Grassroots lobbyists throng Congress

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It is spring and they are everywhere. Flocks of constituents, here by the thousands for organized “Hill Days,” are filling up hotels, crowding congressional cafeterias and making the halls of Congress ring with the clatter of earnest shoefalls.

The annual migration is targeted at legislators weighing bills impacting the different professional associations, business groups and other organizations that coordinate these waves of grassroots lobbyists.

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