Sentences with phrase «lobbied federal lawmakers»
With the Environmental Defense Fund, she has lobbied federal lawmakers on fishery conservation.
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U.S. lawmakers are close to delivering a draft of the Federal Aviation Authority's reauthorization bill, which will include rules for nonmilitary drones, and drone opponents are lobbying hard against the unmanned flying machines, The New York Times reports.
Over the last few months, merchant lobbying groups have stormed Capitol Hill requesting two things: that lawmakers sink federal tax reform by opposing border adjustability and that they support federal price controls on debit interchange fees.
Mr. Landrieu said the conference would continue to lobby state and federal lawmakers for city priorities, as it has done for years.
A Manhattan federal judge sentenced Seminerio to six years in prison Feb. 4 for abusing his power as a lawmaker and extorting money out of hospitals, nonprofits and other groups in exchange for lobbying state officials on their behalf.
At noon, Democratic Reps. Joe Crowley, Steve Israel, Hakeem Jeffries and Kathleen Rice call for federal lawmakers to approve long - term DHS funding by Friday without amendments challenging President Obama's executive actions on immigration, and discuss potential consequences of failing to do so; lobby, Marine Air Terminal, LaGuardia Airport, Ditmars Boulevard and 23rd Avenue, Queens.
«Even if the gun industry lobby and its allies in Washington continue to block federal progress on this issue as they have for so long,» said Kavanagh «I believe that New York lawmakers can and will step up.
But while some of the nation's most prominent education lobby groups are backing the bill, there is apprehension from others that lawmakers might have overreacted to political pressure to limit the role of the federal government — considerably weakening Washington's ability to step in if a state fails to address its most troubled schools.
According to the Center for Public Integrity, the Mercatus Center regularly lobbies in the federal government, including providing lawmakers with «Capitol Hill breakfasts and luncheons hosted by deregulation scholars.»
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.
AUTOMOTIVE: • A major automotive lobbying group tells lawmakers it opposes a Trump administration plan to weaken federal fuel efficiency standards.