Sentences with phrase «lobby day at»

On Earth Day lobby day at the state Capitol, whether or not to allow hydrofracking in New York continues to be the dominant issue.

Tuesday is lobby day at the Capitol, meaning a busy day is on tap.

The Legislature is back in session after its winter break, and it's lobby day at the Capitol, so expect things to be both busy and crowded.

From noon to 2 p.m., Rebuild NY Now, a broad - based coalition seeking to raise public awareness about the state's infrastructure needs, will hold a rally and lobby day at the state Capitol / LOB, Albany.

The two women will take part with other survivors and advocates in a lobby day at the state Capitol Tuesday that will include a press conference.

Business groups took offense earlier this month because Cuomo unveiled his «Fight for Fair Pay» campaign while they held their small business lobby day at the capitol.

Each year for the past 15 years, Walk to the Hill for Civil Legal Aid has drawn hundreds of attorneys to participate in one of the largest lobby days at the Massachusetts State House.

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Abe had put a lot of personal political capital at stake in beating on the agricultural lobby, and not just the farmers... but the [agricultural] banks, pension schemes, all the rest, to get support for a US - led TPP deal, and then Trump pulls out,» Bremmer said, referring to the Trans - Pacific Partnership, a sweeping trade deal, spearheaded by Barack Obama, that Trump exited days after taking office in January 2017.

Every day that week I would go and meet John at his hotel in l'eixample and we would go to Starbucks or to the lobby of his hotel and work on the paper.

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The sixth grade Innovator Team at Salisbury Middle School unveiled its Earth Day - centered mosaic that was installed in the school's lobby to...

Afterward, at an event kicking off a lobbying day for more than 300 evangelical pastors on Capitol Hill, Richard Land, president of the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission and a leader of Evangelical Immigration Table, said that anyone who says the bill provides amnesty needs «a course in remedial English.»

We started our day at 8 am, meeting in the hotel lobby.

This newly - created position will oversee all three culinary outlets at the luxury hotel, located in downtown Boston — BOND restaurant lounge, serving locally - influenced cuisine and craft cocktails; Café Fleuri, which serves breakfast and lunch, and is famous for its Saturday Chocolate Bar and Sunday City Brunch; and The Reserve, a refined lobby lounge, serving continental breakfast, The Langham Afternoon Tea by Wedgwood, and a stellar selection of Champagne, wine and beer throughout the day and evening.

Although not soon enough, it is some solace to at least lobby the hospital so that practices change and hopefully one day soon acquires baby friendly designation.

Parents are lobbying to get the start of the school day at Annandale High pushed back so that students get more sleep and can be more focused in class.

He gave me a card from Shannon, called her while walking on the park and the next day at 7:30 am she was in my hotel lobby with the stroller.

Each day we would buy bananas and apples at the grocery store and sandwiches for lunch in the bakery in the lobby of our hotel.

Although your conferences, events, policy summits, lobby days, fly - ins, call - ins, rallies, and other all kinds of other activities will likely be taking place at an actual venue, you can just set up your own venue with the name of your event.

At 11:15 a.m., the American Cancer Society holds a pep rally ahead of its lobby day, Legislative Office Building, The Well, Albany.

Also at 10:30 a.m., the Firemen's Association of the State of New York, other firefighters groups and state Sens. David Carlucci and Joseph Griffo discuss presumptive cancer coverage and other issues ahead of their lobby day, Empire State Plaza meeting room 7, Albany.

At 10:30 a.m., LG Kathy Hochul, personal finance author Jean Chatzky join AARP members from across New York on AARP's annual lobby day to urge lawmakers to enact Cuomo's proposal to create a workplace retirement savings option that private sector companies could offer their employees, The Well, LOB, Albany.

He greeted all the other patrons at the bar, mostly teachers and education advocates in town for a lobby day the following day at the Capitol.

On the same day, she slow hand clapped Theresa May as the home secretary headed into the lobby to vote against a motion aimed at closing the gender pay gap.

«With at least 1.5 million gallons of oil still spewing into the Gulf every day, Senate Republicans plotted with BP's chief lobbying firm in Albany and voted to squash a bill that will help over 12 million New Yorkers living in polluted air.»

At 10:30 a.m., LG Kathy Hochul addresses the National Institute for Reproductive Health lobby day, Empire State Plaza, Meeting Room 5, Albany.

In Montana, Libertarian Mike Fellows is spending the day at the capitol on April 17, lobbying against SB 408, the bill that would put a referendum on a top - two open primary on the November 2014 ballot.

While REBNY has scored high on three major fronts this year, at the end of the day that simply clears time and space for the lobbying group to take on its next series of challenges.

