Sentences with phrase «as a lobbyist in»

Delrahim's other, older clients included AT&T, which he represented as a lobbyist in 2007 and 2008, federal records show.

The City Council last February ordered that anyone working to influence city business register as a lobbyist in Highland Park.

The ex-congressman now has a lucrative gig as a lobbyist in former U.S. Senator Al D'Amato's lobbying and consulting firm, Park Strategies.

Howe, the star witness in the corruption trial of a top governor's aide, worked as a lobbyist in Albany.

He worked for Andrew Cuomo for two years at HUD before leaving for a career as a lobbyist in the private sector.

The panel, the Joint Commission on Public Ethics, has been investigating the nonprofit, the Campaign for One New York, since last year, seeking to determine whether it ran afoul of state regulations by failing to register as a lobbyist in 2015.

A close personal adviser to Cuomo in his bid to become state attorney general in 2006 and his run for governor in 2010, she deregistered as a lobbyist in 2010 when Cuomo and her ex-husband, state Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, were elected, in order «to avoid even the appearance of a conflict» of interest.

«My sense was that if I registered as a lobbyist in the state of New York, that it would curtail my activities by limiting what I could do and documenting many of those projects that I worked on,» Howe told the court.

Howe did not register as a lobbyist in New York state.

Howe repeatedly filed as a lobbyist in Washington.

ALEC's own lawyers have written about their precarious relationship with IRS tax law, acknowledging they would need to spin off a sister organization and register some staff as lobbyists in order to avoid potential action from the IRS that could affect ALEC's tax - exempt status.

Not exact matches

Manafort also attended a meeting last year at Trump Tower with Trump's son Donald Trump Jr. and son - in - law Jared Kushner as well as two Russian lobbyists who were said to have offered dirt on Hillary Clinton.

«I managed to build a lasting network of friends, which has served me well in my career as a consultant and lobbyist.

In the coming year, Prompt Alert plans to set up a base in Washington D.C. as a means of staying close to politicians, health care regulators and lobbyistIn the coming year, Prompt Alert plans to set up a base in Washington D.C. as a means of staying close to politicians, health care regulators and lobbyistin Washington D.C. as a means of staying close to politicians, health care regulators and lobbyists.

The lobbyist added that several major firms were more interested in making deals with the Trump administration that could affect their bottom lines, such as tax repatriation, than getting caught in politically charged fights over government surveillance.

Not necessarily — Wheeler is a former cable lobbyist who was widely seen as a terrible choice for open - internet interests at first, but turned out to be one of the more progressive chairs in recent memory.

But last year's increase in campaign donations and lobbying seem like more than business as usual for Novo Nordisk, said Billet, a former AT&T lobbyist who directs GWU's Legislative Affairs program.

Many business leaders see government as an enemy, and send out legions of lobbyists to influence laws in their favor.

In his appearance before a parliamentary committee, Facebook Canada's public policy head Kevin Chan was questioned by New Democrat MP Charlie Angus on why he had yet to register as a lobbyist, given the fact he's met senior cabinet members, including Finance Minister Bill Morneau.

Fenwick McKelvey, an assistant professor in information and communication technology policy at Concordia University, said it's intriguing Facebook is not registered as a lobbyist, given that it's the most - popular social network.

But lobbyists in Washington expressed concern that Trump's ambitious tariff plan would also include other labor - intensive consumer goods sectors such as apparel, footwear and toys.

But the House bill is unlikely to be taken up in the Senate, where Republicans have a 52 - 48 seat majority and they need to pay heed to moderates within their own ranks as well as Democrats, lobbyists and analysts said.

Frank Maisano, an energy lobbyist who has worked with utilities and other companies, said Bay's departure «only underscores the need to get a new slate of FERC commissioners in place as quickly as possible.»

As B.C.'s attorney general in 2001, Geoff Plant midwifed the birth of one of the first lobbyist registries in Canada.

Jiles registered as a lobbyist starting in December 2007, and then only for some clients.

And in 2004, Sean Holman, who got the Washington documents causing the latest scuffle through an FOI request, wrote about Kinsella's failure to register as a lobbyist.

Before joining the White House this year, Delrahim served as an antitrust lobbyist for Comcast *, which purchased NBCUniversal in 2011, and he also worked the halls of Congress and the federal government on behalf of Qualcomm, federal records show.

When people see banks browbeating the bond rating agencies and accounting firms to whitewash the quality of what they're pawning off on their customers, when they see bank lobbyists getting Washington to block state prosecutions of financial fraud so as to clear the way for more predatory lending and false packaging of the junk securities they're selling and to win the right not to reveal their true financial position, there's a good reason not to buy what's in these black boxes.

Trump has alleged the Amazon CEO has operated the Post as a lobbyist and that he takes an active role in the paper's editorial direction, which includes attacking the Trump administration.

As a politician, DeLuca has also been funded by trophy hunting lobbyists in his own bid -LSB-...]

In the same article we reported that while the Citizens United case was pending before the U.S. Supreme Court, Virginia Thomas, the wife of the Justice, created a nonprofit Tea Party advocacy group, Liberty Central, Inc., with a former lawyer for the Charles G. Koch Foundation, Sarah Field, acting as her General Counsel and a former Koch lobbyist, Matt Schlapp, serving on her board at inception.

The beachhead groups were part of a larger constellation of advisers, including Oklahoma oil and gas mogul Harold Hamm (once considered for energy secretary), billionaire investor Carl Icahn (last seen shadily pushing for policy that would benefit his oil refineries), GOP energy lobbyist Mike McKenna (in charge of the DOE transition team), longtime climate skeptic (and hopeless dope) Myron Ebell, North Dakota Rep. Kevin Cramer (the oil devotee who supposedly wrote Trump's big energy speech last May), and Thomas J. Pyle, the director of the Institute for Energy Research (IER), a pro-fossil fuel «think tank» which, as we shall see, has provided several Trump staffers.

The national income accounts initially were designed by statisticians, but now they're designed by lobbyists, and the lobbyists work in Congress to say here's how we want to depict the economy as if it's actually benefiting the voters instead of specifically benefiting the FIRE sector — Finance, Insurance and Real Estate — which depicts itself as contributing to growth rather than being a parasite on growth, as I've described in Killing the Host.

The market practices chronicled in this white paper show that financial firms and their sales - based financial professionals function as investment advice providers, despite financial lobbyists» legal claims to the contrary.

Smotkin's involvement in two of Pruitt's foreign trips spotlights the former Comcast lobbyist's close relationship with Pruitt and what several administration officials described as his looming presence at the EPA.

As a bank lobbyist in control of the banking system, he «freed» the bank from government control — and promoted the greatest debt bubble in U.S. history.

Being the center of political activity in the U.S. means that this city is shaped by people from all over the country who move here to work as congressional aides, lobbyists, policy analysts, reporters, elected officials, bureaucrats, organizers, etc..

The Katz Group has hired long - time PC - insider Peter Elzinga as a lobbyist and launched a political campaign to «Revitalize Downtown» in advance of the election.

Smithfield Foods paid at least $ 280,000 in lobbying fees in 2017 to Hart's firm, and Hart was listed by name as representing Smithfield as its lobbyist when he wrote the email, according to federal lobbying records.

This Journal editorial is part of a raging battle in Washington between brokerage lobbyists and, well, most everyone else, over whether securities and insurance sales brokers should be regulated as professionals — like doctors — when they give advice.

He came in and appointed Wall Street's main lobbyist, Tim Geithner, as Treasury Secretary.

It is a new kind of Erastianism: the church being slowly but surely co-opted as a means of social control, subordinated to the whims of the political lobbyists as they press their commitments to creating a society of Psychological Men, Women, and all points in between through the law courts.

That the issue at stake is a spiritual one is evident in the religious imagery that pervades Callahan's account of technological medicine: that the war on death is a search for «immortality»; that the dying patient might be «saved»; that medicine is seen as «omnipotent, holding life and death wholly in its hands»; that a lobbyist equates heart attacks, cancer, and strokes with sin (interesting rhetoric in the public sphere, but I'll save that discussion for another day).

They were called «lobbyists,» these commercial advertisers, as in they waited in the expansive lobbies of excutive suites in order to offer a investment opportunity to the important people making power.

The Department of Education is unnecessary; since 1980, it has just been an opportunity for lobbyists and bureaucrats to interfere, to invent new regulations, to make political «contributions» to further such things as unwanted textbook imposition in a school system.

If he has political ambitions, he works on Hillary Clinton's senate campaign in New York, and ends up living in suburban Washington, working as a lobbyist.

Because of its pro-biotech policy, GMO lobbyists are promoting the Philippine biosafety policy as model in the ASEAN countries.

Their presence and the constant pressure by lobbyists and duck - rescuers such as Laurie Levy of the Coalition Against Duck Shooting have resulted in:

«Even though the EU is wavering in front of unprecedented emergencies such as immigration, it is ready to support the lobbyists who want to force us to lower the quality of our food produce.»

In 1991, Aguirre left Capitol Hill for a career as a Washington, DC lobbyist.