Sentences with phrase «lobby groups has»

Western Australia's peak industry lobby group has repeated its call for the federal government to come up with credible evidence to support its proposed changes to the 457 visa program for temporary s

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

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.

There are no doubt many significant reasons as to why this is the case but one aspect which needs to be considered is the extent to which some lobbying groups have advanced their views to influence thinking in public life.

In short, these lobby groups have shifted the categories of discourse and changed the rules of practical public engagement on the issue of sexual ethics in a way that preempts any and all deviation from the party line.

At the same time, powerful lobby groups have been working to curtail government legislation regulating formula marketing and promotion, in the Philippines and across the world.

Mike Brady from BMA claimed that Danone is also not in compliance but the lobby group has yet to mount a campaign against the French dairy.

A Christian lobby group has threatened to launch a private prosecution for blasphemy against the BBC.

The correspondence reflects a close relationship and suggests City Hall and the real estate lobbying group have grown accustomed to collaborating.

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.

Britain's domestic tax regime is responsible for the country being overlooked for major sporting events, a lobby group has claimed.

One transport lobby group has calculated that the Coalition's promise to cut petrol prices will cost hundreds of lives a year.

But religion is still something of a taboo subject (one lobbying group had called it «an assault on the Catholic Church»), but perhaps more importantly the series ran into creative trouble: Pascal had apparently been hands - off with Scott on the pilot, and the studio were reportedly unhappy with the finished cut.

this education reform lobbying group has been playing an increasingly significant role in the internal functioning of the State Department of Education.

If these lobbying groups had their druthers, we would eliminate PARCC altogether and preserve the artifice of excellence, resist any data that threatens the immutability of the educational establishment.

Since the creative industry and their lobby groups have an unequal influence on politicians, and keep expanding the copyright period, some of these piracy - problems will only keep on growing for the foreseeable future.

The lobby groups have watered the proposal down (political parties, charities, pollsters and even newspapers are now exempt) and the legislation has been passed, but the CRTC, which is overseeing the project, seems to be having trouble getting it up and running.

And lobby groups have already urged passengers to sign an online petition, Keep Europe's Skies Open, set up by A4E, the European airline lobbying group.

There was one final big game for the Wii in 2013, Pandora's Tower, which was the last of three games a lobbying group had pressured Nintendo into releasing.

The grip fossil fuel lobby groups have on government is huge as you know.

Right now business and fossil fuel lobby groups have a lot of influence over politicians as we all know.

Climate research is mostly funded by governments and universities and anonymous donors specifically as this removes as many industry and lobby group vested interests as possible.

It is also no exaggeration to say that these enviro lobby groups have done more to exacerbate the so - called «CO2 problem» than the «oil lobby» ever did.

Alone among the nations of the developed world, key members of fossil fuel lobby groups have actually been made members of Australia's official delegation that has negotiated − or more accurately, attempted to derail − international agreements on climate change, notably the Kyoto Protocol.

Activist scientists and lobby groups have distorted surveys, maps and data to misrepresent the extent and impact of coral bleaching on the Great Barrier Reef, — according to the chairman of the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority, Russell Reichelt.

How much real influence do these advocacy and lobby groups have at influencing public policy, such as the Institute of Marriage and Family Canada; the Canadian Centre for Policy Studies; the Institute for Canadian Values, the National House of Prayer, and 4MyCanada, Campaign for Life, the Catholic Civil Rights League, and REAL Women of Canada?

Lobbying groups have also pushed for this change for several years.

The lobbying group has David Strickland at the helm, who is a former administrator of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA).

Not exact matches

According to filings made by Mercury Public Affairs, a political strategy group contracted by Manafort, the former chancellor had met with several members of Congress in 2013 to lobby for Ukraine.

This week, the lobby group TheCityUK, said that it had dropped its demand that the U.K. should keep its passporting rights.

Their lobbying effort will begin once MPs start debating the government's budget implementation bill, which in its current form would apply the taxes to all but a small group of cannabis - based drugs.

It's the biggest health reform legislation passed by Congress since Obamacare and has galvanized a similarly motley crew of industries and lobbying outfits — including big pharma (the legislation's most ardent proponent), patient advocacy groups, mental health organizations, and medical researchers — who fought for its passage over the last three years.

The New York — based Thompson hotel group has transformed a once staid and average Sheraton into one of the capital's hippest hotels, packing the lobby with the requisite design books and a gallery's worth of original art.

The major ad lobby groups said yesterday they would ignore Microsoft's DNT signal on the grounds that it represents Microsoft's choice for the browser rather than the affirmative choice of the user.

According to a recent article in the New York Times, the coalition, called the Center for Humane Technology, has brought together an impressive group of social media pioneers, leaders in tech, F500 partners, and media in an effort to educate and lobby against what they call «tech - addiction» among youth.

But small business groups such as the National Federation of Independent Business and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce are vocal opponents, and have lobbied extensively to fight the passage of wage reform bills in Congress.

FRANKFURT, May 3 (Reuters)- A lobby group representing Germany's glass fiber industry says a European merger between Vodafone and Liberty Global should be blocked because it would create a cable TV monopoly in Germany.

Zuckerberg has been an immigration reform activist for years, dating back to his cofounding of the FWD.us lobbying group in 2013.

The industry's biggest lobbying group, PhRMA, has also remained mum.

The pro-Israel lobby group holds its annual policy convention in Washington Sunday through Tuesday and has confirmed both Trump and Democratic presidential front - runner Hillary Clinton as speakers.

Amid the countdown this week toward a U.S. Supreme Court ruling on the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act, a battle has escalated about funding for a small business lobby group.

Tony Podesta, the longtime Democratic lobbyist whose brother John is Clinton's campaign chairman, runs the Podesta Group, which has lobbied for Amgen, Merck, BIO, and the American Foundation for AIDS Research.

Tech companies and trade organizations disclosed they had 48 arrangements with lobby groups that discussed NAFTA with administration officials or lawmakers in the second quarter, up from 17 groups in the first quarter and one group at the end of 2016, according to the data.

That sector had 52 lobbying groups discussing the trade pact with government officials between April and June.

The industry now has almost as many lobby groups representing its views on NAFTA as the transport sector, which includes automakers.

But it's widely supported by lawmakers on both sides of the aisle who have faced intense lobbying campaigns by patient groups and the biopharma industry.

Some commenters on Reddit have suggested the newest comments stem from a 2010 press release from a conservative lobbying group, but the wording there is different enough to make any link tenuous.

PDS has paid $ 250,000 for private groups to lobby the Chinese government for business.

But groups lobbying to eliminate it have an uphill battle — polls in recent years show a majority of Americans still support the policy, even if it costs them sleep once a year.

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.