8-Interest Groups Webquest 2021

Name: Date: Directions: Go to https://www.opensecrets.org/industries/ to answer the following questions. You may need to use other websites to define terms and answer follow-up questions. 1. Define Special Interest Group: a group of people or an organization seeking or receiving special advantages, typically through political lobbying. 2. Define Lobbyist: a person who tries to influence legislation on behalf of a special interest or a member of a lobby. 3. Go to opensecrets and click on Top Interest Groups to Congress. Then click on Top 50 Interest Groups to fill out the chart for the top 5. Rank Interest Group Amount Spent Democra t % Republic an % Top Recipient 1 Retired $357,474,98 0 30% 69% Lindsey Graham (R- SC) 2 Lawyers/Law Firms $93,022,117 74% 25% Mark Kelly (D-Ariz) 3 Democratic/Liber al $91,700,009 99% 0% Bernie Sanders (I- Vt) 4 Securities/Invest $85,206,250 56% 44% Kelly Loeffler (R-Ga) 5 Real Estate $84,211,141 47% 53% David Perdue (R- Ga) 4. Click on interest group list and pick a specific interest group you want to learn more about. What type of information does opensecrets provide to you? List 3 different things. Textiles: Long-Term Contribution Trends, all the contributors and what they have given, & recipients and the amount they received Follow-up- Please answer the following questions in your own words and in complete sentences. 5. How are interest groups different than political parties? What an influence group does is strive to influence the government while a political party has candidates who want to run the government. 6. How do interest groups attempt to influence public policy? Interest groups attempt to influence public policy through lobbyist whose purpose is to effect change at every entry point of these public policy.