Sentences with phrase «lobby group»

I personally believe we DO need a strong national lobby group for representing members in legal and legislative issues but what else do we need a national organization for?

He has also been a frequent speaker with leading coal and energy companies as well as coal and other industry lobby groups.

It's the food industry that has the powerful lobby groups protecting and pushing protein - It's like protein has it's own billion dollar PR agency!

REIT executives and real estate lobbying groups say tariffs could put pressure on already rising construction costs.

It's a reduction of $ 15 million from 2011, the first since 2000 as lobbying groups and advocacy campaigns pulled back dramatically on advertising spending.

Furthermore, the controversial repeal was influenced heavily by corporate lobbying groups.

The industry has formed a new lobbying group, and it is planning a national campaign that includes television advertising.

I have seen some messages lately from my district representative that are essentially talking points of a political lobbying group.

Meanwhile, lobby groups on the other side of the argument are firmly pushing for more.

And for the first time, the gun lobby group is vulnerable.

In 2011 and 2012, the entity spent some $ 16 million — more than any other lobbying group.

There were some large and complex lobby groups created by the owners of broadcast radio and television companies as well as cable providers and newspaper publishers that came calling.

Now the government is seeking an extension despite opposition from the home affairs select committee, human rights lobby groups and MPs from both sides of the house.

So forget separation of church and state, gay lobby groups are going directly after private groups now too, trying to tell them what they can and can't do.

The budget of many lobby groups can be found to consist largely of state funding.

The power sector is a formidable industrial lobby group, which no government appears prepared to confront.

The free market lobbying group is «just literally lying» about climate change.

The industry's lobby group does regular demographic check - ups to see who is playing video games and the results are always informative.

The state's largest agricultural lobby group has reported its first operating surplus since 2010, which was largely attributable to a reduction in costs.

Let the others have their own lobby groups serve their own interests.

Another problem is that some scientists - not to mention lobby groups, environmental organisations, politicians, newspapers and commentators - will go much further in their public statements than the data allow.

The truly devoted will start organizing lobbying groups to preserve this dying breed.

But that is hard when regulated businesses and single - issue lobby groups press (sometimes fiercely) for policies that benefit their shorter - term economic interests.

Their customers, adopters, are a vocal lobby group as well.

Yet despite these basics of climate physics, any slowdown in the overall temperature trend sees lobby groups falsely claim that global warming is over.

With the exception of a few lobbying groups, they are not trying to initiate public policy.

We can not continue the endless recycling of people between elected positions and lobbying groups where there is the clear appearance of conflict of interest.

Probably lobby groups of all kinds did try to influence this legislation.

This is interesting because they also have two of the most well funded lobby groups focused on convincing us that no matter what, we need to consume them to be healthy.

But they were also the result of careful bond building between Democratic and Republican lawmakers as well as disparate lobbying groups — from big business to civil rights activists.

The revolving door between the bureaucracy and industry lobby groups has given the fossil fuel industries unparalleled insights into the policy process and networks throughout government.

It's one lobbying group article against probably hundreds in the mainstream media portrayal, but the article quotes case law and a judge.

Same lobby group, same issue, and two opposing views.

It is a support and lobby group for home educators.

But there will always be endless greed in the mortgage banking industry (a powerful lobby group, by the way).

Many lobbying groups say keeping the answers out of the public eye allows candidates to be more candid.

Hmmm maybe the legal profession has a better lobby group than ours?

The National Association of Manufacturers, one of the most influential business lobbying groups in Washington, has been pressing Mr. Trump and his economic team to open negotiations with the Chinese on a free - trade agreement, an ambitious move that many trade experts doubt would bear fruit, given the past struggles of American negotiators who have tried to secure far more limited agreements with China.

A new paper argues that he «industrialization» of deforestation provides environmental lobby groups with identifiable targets that may be more responsive to pressure on environmental concerns than tens of millions of impoverished rural farmers.

Your proposal to build new nuclear plants in place of new coal - fired plants makes sense, except to those people who have been brainwashed by the earlier anti-nuclear fear mongering campaigns by environmental lobby groups like WWF and Greenpeace.

Lt. Gov. Robert Duffy's pursuit of a lucrative new job with a private business lobbying group in Rochester raised concerns that he was potentially violating the Public Officer's Law by not first informing Gov. Andrew Cuomo and recusing himself from matters involving economic development in western New York, according to a person close to the group's executive search committee.

In truth 10 of its protagonists have either been funded directly by fossil fuel companies, or have received paid employment from lobby groups funded by these companies, which campaign against taking action on climate change (11).

He's met with representatives from powerful lobbying groups like the the Louisiana Association of Business and Industry as well as representatives from the office of Gov. Bobby Jindal.