US lobbyists: overpaid, overwrought and over here

Good Herald Tribune piece on the various lobbies trying to make the European Parliament vote 22 April into a test case for the US later in the year. 

I'm not sure that its true that this is an unprecedented piece of Beltway lobbying in Brussels, some of us remember the 'Television without frontiers' debates of 1996-7, open warfare by the Mouse on European cultural dirigistes...