Here we've totaled all the campaign contributions over the years from more than 100 interest groups, so that you can see patterns that might have affected policies with an impact on your life. We also track how much interest groups have been spending on lobbying, which is the other side of the influence coin. Lobbying Professional advocates make big bucks to lobby members of Congress and government officials on the issues their clients care about.
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15,631 pages on this wiki. A restored example of a 'Hydraulic Accumulator' in the Museum of Science and Industry in Manchester. A 'hydraulic accumulator' is an energy storage device. It is a pressure storage reservoir in which a non-compressible hydraulic fluid is held under pressure by an external source.That external source can be a spring, a raised weight, or a compressed gas.he main reasons that an accumulator is used in a hydraulic system are so that the pump doesn't need to be so large to cope with extremes of demand, so that the supply circuit can respond more quickly to any temporary demand and to smooth pulsations.