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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Air Conditioning Accumulator. The AC accumulator is a holding vessel that receives refrigerant after it leaves the evaporator. Its primary fiction is to covert any remaining liquid refrigerant into its gaseous state before it enters the compressor. The accumulator contains a desiccant, which absorbs any moisture in the refrigerant. 2  If the system is open to the atmosphere more than a short period of time, the desiccant can become full of moisture, which can lead to corrosion.