Sentences with phrase «lobby against the this year»

Union members descended onto the Capitol today to lobby against the this year's bete noir: the Tier Six proposal baked into Gov. Andrew Cuomo's $ 132.5 billion budget proposal

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Instead of viewing regulations like those mandated by OSHA as a nuisance (NAM and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce for years fought against implementation of the original OSHA legislation and continue to lobby against efforts to expand the legislation), Keller came to see them as a blueprint for improvement.

Wall Street has spent more than four years lobbying against the Labor rule.

The Wall Street Journal also reported Monday that Equifax spent $ 1.1 million last year lobbying against regulatory laws, including data security and breach notification.

Over the years I have lobbied against several of the military adventures the U.S. has embarked on.

ESPN is reportedly lobbying the CFP to move next season's semifinals, which are currently scheduled for New Year's Eve, to Jan. 2, with the rationale being they don't want the games to compete against the New Year's countdown shows on various TV networks.

Fiona Kendrick, Chair and CEO of Nestlé (UK and Ireland), has been awarded a damehood in the New Year Honours for «services to obesity», in the words of Private Eye magazine, which highlights its marketing of junk foods and lobbying against policies to reduce obesity.

The mere $ 440,000.00 that trade groups spent lobbying against this bill would improve the quality of school lunches for every kid in my state for twelve years.

But she raised concerns about the most recent round of changes enacted in last year's budget, and also didn't protest when the state DAs Association (then headed by the GOP AG contender, Staten Island DA Dan Donovan) lobbied against them.

The 49 - year - old is known for his dad dancing at Labour conferences — see here for video proof — but will rely on the competitive spirit he's shown in football matches against the political lobby to get him through.

The business lobby is serious about crushing «the little party that could» (a Newsday headline of a few years ago), spending millions of dollars on television and mail against WFP candidates, and even trying to hire well - known progressive public relations firms to wage a PR battle against them.

Business groups had been lobbying against continuing the tax on the wealthy, while unions and other advocates for the minimum wage say a three year phase in is too long for working people to wait.

Ruffalo, a Hudson Valley resident who has been active in lobbying on several issues this year — in favor of gay marriage and against hydrofracking in the Marcellus shale — appears in a Web video paid for by New Yorkers for Fiscal Fairness, the labor - backed group that has long advocated for a more progressive tax structure.

In past years, Agudath Israel of America, an ultra-Orthodox umbrella group, and the Roman Catholic Church, have lobbied against Markey's efforts, voicing fear of a potential flood of claims, including some from long ago via the one - year window.

The Joint Commission on Public Ethics settled its case against Fred Hiffa, formerly of Ostroff, Hiffa, & Associates, Inc., following allegations that he had violated the state's lobbying gift ban in 2006 by hiring Matthew Libous in 2006, retaining the Binghamton lawmaker's son for $ 4,166 a month for one year to a Westchester County - based law firm.

Business secretary Vince Cable said he and chancellor George Osborne had come to a «common view» over the need for reform after a year of intensive lobbying against the changes by the City.

Over the years the BMF have been lobbying for concrete crash barriers as against steel post types and this goes to show that such lobbying really does work.»

Under a state law passed in June of last year, ride - hailing contractors are required to pass a criminal background check, but county lawmakers lobbied for more thorough vetting for prospective contractors in Westchester amid a slew of allegations against Uber and its employees, including a class action suit claiming drivers had sexually assaulted customers.

De Blasio and the Campaign for One New York have been fighting a bitter public battle against the scope of JCOPE's inquiry, which the ethics commission began in 2015 to investigate whether or not the nonprofit had improperly failed to register as a lobbying entity that year.

Fines are common, and JCOPE records show a multitude of fines levied against lobbyists and their clients in recent years for omissions and failures to disclose lobbying information.

«They can't campaign for a new leader so they're working on Brexit, they're using Brexit as a way to get at Jeremy and I think Jeremy and John McDonnell who were in every single lobby with me for years voting against the EU are clever enough to understand this.»

ALBANY — The spiritual leader of millions of Catholics in New York was at the Capitol Tuesday lobbying against a push to give a one - year window for alleged child abuse victims to sue for damages dating back decades.

Meanwhile, Catholic bishops have spent on average $ 300,000 a year lobbying lawmakers in New York on a variety of topics, including against passage of the Child Victims Act, which would change the statute of limitations on civil and criminal cases of child sexual abuse and allow victims a one - year window to sue over potentially decades - old allegations.

