Sentences with phrase «business lobby in»

Ever since the poor white souitherner has been exploited and taken for granted by the interest of the business lobby in DC and reminded constantly that their «rights» (to discriminate, I guess) has been eroded.

More than 80 % of members of a U.S. business lobby in China say foreign companies are less welcome than in the past, a survey released on Wednesday showed, with most saying they have little confidence in China's vows to open its markets.

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Experts also advise pushing for more personal finance in the school curriculum, lobbying both your local schools for inclusion and area businesses for sponsorship or teacher training funds.

So the most evident problem with this new venture is that it is illegal and in the current political climate, no matter the lobbying dollars involved, is unlikely to change the laws sufficient to allow this business to ever launch.

So, in 1998, he successfully lobbies for disabled vets to be added to the SBA's funding program for disadvantaged businesses.

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 Cbusiness 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 CBusiness 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 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.

While the auto and farm lobbies are seeking to preserve cross-border supply chains and to retain access to markets in Mexico and Canada, the tech sector wants a revamped NAFTA to help it grow future business.

Olson likes to cite a maxim from business author Jim Schell: «Avoid waterfalls in the lobby.»

Not long ago, in the lobby of a hotel near Harvard Business School, I noticed a slightly disheveled man in a black ski jacket, singing softly to himself.

Over at the National Federation of Independent Business, the conservative lobbying group, tax counsel Chris Whitcomb says that the most urgent business in Washington is to postpone the tax cuts for evBusiness, the conservative lobbying group, tax counsel Chris Whitcomb says that the most urgent business in Washington is to postpone the tax cuts for evbusiness in Washington is to postpone the tax cuts for everybody.

Regulatory changes had been in the wind for some time as the evidence against the program built up, yet employers relied on the lobbying efforts of the Canadian Federation of Independent Business to maintain the program rather than taking steps to improve domestic recruitment and training efforts or adjust wages and benefits to attract workers.

Lobbying expenditures by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the most powerful business group in Washington, D.C.,...

Lobbying expenditures by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the most powerful business group in Washington, jumped to...

Business Insider reported on Friday that Bank of America had been lobbying shareholders who own as few as 500 shares in the hopes of winning their votes.

Anyway, if you work in one of the few organizations that haven't yet been bitten by this egregiously awful management fad, here are 16 solid arguments why private offices, working from home, and even cubicles are better for business than these glorified hotel lobbies.

Business Insider reported last week, meanwhile, that the California State Teachers» Retirement System, one of the biggest pension funds in the world, was lobbying shareholders to vote against the proposal.

Much of the broader solar industry in the US, which is composed of businesses that install solar panels, lobbied against these tariffs.

The bill in question, the Honest Ads Act, is a long overdue correction, and not something that would fundamentally alter the way that Facebook does business — a fact that hadn't previously stopped Facebook from using its lobbying might to try to kill the bill earlier this year.

«We're 5 percent of the world population,» said Mr. Oberhelman, who spoke in his capacity as president of the Business Roundtable, a pro-trade lobby.

Kydyrbaev, the business lobby representative, expects the EEU to produce an uptick in foreign investment, but not from the West.

«We're making progress, but the pace of change in the private sector is so great and the pace of change in government is so slow, even to get a budget passed, let alone get a turnaround in the fiscal situation,» said Joe Brennan, president of the Connecticut Business & Industry Association, a lobbying group.

Emails WEDC released to the Wisconsin State Journal under the state open records law show that WMC, the state's largest business lobby, alerted WEDC in June that other states were seeking to lure Kraft Heinz facilities out of Wisconsin.

Browse, reserve, and check in to space immediately at hip coworking venues, high - end business centers, or handy hotel lobbies or libraries.

Mayor Paul Soglin, pictured in November after the announcement that Oscar Mayer would close its Madison headquarters, blasted the state's job - creation agency and top business lobby for not contacting Kraft Heinz after its merger was announced last March.

Indeed, the project quotes Chamber President Thomas Donohue as stating that «the Chamber is in the business of providing «reinsurance» to companies that need help lobbying for positions that aren't publicly or politically palatable.»

Meanwhile, bigger businesses with deeper pockets also re-allocate resources towards lobbying efforts in hopes of gaining favored regulatory treatment and / or using regulations to limit competition.

In hindsight, Carney would have been wise to heed a particularly prescient warning by the Confederation of British Industries, the country's largest business lobby group, issued the month before his arrival in LondoIn hindsight, Carney would have been wise to heed a particularly prescient warning by the Confederation of British Industries, the country's largest business lobby group, issued the month before his arrival in Londoin London.

In a week when business lobby groups are appearing before the House of Commons Committee on Finance and calling for more tax breaks, the federal R&D Panel appointed a year ago released a very good report saying Canada's very generous system of R&D tax incentives haven't been effective and what we need instead are more direct grants -LSB-...]

«Jack and I are going to do great things for small business,» Trump said, standing alongside the Alibaba founder in the lobby of Trump Tower.»

