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Abstract
Because lobbyists for interest groups need to be responsive to the needs and
desires of lawmakers, themselves shaped by the structure of institutions, lawmakers can
use the power of their institutions to suppress conflict among groups. This paper
examines how ideological outlier committees differ in their interaction with interest
groups in congressional hearings from non-outliers. Unlike non-outliers, outlier
committees desire to invite interest groups that will provide unanimous support for the
committee agenda thereby suppressing conflict. But pressures from group members and
competitor interest groups can force lobbyists to defy the outlier committee when such
pressures are extreme. I test this argument with data on interest group testimony before
twenty committees on six issues from 1999 to 2001. The results demonstrate the
importance and limits of institutional structure and lawmakers preferences of the strategic
decisions of interest group lobbyists.
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