Sentences with phrase «in lobbying reports»

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The state's largest agricultural lobby group has reported its first operating surplus since 2010, which was largely attributable to a reduction in costs.

Those companies are also the ones most actively lobbying in Washington against potential sanctions on Venezuelan oil, Bloomberg reports, citing four people in the know.

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USA Today in late February reported that Shulkin's assistant secretary for public and intergovernmental affairs, John Ullyot, in a call initiated by Cashour, had lobbied a senior aide on the House Committee on Veterans Affairs to persuade members of Congress to call the White House and request Shulkin's ouster.

He was previously monitored under a separate FISA authorization that began in 2014, the report said, as part of an investigation into US lobbying firms» undisclosed work for the Ukrainian government.

The airline was also able to locate his bag and deliver it to his hotel lobby in Portland, the station reports.

A recent report from the Institute for Policy Studies (IPS) points out that restaurant company CEOs receive huge tax - subsidized paydays while their companies lobby to prevent an increase in the minimum wage.

Business Insider reported on Friday that Bank of America had been lobbying shareholders who own as few as 500 shares in the hopes of winning their votes.

Business Insider reported last week, meanwhile, that the California State Teachers» Retirement System, one of the biggest pension funds in the world, was lobbying shareholders to vote against the proposal.

Take, for example, stock options - it's principally the stockholders who pay - one reason why Warren Buffett had long lobbied to have them included in financial reports.

The Internet Association, a D.C. - based tech lobbying group representing industry titans like Google, Amazon, and Twitter, will be filing legal arguments as an intervening party in support of the legal push to restore net neutrality, according to a report from Recode's Tony Romm.

In February, Bloomberg reported that the company had «increased lobbying spending by more than 400 percent,» outpacing all of its rivals.

In 2014, The New York Times reported on Pruitt's extensive industry ties — which included oil and gas companies, utilities and lobby groups.

The more than 50 resolutions addressing lobbying expenditures, John Keenan of AFSCME Capital Strategies wrote in the report, allow investors to ensure that «lobbying is consistent with a company's expressed goals and being done in the best interests of the company and shareholders.»

Investment in new wind farms in Europe last year fell 19 % on the year to Eur22.3 billion ($ 27.5 billion), according to an annual report by wind lobby group WindEurope.

In a draft letter from the Futures Industry Association — the industry lobby group whose members include banks such as JPMorgan and Goldman Sachs — to the CFTC, the implementation of bitcoin futures contracts «did not allow for proper public transparency and input,» reports the Financial Times, who have reportedly seen the draft.

Americans for Financial Reform reported that the financial sector spent $ 2 billion on political activity in the 2016 election cycle, including $ 1.1 billion in campaign donations and the rest for lobbying.

In a week when business lobby groups are appearing before the House of Commons Committee on Finance and calling for more tax breaks, the federal R&D Panel appointed a year ago released a very good report saying Canada's very generous system of R&D tax incentives haven't been effective and what we need instead are more direct grants -LSB-...]

The report includes facts about lobbying spending that hit $ 2 billion in the last election cycle, and continues unabated, Wall Street executives in the Trump administration and regulatory agencies, tax cut windfalls for the finance industry, and a deregulatory free - for - all.

The expenditures upon which we seek a report are those that Congress has said to not warrant a deduction as an ordinary and necessary business expense, namely, lobbying, participation in the political system by supporting or opposing candidates for office, and trying to influence the general public or segment thereof as to elections, legislative matters or referenda.

More than 200 groups are doing faith - related lobbying and advocacy in the nation's capital, compared to fewer than 40 in 1970, according to the report.

A new report finds that religious groups engaged in lobbying or advocacy around Washington employ at least 1,000 people.

(CNN)- Lobbying and advocacy by religious groups in Washington have exploded in recent decades, increasing fivefold since 1970 to become a nearly $ 400 million industry, a new Pew report finds.

She has helped AFSA establish its voice and authority on a range of issues and secured frequent meetings with a number of politicians to lobby for significant reform, as well as leading the process for submissions to government inquiries, including the Productivity Commission's inquiry into the impact of regulation on agriculture, and the Victorian Government's Animal Industries Advisory Committee, which released its report in 2016 that includes recommendations for more scale - appropriate application of the planning scheme around extensive and intensive animal husbandry.

