Sentences with phrase «chief lobbyist»

While environmental groups worry the pipeline will spur further development of the oil sands and add to greenhouse gas emissions, the industry's chief lobbyist rejected that argument.

Verstandig served as chief lobbyist for the U.S. Department of Transportation during the 1981 air traffic controllers strike.

The impact of tax reform on homeowners, expansion of the secondary mortgage market, and preservation of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are hot topics REALTORS ® will address with their congressional representatives during a week of Capitol Hill visits, as the industry — and the nation — grapple with the «volcanic» start of a new presidential administration, said NAR chief lobbyist Jerry Giovaniello.

NAR follows candidates» proposals carefully, but NAR Deputy Chief Lobbyist Jamie Gregory provides a reminder that proposals must travel a long road through Congress before anything happens.

NAR Deputy Chief Lobbyist Jamie Gregory has more.

Our favourite this week has been Brad Banducci's chief lobbyist at supermarket giant Woolworths, one Christian Bennett, formerly of GE.

The aide, Micah C. Lasher, worked for the Bloomberg administration from 2009 until last year, serving most of that time as the mayor's chief lobbyist in Albany.

Amidst all the frenetic disarray of budget day, I had an interesting and informative exchange on CBC's Power & Politics with John Manley, former Liberal Finance and Industry Minister, and now chief lobbyist for Canada's corporate elite (as President and Chief Executive of the Canadian Council of Chief Executives).

NAHB Chief Lobbyist Jim Tobin was among a few industry leaders who participated in a housing finance roundtable today organized by Senate Banking Committee Chairman Mike Crapo (R - Idaho) and Ranking Member Sherrod Brown (D - Ohio).

Chief lobbyist Pascal Kerneis told a meeting on EU investment policy in 2011: «Industry will oppose any deal in which investment protection is traded off against public policy objectives, including human and labour rights.»

But the filing states that Meara «was surprised and concerned» by what Silver told him, and he shared his concern with Glenwood officials, including chief lobbyist Richard Runes and general counsel Charles Dorego.

He has played tennis with Murdoch's chief lobbyist Fred Michel.

U.S. physics society removes chief lobbyist after controversial press release on Trump's election

«It's really been the most screwed - up implementation of the law,» declares Joel Packer, the National Education Association's chief lobbyist on NCLB, of the highly qualified teacher provisions.

«The biggest problem with what they passed is that it's contrary to the concept of charter schools as they were originally set up in Tennessee,» said Jerry Winters, chief lobbyist of the Tennessee Education Association.

National Association of REALTORS ® Chief Lobbyist Jerry Giovaniello talked with REALTOR ® Magazine about how the real estate industry has fared since then and what to expect in the year ahead.

NAR's Chief Lobbyist discusses the impact of the election on real estate, news from 2016 REALTORS ® Conference & Expo, and updates from NAR's Board.

Steve Dreisler was formerly chief lobbyist and senior vice president of government affairs for the NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF REALTORS ®.

Under the current capital gains tax rate, many owners have held on to their properties rather than sell them and take a tax beating, says NAR Chief Lobbyist Steve Driesler.

The statement is from Lesli Gooch, senior vice president for government affairs and chief lobbyist for MHI.

You can learn about those issues in a live town hall meeting on May 4 with NAR Chief Lobbyist Jerry Giovaniello and all of NAR's legislative representatives.

But he would later do work that put him directly at odds with the city and state teachers» unions, first serving for more than three years as Michael Bloomberg's chief lobbyist in Albany, pushing the mayor's pro-reform education agenda, and then working for just under a year for the pro-charter advocacy group StudentsFirst NY.

NAR Deputy Chief Lobbyist Jamie Gregory talks about a live town hall meeting he and other lobbyists will host to prepare REALTORS ® for their upcoming meetings with members of Congress during Washington meetings in May.

NAR Deputy Chief Lobbyist Jamie Gregory has more on the town hall meeting.

