Source: Mark Binker, WRAL, 8/30/15

When the loud thunk of the speaker's gavel hammered a legislative day to a close on a recent afternoon, most members of the state House began moseying off to late-day meetings or, if they were lucky, home for the night. As rank-and-file lawmakers filtered out, more than a dozen lobbyists made beelines for the desks of a few key committee chairmen.

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