One of the best strategies that interest groups can use to achieve their goals is
A. Pressing for changes in high-profile public policies
B. Lobbying members of Congress to make small changes in existing policy
C. Using the judiciary to invalidate federal legislation
D. Encouraging states to use their Tenth Amendment rights and ignore federal law
E. Running candidates for office
Ans: B. Lobbying members of Congress to make small changes in existing policy
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