Sentences with phrase «alec members»

ALEC members look forward to developing new partnerships and relationships with all those who seek to advance criminal justice policy.

She disagrees with me that they write bills that could become laws, but if you look at the name American Legislative Exchange Council you see it in the name — Legislative Exchange which, to me, means changing legislation and since there are lobbyist close to ALEC members it fits in the category of writing laws!

Some co-sponsors became ALEC members in the lead up to ALEC's late 2011 meeting in Scottsdale, AZ, where the fracking disclosure loophole model bill was finalized by ALEC's Energy, Environmental and Agriculture task force.

Ohio is in the final stages of making an Exxon trojan horse on hydrofracking into state law, and it appears that the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) connected Exxon's lawyers with co-sponsors of Ohio Senate Bill 315: at least 33 of the 45 Ohio legislators who co-sponsored SB 315 are ALEC members, and language from portions of the state Senate bill is similar to ALEC's «Disclosure of Hydraulic Fracturing Fluid Composition Act.»

What's most suspicious is that seven of the ten Ohio Senators co-sponsoring SB 315 are ALEC members, as are 26 of the 35 co-sponsoring Representatives.

The Senate Utilities committee sponsoring SB 82 has at least three ALEC members and the House Energy & Environment committee that introduced HB 2241 has at least three ALEC members:

There's ExxonMobil and the American Petroleum Institute, the architects of the leaked 1998 master plan to publicly attack climate science and scientists, which included ALEC itself and other ALEC members like DCI Group.

Excluded were coal companies, for example, such as ALEC members Dominion Resources and Peabody Energy, which are downsizing as coal sales continue to decline.

But renewable energy officials — including ones from the Solar Energy Industries Association and the American Wind Energy Association, both ALEC members — questioned the new policy.

ALEC members focus on new and innovative state policies that reduce prison populations, prioritize criminal justice spending and help rehabilitate and restore offenders» lives.

Peabody Energy and Koch Industries serve on ALEC's Private Enterprise Advisory Council and ExxonMobil, Chevron, Duke Energy, Marathon Petroleum, the Edison Electric Institute, American Fuel & Petrochemical Manufacturers, American Gas Association, the Nuclear Energy Institute, and the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association are ALEC members.

We know that ALEC members include not only the Heartland Institute, but a who's who of dirty energy interests that stand to make money by denying climate change.

Comprised of nearly one - quarter of the country's state legislators and stakeholders from across the policy spectrum, ALEC members represent more than 60 million Americans and provide jobs to more than 30 million people in the United States.»

He told other ALEC members to «encourage state attorneys general to fight EPA power grab.»

This time it was with North Dakota Attorney General Wayne Stenehjem, who, according to an e-mail this reporter obtained, said he would provide ALEC members with «ideas and legal expertise» to address the forthcoming EPA standards.

Despite the divides, Simmons remained hopeful that ALEC members would endorse the organization's «free market» mission with a broad statement against energy subsidies.

The three ALEC members received a total of $ 9,514 from the oil and gas industry in the 2008 and 2010 election cycles in campaign money combined, and the four of them together received $ 13,814 in campaign cash from the oil and gas industry, according to the National Institute on Money in State Politics» FollowTheMoney.org.

ALEC members support more choice for students, because taxpayers deserve a government that looks out for them, not one that dictates how they should live their life.

Thankfully, research on which policies work in other states show us that educational choice programs supported by ALEC members have a record of success across different measures, from test score increases, to parental satisfaction, to better life outcomes for students.

Unfortunately, ISTA and other progressive groups disagree with ALEC members» ideas to fix government and to improve the education opportunities for students.

A good government is a limited one, and ALEC members strive every day to make government more efficient, effective and accountable to the taxpayer.

The truth is that ALEC members» ideas work.

These ALEC members are taking a victory lap for diverting money from public schools to the for - profit gateway drug of charter schools leading to private schools funded entirely with public money.

The Foundation funded three ALEC members who sat on the ALEC Education Task Force which approved the Parent Trigger Proposal: The Independence Institute, Center for Education Reform, and Pacific Research Institute.

ALEC members believe taxpayers should come first.

Resolution in Opposition to a Carbon Tax: Despite support for a carbon tax from ALEC members like ExxonMobil, ALEC is creating a model bill to weigh in on what will become the keystone policy battle for climate change science deniers, a battle that is already creating a rift among conservative groups, like the Koch - funded Heritage Foundation and the Heartland Institute against the R Street Institute.

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Anschutz bankrolls ALEC and ALEC member groups.

However, the conversion to charter schools has proven profitable to many U.S. firms such as ALEC member National Heritage Academies, a for - profit charter school management organization operating in eight states, and K - 12, Inc., which promotes «virtual» charter schools as well as «virtual» voucher schools.

The bill was based on an ALEC «model bill,» and the lead sponsor was ALEC member and former State Senator Debbie Lesko.

As a former ALEC member, perhaps Mr. Tobin needs to be reminded of Ayn Rand's famous quote, «you can ignore reality, but you can't ignore the consequences of reality.»

In 2011, ALEC member, Rep. Thomas A. Anderson, introduced H.B. 302.

The total Market Cap of the companies that have left ALEC in recent years is over $ 7.25 Trillion (trillion with a T) The biggest company that is still an ALEC member is ExxonMobil with a current Market Cap of $ 355 Billion.

11 Alive investigators examined ALEC's status as a nonprofit versus what former a ALEC member describes as a «corporate bill mill.»

Dominion is an ALEC member.

You can see why ALEC member companies like American Electric Power or Duke Energy may take issue with this, given their reliance on coal and gas electricity generation.

Ohio state Senator and ALEC member Troy Balderson sponsored SB 310, which passed and was signed by early ALEC alumni Governor John Kasich.

His RPS sneak - attack is matched by House Bill 302, introduced by ALEC member Rep. Peter Stautberg.

Troy Balderson, the third ALEC member senator in Ohio to introduce RPS attack legislation, is listed in ALEC's Energy, Environment and Agriculture task force rosters from 2011 (see ALEC EEA agendas from Cincinnati and New Orleans, from Common Cause's whisteblower complaint to the IRS about ALEC's lobbying activities).

[5] ALEC listed the company as part of its Energy, Environment and Agriculture Task Force until it allegedly terminated its membership on January 14, 2013 because its «merged with Duke; new contacts» (Duke remained an ALEC member), according to an August 2013 board document obtained by The Guardian.

Not exact matches

On Tuesday, The Guardian showed how ALEC is facing a funding crisis after losing a number of members due to its policy on gun laws.

Chevron remains a member of many of the same anti-climate policy lobbying groups as Exxon, including the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.

And Commissioner Robert Burns (R) is a legacy member of ALEC and former Arizona state chair of the organization.

Many publicly - traded corporations are members of ALEC, which crafts legislation that challenges renewable energy regulations and undermines the EPA's Clean Power Plan.

Volker was also a member of the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC).

Heartland has long been a paying member of ALEC's Energy, Environment and Agriculture task force along with Koch, Exxon and others.

ALEC is leading the nationally - coordinated attack on state renewable portfolio standards as part of an ambitious dirty energy agenda for the members of its anti-environmental task force, like Koch Industries, ExxonMobil, Peabody Energy, Duke Energy and other major oil, gas and coal interests.

Mr. Head testified alongside members of the Heartland Institute, Americans for Prosperity and the Kansas Policy Institute (see more on each, below), all of which are members of ALEC and SPN.

SPN was also a «Chairman» level sponsor of ALEC's 2011 Annual Conference and ALEC is an Associate Member of SPN.