Sentences with phrase «by corporate lobbying»

British politics is now dominated by corporate lobbying.

He told us that the states with the biggest roles to play are heavily influenced by corporate lobbying, but that this can be countered by citizens» efforts to call for more transparency and democracy in international negotiations.

Most are based on model legislation produced by the corporate lobbying group ALEC.

Furthermore, the controversial repeal was influenced heavily by corporate lobbying groups.

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The study was commissioned by the American Council for Capital Formation and the US Chamber of Commerce, two longstanding corporate anti-tax lobbying groups.

The IoD serves its members by promoting free enterprise, actively lobbying to the government and helping set standards for corporate governance.

«A broad coalition of investors wants companies to tell stockholders and the public more about so - called «dark money» spent both in campaigns and on lobbying by groups that use corporate money and don't say where it comes from,» Welsh of Si2 said.

Led by the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) and Walden Asset Management, ICCR members are shining a light on corporate lobbying and political spending.

Since the deadly school shooting in Parkland, Fla., last month, renewed calls for remedies to firearms violence have led to sweeping consumer boycotts and unprecedented moves by corporate America to distance itself from the powerful gun lobby.

Even though huge numbers of us are exhausted and isolated as our mothers never were, feminists, corporate leaders, and the child - care lobby are effectively forcing us to remain in the workforce against our deepest wishes, our lives made just bearable by scant leave and scanter subsidy.

We then heard how the process of marketisation is accelerated by the system of revolving doors, campaign finance and corporate lobbying, which was the focus of Tamasin Cave of SpinWatch's talk.

His bid to shift to the other chamber of the state legislature was only possible with the blessing of Congressman Joe Crowley, the Queens political boss; his campaign is backed by the unions — including the UFT, SEIU 1199, and 32BJ — who have the most clout in Albany; and Peralta's campaign strategist is from the Parkside Group, a firm that is amassing a list of Senate electoral clients nearly as long as its list of corporate lobbying clients.

Next month we will look at how to lobby MPs, assuming there are any left by then... Jon McLeod is Chairman UK Corporate Communication & Public Affairs, Weber Shandwick

For example, a lobbyist for a corporate entity could spend Monday and Tuesday meeting with senators on a bill supported by the company and would need to report to JCOPE his or her salary for those days as part of the total spent on the company's lobbying campaign.

Common Cause has requested that the IRS investigate ALEC's 501 (c)(3) status for participating in a significant amount of lobbying activity by promulgating corporate - sponsored model bills and providing resources to the legislators promoting those bills.

In a MUST READ commentary piece published in the CTNewsjunkie, Robert Cotto Jr. reviews the flawed special education proposal submitted by The Connecticut School Finance Project, a corporate education reform group that has apparently violated state law by illegally engaging in lobbying activities with Governor Dannel Malloy and his administration.

According to the latest lobbying reports filed by the various corporate education reform lobbying groups with the Office of State Ethics, the corporate - funded advocacy organizations that support charter schools, the Common Core and the absurd Common Core testing scheme spent more than $ 1.9 million lobbying Malloy and the legislature in 2015.

Yesterday, in one of the most extraordinary statements I've ever seen in modern American politics (except for maybe a few from Tea Baggers) was provided by The Connecticut Council for Education Reform, a new corporate lobby group that was formed to support Malloy's «Education Reform» bill.

Students for Education Reform — is the quintessential corporate «astro turf» lobbying organization bankrolled by a variety of education reform groups.

At the same time, local school boards are simply unwilling to exert their authority and ask the important questions while complying with directives of the State Department of Education while CABE, CAPSS, CAS, CBIA, CCER, and ConnCAN — working in collusion as Big Six Partners follow a roadmap designed by The Common Core Funder's Working Group in the Fall 2012 — continue to work behind scenes and in the media to lobby for «corporate education reform» with its top - down imposed Common Core State Standards and their unproven destructive test protocols.

Malloy and the corporate lobby group's reach was even evident when the bill was voted on by the Education Committee.

The stunning move comes after months of illegal lobbying by the Relay School of Education, including direct contact between Relay corporate officers and some of the highest ranking officials in the Malloy administration.

The analysis, done by the Center for Media and Democracy, a nonprofit liberal watchdog and advocacy agency based in Wisconsin that tracks corporate influence on public policy, says that four companies — Pearson Education, ETS (Educational Testing Service), Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, and McGraw - Hill — collectively spent more than $ 20 million lobbying in states and on Capitol Hill from 2009 to 2014.»

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ReadyReturn survived corporate lobbying for one reason: Joe Bankman decided to make easy tax filing his personal mission, and he spent $ 30,000 to hire a lobbyist to counter lobbying by Intuit, the maker of TurboTax software.

If spare, minimalist aesthetics echoed the language of corporate lobby design, Stella's late work — once described by Dee Wedemeyer in the New York Times as the real estate developer's choice — seems to echo the bright, frivolous art that hangs on sterile lobby walls.

Barlow's sculptures have tended to be modified for, or inspired by, each venue: the high ceilings of the BALTIC Center for Contemporary Art in Newcastle provided an opportunity to create a very tall anthropomorphic object while here in the lobby of One Canada Square, a corporate office building, she has used a lurid pink and yellow colour scheme as a response to the floor - to - wall pinkie - brown marble hall.

However, the hype by Gore and others and the lobbying of the corporate farmers led the government to oversubsidize ethanol.

In a new filing to the IRS — adding to an active investigation prompted by a 2012 complaint that ALEC is operating as a corporate lobbying group while registered as a 501 (c)(3) nonprofit charity — the watchdog organizations detail for the first time how Exxon has used ALEC as a key asset in its explicit campaign to sow uncertainty about climate science, undermine international climate treaties and block legislation to reduce emissions.

The announcement comes after intense lobbying by corporate executives, world leaders and even Pope Francis, who have urged Trump to keep the U.S. in the accord for the good of the American economy and the planet.

The lobbying tour, organized by Corporate Europe Observatory, took place on December 3rd 2015, with the goal of bringing the buildings of the Parisian business district La Dèfense to life: they are seats of power, where decisions are influenced, where lobbyists work and wield power.

The new rankings used a methodology developed by the US - based Union of Concerned Scientists to measure corporate positions on climate legislation against criteria such as transparency, company performance and lobby interventions.

The pro-golden-rice lobby, like the pro-GMO lobby in general damage their case by exaggeration, all - or - nothing claims, pressure for haste before adequate proper trials are completed and by their extreme naivity about the motives of corporate capital.

In Ohio and other states, ALEC dodges lobby laws through corporate - funded «scholarship» programs that are thoroughly documented by the Center for Media and Democracy through open records requests.

Corporate PR campaigns have become so sophisticated that it's almost impossible for most people to tell the difference between genuine science and greenwash, or real grassroots campaigns and the astroturf lobbies concocted by consultants (1).

ALEC Exposed Also run by the Center for Media and Democracy, ALEC Exposed tracks the corporate - funded American Legislative Exchange Council's efforts to undermine the public interest and democracy through lobbying and collaboration between corporations and politicians on «model bills» developed behind closed doors to shift state laws in favor of corporate interests instead of the public.

Because a massive lobbying effort of Republican lawmakers by the frozen pizza industry, among other corporate interests, is underway to get around Obama Administration guidelines to make school lunches contain healthier options.

Ever since the publication of the draft Corporate Manslaughter Bill, an increasingly heated debate has raged between interested lobbying groups concerning the formulation of financial penalties to be levied against an organisation on conviction, specifically whether fines should be calculated by reference to that organisation's turnover.

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