781587331640

Persuading Congress, by Joseph Gibson, is a very practical book, packed with wisdom and experience in a deceptively short and simple package. What happens in Congress affects all of our lives and extends into every corner of the economy. Because so much is at stake there, businesses and other interest groups spend billions of dollars each year trying to influence it. Yet, most of these efforts are doomed to futility from the outset. Only a small percentage of the bills introduced in Congress actually become law, and most interested parties do not fully understand why those few bills succ