Sentences with phrase «as lobbyists at»

This means that the unions can rally their rank - and - file members to serve as lobbyists at the state and local levels.

He sat on the party's National Executive Committee from 2010 to 2012 and has many years» experience as a lobbyist at the London HQ of global consultancy Weber Shandwick.

In his time as a lobbyist at Bracewell & Giuliani, Holmstead was implicated in a 2010 scandal revealing that he and another former Bush EPA official - turned - lobbyist ghostwrote a legislative amendment for Senator Lisa Murkowski (I - AK) that would have undermined the Clean Air Act's provision to control climate - altering greenhouse gases from major emitters.

When attorney Preston Halliburton of Buckhead, Georgia is not operating his growing law practice, he might be working as a lobbyist at the state capitol for Preston Group Inc., the government relations firm his mother, Julianna McConnell, founded.

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.

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.

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.

As special assistant to the president for Domestic Energy and Environmental Policy at the National Economic Council, Trump chose Michael Catanzaro, a fossil fuel lobbyist.

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.

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.

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.

A controversial trip to Morocco by Environmental Protection Agency chief Scott Pruitt last December was partly arranged by a longtime friend and lobbyist, who accompanied Pruitt and his entourage at multiple stops and served as an informal liaison at both official and social events during the visit.

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).

Meat industry lobbyists maintain that BLBT is nothing more than «lean, nutritious» beef, but it's well worth noting that two former microbiologists at USDA's Food Safety Inspection Service — now federal whistleblowers — have vociferously protested the agency's controversial decision to classify BLBT as «meat.»

Yesterday the Environmental Working Group's (EWG) AgMag Blog offered a much closer look at those corporate ties, as well as the role of SNA's lobbyists which, in addition to representing SNA, boast a roster of Big Food clients that includes General Mills, Kraft Foods, the North American Meat Association, the National Confectioners Association and the National Frozen Pizza Institute (whose members include Con Agra and Schwan.)

Whereas Senator Sheldon Silver has refused to take up legislative action that would eliminate the «Pay for Play» culture that allows for our legislators to be used as bought and paid for commodities by outside business concerns, as your Governor I must fully investigate the Assembly and Senates ties to Business and the Lobbyists who curry favor with our legislators to gain undo advantage for those businesses at the peoples expense.

Right around 8 p.m. last night — just as Capital Tonight's Kaitlyn Ross was preparing to go live from outside the Senate chamber with me back at the studio — a major argument broke out right behind her between Assemblyman Vito Lopez and Micah Lasher, the Bloomberg administration's in - house lobbyist.

Both Jacobs and Levy spokesman Josh Hills scoffed at Lazio's criticism and brought up his past as a lobbyist for JP Morgan.

ALBANY — While Gov. Andrew Cuomo has been downplaying his relationship with Todd Howe, a lobbyist at the center of a federal probe of his administration, records show that Howe was steering developers to contribute to the Cuomo campaign as recently as five months ago.

Former colleagues describe Gadhok as an «excellent networker» while well - connected Tory lobbyists say they have often spotted him at the right parties.

A former policy adviser at the Treasury, Morgan is now making a name for herself as a top financial lobbyist.

That's how one of state government's best - known lobbyists described the atmosphere at the Capitol as lawmakers face what is expected to be a series of bitterly contested and highly divisive reelection battles next year in the midst of a bitter and highly divisive presidential campaign.

And at Silver's retrial, prosecutors say all the activities that may no longer be official acts — meetings with lobbyists, helping Taub set up a mesothelioma charity race and find jobs for his kids, using official letterhead to oppose a methadone clinic near a Glenwood property — can still be put before the jury as «circumstantial evidence.»

After they were elected, Ms. Cunningham deregistered as a lobbyist to «avoid even the appearance of a conflict» of interest and resigned her job at a top lobbying firm.

«People believed in the change that Laura was advocating,» said Patrick Halpin, a Democrat who served as Suffolk County executive from 1988 to 1992, and now a lobbyist at Mercury Public Affairs in Manhattan.

Hussain started out in public affairs working for Refugee Council and cemented his credentials as a top voluntary sector lobbyist when stepped up to his present post at the end of last year.