Aetna made an issue last year of its presence in Connecticut when it joined other businesses lobbying Gov. Dannel P. Malloy and the General Assembly to roll back proposed tax increases.

-LRB-...) Keidanren, the largest and most influential business lobby group, seems willing to recommend that its members prepare for the first increase in base salaries since 2008, when they enter spring negotiations with labour unions.

With Trump in the White House and more business - friendly Republican - controlled Congress, banks seized the opportunity spending a record $ 66.7 million on lobbying last year, according to the political contributions database OpenSecrets.

The expenditures upon which we seek a report are those that Congress has said to not warrant a deduction as an ordinary and necessary business expense, namely, lobbying, participation in the political system by supporting or opposing candidates for office, and trying to influence the general public or segment thereof as to elections, legislative matters or referenda.

anyone who is in the lobby industry or marketing research knows about this business but the majority of the average forum readers have no clue that the person they are talking with is in character and secretly copying their info and telling some lobby if they agree or disagree with their agenda.

One party's economic agenda is dominated by business lobbies, but the policy proposals that come out of the Chamber of Commerce — GOP nexus are so unpopular that they are stillborn in Congress as soon as the hideous opinion poll results are known.

(Sen. Barack Obama, Remarks, Des Moines, IA, 1/3/08) in fact A list of Obama's own top fundraisers features a number of people involved in the business of influencing government, including the head of a lobbying and public relations firm, the corporate executive who oversees Comcast's lobbying efforts and the chairwoman of pharmaceutical giant Pfizer's political action committee, among others.»

This strategy largely writes off the non-evangelical white working - class in the hopes of winning over nonwhite voters and it aligns Republican policy even more closely with the policy preferences of the Washington business lobbies.

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.»

When Warren Randall bought 50 per cent of the Seppeltsfield business in 2009, he successfully lobbied Fosters (soon to become Treasury Wine Estates) to allow him to make small amounts of table wines — six varieties, just 1,000 cases of each — to sell exclusively through cellar door.

Our warm and inviting décor in the lobby, new corridor carpet, enhanced lighting, and charming guest suites will make your stay comfortable and relaxing whether you are visiting us for business or pleasure.

A powerful lobby of Australian business and education interests in Asia this week warned the move was already making it harder to recruit staff and would damage Australia's people - to - people engagement with Asia at a time when it was trying to build a closer relationship with the region.

In spite of the decision by the 1982 jury, and the fact that antitrust laws were designed to promote free enterprise and competition for the benefit of business, employees and consumers, the NFL continues to lobby in Congress in hopes of obtaining limited exemption from antitrust laws, retroactively, thereby forcing the Raiders to return to Oakland and blocking other teams from moving in the futurIn spite of the decision by the 1982 jury, and the fact that antitrust laws were designed to promote free enterprise and competition for the benefit of business, employees and consumers, the NFL continues to lobby in Congress in hopes of obtaining limited exemption from antitrust laws, retroactively, thereby forcing the Raiders to return to Oakland and blocking other teams from moving in the futurin Congress in hopes of obtaining limited exemption from antitrust laws, retroactively, thereby forcing the Raiders to return to Oakland and blocking other teams from moving in the futurin hopes of obtaining limited exemption from antitrust laws, retroactively, thereby forcing the Raiders to return to Oakland and blocking other teams from moving in the futurin the future.

Enterprise Nation is involved in liaising with HMRC and lobbying for small business: https://www.enterprisenation.com/blog/posts/hmrc-agrees-to-meet-with-businesses-affected-by-vat-moss

«Dr. Johnston... developed this sudden and seemingly urgent interest in this issue not via a last minute clinical review of the scientific literature, or even after consulting with the AAP's own recognized lactation science experts... his concern came immediately after aggressive, personal lobbying by representatives of one of the AAP's biggest financial contributors, the $ 3 billion U.S. infant formula industry,» wrote lactivist Katie Allison Granju in «The Milky Way of Doing Business,» a rebuttal to the AAP's actions regarding the campaign.

As a result, nursing mothers have become proactive in recent years, not only lobbying lawmakers to change laws and provide penalties for those who do not comply but also staging huge «nurse - ins» at businesses that have rejected public nursing.

Gaskin presides over a large multi-faceted business empire comprised of trade, propaganda and lobbying organizations, all with one purpose in mind: allowing uneducated women like herself to provide substandard medical care to pregnant women while ignoring the growing pile of tiny bodies.

Opening the door to Business lobbying — what's wrong with the new WHO policy proposals CLICK HERE for TWN article on the outcome CLICK HERE for PDF CLICK HERE for many related stories in Update 46 26th March 2014...

The fact that the infant formula companies are spending big bucks to lobby in Washington proves just how lucrative this business really is, and what a shame that such an inferior product is being fed to the majority of babies, some from day one.

But Duffy added to reporters earlier today that lobbying the state on business issues is only fraction of the job he's due to assume in January.