Sentences with phrase «federal lobbying spending»

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The API has spent more than $ 7.7 million on lobbying the federal government so far this year and is also spending $ 300,000 buying ads to urge Democratic Senator Mark Udall to approve the Keystone pipeline.

Novo Nordisk also spent $ 3.2 million lobbying Congress and federal agencies in 2017, its biggest - ever investment in directly influencing U.S. policymakers, according to the Center for Responsive Politics.

The well - funded dairy lobby spends a great deal of money (an estimated $ 80 to $ 100 million each year — ironically paid for by the higher prices consumers pay), persuading federal and provincial politicians that supply management «protects the family farm,» «ensures food security» and that, because these farmers are so numerous, doing anything to upset them would be political suicide.

Adapt has worked with state legislators and federal policymakers about adjusting laws and removing burdens for access, and spent $ 470,000 on lobbying in 2016 and 2017, according to OpenSecrets.org, which tracks political spending.

Based on the first six months of the year, Facebook is on track to spend nearly $ 10 million on federal lobbying in 2014, close to double what it spent in 2013, reports Russ Choma for the Center for Responsive Politics.

Those changes came after the public disclosure of state and federal investigations into potential bid - rigging and improper lobbying — and after much of the money allocated for major projects had been spent.

A 2014 study by the Sunlight Foundation showed that $ 5.8 billion spent by corporations in lobbying and campaign contributions reaped some $ 4.4 trillion in federal business and subsidies for those corporations.

In previous years, the Oneida spent $ 200,000 to lobby Congress on issues such as its land - into - trust agreement with the federal government.

But these changes come only after they have found themselves at the center of state and federal investigations into potential bid - rigging and improper lobbying — and after much of the money allocated for major projects had already been spent.

During that same period, these companies spent $ 45 million on ads for clean coal and $ 125 million in lobbying dollars to defeat a national renewable energy standard and federal legislation to place mandatory limits on CO2 emissions.

The bruising seven - month legislative war that ended with the passage of a compromise federal budget changed the terms of the debate on education spending and forced the education lobby to fight for the very survival of the programs it champions.

«We're spending our time on the state level,» said Rome, who says he used to spend more of his time lobbying Capitol Hill and federal agencies.

Those interested in the ugly details can track the hundreds of millions that Gates has spent to develop and sell the Common Core by lobby and bribing the federal government, individual states, school districts, universities and organizations.

K12 also spends taxpayer money lobbying state and federal officials.

Private prison companies spent nearly $ 3.5 million on federal lobbying in 2017, according to the Center for Responsive Politics.

Fort Wayne Community Schools has addressed school funding challenges with a three - tiered approach 1) adopting district structures and processes that focus spending on activities that support student achievement, 2) participating in lobbying and other activities at the state level to improve funding and strengthen academic programs and 3) obtaining federal grants to help fill resource gaps.

Pearson Education, ETS (Educational Testing Service), Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, McGraw - Hill and dozens of other companies have spent tens of millions of dollars lobbying to weaken privacy laws or stop the federal and state governments from reducing their access to student data.

3) National: Senate filings record that Pearson Education spent $ 5.2 million on Federal lobbying from 2010 - 2014.

The union leadership sees this and gets all jizzy, thinking about how to steer some of that dough to their own pockets: «The four corporations that dominate the U.S. standardized testing market spend millions of dollars lobbying state and federal officials — as well as sometimes hiring them — to persuade them to favor policies that include mandated student assessments, helping to fuel a nearly $ 2 billion annual testing business, a new analysis shows.

Groups such as PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals) and HSUS (Humane Society of the United States, no direct affiliation with local humane societies) conduct major political lobbying at the state and federal levels and spend millions of dollars annually to promote their agenda and to elect candidates that favor their agenda.

Mitchell himself spent much of the 1980s lobbying for sustained federal fossil energy research at the Department of Energy, defending «Crawley's folly» in front of a hostile Congress.

Our recommendation is that we should abandon the sky - is - falling and phantom job loss tactic, and lobby the administration with several «asks,» that could include: MLP / REIT status for solar companies; fast - track permitting; reducing environmental studies; tax - free manufacturing zones in the interest of U.S. national security and to revitalize certain cities; a revision of accounting rules that penalize solar project owners; federal policy allowing net metering for homeowners and community solar projects; including solar in the upcoming infrastructure spending bill; and finally increased PV deployment on federal buildings.

They also plied federal candidates with more than $ 300 million in campaign contributions and spent more than $ 105 million on lobbying, according to Federal Election Commission data compiled by the Center for Responsive Pofederal candidates with more than $ 300 million in campaign contributions and spent more than $ 105 million on lobbying, according to Federal Election Commission data compiled by the Center for Responsive PoFederal Election Commission data compiled by the Center for Responsive Politics.

According to a new white paper by DeSmog Canada, TransCanada Corporation, the company behind the Keystone XL pipeline proposal, has spent more than $ 4 million lobbying U.S. federal lawmakers and government department staff since 2010.

In that time it has spent $ 11.3 million on lobbying, and has fifty - five people on thirty - two federal advisory committees.

Considering Facebook spent more on federal lobbying last year than in any year in the company's history — and Google, which also would likely be affected by such a federal online privacy law, spent more money on lobbying than any other company in the U.S. — a privacy law similar to the European regulations would face a steep climb.