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 ________ lobbying tactics to influence ________ because ________.

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