At 11:30 a.m., advocates gather for an environmental protection fund lobby day, Empire State Plaza Concourse, Meeting Room 6, Albany.

Also at noon, hundreds of students, faculty and staff from CUNY and SUNY will be in Albany for a statewide Higher Education Action Day of citizen lobbying and activism, outside concourse meetings rooms 2, 3 and 4, Empire State Plaza, Albany.

At 8:30 a.m., educators representing 11 state - supported schools serving deaf, blind and severely physically disabled students will kick off their lobby day, where they'll ask lawmakers to treat the students equally and increase state funding by 4.8 percent — the same percentage increase Cuomo has recommended for public school districts in his proposed 2015 - 16 executive budget, 3rd Floor Terrace, Legislative Office Building, Albany.

Also at 8 a.m., small business owners and business leaders will assemble for their annual lobby day, and 9 a.m., they'll hear from a variety of speakers, including Sen. George Amedore, an NFIB member and owner of Amedore Homes, Meeting Room 1, The Empire State Plaza, Albany.

It's going to be a VERY busy day down at the Capitol — lobby day, with many groups — including college students who want to preserve TAP, NYS Farm Bureau members, raise - the - age supporters and NFIBers — making their respective cases.

In the good old days, before most MPs walked round with faces like guilty, beaten dogs, mobilising the forces of the House of Commons lay at the heart of most lobbying campaigns.

At 1 p.m., on his second day in office, Westchester County Executive George Latimer will sign an executive order prohibiting gun shows from being held on county property, Westchester County Center, main lobby, 198 Central Ave., White Plains.

At 11 a.m., United Federation of Teachers President Michael Mulgrew hosts UFT Lobby Day lunch for hundreds of teachers and parents from New York City who will meet with the local members of the Legislature to lobby for more education funding and other issues.

It's Tuesday, which means it's lobby day down at the state Capitol — a typically very busy, very crowded experience.

Lt. Governor Robert Duffy spoke at today's Equality & Justice lobbying day in Albany, Politics on the Hudson reports.

Last night at the cocktail party for CFDA Awards nominees we caught up with CFDA executive director Stephen Kolb, who reminisced about the time he met — and touched — Governor Eliot Spitzer in Washington, D.C. Kolb visited our nation's capital to lobby for copyright protection for fashion designers with Narciso Rodriguez on February 14, the day after Spitzer allegedly hired a prostitute.

At 1 pm, Quentin Wilson and I will open a mass lobby of Parliament - the first ever national Fair Fuel day.

He did say that the current slowness of action in Ulster County is basically pro forma for an industry still working out its kinks, legislatively, around the state and nation, and that it's just such issues that will be raised at a state capitol lobbying day being set up for early May.

ALBANY, N.Y. (CBSNewYork / AP)-- After a second day of a lobbying blitz and propelled by Gov. Andrew Cuomo's personal buttonholing of GOP senators, a measure to legalize gay marriage in New York drew to within one vote of passing, with at least two more Republicans still undecided.

Typically, the Assembly speaker addresses teachers in Albany at the union's annual «lobby day» after the session opens.

Margaret Raustiala, who also came to lobby against the cuts, has an autistic son who lives in a group home, and is actively involved in a day program, where he volunteers at a soup kitchen and delivers meals on wheels.

Expect more heated education rhetoric at the Capitol on Tuesday, when advocates for pre-K, including New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio, are scheduled to lobby lawmakers the same day representative of charter schools make their case.

Assembly Democratic leaders are refusing to allow Assemblywoman Margaret Markey (D - Queens) from holding a screening of the film at the Capitol complex during a two - day lobbying effort in May to build support for her bill to make it easier for people sexually abused as kids to bring lawsuits as adults.

Perhaps, almost six months on, we might now be at a distance safe enough for the political lobby to find out how the rest of the kitchen cabinet fared in the election - day guessing game.

Armed with briefing materials, the union activists boarded buses at 7 a.m. from locations in the five boroughs for a full day of lobbying in the state capital.

Earlier in the day, as students boarded a bus to lobby state lawmakers in Tallahassee, Cameron Kasky, a 17 - year - old junior at Stoneman Douglas, urged his classmates not to let conspiracy theories distract them.

Law professor Marci Hamilton (at mic) at the state capital in Albany as part of a two - day lobbying effort calling on legislators to pass the Child Victims Act.

Chris Rovzar at New York magazine reports on yesterday's Equality and Justice Day in Albany, where a rally was held and legislators were lobbied by constituents urging them to pass marriage equality in New York: