Sentences with phrase «as lobbying groups»

It's a reduction of $ 15 million from 2011, the first since 2000 as lobbying groups and advocacy campaigns pulled back dramatically on advertising spending.

In a 12 - page missive sent last week, Laufer told JCOPE officials the Campaign for One New York would no longer comply with a subpoena the ethics commission sent, arguing it was outside the scope of the agency's mission and had nothing to do with an inquiry begun a year ago into whether or not the non-profit should have registered as a lobbying group in 2015.

The disability group was recently registered as a lobbying group with the state, Gerstman said.

After its formation last year, the committee did release the names of its board members and registered as a lobbying group after some public pressure.

As a lobbying group, CCER must adhere to the ethics laws that apply to lobbying organizations.

The Mercatus Center has never registered itself as lobbying group.

Lobbying rules stipulate that any organization that spends more than $ 24,500 within a six - month period trying to influence government representatives, must register itself as a lobbying group.

The arguments of the CLPO are valid ones but, in light of the economic conditions in Ireland and the prevailing public and media attitudes to the legal professions, the organisation was always going to be seen as a lobby group for lawyers rather than defendants.

Hello Barbie has provoked a fair bit of concern in the US, such as the lobby group «Hell No Barbie».

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He was ousted from a pro-Trump lobbying group in April amid questions about Russia's election interference, but he continued to visit the White House as late as June, according to The Daily Beast.

He also is one of the founders of FWD.us, a lobbying group of powerful silicon valley entrepreneurs focused on many political matters, such as immigration and education reform.

But small business groups such as the National Federation of Independent Business and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce are vocal opponents, and have lobbied extensively to fight the passage of wage reform bills in Congress.

But then again, as the president and chief executive of the Consumer Electronics Association — a powerful lobby group that represents more than 2,000 technology companies operating in the United States, including Samsung, Microsoft and Apple — he's supposed to be.

Lobbying groups such as the Telecommunications Industry Association say prioritization is critical to doing business.

The pro-Israel lobby group holds its annual policy convention in Washington Sunday through Tuesday and has confirmed both Trump and Democratic presidential front - runner Hillary Clinton as speakers.

The industry now has almost as many lobby groups representing its views on NAFTA as the transport sector, which includes automakers.

In a 2017 report, the lobbying group also scored U.S. dams, levees and drinking water facilities as in worse condition than bridges.

In recent years, immigrant rights protests shrank as groups diverged and shifted their focus on voter registration and lobbying.

Meanwhile, one of Washington's most powerful lobby groups and CFPB critics, the Chamber of Commerce, said it will «consider every approach to address our concerns,» which many interpreted as a threat to sue.

Last month the Canadian high - tech lobby group Information and Communication Technology Council along with Music Canada jointly made the case for increased government support of arts education, especially music, on the basis that music students «performed better in general intelligence skills such as literacy, verbal memory, mathematics and IQ,» are more creative and have better social skills.

As executive director of the Free Speech Coalition, a Los Angeles - based lobby group for the porn business, Duke, who previously worked for Planned Parenthood, leads many of the industry's anti-piracy efforts.

That powerful lobby group also claims that earlier Buy American rules tied to President Obama's 2009 stimulus package, delayed «shovel - ready» projects as municipalities conferred with lawyers and manufacturers refrained from bidding on projects because they found it difficult to avoid sourcing their materials from abroad.

In fact, all of the Canadians on the NACC are members of the powerful CCCE lobby group, and the CCCE serves as the Canadian secretariat.

The Internet Association, a D.C. - based tech lobbying group representing industry titans like Google, Amazon, and Twitter, will be filing legal arguments as an intervening party in support of the legal push to restore net neutrality, according to a report from Recode's Tony Romm.

The most elite group, known as the Statesmen, whose members donated $ 250,000, included Aetna; Coca - Cola; Exxon Mobil; Koch Companies Public Sector, the lobbying arm of the highly political Koch Industries; Microsoft; Pfizer; UnitedHealth Group; and Walgroup, known as the Statesmen, whose members donated $ 250,000, included Aetna; Coca - Cola; Exxon Mobil; Koch Companies Public Sector, the lobbying arm of the highly political Koch Industries; Microsoft; Pfizer; UnitedHealth Group; and WalGroup; and Walmart.

That, as well as its significant lobbying arm, has often been credited with blocking gun reforms and bringing to heel politicians who benefit from NRA money and are reluctant to cross the group's vocal base.

