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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A hydraulic accumulator is a pressure storage reservoir in which a non-compressible hydraulic fluid is held under pressure by an external source.The external source can be a spring, a raised weight, or a compressed gas. working example of this type of accumulator may be found at the hydraulic engine house, Bristol Harbour. The external accumulator was added around 1920. The water is pumped from the harbour into a header tank and then fed by gravity to the pumps.