Sentences with phrase «largest lobbying organization»

Since there is little hope that the largest lobby organization in the U.S. (click here to see NAR's lobbying numbers) is going to back off dual agency, it is up to lenders, lawyers and consumers to take actions to avoid and litigate dual agency violations (click here to learn more about legal liability for dual agency).

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Gaskin presides over a large multi-faceted business empire comprised of trade, propaganda and lobbying organizations, all with one purpose in mind: allowing uneducated women like herself to provide substandard medical care to pregnant women while ignoring the growing pile of tiny bodies.

The School Nutrition Association (SNA), the nation's largest organization of school food professionals, is currently lobbying Congress to weaken federal school meal standards regarding whole grains, sodium and fruits and vegetables.

The NRA is the nation's largest gun rights organization with about five million members, and a powerful lobbying organization that wields significant influence on Capitol Hill.

New York's largest agricultural lobbying organization has a number of priority issues, and it outlined the top three on a conference call with reporters this morning.

The trial lawyers, who had a close relationship with former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, employ their own small army of top lobbying firms and spent a combined $ 687,700 on campaign contributions in 2015, making their organization, the New York State Trial Lawyers Association, the second largest donor in the state.

The organization had come under fire from good - government advocates over its receipt of large donations from companies lobbying City Hall, including more than $ 1 million from real estate developers, some trying to influence the administration's zoning and housing policies.

And that campaign, involving all sorts of organizations that have lobbied against climate change legislation, has led some people to conclude that this is connected to a larger campaign by special interests to attack the science of climate change, to prevent policy action from being taken to deal with the problem.

In addition to «The Big Six,» other organizations that are presently lobbying Connecticut legislators in favor of the charter school and «education reform» agenda include the Bronx Charter School for Excellence, the North East Charter Schools Network, Achievement First, Inc., the large charter school chain with schools in New York, Connecticut and Rhode Island, and Families for Excellent Schools, the New York - based lobbing and political entity that bused in charter school students and parents from as far away as New York City and Boston last year to rally in support of Malloy's efforts to hand charter schools even more public funds.

His list of lobbying clients has included school superintendents, school employee professional organizations, school boards, private schools, private universities, and the world's largest education services corporation.

The research was funded by the Pet Leadership Council, which represents organizations including the American Kennel Club and the American Pet Products Association; PetSmart and other large retail stores; and the Pet Industry Joint Advisory Council, which is the legislative and lobbying voice of the pet industry.

Before joining PetSmart in October 2016, Kathy served as the Director of US Government Relations for Zoetis, the world's largest animal health company, and held various positions at lobbying firms, trade associations, nonprofit organizations, and in the Executive and Legislative branches of the federal government.

Sadly, many organizations and retail establishments profit from large scale commercial dog breeding and lobby against measures to abolish puppy mills.

In his eagerness to appear green (because environmental organizations are now a large and wealthy lobby group in their own right) the president of the United States ignored these warnings and instead made Solyndra a poster child for his vision of the future.

For instance, Andrew Revkin of the New York Times reported that the scientists advising the Global Climate Coalition (GCC), a now defunct organization that spent millions of dollars in lobbying against climate change policies and whose members were primarily corporations whose operations or products were large producers of greenhouse gases, reported to the GCC that:

NAIOP is one commercial real estate organization which is active in state and national politics, and the National Assoc. of Realtors (NAR) is the second largest national lobby in the country, right behind the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.

But for the lobbying efforts by the largest trade organization in the country, federal banks have been kept out of real estate and private property owners have been saved from transfer taxes and been able to keep their mortgage interest deduction.