It highlights all of Rice's negatives — from the fact that she used to be a registered Republican (she switched to independent when she went to work in Pennsylvania and then became a Democrat just before first running for DA in 2005) to her failure to vote for 18 years to her firing of women — mostly mothers — who were working part time at the DA's office to her alleged lobbying against «real» Rockefeller Drug Law reform.

Business groups had been lobbying against continuing the tax on the wealthy, while unions and other advocates for the minimum wage say a three - year phase in is too long for working people to wait.

That claim startled reform advocates, who quickly noted she was a board member of the state District Attorneys Association when it lobbied against the most recent reforms enacted last year.

RM: Every year Conservative MPs lobby against further rises in fuel duty and this year the chancellor has given in once again — at a time of rising petrol and diesel prices.

Wilberforce experienced a similar spiritual epiphany which prompted him to lobby tirelessly against slavery for 20 years.

The nonprofit corporation they founded 43 years ago, Educational Research Analysts, continues to review textbooks and lobby against liberal content in them.

That would be smart: three years ago the New Jersey Charter School Association filed a formal complaint (later dismissed) that alleged «as founder and current Chair of Save our Schools New Jersey (SOSNJ), Dr. Sass Rubin has knowingly and consistently used her position, title and university resources to wage a personally driven lobbying and public relations campaign against New Jersey's public charter schools, as well as New Jersey's laws that regulate same, in support of SOSNJ's advocacy goals.»

Teachers unions have pushed back hard against many of these policies, with clout gained from years of lobbying and writing checks to candidates.

Remember, this year's Los Angeles School Board race was the most expensive school board election in U.S. history, as the powerful charter lobby ran candidates in an ultimately successful effort to gain a pro-charter majority on the board in this city that is desperately fighting against charter expansion and the subsequent financial strangling of Los Angeles Unified School District.

Earlier this year, Ron Harper aggressively lobbied against the Lieberman - Warner Climate Security Act of 2007 largely on the grounds that the cost to the consumer would be to high.

In 2009, Southern Company lobbied hard against the climate bill passed by the House of Representatives — which died the following year in the Senate — on the grounds that it would have raised energy prices too much.

In India, five families own five large fluorinated gas companies that for years have sent representatives to the Montreal Protocol to lobby against eliminating HFCs.

She spent the next several years lobbying even though a local pro-logging newspaper led a smear campaign against her and the South Moresby supporters.

NRDC has for over 40 years sought to close nuclear plants directly and indirectly by lobbying for laws including federal subsidies and renewable energy mandates that discriminate against nuclear.

Rex Tillerson claimed to support a carbon tax while CEO of ExxonMobil, but under his watch last year the oil and gas company lobbied against two pioneering carbon tax bills in Massachusetts, and it has long funded opponents of carbon pricing.

Rex Tillerson claimed to support a carbon tax while CEO of ExxonMobil, but under his watch last year the oil and gas company lobbied against two pioneering carbon tax bills in Massachusetts, and it has long funded opponents of carbon...

Dead American billionaires had spent as much as $ 30 million a year lobbying against coal and gas in Europe, leading to the celebrated cancellation of the replacement of Kingsnorth power station.

As recently as July, the White House lobbied unsuccessfully against a plan to spend $ 1 billion over four years to rebuild coastlines and wetlands, which serve as buffers against hurricanes.

The insurance lobby's complaints about the time frame need to be seen against the background of the 16 - year period in which the discount rate was manifestly too high causing them huge savings at the expense of claimants with life changing injuries.

Moreover, doctrinal entrenchment is particularly problematic in the FISA courts, where secrecy and institutional context indicate that outside efforts at doctrinal reform are less likely to be effective than they are with courts that publish their opinions.35 Unlike published opinions, secret opinions can not provoke the public into lobbying for a legislative override36 or judicial overruling37 — two important paths of legal reform.38 Perhaps to hedge against the risks of limited external oversight, FISA limits FISC and Court of Review judges to non-renewable, seven - year terms, 39 a provision suggesting that Congress envisioned a FISA court whose membership would be responsive to shifting factual circumstances and policy priorities.40 Stare decisis, which requires judges to adhere to interpretations of law that they might otherwise reject as unjust or unpersuasive, constrains these judges» ability to adapt to such factual and policy shifts.