Direct lobbying usually __________.

A. ignores attendance at campaign fundraisers
B. puts pressure on for-profit organizations to act in the favor of lobbyists
C. involves massive numbers of individually written letters
D. takes place quietly in congressional committees and executive bureaucracies


Answer: D

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