Sentences with phrase «by lobbyists»

This is a town run by lobbyists, for better or worse, right?

We sounded off against the convention, too, citing our lack of confidence that the process wouldn't be controlled by lobbyists and special interests.

Do you think that both major parties are excessively dominated by money and overly influenced by lobbyists and single - issue groups?

Once upon a time, legislators would rely upon and exploit research provided BY lobbyists, instead of the other way around.

That is the only job he ever had arranged by his lobbyist uncle.

It opens the door to expectations by lobbyists of favourable treatment resulting from the donation.

What would stop that money, as in so many past efforts, from being allocated by lobbyists rather than engineers?

If you did not know, credit counseling firms are backed, sponsored by their lobbyists (that make laws that work against the consumers), by creditors & lenders.

The trade agreements that were put together by lobbyist and big business, moved our manufacturing to the third world.

The group creates model bills, drafted by lobbyists and lawmakers, that in the past have included such things as «stand your ground» gun laws and tighter voter identification rules.

Following is a brief script provided by our lobbyist to use when calling a committee member.

At Joseph Percoco's corruption trial, Linda Lacewell speaks of the governor's reaction when he learned how Percoco had been paid by a lobbyist for work with private clients.

Hours after Cuomo spoke to reporters, the state attorney general's office on Thursday raided the office at SUNY Polytechnic that had been used by lobbyist Todd Howe, who has become a central figure in the investigation over the Buffalo Billion.

The state has reason to believe that in certain programs and regulatory approvals they may have been defrauded by improper bidding and failures to disclose potential conflicts of interest by lobbyists and former state employees.»

The chief of staff to Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo testified at former top aide Joseph Percoco's corruption trial on Wednesday that the governor appeared shocked to learn Percoco had been paid by a lobbyist for work for private clients when the two first spoke after an FBI raid at Percoco's home.

Schneiderman's team seized records from an office last week at SUNY Poly that was used by lobbyist Todd Howe, who is also a target of Bharara's office.

A bill by Councilman Ben Kallos (D - Manhattan), discussed at a hearing Monday, would prohibit campaigns from accepting public matching funds off money raised by lobbyists who bundle unlimited contributions from other donors.

Berger is sending Blaine, described by lobbyists at the meeting as the «right hand man» to the most powerful person in North Carolina politics, to make presentations across the state to gain input and support of a plan as an alternative to Burr's bill.

The department has been used for decades as a political football to be influenced by lobbyists with large amounts of money, that «buy» influence from whatever politicians are in power, the PRESENT administration is no different.

Apart from donations to individual candidates (more below) and spending by lobbyists on congressional committees, it is difficult to see where Pfizer's political spending is going.

Not counting this form of compensation as an expense was a ridiculous accounting practice, and one that was supported by ridiculous arguments by lobbyists and the lawmakers who wanted to protect their corporate constituents who were getting rich.

The New Yorker's Mike Spies spent a year investigating Hammer and produced a piece that reveals just how much the legislative process is dominated by lobbyists like her — well, really, just by her.

Unofficially however, and made clear to legislators on the trip in emails from ALEC obtained by CMD, the expenses were paid for by lobbyists from the oil - industry and by the government of Alberta.

The federal subpoena issued to the Cuomo administration in April mentions two firms represented by lobbyist Todd Howe in a Syracuse development that landed an unusual grant of $ 2.5 million in state funds.

These laws are being vociferously supported by lobbyists for old media — exactly the sort of media that has done such an abysmal job of informing the public about the climate debate.

Among the many provisions in the bill: end outside employment for lawmakers, ban per diem limits and dramatically tighten campaign contribution limits, restrict contributions by lobbyists, create a public financing system, and provide for a substantial salary increase for legislators while extending their terms from two years to four years.

«However, irregular reporting by lobbyists and antiquated online filing systems have weakened the effectiveness of the laws and undermined lobbying transparency.»

IBM is represented in the deal by lobbyist James Capalino.

At 11:30 a.m., Assemblywoman Nicole Malliotakis, the Republican nominee for NYC mayor, and GOP Public Advocate candidate JC Polanco hold a press conference focused on the de Blasio administration's «pay - to - play mentality and the role played by lobbyist James Capalino,» in front of Rivington House, 45 Rivington St., Manhattan.

Bharara said the secret agreement was a corruption of Silver's public duties because he continued to be lobbied by lobbyists from the developers and some of the developer's recommendations on real estate issues were adopted into law by the legislature.

Recently released internal documents indicate that the strategy to put multiple changes to a series of environmental protection laws into a single piece of legislation was recommended by lobbyists for the oil and gas industry.

Advocacy organizations such as Citizens Union and New York Public Interest Research Group have recommended that contributions bundled by lobbyists should not be eligible for matching funds.

EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt's condo lease cost only $ 50 per night and happened to be owned by a lobbyist whose client's project was later approved by the agency.

The «raise the age» issue has been a sticking point in talks, but was described by lobbyists and legislators as a linchpin for a budget agreement.

Development secretary says officials wrong to claim she had not told them about talks in August accompanied by lobbyist

What will be interesting to watch is to see how many members of Congress are swayed by the lobbyist arguments.

John Kaehny, executive director of Reinvent Albany, pointed out that budgets have passed with fairly controversial measures tucked in at the last minute by lobbyists and their government allies thanks to the lack of thorough review.

Prior to the vote on the climate bill back in June, Congressman Tom Perriello (D - VA) received a a letter from Hispanic community group Creciendo Juntos urging him to vote against the bill — the trouble is that the letter was forged and sent on behalf of an undisclosed client by lobbyists Bonner & Associates.

On a lobby disclosure form reviewed by Reuters, Cisco Systems listed NAFTA and government procurement as the trade issues handled by its lobbyists.

• Scott Pruitt's trip to Morocco in December was partly planned by a lobbyist who then landed work from the Moroccan government.

The national income accounts initially were designed by statisticians, but now they're designed by lobbyists, and the lobbyists work in Congress to say here's how we want to depict the economy as if it's actually benefiting the voters instead of specifically benefiting the FIRE sector — Finance, Insurance and Real Estate — which depicts itself as contributing to growth rather than being a parasite on growth, as I've described in Killing the Host.

Their presence and the constant pressure by lobbyists and duck - rescuers such as Laurie Levy of the Coalition Against Duck Shooting have resulted in:

Read a sample of e-mails sent to MEPs by lobbyists High time for CIAA to come clean on its lobbying CIAA's $ 1 - billion campaign to promote the GDA labelling system was clearly a key element in its political strategy to combat other, stricter labelling options which it feared would damage sales of unhealthy food, such as the «traffic light» system.

«I feel that sportswriters are being bombarded by lobbyists and hence are taking the easy way out, i.e., they not only accept an exorbitant number of free drinks, they also accept too many publicity releases as pure gospel.»

According to the report, over $ 5.6 million has been spent to date by lobbyists opposing the proposed school food rules to be promulgated under last year's passage of the Healthy Hunger - Free Kids Act.