Sentences with phrase «same lobby group»

Not exact matches

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.

The issue has only become more urgent since then, with groups such as the Southern Baptist Convention's Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission (ERLC) lobbying this year for the First Amendment Defense Act, which «prevents the federal government from punishing an individual or faith - based business because they can not in good conscience accommodate same - sex marriage in certain situations.»

At the same time, powerful lobby groups have been working to curtail government legislation regulating formula marketing and promotion, in the Philippines and across the world.

By contrast, another Cuomo - backed group, New Yorkers United For Marriage, spent $ 1.8 million lobbying for same - sex marriage.

«It's a way to a certain extent to circumvent campaign contribution limits, sometimes a way to circumvent disclosure requirements because they're no regulated the same way as independent groups or lobbying groups are,» Horner said.

According to the group's filing with the Commission on Public Integrity, NOM spent $ 735,963 in May and June lobbying against the same - sex marriage legislation.

These «501 - c4» groups are diverse in the political spectrum, and have been used for budget lobbying as well as the push to legalize same - sex marriage.

Enter Justice for All, which follows the same model as countless other PACs and lobbying groups pushing everything from casino gambling to term limits.

Most of the same groups who lobbied in the last legislative session for the women's equality act have joined the effort again for 2014, with one major exception.

Opponents of the wage hike and family leave — small - business groups and business lobbies — say they don't have the same kind of money to fight back.

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.

Organizers with the deep - pocketed charter school lobbying group Families for Excellent Schools promise the same flashy production values as in previous pro-charter-school rallies, when performers such as the musician Questlove entertained thousands of students whose schools gave them the day off.

The CFE, which had begun as a modest public - interest group in 1993 by Robert Jackson, then president of one of the city's 32 community school boards, and Michael Rebell, the attorney for the same school board, had grown into an impressively powerful education lobbying organization.

And the same Jonathan Sackler also formed the national charter school lobby group called 50CAN, a multi-state bring the ConnCAN model to other states.

At the same time, ConnCAN, the Connecticut Coalition for Achievement Now, Inc., appears to have spent another $ 230,000 lobbying Malloy's bill, bringing the total expenditures by the two Connecticut based groups to over $ 1,000,000.

The new lobbying entity includes most of the same groups that spent in excess of $ 6 million lobbying for Malloy's initial education reform initiative, including ConnCAN, the Achievement First, Inc. charter school management company, the Northeast Charter School Network and Families for Excellent Schools, another pro-charter group entity.

ConnCAN is the charter school advocacy lobby group that was created by the same donors who helped Malloy's Commissioner of Education, Stefan Pryor; develop Achievement First, Inc. the charter school management company that now runs schools in Connecticut, New York and Rhode Island.

At the same time, local school boards are simply unwilling to exert their authority and ask the important questions while complying with directives of the State Department of Education while CABE, CAPSS, CAS, CBIA, CCER, and ConnCAN — working in collusion as Big Six Partners follow a roadmap designed by The Common Core Funder's Working Group in the Fall 2012 — continue to work behind scenes and in the media to lobby for «corporate education reform» with its top - down imposed Common Core State Standards and their unproven destructive test protocols.

Although they are calling themselves by a different name, the group is actually the same controversial New York based charter school lobby group known as «Families for Excellent Schools» http://www.familiesforexcellentschools.org/ except when they call themselves «Families for Excellent Schools Advocacy.»

The very same Achievement First Inc. that is presently lobbying to get more Connecticut taxpayer funds for their charter schools, while using the funds that they have to help an charter school front group that won't even follow Connecticut's ethics laws.

In order to maintain their lock on the market and convince Americans to not buy dogs from pet stores or purebred dog breeders, these same rescue groups and shelters are lobbying legislatures and city councils all across this nation to outlaw dog breeding and ban pet stores from selling pets.

In the same filing, the lobbying group, the Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers, also cast doubt on the negative effects of tailpipe pollution on human health.

The 2012 Public Interest Research Group and Citizens for Tax Justice report, «Representation Without Taxation: Fortune 500 Companies that Spend Big on Lobbying and Avoid Taxes,» noted that while AEP collected $ 545 million in tax subsidies from 2008 to 2010, it spent $ 28.8 million over the same period of time lLobbying and Avoid Taxes,» noted that while AEP collected $ 545 million in tax subsidies from 2008 to 2010, it spent $ 28.8 million over the same period of time lobbyinglobbying.

We, 93 civil society organisations working in Brussels and in countries affected by EU climate policies, are therefore deeply concerned that the same polluting corporations whose actions largely contribute to climate change - chief among them fossil fuel companies and their lobby groups - are using their involvement in the UNFCCC talks to delay action and hold back the needed ambition.

In my experience (and that of many many folk I know who volunteer their time in the name of environmental causes and the conservation of significant ecological heritage), the clout and $ $ $ $ wielded by Big Business and environmental lobby groups is simply not even on the same scale, let alone comparable.

In the tight little world of greenhouse lobbying, the Prime Minister saw nothing improper in going to the country's biggest greenhouse polluters to ask them what the Government should do about greenhouse policy, without extending the same opportunity to other industries, not to mention environment groups.

But at the same meeting, Vukmir and other legislators agreed to introduce a model resolution under the direction of a lobbying group.

Janice Watt: The same group of women were involved in the creation of both organisations and lobbied governments of the day for funding.