The strength of the European food industry's opposition to the traffic - light system is illustrated by the volume of scientific reports produced by food industry bodies in Europe and the intensive lobbying of EU parliamentarians around the time of the vote.

The daughter of former Chicago Bulls great Scottie Pippen was arrested in an Iowa hotel after peeing in the hotel lobby, the Daily News reports.

Other media reports have them handcuffing themselves in the lobby and demanding to meet with Goodell.

Harbaugh being so open about the team's interest in Kaepernick as a means of lobbying the owner makes more sense with that insight and the report from Russini.

DeAndre Yedlin may stay in Sunderland (or go back to Tottenham, as shown in this space last week), but reports have both Hull City and Derby County lobbying for his services.

IBFAN - GIFA staff have followed up these reports by lobbying Committee members during sessions in Geneva.

The Hagstrom Report (subscription only) reports that Stan Garnett, former director of child nutrition at the Agriculture Department, «has resigned from the School Nutrition Association over its efforts to encourage members to lobby Congress to pass a bill requiring the USDA to waive healthier school meal requirements to any school that says it has lost money in the program for six months.»

Earlier this year, the SNA successfully lobbied to insert language in the Congressional report accompanying the 2014 Omnibus Spending Bill, advising USDA to grant schools a one - year waiver on either requirement, if implementing the requirement would result in increased cost.

By reporting WHO Code violations, you are helping NABA in its mission to lobby for better protection for breastfeeding.

Cunningham reiterated that CSNY has in fact registered as a lobbying entity and will be filing a report as required with the CPI.

The victim narrative that lies behind them, whipped up by the political Christian lobby groups that organise them and the socially conservative media that report them, has no basis in reality.

Meanwhile, in the UK, the Public Administration Select Committee's report on lobbying recommends mandatory regulation with strict reporting requirements.

The report released on Monday by lobbying and ethics regulators found the top lobbying entities this year so far have been the New York State Nurses Association, which spent $ 2.3 million — nearly double than what the group spent in the first six months of last year.

Wilson Elser Moskowitz Edelman & Dicker, LLP remained the top lobbying shop in New York, reporting $ 11.2 million in reimbursed expenses and compensation.

Those lobbying state and local government spent a record $ 226 million in 2014 trying to influence public officials, according to an annual report released Wednesday by the state's ethics and lobbying regulations.

The report from the Joint Commission on Public Ethics found the lobbying in Albany and around the state accounted for a record $ 226 million last year.

The report's rapporteur, Henrique Fontana, is now lobbying fellow congressmen and senators in order to acquire support for his proposed changes.

The paper also reported that more than half of that cash has come from the biggest players in Albany: Labor unions, the real estate and construction industries, the health care sector and lobbying firms.

There are reports that oil, coal and gas industries in America have invested more than half a billion dollars on lobbying against acting on climate change.

The Trump International Hotel recently took in about $ 270,000 in payments tied to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia as the country fights to roll back a U.S. terrorism law, according to newly filed lobbying reports.

A record $ 243 million was spent on lobbying state and local governments in 2015, an annual report from the Joint Commission on Public Ethics found.

The report released by ethics and lobbying regulators on Thursday found the 2015 lobbying compensation was a 17 percent increase in New York over 2014.

New York's Joint Commission on Public Ethics released its 2011 lobbying report this week, which found that the lobbying industry spent a record sum of $ 220 million last year in its efforts to influence state legislators.

Sometime after midnight on the last day of the legislative session — with zero public hearings, public review or consultation — Governor Cuomo rammed through a bill that includes very vague and very broad new reporting requirements for charitable groups which engage in lobbying or coordination with related charitable groups.

In addition, although the investigation of independent expenditure groups was part of the commission's mandate, the governor's staff allegedly told commissioners not to mention a pro-Cuomo organization, the Committee to Save New York — which spent more than $ 16 million on lobbying and elections without fully disclosing the source of its contributions — in their final reporIn addition, although the investigation of independent expenditure groups was part of the commission's mandate, the governor's staff allegedly told commissioners not to mention a pro-Cuomo organization, the Committee to Save New York — which spent more than $ 16 million on lobbying and elections without fully disclosing the source of its contributions — in their final reporin their final report.

The natural gas industry has dramatically stepped up its efforts to lobby the New York state government since Gov. Andrew Cuomo took office in 2011, according to a new report from the nonprofit Public Accountability Initiative.