Sentences with phrase «group lobbying firm»

«On delivering on their campaign promises, it's hard to pat them on the back and tell them they've done a good job,» said Sam Geduldig, a former aide to House Speaker John A. Boehner of Ohio, now a partner at the CGCN Group lobbying firm.

Levant also featured skeptic Tom Harris, previous director of the High Park Group lobbying firm, who believes that the sun is behind climate change (another popular, and largely debunked climate change skeptic talking point).

Not exact matches

Flynn's son also recently drew focus in the Russia investigation because of work he did for his father's lobbying firm, Flynn Intel Group, and legal analysts have said that Mueller's focus on Flynn Jr. could be an attempt to coerce his father's cooperation in the investigation.

During the summit held on Monday, attendees from various technology companies, lobbying groups, and law firms, gathered to discuss India's growing economy and its impact on U.S. businesses.

On Monday, the British Chamber of Commerce (BCC), a lobby group for U.K. firms, revised its forecasts to predict gross domestic product (GDP) growth will pull back to 1.1 percent in 2017 from 2.1 percent this year.

Pence's own former congressional chief of staff has lobbied him on behalf of insurance company Aflac, tech giant Microsoft, biofuels trade group Fuels America, and telecom firms Verizon and AT&T.

The lobbying records show Dick's hired two Democrats and one Republican from Glover Park Group, a DC - based government affairs firm, for «[l] obbying related to gun control.»

Instead, legislators appear to have bought into the false notion that pass - throughs are small businesses, and are responding to the organized efforts of trade groups composed of pass - throughs, who push that narrative aggressively (and with the help of pass - through lobbying firms).

The PATS lobbying firm, the Winter Group (TWG), helped develop the talking points for the day.

One of the panelists at the SNA's policy session was Craig Burkhardt, a lawyer with the group's new lobbying firm, Barnes and Thornburg (whose clients include the National Rifle Association).

Kim has the support of the Queens Democratic Party and is currently an associate at the Parkside Group (a consulting / lobbying firm that also has close ties to the party).

-- Pataki registered to lobby through his firm, the Pataki - Cahill Group.

During the mayoral primary, «NYCLASS's political consultant Scott Levenson of the Advance Group (a lobbying and consulting firm) told two Quinn aides that if she wouldn't back a ban on the horse and carriage industry, the group would launch a campaign to bring her Group (a lobbying and consulting firm) told two Quinn aides that if she wouldn't back a ban on the horse and carriage industry, the group would launch a campaign to bring her group would launch a campaign to bring her down.

It's never been entirely clear, though it may be related to the MirRam Group, the powerful consulting and lobbying firm that has long counted Espaillat and Klein as clients.

He was previously executive director of the House Democratic Caucus and worked for the Podesta Group, a lobbying firm.

Over the last few campaign cycles Micah Kellner took in around $ 4,000 from lobbying firm Connelly, McLaughlin & Woloz, and from the principals of the firm, and from Brenda Levin and George Arzt, other Rose Group lobbyists.

The ethics board launched the non-criminal investigation in January of last year, alleging she acted improperly by accepting help from the Advance Group — a lobbying firm which has business dealings with the city.

The Parkside Group, a NYC - based consulting / lobbying firm that is a favorite of the Senate Democrats, has hired a former aide to now - Gov.

Giuliani administration veteran John Mascialino oversees the firm's city lobbying operation, which last year took in fees from developers including Fetner, Jeffrey Gershon and Slate Property Group.

Empire Government Strategies took in $ 284,500, a minuscule amount when compared with the largest New York lobbying firms but enough to land it third on a list of fastest - growing firms, according to the New York Public Interest Research Group report.

The staffers include Ben Kalish, the group's former director of development, who has left to work at the Fortune Society, and Jamin Sewell, the firm's director of lobbying and government relations, who has left to serve as counsel and managing director of policy and advocacy at the Coalition of Behavioral Health Agencies.

His bid to shift to the other chamber of the state legislature was only possible with the blessing of Congressman Joe Crowley, the Queens political boss; his campaign is backed by the unions — including the UFT, SEIU 1199, and 32BJ — who have the most clout in Albany; and Peralta's campaign strategist is from the Parkside Group, a firm that is amassing a list of Senate electoral clients nearly as long as its list of corporate lobbying clients.

Bamberger says he isn't doing any lobbying for the group (he's prohibited by state ethics laws from doing so) but said the new advocacy group has retained its own lobbying firm, Bogdan, Lasky & Frazier LLC.

Deputy executive director Moses Mercado has left the DNC to join Ogilvy Government Relations, the lobbying firm formerly known as the Federalist Group.

In Albany, which has been criticized for having a pay - to - play culture, special interest groups including lobbying firms, unions and corporations often steer contributions toward those in power, regardless of their ideology.

