Sentences with phrase «about lobbying spending»

The report includes facts about lobbying spending that hit $ 2 billion in the last election cycle, and continues unabated, Wall Street executives in the Trump administration and regulatory agencies, tax cut windfalls for the finance industry, and a deregulatory free - for - all.

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We commend Google for updating disclosure on its website on political spending and lobbying but Google still does not disclose details about indirect lobbying, maintaining secrecy about its payments used for lobbying by trade associations.

We commend Alphabet for disclosure on its website on political spending and lobbying but the website still does not disclose details about payments used for lobbying by trade associations.

Adapt has worked with state legislators and federal policymakers about adjusting laws and removing burdens for access, and spent $ 470,000 on lobbying in 2016 and 2017, according to OpenSecrets.org, which tracks political spending.

«A broad coalition of investors wants companies to tell stockholders and the public more about so - called «dark money» spent both in campaigns and on lobbying by groups that use corporate money and don't say where it comes from,» Welsh of Si2 said.

Republicans are panicking about the potential for conflict ahead of the 2018 midterm elections and have spent the past few days privately lobbying within the White House.

According to the Center for Responsive Politics in the US, Nestlé is spending about US$ 4 million per year on lobbying, with US$ 200,000 specifically by Nestlé Waters North America (and US$ 120,000 by Nestlé Infant Nutrition).

In this case, though, the ad appears in a paper aimed directly at congressmembers, congressional staff and the lobby community, who by many accounts pay attention to who's buying space in Roll Call, The Hill, Congress Daily, etc. — both for the direct messages and for the indirect message sent about who's willing to spend money to raise the profile of their issues.

Nixon, who said she's been lobbying for 17 years at the State Capitol for education spending reform, said she's thought about running for governor for eight years.

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.

Last year, 1,559 lobby clients spent $ 50,000 or more, about a hundred of whom disclosed; 1,393 spent between $ 15,000 and $ 50,000.

WFP, the major health - care union SEIU 1199, teachers unions, and hospitals spent about $ 15 million on campaigns and lobbying in 2008.

Nixon, who says she's been lobbying for 17 years at the State Capitol for education spending reform, says she's thought about running for governor for eight years.

BASC spent a lot of time talking to the government about this issue and in the latter stages of the lobbying process; we collaborated with other organisations to push for this critical measure to be extended to four weeks.»

Liz Kendall has spoken to lobby journalists about defence spending, free schools, Labour's future and the prospect of being endorsed by Tony Blair.

In the last six months of 2014, Uber spent about $ 135,000 on lobbying at those levels.

Some other interesting notes: Genting, which won the contract to operate the Racino at Aqueduct race course in Queens, spent about $ 870,000 in lobbying last year even though they were awarded the contract to install the VLT's in 2010.

Of the more than $ 121 million spent on lobbying, about $ 107 million paid retained and in - house lobbyists, JCOPE reported.

The New York Daily News once noted that the bishops» lobbying arm spent $ 2.1 million on lobbyists from 2007 through 2015, or an average of about $ 230,000 a year.

In comparison, the New York Public Interest Research Group spent about $ 26,000 a month on lobbying last year while Common Cause spent nearly $ 5,000 a month.

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.

Of the approximately $ 131 million in total lobbying spending for January through June of 2015, about $ 101 million was spent on compensation to retained or in - house lobbyists, and $ 30 million went to advertising, events, and other expenses.

Deadpool was a surprise hit for the studio: After Reynolds spent years lobbying to get a standalone Deadpool movie made, the film about the «Merc with the Mouth» ended up becoming the highest grossing rated - R film of all time.

Records show that the group, which gets money both from K12 and Connections Education, has spent about $ 250,000 on lobbying in the past five years.

In Pennsylvania, where K12 Inc. collects about 10 percent of its revenues, the company has spent $ 681,000 on lobbying since 2007.

Rather than spending their time and lobbying funds cheering on Governor Malloy and his corporate education reform industry agenda, perhaps the publicly funded Connecticut Association of Boards of Education (CABE) and the publicly funded Connecticut Association of School Superintendents (CAPSS) should stop taking positions that directly undermine their own members — Connecticut's local school boards and superintendents — and start talking about legal and legislative action to force the State of Connecticut to fund this unfunded mandate or postpone the testing debacle until proper funding is provided.

The union leadership sees this and gets all jizzy, thinking about how to steer some of that dough to their own pockets: «The four corporations that dominate the U.S. standardized testing market spend millions of dollars lobbying state and federal officials — as well as sometimes hiring them — to persuade them to favor policies that include mandated student assessments, helping to fuel a nearly $ 2 billion annual testing business, a new analysis shows.

An Unsustainable Rescue - Only Model The animal welfare lobby has done such a bang - up job spreading the message that the number of animals entering shelters has dropped from about 10 to 6 percent annually, said Sayres, who spent decades as an animal welfare advocate before joining PIJAC in 2014.

«Perhaps if they had spent more time and money diversifying their business rather than on lobbying against climate action and sowing the seeds of doubt about the science, they might not have joined the long (and ever growing) list of bankrupt global coal companies.»

About 130 businesses and interest groups spent more than $ 23.5 million on lobbying teams solely focused on climate, but that vastly understates the money devoted to the effort.

There's no secret about the amount of money spent by big companies on lobbying.