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The President isn’t the only one about to address Congress. The season for Washington missions is about to hit full stride. Soon after the President’s State of the Union Address, many groups and individuals will arrive in Washington to peddle their issues, make arguments, and hope that Congress will consider their policy goals as part of or against the President’s message. Sadly, for most of the hundreds of thousands which arrive in the next few months to Washington, their mission to Washington will be an utter failure, Congress will ignore them, and their issue will remain irrelevant in the halls of power.

Why? What separates good lobbying and missions from the bad and the ugly?

The results of some recent Washington lobbying allows for a revealing look at the difference between mission success and failure. 

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