Sentences with phrase «biggest lobbyist»

Considering that he gets paid for his research in climate change by the government he is probably the biggest lobbyist of all time.

De Blasio insisted he couldn't remember a secret 2015 meeting he had with the city's biggest lobbyist and nine of his clients, which was revealed this week by JCOPE.

For breakfast today, they worshiped & let speak to delegation biggest lobbyist in NYS....

Her husband is one of the biggest lobbyists in Albany, she used to be a lobbyist, until she went to work for Spitzer and then used her elected office to stop an effort by Farley's son to have the Schenectady County Legislature object to Spitzer's crazy scheme to give illegal aliens drivers licenses.

But then again, aren't the banks the biggest lobbyists in Congress?

Planned Parenthood is a member of the Clean Missouri Coalition, an effort to reform our democracy by banning big lobbyist gifts, capping campaign contributions, and improving the way we draw district lines.

Planned Parenthood is supporting Clean Missouri, a non-partisan effort to reform our democracy by banning big lobbyist gifts, capping campaign contributions, and improving the way we draw legislative district lines.

Not exact matches

The biggest known name involved in Obama's backtrack on lobbyists serving in the administration was William Lynn.

Government figures cited by the Associated Press indicate that just 1.7 million people — out of a total non-farm labor force of some 136 million workers — earned the minimum wage or less in 2006; still the increase was a big political victory for the Democrats, one that came at the expense of lobbyists from the National Federation of Independent Businesses and the Chamber of Commerce, among others.

The 60 biggest companies in the Toronto Stock Exchange have almost a thousand lobbyists currently registered to represent them in the halls of government, and when you add the lobbyists at the trade associations to which those companies belong, their ranks grow considerably.

Hwang says FiscalNote's platform recently helped Dow Chemical's lobbyists identify 18 bills around the country related to plastic bag disposal and waste emissions, two things that could have big effects on what it manufactures in its facilities in six states.

«We should be very skeptical of regulatory relief bills that are promoted as helping small banks, but are pushed by ABA lobbyists for big banks.»

«We will be disappointed on Wednesday when we see that this is the big announcement,» said one lobbyist.

But our democracy is still suffering from decades of darkness and secrecy, with Big Money pouring in from corporate bank accounts and lobbyists running amok.

And that's just another way of saying, «This joint runs great for those who can hire armies of lobbyists and lawyers and have them make big campaign contributions, but not here for real people.»»

The GOP's Biggest Charter School Experiment Just Imploded How a washed - up lobbyist built a charter school...

«Big banks and their lobbyists are about to score a touchdown at the expense of hardworking families across the country,» Brown said shortly before the vote.

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.

A bipartisan majority of senators has chosen to commemorate the 10th anniversary of the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression by handing big banks and their lobbyists a package of deregulatory gifts, increasing the risks to financial stability and the likelihood of consumer abuse, including racial discrimination in mortgage lending.

Lobbyists chattered throughout the day over whether Wednesday's big unveiling of the GOP tax package would have to be delayed as it became clear that lawmakers were differing over various reductions.

Eric Cantor's flashes of insight notwithstanding, the biggest roadblock to a populist limited government politics is the size, wealth, self - confidence, and insularity of the Republican operative and lobbyist classes.

These are our neighbors, our friends, our people, and yet we would rather rationalize away our responsibility by allowing ourselves to be swayed by special interests, big business and lobbyists whose only concern is how much money they can make.

The big pharmaceutical companies, insurance companies and the AMA are against healthcare reform and offer placebos for the problem by hiring lobbyists and spreading disinformation.

Former representative Steve LaTourette, an Ohio Republican who now works as a Washington lobbyist, said in an interview with USA Today that the Freedom Caucus has «the ability to throw sand in the gears and keep things from happening but they are not a big enough block to make something happen.»

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.

But now many powerful forces are aligned against school food reform: the processed food industry, which has a huge financial stake in the program and powerful lobbyists on Capitol Hill; the need of school districts to make their meal programs break even; First Lady Michelle Obama's vocal support of school food reform, which has politicized the issue for some conservatives hoping to score political points; and conservatives» general distrust of «big government.»

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.)

With a new K Street office, new Republican lobbyists on retainer to balance the company's traditional tilt toward Democrats, and an expanded portfolio of issues, Google's getting into political advocacy in a big way.

He's funded by Albany lobbyists and big real estate interests, and they'll spend serious cash to keep him in power.»

«The group is made up of small business leaders, but also big business lobbyists, trade associations and other Albany insiders,» Caputo said.

AG Andrew Cuomo says it's OK for him to accept big campaign contributions from special interests and lobbyists because he has integrity and can't be bought.

It would not have looked at all good for the anti-Albany AG to be raising big money in the shadow of the Capitol - presumably from lobbyists, because who else is free at 11:30 a.m. to drop $ 750 to $ 25,000 a head?

In addition, Bonomo has hired big time lobbyists including former Senator Al D'Amato, Founder and Managing Director of Park Strategies.

A party pursuing an agenda of increased tax and redistribution, regulation and nationalisation is never going to have a cosy relationship with media barons and big business in general (though it's worth noting that the corporate lobbyists who stayed away from last year's conference came flooding back this time) but it can reach people in other ways.

He has avoided aligning himself with any political party, but one of Condon's biggest fans in the public affairs industry is well - known Tory lobbyist Peter Bingle.

Longtime League of Women Voters lobbyist Barbara Bartoletti expressed frustration at the lack of action on items including closing a giant campaign finance loophole that allows big money donors to make unlimited contributions to candidates by setting up multiple Limited Liability Companies.

«Chris Collins is the company's biggest investor and he's on the board of directors, and he makes a very substantial stock purchase, and then just two days later, his friend and colleague, Price, makes a huge stock purchase himself,» said Craig Holman, government affairs lobbyist for Public Citizen.

But David Cameron is breaking his promises to clean up the lobbying industry because, under his Government's watered - down Bill: · only a fraction of lobbyists would have to register and this will not include the in house lobbyists used by the big energy firms.

believe that the future of our country lies in our people, not in big money donors and lobbyists who seek to divide us for their profit.

JP Morgan doled out nearly $ 1.5 million while you were the big bank's top lobbyist.

Clinton took in $ 823,087 from registered lobbyists and members of their firms in 2007 and the second - biggest recipient was McCain, who took in $ 416,321, according to the Center for Responsive Politics, a Washington - based group which tracks political giving.

«They're calling and trying to set up meetings with council members, which is not the same as throwing around big money to connected lobbyists.»

An inside player working as a lobbyist and long out of office, D'Amato is not exactly a big - ticket endorsement but it must nonetheless sting for Pataki.

But the arrival of lobbyists and big - money investors in the past two years propelled the idea forward.

A number of big cities retain lobbyists — sometimes even more than one.

She discussed how the Founding Fathers found corruption the biggest threat to democracy, although now over 50 % of former congresspeople become lobbyists.

Lobbyists and lawmakers expect major issues to be combined into an omnibus bill called a «big ugly» to be voted on before legislators break for the year next week.

«Pensiongate» scandal is bigger than «Watergate» and stars «Hank Morris» and a cast of very Rich and powerful Democrats and political Lobbyists and consultants who help

While Mayor de Blasio was soliciting campaign contributions from billionaire John Catsimatidis, lobbyists for one of the tycoon's companies were pushing to secure legislation that could mean big bucks, in a potential conflict of interest, critics charged Sunday.

Albany is broke and the budget is four months past deadline — but that didn't stop state lawmakers from hitting the links yesterday to shake down lobbyists and special - interest groups for big bucks.