Sentences with phrase «including lobbyists»

On the other we have a small band of sceptics, including lobbyists funded by the US oil industry, a sci - fi writer, and the Daily Mail, who deny the scientists are right.

Advocates against environmental legislation and regulation, including their lobbyists, are also activists.

«Advocates against environmental legislation and regulation, including their lobbyists, are also activists... the authors are engaging in cheap political word play.»

Last week, the all - party committee fielded formal pitches from dozens of groups, including lobbyists, First Nations leaders and economists, on what they think should be included in the budget.

As if all of that wasn't clear enough, Bronin's donor list even contains most of the lobbyists who represent the pro-privatization, anti-teacher and anti-public education groups in Connecticut including the lobbyists for ConnCAN, the Northeast Charter School Network and the Connecticut Council for Education Reform.

Hawkins said that he would also prohibit individuals and companies doing business with the state (including lobbyists) from making campaign contributions, and would restrict the ability of state lawmakers to earn income from outside employment.

At the end of each day, Gillibrand posted the names of every person she met with that day, including lobbyists, and every meeting, including campaign fundraisers.

.@morningmika picked up this @ProPublica story from 3/8: Trump WH hires, including lobbyists and Breitbart employees.

Two days later, the newly - minted governor held a press conference to announce his transition team, which included no lobbyists or elected officials to, as he put it, «maintain the public's confidence» in the process of transferring power from the Pataki administration to the Spitzer administration.

NEW YORK (AP)-- In newly released documents, federal prosecutors say former New York Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver abused his power to help two women, including a lobbyist, with whom he had extramarital affairs.

They include lobbyist Carl Andrews, also a longtime Norman confidant; former Bronx Assemblywoman Naomi Rivera; and Brooklyn state Sen. Martin Dilan and his son, Brooklyn Councilman Erik Dilan, both of whom have ties to former Assemblyman and accused groper Vito Lopez.

Associates of the governor, including lobbyist Todd Howe and former top aide Joe Percoco under investigation as part of a broader probe.

Those whom Maziarz now disowns include lobbyist Richard D. Winter, who was in Maziarz's wedding and Maziarz in his; Michael J. Norris, a key cog in the Niagara County machine as GOP chairman and now in the Assembly; and Henry F. Wojtaszek, another former party chairman who now heads Western Region Off Track Betting.

The Brooklyn Democrat was on a trip with Sen. John Sampson and others, including a lobbyist from Albany's biggest firm.

But the feds have said they also uncovered evidence of the long - married Silver keeping two mistresses, including a lobbyist and former beauty - queen assemblywoman.

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The lobbyist said that rural states would be most adversely impacted, noting that even though Trump's plan includes $ 50 billion in federal funding for rural infrastructure projects, that may be a high enough compensatory figure.

Paul Vogel is linked to 2 organisations which are included in 2 lists - Public & Investor Relations Firms and Lobbyists.

According to Ambinder, this «power elite» includes members of Congress, congressional staff, lobbyists, journalists, and yes — Secret Service Agents.

Another industry lobbyist said Section 702 surveillance is «not a C - suite issue» that concerns chief executives in Silicon Valley like other issues, including encryption.

Those people, according to the complaint, include Russian lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya and Russian - American lobbyist Rinat Akhmetshin — both of whom attended a meeting with Donald Trump Jr. at Trump Tower last June to discuss a possible repeal of the Magnitsky Act.

Keith Jones is linked to 4 organisations which are included in 3 lists - Public Companies - Resources, Public & Investor Relations Firms and Lobbyists.

The CRP's database incorporates disclosures to both the Senate and the House of Representatives and includes both in - house lobbyists and external lobbying firms.

Ian Francis is linked to 1 organisation which is included in 4 lists - Consulting Firms, Lobbyists, Insolvency Practitioners and Public & Investor Relations Firms.

In his appearance before a parliamentary committee, Facebook Canada's public policy head Kevin Chan was questioned by New Democrat MP Charlie Angus on why he had yet to register as a lobbyist, given the fact he's met senior cabinet members, including Finance Minister Bill Morneau.

But lobbyists in Washington expressed concern that Trump's ambitious tariff plan would also include other labor - intensive consumer goods sectors such as apparel, footwear and toys.

Matt said career options can range from working directly with animals to less hands - on — but still very important — endeavors, including lawyers and lobbyists who help animals by writing animal protection laws and lobbying their legislators to get them passed.

