Sentences with phrase «lobbying bill through»

The Chair of the Political and Constitutional Reform Select Committee explains the appalling process by which this government has bulldozed its astonishing Lobbying Bill through the British parliament.

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Trump has lobbied for lower tax rates for pass - through businesses, but now we have an actual bill that shows what Senate Republicans want to do.

The opposition will whip its MPs through the «aye» lobby when it comes to the general second reading vote, but vote against the programme motion which seeks to restrict the amount of time the bill will be debated for.

Coalition ministers are expected to propose the move in the lobbying bill, which will be published today, but Labour is promising to table amendments pushing the changes through if they do not appear in the government package.

Sometime after midnight on the last day of the legislative session — with zero public hearings, public review or consultation — Governor Cuomo rammed through a bill that includes very vague and very broad new reporting requirements for charitable groups which engage in lobbying or coordination with related charitable groups.

He announced the state will create a new website for students to lobby their state and national electeds on gun control, and also touted a bill working its way through the state legislature that would ban bump stocks — devices that allow semi-automatic rifles to fire at rates comparable to automatic rifles.

After years of lobbying, volunteer firefighters undergoing cancer treatment will be able to qualify for state health benefits in early 2019 through a bill recently signed by New York state Gov. Andrew Cuomo.

Introduced at the end of July by City Councilman Mark Levine, the bill has since gained the support of 12 fellow councilmembers through the lobbying efforts of Levine's staff and parents at P.S. 163, a West 97th Street elementary school that would neighbor a construction site under a plan to build a 20 - story nursing home development.

I expressed surprise that Golden would break with Mayor Bloomberg, who was in Albany to lobby for this bill today and even launched an ad campaign through his Mayors Against Illegal Guns group.

In contrast to the coalition, trying to gag unions and other dissenting voices through their lobbying bill, he understands the role that unions and a vibrant civil society play in public life.

Much lobbying is occurring, but I fear that the lack of debate surrounding the tax bills and the seemingly fast pace it is proceeding through Congress will not allow rational heads to prevail.

The California Charter School Association is attempting to lobby a new bill through the state legislature that would require school districts to approve charter zoning exemptions, even if the charter school was a danger to the environment or surrounding community.

CCSA's well funded lobby wing is trying to push the deeply flawed bill through the Education and Local Government committees even though the bill endangers local school districts.

Then, in April, state lawmakers in both chambers successfully pushed through a bill delaying the use of the PARCC tests by one year, despite an intense lobbying effort by Gov. Haslam and Huffman to shut it down.

In 2015, Lora successfully lobbied for an ALDF bill that allows private citizens to enjoin animal cruelty crimes through Oregon's nuisance abatement code.

ALEC Exposed Also run by the Center for Media and Democracy, ALEC Exposed tracks the corporate - funded American Legislative Exchange Council's efforts to undermine the public interest and democracy through lobbying and collaboration between corporations and politicians on «model bills» developed behind closed doors to shift state laws in favor of corporate interests instead of the public.

Despite vehement opposition from the solar industry lobby, the bill sailed through both chambers of Connecticut's legislature, passing the state Senate by a vote of 29 - 3 before passing the House 100 - 45 in the same week.

Zuckerberg also expressed his support for the Honest Ads Act bill currently working its way through the Senate — despite Facebook having previously lobbied against it.