To me, it'd make sense in theory to carve out these exceptions even without a lobbyist asking for them: it'd make for a bill that gets immediately passed rather

To me, it'd make sense in theory to carve out these exceptions even without a lobbyist asking for them: it'd make for a bill that gets immediately passed rather than endlessly argued about and shot down, because a bill with these exceptions has nobody on the other side of it pushing back. And that could just be the first step; you could then do a series of smaller bills (or better yet, riders to must-pass bills) that each try to knock out one of these exceptions. In practice, though, I feel like the exemptions here will be interpreted as part of the "spirit of the bill" rather than examples of realpolitik expediency...