«It was a private offering that only went to about 20 people, including your colleague Chris Collins, his chief of staff [and] a prominent D.C. lobbyist,» Franken said, according to Politico.

Trump has alleged the Amazon CEO has operated the Post as a lobbyist and that he takes an active role in the paper's editorial direction, which includes attacking the Trump administration.

The beachhead groups were part of a larger constellation of advisers, including Oklahoma oil and gas mogul Harold Hamm (once considered for energy secretary), billionaire investor Carl Icahn (last seen shadily pushing for policy that would benefit his oil refineries), GOP energy lobbyist Mike McKenna (in charge of the DOE transition team), longtime climate skeptic (and hopeless dope) Myron Ebell, North Dakota Rep. Kevin Cramer (the oil devotee who supposedly wrote Trump's big energy speech last May), and Thomas J. Pyle, the director of the Institute for Energy Research (IER), a pro-fossil fuel «think tank» which, as we shall see, has provided several Trump staffers.

Delrahim's other, older clients included AT&T, which he represented as a lobbyist in 2007 and 2008, federal records show.

A bipartisan majority of senators has chosen to commemorate the 10th anniversary of the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression by handing big banks and their lobbyists a package of deregulatory gifts, increasing the risks to financial stability and the likelihood of consumer abuse, including racial discrimination in mortgage lending.

Its current lobbyist count is 40, including outside lobbyists.

A week after the initial offer, Newt met with Rupert Murdoch — and Murdoch's legislative lobbyist — to discuss politics, including the NBC complaint.

They included an attorney from a large London law firm, a political lobbyist, a corporate consultant, a Muslim college chaplain, a university professor, a female rabbi and a research scientist.

These agents include people like Larry Pratt, a far - right Washington lobbyist on guns and abortion whose less savory affiliations led to his resignation as national cochairman of Pat Buchanan's presidential campaign.

Whereas the old sections of the ethics code generally include the legislators and staffs» spouses and dependent children as beneficiaries of lobbyist expenditures, the new bill does not.

Prior to the new division, the Trump administration had appointed multiple pro-life advocates to positions of leadership within HHS, including former Americans United for Life president Charmaine Yoest and former National Right to Life lobbyist Teresa Manning, who reportedly stepped down last week.

It's the job of lobbyists to get lawmakers to include provisions and sections that benefit their employees.»

It is noteworthy that Esther de Lange was a lobbyist for German fruit juice and alcohol trade associations before entering Parliament and in 2010 sponsored Breakfast Week for the European Breakfast Cereal Association (which includes baby food giant, Nestlé).

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.)

The very fact that we need such a definition, the very fact that social scientists need to work so hard to be included in policy discussions to the same extent as, say, economists (held in high esteem as being infallible, such as they are these days, naturally...), could be symptomatic of something deeper than social scientists being bad lobbyists.

Duffy won't be registering as a lobbyist, but he's still adhering to a two - year ban on lobbying his old colleagues in the administration — a ban that includes Gov. Andrew Cuomo.

I spoke briefly with Richard Lipsky, a lobbyist who represents Tuck - It - Away President Nick Sprayregen, who brought the case challenging ESDC's decision the area — including the site if his storage business — was blighted and therefore able to be siezed under eminent domain.

Cuomo's office interviewed a number of lobbyists and people with business interests before the state with whom Bruno said he met, including Ken Riddett, a former top aide to Bruno; former US Sen. Al D'Amato (a longtime Bruno ally and GOP donor); and Pat Lynch, a former top aide to Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver and employer of Darren Dopp, Spitzer's former chief spokesman who was the first Troopergate victim.

On the state level, Lyft this year retained Albany Strategic Advisors, the firm that includes CEO Allison Lee, a prominent Albany lobbyist.

Government proposals to create a statutory register of third party lobbyists would not include those working for firms like News International, MPs found today.

Christian lobbyists are taking the government to court over plans to force independent schools to teach British values including «tolerance of those of different faiths».

At the EPA, Pruitt is under investigation for allegations of unchecked spending, ethics lapses and other issues, including his interactions with lobbyists.

The Yankees are among the top lobbyists in the state, a distinction that hasn't been without trouble for some politicians, including former Gov. David Paterson who landed in hot water for taking World Series tickets from the team.

In addition, Bonomo has hired big time lobbyists including former Senator Al D'Amato, Founder and Managing Director of Park Strategies.