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22 Dec 07
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Second, previous organizations focused primarily on the process of developing "appropriate" policy, which generally involved long-range study commissions and a primary focus on the executive branch. The Roundtable, by contrast, devoted most of its energy to direct lobbying activities, often focusing on Congress, the site of many of business's political losses.
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Business also began to exert its muscle in more straightforwardly political arenas. One crucial step was the rise to prominence of the Business Roundtable. Founded in the early 1970s,
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In the mid to late 1970s, business began its own countermobilization, operating simultaneously on many fronts. Money was shifted out of liberal and moderate think tanks and policy organizations (the Brookings Institution, Council on Foreign Relations, and Committee for Economic Development) to newly founded or reinvigorated conservative equivalents (the American Enterprise Institute, Hoover Institution, and Heritage Foundation). In 1965 and 1970, the three moderate organizations had more than triple the funding of the three conservative ones; by 1975, this advantage was much diminished, and by 1980, the conservative organizations spent substantially more than the moderate ones.
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From I969 through I972, virtually the entire American business community experienced a series of political setbacks without parallel in the postwar period. In the space of only four years, Congress enacted a significant tax-reform bill, four major environmental laws, an occupational safety and health act, and a series of additional consumer-protection statutes. The government also created a number of important new regulatory agencies, including the Environmental Protection Administration (EPA), the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), and the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC), investing them with broad powers over a wide range of business decisions.
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