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.

But the little - known agency in the Department of Housing and Urban Development has been thrust into the spotlight as trade groups mount an unusually intense lobbying effort, seeking to scale back regulations that they say are hampering an industry that could provide a market - based solution to the affordable housing crisis.

The Information Technology Industry Council, a lobbying group for companies such as Apple, Google and Microsoft, previously has rebuffed Trump's tariffs as «entirely counterproductive» — and stressed that the result would be higher prices on tech products that «penalize U.S. consumers.»

In a draft letter from the Futures Industry Association — the industry lobby group whose members include banks such as JPMorgan and Goldman Sachs — to the CFTC, the implementation of bitcoin futures contracts «did not allow for proper public transparency and input,» reports the Financial Times, who have reportedly seen the draft.

Using nearly half of the 46 - page letter to promote his views on public policies, Dimon played to his roles as the public face of Wall Street and the chairman of the Business Roundtable, a CEO lobbying group.

Lawyer Richard Jones, the party's nominated candidate in Calgary - Acadia, has been mentioned as a potential candidate, as has former lobby group spokesperson Derek Fildebrandt.

That, in itself, was an oddity in a country at a time it was becoming normal for government climate policies to be cooked up in the boardrooms of Calgary oil lobby groups, as happened with B.C.'s «climate leadership plan» under former premier Christy Clark's Liberal government.

There are already plenty of examples of wealthy individuals attempting to advance their political agendas by supporting unaccountable lobby groups, as was the case with Calgary's infamous Sprawl Cabal «s plans to throw more than $ 1 million behind Preston Manning «s «Municipal Governance Initiative,» and the anonymous donors behind the shady «St. Albert Think Tank.»

Apart from not liking the video's message and concept, which, given his credentials as head of an anti-union «right to work» lobby group, doesn't come as a surprise, Oakey is particularly bothered by the fact that the PSAC — a union — produced the video.

The company bills itself as «the most experienced group of targeters in Republican politics,» offering media analytics services to corporations, lobbying groups, and GOP political campaigns seeking to reach specific target demographics.

The American Car Rental Association, a lobbying group for companies including Enterprise Holdings Inc. and Hertz Global Holdings Inc., is pushing lawmakers to eliminate what it sees as unfair loopholes from taxes that its members have to pay and that car - sharing companies have avoided.

If Mr. Baer is not familiar with individuals and groups who vigorously promote the goals of the AIDS lobby as described in the editorial, perhaps Atlanta is more culturally isolated than we have reason to believe is the case.

The biggest mistake that most atheists make is painting with the broadest of brushes: rather than use words like «some» or «many» or «most» re Christians, most atheists simply paint the entirety of U.S. Christianity as a monolithic group that supports everything the so - called «Christian right» (which, like the Moral Majority before it, is neither) lobbies for.

Already at least one Christian group has begun to lobby the network to cancel the show, regarding its contents as blasphemous.

There are no doubt many significant reasons as to why this is the case but one aspect which needs to be considered is the extent to which some lobbying groups have advanced their views to influence thinking in public life.

The homosexual lobby has been very effective in aligning itself with minority groups, is prominently represented at the Holocaust memorial service [12] each year and has created an image of itself as a group of people under persecution.

Democracy is not proving to be as steady and permanent as expected: powerful lobby groups and financial interests can too easily destabilize it.

Well Bill, I guess I do not see your group / religion as any more than a powerful lobby group, no different than oil and gas, defence industries, tobacco, NRA gun industry, etc..

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.»

The earlier calculations by CHOICE after the demise of the Health Star Ratings official website and amid claims of connections between a senior staffer in the office of the Assistant Health Minister, Senator Fiona Nash, and a lobby group which has some of Mondelez's brands as its clients.

As part of the Open Wing Alliance, we have successfully lobbied Compass Group to pledge to go 100 % cage egg free — sparing millions of hens globally from life in a cage.

Next would come a series of discussions, in small groups and in the class as a whole, in which students compared and contrasted their solutions, arguing and lobbying for different approaches.

Of particular note to me are the direct ties of two of the appointees to Big Food: Tkacz most recently worked as a lobbyist for the Corn Refiners Association, the trade group representing manufacturers of high fructose corn syrup, and previously lobbied for the Snack Food Association.

She is leaving one special interest group (Lamaze International) to work for a natural childbirth lobbying group (The Childbirth Connection), and I find it fitting that she uses her departure to firmly situate natural childbirth as quackery.