A Pharmaceutical Company Wants to Convince the Food and Drug

A pharmaceutical company wants to convince the Food and Drug Administration,a federal bureaucratic agency,to relax regulations governing the amount of time it takes to move a drug through clinical trials.The company is most likely to succeed if it uses ____________________ tactics to influence ____________________ because ____________________.

A) outside lobbying; the courts; justices are often heavily influenced by the content of amicus curiae briefs
B) outside lobbying; bureaucrats; individuals working for bureaucracies can be influenced by their membership in interest groups
C) inside lobbying; Congress; congressional hearings can draw attention to the issue and put it on legislative agendas
D) inside lobbying; the president; he or she can change the institutional rules of any executive office agency
E) inside lobbying; bureaucrats; interest groups often already have ongoing cooperative relationships with agencies