Trump had been publicly discussing ending the agreement, so one could argue that Kerry may have broken the spirit of the law, (or you could argue that he was simply acting as a lobbyist and 100 % legally because the meeting was regarding existing policy), but even if you take the argument that he deliberately went against what Trump was proposing as a likely outcome, Kerry didn't violate the Logan act because it was still policy at the time.

The Campaign Finance Board does have different, lower contribution limits for individuals who are categorized by them as doing business with the city — registered lobbyists, those applying for land use actions, grants or contracts — but neither Herrera nor his relatives who worked at MJM or Masonry were categorized as such.

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

Certainly he is at least as accomplished as Corey Johnson, the part - time hotel lobbyist and former «political editor for Towleroad,» whose signature professional accomplishment was advocating for a higher percentage of affordable housing at a parking lot.

Mr. Rosen is not a lobbyist and as such does not have to disclose his meetings with the mayor, but his firm represents a slew of boldfaced names that have major business at City Hall.

Hamilton is a director at FTI Consulting who previously worked as a senior lobbyist at Bell Pottinger.

Senate Democratic leader John Sampson has been fingered by investigators as the leaker of confidential bidding information to the lobbyist for the politically connected firm that won the contract to run video slots at Aqueduct, sources told The Post.

The small, invite only, forum at the Assembly's Manhattan hearing room brought together about a dozen cloud technology vendors, including major firms like Microsoft, IBM, Amazon and AT&T, and a number of other technology consultants and lobbyists, as well as Reinvent Albany and Common Cause NY.

In a dramatic and long - awaited appearance at the Leveson inquiry, Mr Hunt was forced to listen as several embarrassing messages between himself, his special adviser Adam Smith, James Murdoch and Fred Michel, News Corp lobbyist, were read out in the court.

«I'm not sure why it matters so much right now as [Albany] lobbyists won't be at work until January and the Legislature is not in session right now.»

Skelos» counterpart in the Assembly echoed that view: «While it is true, as in any profession, that some legislators and lobbyists have taken advantage of the system, the vast majority of my colleagues are hard - working, caring and public spirited,» said Sheldon Silver, who was Assembly speaker at the time.

Ms. Maier also jabbed at Mr. Jackson for his time as president of the Restaurant Action Alliance, which opposed the city's styrofoam ban, and his work as a registered lobbyist for the Dart Container Corporation.

``... Most observers see this as a fictional crisis manufactured by gambling lobbyists who want you to re-convene so they can try to make one more run at a major expansion of gambling before the November elections, when Florida voters will likely approve Amendment 3,» he added.

Two days later, according to the criminal complaint against Skelos, the majority leader met with a lobbyist and the confidential witness widely identified as Dorego at the latter's apartment.

Cuomo questioned reporters at an event on Long Island as to whether they would ask about the conflicts of interest for a man who is related to a lobbyist, either through marriage or by parentage.

Even if IE reform is a heavy lift, other lawmakers were pointing to the remarks from Cuomo on Wednesday at Fordham — including a push to have consultants register as lobbyists — as being a way to subtly critique Mayor Bill de Blasio, whom the governor has feuded with over the last year.

George Eustice recited the incredibly boring history of twentieth - century attempts at press regulation, as supplied to him by lobbyists Hacked Off.

At the same time, lobbyist Todd Howe, who worked as a go - between with SUNY Polytechnic, is under scrutiny as well.

«Looking at the public statements of Corbyn and his most ardent supporters, big business and commercial lobbyists are viewed as on a par with Blairites and Zionists as one step up from the antichrist - if we are lucky.»

A number of UK lobbyists watched the clash at Shepherd's restaurant in Westminster as part of a live screening hosted by TP's sister title Public Affairs News and the PRCA.

At 1 p.m., JCOPE hosts an «informal roundtable discussion» on proposed guidelines regarding requiring PR specialists to register as lobbyists, 25 Beaver St., Manhattan.

While it is widely known that some companies and foreign governments gave money to the foundations, perhaps in an effort to gain favor, one of the key parts of the puzzle hasn't been reported: At least a dozen of those same companies lobbied the State Department, using lobbyists who doubled as major Clinton campaign fundraisers.

Bill Collins, a former top aide to disgraced ex-Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, is back at the state Capitol as a lobbyist.

Several lobbyists, who traditionally trade speak on condition of anonymity, said Albany is increasingly a nervous community, especially as they now see Bharara expanding his probe of the Buffalo Billion include looking at an array of players, including longtime advisers to Cuomo.