Sentences with phrase «corporate lobbyist in»

Ohio Rep. Adams, for example, sent at least a dozen letters to corporate lobbyists in 2010, thanking them for writing checks to the ALEC scholarship fund, which paid his and his colleagues way to an ALEC conference.

Not exact matches

Although union and corporate contributions are banned federally in Canada, they are still allowed in many provinces, and the number of registered lobbyists working for corporations has increased steadily.

Hillary Clinton took nearly every precaution to ensure voters would never know what she told investment bankers, lobbyists and corporate executives in dozens of closed - door paid speeches before running for president.

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.

The consultant, Matthew C. Freedman, who is also a former lobbyist for foreign governments, runs his own corporate advisory firm and is treasurer of the American Australian Council, a group that helps promote business for American - based companies in Australia.

«It's no wonder these emails had to be forced out by a court: they expose the fact that corporate lobbyists are orchestrating Pruitt's taxpayer - funded trips to push their dangerous agendas,» Sierra Club executive director Michael Brune said in a statement to CNN.

While corporations have benefited greatly from free trade in recent decades, the Auto Pact illustrates that there are ways to enable freer trade while also building a more fair and equitable system for those without corporate lobbyists or shareholder requirements.

My work brings attention to people who don't have corporate lobbyists representing them in government.

I don't know a lot about the regulatory process in the UK but my guess is that the influence of corporate lobbyists must be far more curtailed than it is in the US.

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.)

«Corporate lobbyists have too much power in Washington.

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.

Therefore, corporate in - house lobbying teams will be exempt from the proposed new rules and the plans do not require ministers to declare meetings with lobbyists who are also friends.

This has been part of Owen Smith's campaign strategy from the beginning, quietening his past as a Blair sympathiser and corporate lobbyist and overstating his socialist credentials in order to appeal to a supposed «soft left» flank within Corbyn's support.

«Certainly, his relationship with the mayor put him out there in the corporate world in a way he wasn't before,» said Ken Fisher, a former councilman and borough president candidate who is now a lobbyist.

Pressure grows to speed up introduction of lobbyists» register as 1,537 corporate meetings show «massive disparity» in access

«Andrew Cuomo has built a $ 31 million war chest from wealthy corporate interests, lobbyists and billionaires,» Nicole Aro, Nixon's campaign manager, said in a statement.

Teachout, meanwhile, struck a note of economic populism, calling for stricter banking regulations, higher corporate taxes and renegotiation of foreign trade deals, while painting Faso, who served 15 years in the state Assembly and has worked as a lobbyist, as a standard - bearer for the status quo.

It is being held on Eighth Avenue at Covington & Burling, a corporate law firm whose lobbyists are among the best connected in politics.

An examination of 75 think tanks found an array of researchers who had simultaneously worked as registered lobbyists, members of corporate boards or outside consultants in litigation and regulatory disputes, with only intermittent disclosure of their dual roles.

These type of question will remain on the table until it is accidentally divulged in a dirty Washington scandal when a corporate lobbyist tries to warm the jellyfish brain of congressman to vote in favor of some sort of coveted funding.

He's clambered to the top of the world by selling his soul to the devil — who comes, in this film, in the guise of big business and corporate lobbyists.

The Yes Men Fix the World (Unrated) Guerilla - style documentary about a couple of investigative reporters (Andy Bichlbaum and Mike Bonanno) who infiltrate corporate America by masquerading as businessmen in order to expose politicians, lobbyists and other people profiting from Hurricane Katrina and other natural disasters.

This change is designed to honor the voice and expertise of those who know the names, strengths and learning needs of the children in their school: parents, teachers, counselors, para educators and administrators, not politicians and corporate lobbyists.

Since Malloy introduced his «Education Reform» agenda, the charter school industry and the corporate funded «education reform» advocacy groups have hired dozens of lobbyists and spent nearly $ 7 million, or more, to «persuade» Connecticut officials to adopt policies that are diametrically opposed to what is in the best interests of Connecticut students, parents, teachers and public school system.

This time the corporate funded charter school lobbyists are calling themselves «Fight for Fairness CT» and are rallying in Bridgeport, New Haven and Hartford.

While Scarice's testimony was short in length, its honest approach to the issue was in stark contrast to the «know - nothing» approach being spewed by the corporate education reform industry, their lobbyists and their allies.

