Sentences with phrase «going lobbying campaign»

The Chamber on Monday launched the latest chapter of its on - going lobbying campaign, aiming to highlight the concerns its small - business members have with the legislation.

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«Anybody in this world now is sitting there thinking, «When I go back to the board next year, I'm going to ask for 15 % more in my [lobbying and campaign finance] budget.

It's a restrained approach compared with Google's aggressive lobbying campaign in 2006 when Sergey Brin, one of the company's co-founders, went to Capitol Hill to argue for the importance of net neutrality.

American Evangelicals might have gone to Uganda to campaign for anti-gay legislation, but so did other powerful figures on the gay lobby side, including President Obama and British Prime Minister David Cameron, threatening African governments with the withdrawal of aid if they didn't conform to the new Western normal.

If the abortion lobby is going to highlight the risks to women of unsafe abortion, the logical response would surely be to campaign against a medically unnecessary procedure and to work instead to offer women the assistance they need when facing a difficult pregnancy?»

(It's clear Cuomo, who has never recognized Lazio that I can recall, was referring there to the former Long Island congressman, who served four terms — from 1993 to 2001 — and then went to lobby for JPMorgan Chase after he lost his 2000 US Senate campaign against Democrat Hillary Clinton).

There's also quite a number of former legislators who went into the private sector (usually the lobbying or consulting business), who are using their old campaign committees to spread around some cash love.

Harold M. Ickes, a longtime friend and mentor of Mayor Bill de Blasio, delivered about $ 13,000 in donations last week to the mayor's re-election campaign, on the day that one of his lobbying clients received the de Blasio administration's go - ahead to hold a lucrative music festival in New York City.

«If you're contributing money to the lobbies that push against sensible gun control, we're going to go after you,» promised Aaron Black, an organizer for the Campaign to Unload.

The ruling allowed to City Hall advisers Rebecca Katz and Hayley Prim to work for Hilltop as it was running the Campaign for One New York in spite of a one - year ban on public employees going into a company that directly lobbies the government.

Harold Ickes, a veteran political consultant and longtime friend and mentor of de Blasio, delivered about $ 13,000 in donations last week to the mayor's re-election campaign — the same day that one of his lobbying clients received the de Blasio administration's go - ahead to hold a lucrative music festival in New York City.

And if they forget to file a written request, their money goes to lobbying and campaigning.

Through winning lawsuits, active lobbying, and effective media campaigns, your contribution can go a long way.

Good combos and player graphics and a story mode where you can go through the campaign of the anime and manga and a shops to get better combos for your character and dlc clothes and characters and a little mess around lobby like at wings of freedom where you can walk around and do what you like and do some campaign missions in 3d where you walk or run around the map doing your objective and same for and online mode with some PvP actions or a capture the flag mini game where with a team of 6 max on each side or capture the bomb from the first cupple of episodes from the beginng

Using the infrastructure we already have to better connect people to the things they need would be fantastic — there is a campaign going right now lobbying Coke to use its distribution chain, which touches almost every settlement in the world, to distribute medicine through the same channels: / / www.worldchanging.com/archives/008319.html.

The reason goes back to the original point of the PR campaign by the fossil fuel lobby — to create a sense of doubt in the public mind about this issue.