The Oil Industry: BOEM iron triangle

HGURESJ The Oil Industry—BOEM Iron Triangle Bureaucracy Interior Department BOEM Interest - Legislation affecting offshore oil drilling and exploration G roup S Lobbyists for Oil Industr - Information about policy and industry concerns y - Campaign contributions and election support Iron triangles (involving Congress, the bureaucracy, and special interest groups) exist on nearly every subgovernment level. In this example,you can see how the BOEM (the Bureau ofOcean Energy Management), which depends on the House and the Senate for its budget, influences and is influenced by oil company lobbyists, who in turn influence and are influenced by House and Senate committees and subcommittees. This mutual interdependence represents a monopoly ofpower.