Bluntly, there may be too many education lobbyists and corporate interests driving manufactured problems in the name of education reform.

The Courant's observations are usually well thought out and on - track, but in their first piece entitled, «Agenda 2015: Ambitious Goals For The State,» they mistakenly bought into the rhetoric espoused by Governor Malloy, the corporate education reform industry and the spin coming out of Connecticut's charter schools and their lobbyists.

Earthjustice (the legal arm of the Sierra Club) has said on their website in the «Climate Change Denial — A Note to Journalists» section: «For the latest and best information on global warming we recommend Realclimate.org a new blog edited by working climate scientists not corporate lobbyists».

Environmentalists, politicians, corporate and union lobbyists and the auto industry have been embroiled for months in hashing out the details for cutting the fuel use and emissions of American cars and light trucks through 2025, and the result was on display in Washington today.

These corporate funded gifts paid for Rep. Vaad's travel to ALEC's conferences, where lobbyists draft model legislation in partnership with state legislators.

Translation: between the 25 of them, on top of a model bill handed to them by corporate oil and gas industry lobbyists, they were also furnished with $ 20,895 in campaign cash by these industries with the expectation to do their legislative bidding.

«Legislators and corporate lobbyists meet in secret at Georgia resort,» WXIA - TV Atlanta, June 2, 2015.

One initiative to come out of COP19 that Corporate Europe Observatory has been involved in is to kick fossil fuel lobbyists out of the UNFCCC (and, if the World Health Organisation's tobacco industry precedent is anything to go by, also out of our capitals).

My friend was sharing his frustrations and concerns regarding the views of many Western organisations and media outlets with regards to the upcoming preCOP in Caracas, a big climate gathering organised by the Venezuelan government to bring social movements, NGOs, and government from all over the world to come together free from corporate lobbyists to make progress on the issue internationally.

As explained clearly in «The Global Climate Change Lobby,» an excellent new report from the Center for Public Integrity, corporate lobbyists and trade associations focus their attention on tampering with domestic legislative efforts, and then stand by and watch as their positions and talking points contaminate international negotiations indirectly.

It also does not include money spent by corporate lobbyists at special parties for lawmakers or state delegations at some of the most expensive restaurants in San Diego, nor money spent by some of the corporations to fund the trips for state lawmakers to San Diego for what ALEC has dubbed «scholarships.»

Source: «Corporate - funded Lobbyists Aimed to Sabotage Johannesburg Summit,» Africa News, 8/19/2002 27 September, 2000 In 2000, The Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow and the National Center for Public Policy Research awarded Congressman Helen Chenoweth - Hage (R - ID) the new «Friend of American Freedom Award» for her support of private property rights.

Corporate and factory vessels can exchange quotas and in some cases carry forward quotas as long as their legal staff and lobbyists are on top of their game.

ALEC is the dating service for state legislators and corporate lobbyists, where Scott Pruitt has been a celebrity in recent years for leading other state attorneys general into attacks on the EPA.

Jeff Holmstead, who is often quoted in newspapers as a former Air and Radiation Administrator for the George W. Bush Environmental Protection Agency or a «partner» (read: lobbyist) at Bracewell & Giuliani's corporate law firm here in DC, is rarely credited as an influence peddler for some of the most notorious polluters in the country.

The pages of TreeHugger are filled with examples of lobbyists for the corporate polluting class subverting the democratic process in the United States.

«Lobbyists with strong ties to Secretary Clinton are spread out over three firms, including one that was the largest single source of funds of any corporate entity to Clinton's 2008 presidential run,» DeSmogBlog Executive Director Brendan DeMelle wrote in a memo.

The American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), the source of cookie cutter model bills written by corporate lobbyists and state politicians that appear in state legislatures across the country, named Republican North Carolina state representative Jason Saine its new national chairman late last year.

In that role, she managed a staff of regional, corporate and retained lobbyists and other professionals at the state, federal and international levels.

The Integrity Commissioner recommended that Council take steps to require that Councillor Ford reimburse $ 3,150.00 in donations made by lobbyist and corporate donors, and provide confirmation of such reimbursement to the Integrity Commissioner.

Join Baker Donelson attorneys and advisors as they participate in «Developing Indispensable Alliances: Selecting Lobbyists, Politicians and Trade Organizations,» with the Atlanta chapter of the National Association of Corporate Directors on November 20.