Sentences with phrase «us business lobby»

But to the apparent surprise of the Trudeau government, and, frankly, to some of us who pay attention to these things, the opposition and the business lobby have decided to take a stand over a business owner's right to squeeze as much as he or she can from the tax system.

Small - business lobbies have little incentive to advertise this reality.

Canada's small - business lobby disliked the federal budget.

(Adds comments from Canada's foreign minister, Mexican business lobby, Mexican source on talks, U.S. attorney general)

Amid the countdown this week toward a U.S. Supreme Court ruling on the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act, a battle has escalated about funding for a small business lobby group.

That includes the creation of a CPP - supplemented Ontario Retirement Pension Plan, a scheme that business lobbies have derided as a payroll tax.

The praise is not completely unfounded: the ASBL points to «Sen. Obama's record of rising above the influence of big business lobbying.»

Prized by the business lobby, loathed by unionized labour, the temporary foreign worker program is either a solution to or an exacerbation of a problem that may or may not exist.

The inclusion of broader business lobbies is «an attempt to graduate to a new level of urgency» for policymakers to arrest the problem, said Jonathan Grella, a U.S. Travel vice president.

More than 80 % of members of a U.S. business lobby in China say foreign companies are less welcome than in the past, a survey released on Wednesday showed, with most saying they have little confidence in China's vows to open its markets.

Congressional Republicans and the business lobby have blocked legislative attempts to push the issue.

Most of those cases were filed this year, according to a study released by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the nation's largest business lobbying group.

Prominent U.S. business lobbies are begging the Trump administration not to impose tariffs on Chinese imports, but some small manufacturers are pushing the other way: Trying to get more products on the proposed list.

The first blow has already fallen, says Fergal O'Brien of IBEC, a business lobby group.

Kydyrbaev, the business lobby representative, expects the EEU to produce an uptick in foreign investment, but not from the West.

Emails WEDC released to the Wisconsin State Journal under the state open records law show that WMC, the state's largest business lobby, alerted WEDC in June that other states were seeking to lure Kraft Heinz facilities out of Wisconsin.

Mayor Paul Soglin, pictured in November after the announcement that Oscar Mayer would close its Madison headquarters, blasted the state's job - creation agency and top business lobby for not contacting Kraft Heinz after its merger was announced last March.

In hindsight, Carney would have been wise to heed a particularly prescient warning by the Confederation of British Industries, the country's largest business lobby group, issued the month before his arrival in London.

In a week when business lobby groups are appearing before the House of Commons Committee on Finance and calling for more tax breaks, the federal R&D Panel appointed a year ago released a very good report saying Canada's very generous system of R&D tax incentives haven't been effective and what we need instead are more direct grants -LSB-...]

Aetna made an issue last year of its presence in Connecticut when it joined other businesses lobbying Gov. Dannel P. Malloy and the General Assembly to roll back proposed tax increases.

-LRB-...) Keidanren, the largest and most influential business lobby group, seems willing to recommend that its members prepare for the first increase in base salaries since 2008, when they enter spring negotiations with labour unions.

How we were going to get the small business lobby?

At the same retreat, Cantor and the House Republican leadership demonstrated that, while they are trying to learn to talk about the concerns of employees, they are practically focused on doing the bidding of the Washington business lobbies.

The problem with Romney and the post-Romney Republican establishment is that they too often focused on the priorities of the business lobbies.

One party's economic agenda is dominated by business lobbies, but the policy proposals that come out of the Chamber of Commerce — GOP nexus are so unpopular that they are stillborn in Congress as soon as the hideous opinion poll results are known.

They have the politics of the business lobbies married to the sensibilities of the been - to - grad - school credentialed professions.

Their coherent policy agenda of tax cuts for high - earners, spending cuts for everyone else, and increased low - skill immigration favors the business lobbies.

Right - leaning non-whites and non-evangelical working class whites are closer to each other on economics than they are to either the business lobbies of the GOP establishment or to populist conservatives who think America has been morally lost ever since the FDR first became president.

Two obvious problems are a business lobby - eye - view of the politics of the economy and a discomfort with social conservatism.

This strategy largely writes off the non-evangelical white working - class in the hopes of winning over nonwhite voters and it aligns Republican policy even more closely with the policy preferences of the Washington business lobbies.

Hardly any Republican outside the business lobbies signed up for expanded low - skill immigration.

There has been strong pressure from US business lobby against use of the Jackson - Vanik Trade Act of 1974 for denying MFN status to China.

The small business lobby has unexpectedly raised serious concerns about the Coalition's effects test laws.

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Ed's badly received conference speech, considered somewhere between impenetrable and irritating by most observers, angered the business lobby by dividing companies into goodies and baddies, while irritating the left by signing up to coalition policies on welfare.

The business lobby is serious about crushing «the little party that could» (a Newsday headline of a few years ago), spending millions of dollars on television and mail against WFP candidates, and even trying to hire well - known progressive public relations firms to wage a PR battle against them.

«The business lobby said it would wreck the economy and politicians trembled.

Cuomo was endorsed earlier today by the business lobbying group, which cited his efforts to install a cap on local property tax increases, limits on spending hikes in state budgets and an uptick in the state's credit rating.

Republican candidate for governor of New York Rob Astorino received a mostly polite reception from the state's biggest business lobby at their annual meeting in Lake George.

Business groups took offense earlier this month because Cuomo unveiled his «Fight for Fair Pay» campaign while they held their small business lobby day at the capitol.

New York Governor Amdrew Cuomo has been endorsed by the state's largest business lobby for his reelection bid.

Even New York Assembly Democrats, who often score low on the business lobby's rankings, improved their scores, according to Heather Briccetti, the president of the state's business council.

Republican candidate for governor Rob Astorino received a mostly polite reception from the state's biggest business lobby at their annual meeting in Lake George.

Governor Cuomo has been endorsed by the state's largest Business lobby for his re election bid.

Ever since the poor white souitherner has been exploited and taken for granted by the interest of the business lobby in DC and reminded constantly that their «rights» (to discriminate, I guess) has been eroded.

ALBANY, NY (06/18/2012)(readMedia)-- A report released today shows that the powerful forces behind a big business lobbying group reap billions from policies that have been continued, implemented, or proposed during the Cuomo administration.

The state's main business lobbying group praised the long - sought passage of three free - trade agreements in Washington today, saying the accords will help New York's struggling manufacturing base.

Now, even the fiscally conservative small business lobby, the National Federation of Independent Business, has joined progressive groups, unions and local government leaders, and come out against the plan.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo has been endorsed by the state's largest business lobby for his reelection bid.

The leader of the Rochester Business Alliance — a business lobbying organization that the lieutenant governor is rumored to be one day take over — announced this morning she would delay her retirement a year.