Sentences with phrase «dozen public interest groups»
Nearly two dozen public interest groups, trade pacts and library groups urged President Barack Obama on Thursday to quit filling his administration with insiders plucked from the Recording Industry Association of America... Groups such as Public Knowledge, the Electronic Frontier Foundation, the Consumer Electronics Association, the Wikimedia Foundation and, among...
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ReInvent Albany, Common Cause and the New York Public Interest Research Group, said they were joining with dozens of environmental and community groups in calling for a 45 - day public comment period because of the «magnitude of the potential costs.&Public Interest Research Group, said they were joining with dozens of environmental and community groups in calling for a 45 - day public comment period because of the «magnitude of the potential costs.&public comment period because of the «magnitude of the potential costs.»
The bills were strongly supported by leading public interest groups and garnered support from more than a dozen editorials.
He now represents a half - dozen interest groups, including Alliant Energy, which spent $ 194,000 on lobbying in the 2011 - 12 legislative session; School Choice Wisconsin, which supports public spending on private schools and has another former Assembly speaker, John Gard, on its lobby payroll; and the Wisconsin Council for Independent Education, which represents for - profit colleges.
The agency held scores of meetings on the proposal with dozens of interested groups, held a public forum on how to shape the new regulations and solicited public comment after its initial proposal.
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.