Sentences with phrase «lobby group does»

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

Beyond the fact that «help districts workshop their applications» is a bizarre concept, what the hell is a registered corporate education reform lobbying group doing instructing school districts on how to work with the State Department of Education?

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Lobbying groups such as the Telecommunications Industry Association say prioritization is critical to doing business.

An industry lobbying group in North Dakota, where fracking is common, said the industry is doing what it can, but some mistakes are inevitable.

Flynn's son also recently drew focus in the Russia investigation because of work he did for his father's lobbying firm, Flynn Intel Group, and legal analysts have said that Mueller's focus on Flynn Jr. could be an attempt to coerce his father's cooperation in the investigation.

In 1989 he told the Vancouver Sun the Progressive Group does not lobby.

«A broad coalition of investors wants companies to tell stockholders and the public more about so - called «dark money» spent both in campaigns and on lobbying by groups that use corporate money and don't say where it comes from,» Welsh of Si2 said.

In a draft letter from the Futures Industry Association — the industry lobby group whose members include banks such as JPMorgan and Goldman Sachs — to the CFTC, the implementation of bitcoin futures contracts «did not allow for proper public transparency and input,» reports the Financial Times, who have reportedly seen the draft.

Apart from not liking the video's message and concept, which, given his credentials as head of an anti-union «right to work» lobby group, doesn't come as a surprise, Oakey is particularly bothered by the fact that the PSAC — a union — produced the video.

Christians should not be allowed to lobby for / against legislation if some other group does nt agree with that viewpoint?

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.

More than 200 groups are doing faith - related lobbying and advocacy in the nation's capital, compared to fewer than 40 in 1970, according to the report.

With the assistance of a massive lobbying effort on the part of liberal interest groups, Bork's detractors prevailed and Judge Bork did not obtain the position for which he was so eminently qualified.

Well Bill, I guess I do not see your group / religion as any more than a powerful lobby group, no different than oil and gas, defence industries, tobacco, NRA gun industry, etc..

Farmers might have slammed a milk deal between Victoria's peak farm lobby group and supermarket giant Coles, but it did not stop more than 600 from applying for the grants that came out of it.

But the certification body and lobby group said organic milk did perform a lot better than other organic products in the UK, with sales up 1 per cent compared to 2008.

The group spent nearly $ 8 million lobbying the state this year so far, and continues to do so with the governor's tax cap.

«But the involvement of campaign groups and other organisations, whether through lobbying government or public campaigning, must be done in a transparent and open way.»

Western New York's largest business group, the Buffalo Niagara Partnership, once again plans to focus its lobbying efforts on core issues familiar to its members: the high cost of doing business in the state, the need for more trained workers and the importance of encouraging investment in the region.

ESPA did max out its donations to McDonald after he, along with Sens. Stephen Saland, Mark Grisanti and James Alesi voted in the favor of the measure following a period of intense lobbying from a pro-gay marriage umbrella group, New Yorkers United For Marriage, and from Gov. Andrew Cuomo.

For now, it doesn't appear the group is trying to lobby the state; rather, it appears the organization is in part promoting Cuomo himself.

Blair Horner of New York Public Interest Research Group says that means the group falls outside of lobbying and therefore, doesn't have to regiGroup says that means the group falls outside of lobbying and therefore, doesn't have to regigroup falls outside of lobbying and therefore, doesn't have to register.

He said he researched all the ethical questions about applying for the job, and that he did not do any lobbying on behalf of the group before he applied.

In 2013, the New York Public Interest Research Group complained to the state's Joint Commission on Public Ethics that the party's efforts amounted to lobbying — the ads didn't urge people to vote for someone, but rather to support a pending policy action — and should be disclosed as such.

The Tax Foundation once again ranked New York among the states with the worst tax climate in the nation — something that doesn't surprise the business groups that lobby for changes in Albany.

The Speaker of Parliament Edward Doe Adjaho has broken his silence after a lobbying group impressed on President John Mahama to appoint him as his running mate in the 2016 elections.

This should be of grave concern to the public as it reaches out to groups that do not engage in lobbying or campaigns but work on issues that impact us all.