«Whichever party is elected, REALTORS ® will have a lot of resources devoted to their issues,» says NAR Chief Lobbyist Jerry Giovaniello.

Many of the names of the R.G.A.'s corporate donors would be expected: Allen Richardson, a government affairs manager at Koch Companies Public Sector; Randy Kozuch and Erika Scheffer, political affairs executives at the National Rifle Association; Bill Miller, the chief lobbyist at the Business Roundtable, which represents the chief executives of the largest companies; and Bill Guidera, the senior vice president of Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation.

Bezos privately owns the Washington Post, which Trump has described as Amazon's «chief lobbyist.»

So did Clarence M. Mitchell, Jr., a civil rights activist and the chief lobbyist for the NAACP, band leader Cab Calloway and other esteemed alumni: The first African American police commissioner in Baltimore.

The CBI's chief lobbyist is backed up by one of the biggest policy teams around - some 80 staff working full - time on the issues affecting business.

The company's chief lobbyist, Fred Michel, who appeared before the Leveson inquiry last week, is also tennis partner to Mr Clegg.

November 16, 2015 Richard Runes, Glenwood Management's chief lobbyist, testified that both he and top executives at the real estate company were «angry» and «upset» that Golberg & Iryami informed them in 2012 that they had been paying Silver referral fees related to their business for a decade or more.

Kelly, who lives in the small eastern Connecticut town of Canterbury, was chief lobbyist for a company called Competitive Power Ventures, which was seeking an array of government approvals and concessions for a gas - fired power plant in the Hudson River Valley between New York and Albany.

He lasted just over a year in the AG's office before returning to NYPIRG as the good government organization's chief lobbyist.

Bob Hardt notes Giorgio DeRosa, the father of the governor's new chief of staff, Melissa DeRosa, is the chief lobbyist for the firm of Bolton - St.

Not mentioned in the press release is the fact that DeRosa's father, Giorgio, is the chief lobbyist for the firm of Bolton - St.

During the trial Charles Dorego, chief lobbyist for Glenwood, testified that Dean had repeatedly «badgered» him about «helping» Adam, who secured a $ 10,000 - a-month job at a pollution - control company and a $ 20,000 referral fee for work he never actually performed.

The Skelos case also featured a cameo by Glenwood; the company's chief lobbyist, Charles Dorego, testified that Dean Skelos used his political clout to pressure Glenwood into funneling tens of thousands of dollars in payments to his son.

Before rejoining Mr. Schneiderman's staff as Mr. Kwatra's replacement, Mr. Lasher spent 15 months as executive director of the education reform group StudentsFirstNY, but before that, he worked for Mayor Bloomberg as the administration's chief lobbyist in Albany.

Its chief lobbyist, Charlie King, is a former executive director of NAN and the state Democratic Party and NAN.

In March, Wolfson went on the city's payroll as a deputy mayor, part of the administration's third - term overhaul that also dispatched Michelle Goldstein to Washington as New York's chief lobbyist.

Since Google's selection of former Republican representative Susan Molinari as their chief lobbyist, the Internet giant has embraced key players in the climate - denial machine.

We want to make sure our voices are heard,» said David French, chief lobbyist for the National Retail Federation, which has been dispatching members to meet with different levels of the new administration as well as lawmakers.

In actuality, he's the chief lobbyist for Big Tobacco.

This focus on outcomes has its roots in her experiences in Texas, where during the 1980s and 1990s she was chief lobbyist for the Texas Association of School Boards and worked on several education improvement efforts piloted by business leaders, including a commission headed by billionaire H. Ross Perot.

Even the union's chief lobbyist, Ginger Gold Schnitzer, said the challenges couldn't be steeper for the 190,000 - member union, with rollbacks in teacher pensions and benefits, and new requirements for teacher tenure and evaluation.

«This is going to have to be a person who needs to figure out a way to make it all work,» said Michael Vrancik, chief lobbyist for the New Jersey School Boards Association.