And when Miranda's firm, the MirRam group, submitted a subsequent December disclosure about the purpose of its lobbying work, the description was taken nearly verbatim from a Klein press release distributed after the Oct. 27 news conference.

Another interesting connection: Thompson's 2009 campaign manager and longtime former aide, Eddy Castell, is now at the lobbying / consulting firm, the MirRam Group, and is working for Schneiderman's opponent, Sean Coffey.

Cuomo's office on Thursday settled related cases with investment firms GKM Newport Generation Capital Services, California lobbying firm Platinum Advisors, political consulting firm Global Strategy Group and Kevin McCabe, an unlicensed placement agent.

While groups like the BNE and others have done extensive Canadian outreach, the key is to have a firm with deeper connections lobbying on the region's behalf.

Democratic consulting firm Global Strategy Group, California lobbying shop Platinum Advisors, GKM Newport Generation Capital Services, LLC, and unlicensed placement agent Kevin McCabe also signed pacts.

-- Mercury Public Affairs, the consulting and lobbying firm founded by a group of former Pataki administration aides / advisors that has since expanded to several states, has hired Dan Cho to its New York government relations team.

The lobbying firms the Podesta Group and Mercury Public Affairs are the unnamed companies in the grand jury indictment of former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort and his deputy, Rick Gates, according to three sources with knowledge of the investigation.

Barrella works for lobbying firm Capital Group, which was employed by Physicians» Reciprocal Insurers, the company that gave Adam a $ 78,000 job for which he wasn't qualified.

«The pro-business majority in the state Senate, comprised of the Republicans, the IDC and Felder, are basically the firing wall» that's protected the real estate industry's interests, said Matthew Engel, president of both the Bronx firm Langsam Property Services and the landlord lobbying group the Community Housing Improvement Program, or CHIP.

In the recorded phone call, Adam Skelos singles out one Albany lobbyist, Nick Barrella, managing partner of the Albany firm Capitol Group, as especially effective in lobbying Senate Republicans.

The Lawsuit Reform Alliance of New York plans to release a report today detailing more than $ 6.3 million in lobbying and $ 14.6 million in campaign contributions by New York's major trial lawyer groups and individual attorneys and firms.

MirRam Group: Though the consulting and lobbying firm — founded by two Latino political heavyweights from the Bronx — remains a mainstay in minority political circles, it has suffered two major losses in two years after failing to propel Mr. Espaillat past Mr. Rangel in what many saw as a winnable race.

At that same time, it had spent $ 4.4 million, with about $ 4.2 million of that going to the influential Midtown - based lobbying and consulting firm Parkside Group.

The vast majority of that, some $ 4.2 million, was sent to the influential lobbying and consulting firm Parkside Group, based in Midtown.

The Connecticut Coalition for Achievement Now, Inc. (ConnCAN), the charter school advocacy group that was created by the founders of Achievement First, the state's largest charter school management company, has signed a two - year, $ 200,000 lobbying contract with Connecticut government relations firm, Gaffney, Bennett and Associates.

Two board members of the conservative group are registered lobbyists for Navient, according to the article, while another board member works for a lobbying firm that serves student and payday lenders.»

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«It's a total myth for anybody to say or think that every American who wants a dog can go to a shelter and find one,» said Mark Cushing of the Animal Policy Group, the lobbying firm that «crunched the numbers.»

Of this total, $ 1,055,000 was spent using outside lobbying firms, two of which included Nickles Group and DCI Group.

The case is strengthened by an October 1987 ALEC directory also available via the Tobacco Documents that says, «The Madison Group is chaired by Mrs. Constance Heckman [now Constance Campanella, founder of the lobbying firm Stateside Associates], Executive Director of ALEC...» (PDF, p. 3).

Lobbying firms include: Bryan Cave LLP; Dickstein Shapiro LLP; Gephardt Group; Holland & Hart; International Government Relations Group; John Hancock & Assoc; K&L Gates; Mercury; MML&K Government Solutions; Peabody Investments; Richard F Hohlt; Shook, Hardy & Bacon; Spectrum Consulting Group; and Stinson, Morrison & Hecker.

He is the chairman of the lobbying and communications firm BGR Group, which he founded with former Mississippi governor Haley Barbour in 1991.

Bonner had been hired by a PR firm, the Hawthorn Group, to lobby against the bill by the American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity.

DeSmog recently uncovered information that two of the three Directors on the board of the Natural Resources Stewardship Project are senior executives of the High Park Advocacy Group, a Toronto based lobby firm that specializes in «energy, environment and ethics.»

The American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity (ACCCE), a coal trade group, paid the firm $ 10 million between 2008 and 2009 to fight the Waxman - Markey cap - and - trade legislation in Congress, E&E News reported, prompting a House committee investigation into ACCCE's lobbying disclosures.