Only Citizens Union discloses the donors that fund its lobbying; the other three groups say they do not currently meet the requirements forcing disclosure.

NYPIRG has been accused by Gov. Andrew Cuomo's administration of being a «mouthpiece» for the trial lawyers» lobby, and did give a grant to an anti-tort reform group in 2011, records show.

Bamberger says he isn't doing any lobbying for the group (he's prohibited by state ethics laws from doing so) but said the new advocacy group has retained its own lobbying firm, Bogdan, Lasky & Frazier LLC.

In a 12 - page missive sent last week, Laufer told JCOPE officials the Campaign for One New York would no longer comply with a subpoena the ethics commission sent, arguing it was outside the scope of the agency's mission and had nothing to do with an inquiry begun a year ago into whether or not the non-profit should have registered as a lobbying group in 2015.

LaBarbera and representatives of construction labor management funds, which advocate for companies that use organized labor and related unions, said it was clear the real estate lobbying group had more sway at City Hall than they did, given that they were not invited into the 421 - a discussions the administration and REBNY had engaged in.

«In the current political campaign environment, the presidential campaign finance system doesn't work at all and can not work,» said Craig Holman, who lobbies Capitol Hill on ethics and campaign finance issues for the nonprofit consumer advocacy group Public Citizen.

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

The organizations formed an umbrella group with press done by Cuomo ally Jennifer Cunningham, New Yorkers United for Marriage, in order to consolidate lobbying efforts and follow a Cuomo - style brand of message discipline.

Mr Clark believes there is a growing consensus among three groups that come to the debate from different directions: the green lobby; people worried about security of energy supplies (who do not want to become dependent on Russian imports); and those with concerns about economic competitiveness.

While groups like the BNE and others have done extensive Canadian outreach, the key is to have a firm with deeper connections lobbying on the region's behalf.

The National Rifle Association, the nation's largest gun - rights lobbying group, did not immediately return an email seeking comment.

In 2012 The Wall Street Journal reported that Cuomo's schedules did not show an October fundraiser where the Governor was pitched on a massive casino project by Genting, a group that had given millions to a lobbying group created at the governor's behest.

Critics have said that the Mario Cuomo Campaign for Economic Justice, like de Blasio's Campaign for One New York, created a shadow government apparatus, in this case where government employees did work for lobbying groups and consultants were paid for their efforts by the MCCEJ while also representing Cuomo's campaign.

A typical ad from the group praising a piece of legislation, for instance, does not count as lobbying under federal law because it does not specifically call viewers to action.

Republicans are opposing the deal en masse, agreeing with influential pro-Israel lobbying groups that the accord does not do enough to ensure Iran can never build a nuclear weapon.

Governor Cuomo, in a recent interview with public radio, said he does not think that the lobby groups should have to disclose donors retroactively.

And that stink will continue until Bill de Blasio does the right thing — and tells his lobbying group to give the money back.

In a letter to the Public Interest Research Group dated May 16, the ethics commission said Mr. Sachs's calls on behalf of Mount Sinai Queens did not constitute lobbying because he had made them before the department formally decided to consider the rule change.

Opponents of the wage hike and family leave — small - business groups and business lobbies — say they don't have the same kind of money to fight back.

The Boundary Commission for England has now confirmed its methodology for the review and, surprisingly, there were no specific objections to grouping northern Lincolnshire with Yorkshire for the purposes of parliamentary constituencies (though one member of the public did lobby for the historic counties to be used as the basis of the review).

Cable said he turned down all approaches from James Murdoch and lobby groups to discuss the bid and admitted that he didn't see it as an urgent issue.

The state's trial lawyers have spent a whopping $ 20 million lobbying and donating to the campaigns of state pols since 2006 to block reforms that could cut the high cost of doing business in New York, according to an anti-trial lawyer group.

• During last year's contentious battle in the State Senate over the failed gay - marriage bill, while Governor Paterson, Kirsten Gillibrand, Christine Quinn, and even Chuck Schumer lobbied on behalf of the bill, Cuomo was virtually silent, not even bothering to get three wavering state senators on the phone when asked to do so by gay groups.