Sentences with phrase «lobby on new policy»

Not exact matches

The policy was adopted a month ago as the province lobbied Governor Andrew Cuomo to drop his proposed New York Buy American Act, which would have required state entities to buy from U.S. companies on all purchases more than $ 100,000 (U.S.).

NEW YORK / WASHINGTON Wall Street lobby groups urged U.S. policy makers and regulators to revamp rules to encourage more initial public offerings and to reduce the regulatory cost of staying public, in a white paper issued on Thursday.

Perusing the index of Origins, the weekly publication of representative documents and speeches compiled by Catholic News Service, our imaginary historian will note, for example, the following initiatives undertaken at the national, diocesan and parish levels in 1994 - 95: providing alternatives to abortion; staffing adoption agencies; conducting adult education courses; addressing African American Catholics» pastoral needs; funding programs to prevent alcohol abuse; implementing a new policy on altar servers and guidelines for the Anointing of the Sick; lobbying for arms control; eliminating asbestos in public housing; supporting the activities of the Association of Catholic Colleges and Universities (227 strong); challenging atheism in American society; establishing base communities (also known as small faith communities); providing aid to war victims in Bosnia; conducting Catholic research in bioethics; publicizing the new Catechism of the Catholic Church; battling child abuse; strengthening the relationship between church and labor unions; and deepening the structures and expressions of collegiality in the local and diocesan church.

Opening the door to Business lobbying — what's wrong with the new WHO policy proposals CLICK HERE for TWN article on the outcome CLICK HERE for PDF CLICK HERE for many related stories in Update 46 26th March 2014...

«Introducing expensive «new and improved» formulas with unsubstantiated claims is the best way for formula makers to increase their profits in the WIC program,» says Meredith McGehee, a public policy strategist in Washington, D.C. who lobbies for the California WIC Association on Capitol Hill.

Susan Lerner, Executive Director of Common Cause / NY, noted that «Hydraulic fracturing has been one of the most polarizing issues in recent history, with no shortage of political money invested by pro-fracking interests to achieve a favorable outcome... New York State needs comprehensive campaign finance and lobbying reform to assure New Yorkers that public policy is based on their interest, not the special interests.»

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.

A state judge has ordered Campaign for One New York, a nonprofit de Blasio established to promote his policies, to release documents and communications between the mayor and the nonprofit — sought by the state Joint Commission on Public Ethics as part of a probe into potential improper lobbying.

In Albany, where a number of New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio's policy priorities have succumbed to resistance from Gov. Andrew Cuomo and state Senate Republicans, documents suggest that de Blasio has turned to the real estate industry's chief lobbying group in New York as an intermediary to press politicians on a matter beyond its traditional scope: the city's public school system.

At 2 p.m., de Blasio hosts elected officials and other leaders for the first Global Mayors Summit on migration and refugee policy, Grand Hyatt New York, ballroom, lobby level, 109 E. 42nd St., Manhattan.

The Committee to Save New York has made public, under state lobbying disclosure rules, that they've spent over $ 12 million dollars on advertising and other promotions of Governor Cuomo's policy agenda, including a property tax cap and budget cuts.

The new timeline is a win for Mayor Michael Bloomberg, who has spent recent months vigorously lobbying to replace the state's «Last in, first out» seniority - based teacher firing policy with one based on merit ahead of a massive layoff plan.

The plan put forward by the funding agencies is to merge EuroHORCs with ESF — which they largely fund — to create a new group (with the suitably catch - all working title of Science Europe) to formulate science policy and lobby on behalf of the agencies.

Also, many new players in the education field — hedge funds, foundations, and other external groups — are now engaging in direct lobbying of policy makers and are having an important impact on how policy makers may be developing new reforms.

By John Clark Just before the election, more than 100 educators descended upon the U.S. Department of Education — not to lobby for better policy, but to work in conjunction with the Department to raise the bars on enrollment and effectiveness from teacher preparation programs; to find new ways to recruit and prepare the next -LSB-...]

So important that it needs lobbies like CCL to keep harrassing politicians to do more... The truth is that CCL is just another semi-useless political organization lobbying for its own biased view, not telling us anything new or useful and peddling economic policies that would cause disruption, achieve little, but impose costs on industry and low income earners.

Company emerges as Europe's worst climate policy wrecker, according to a new table ranking firms by their records on lobbying and opposition

The problem is that the academic lobby has successfully claimed a monopoly on the creation of new knowledge, and that policy - makers have been persuaded to confuse the necessary with the sufficient condition that investment in basic research would by itself necessarily lead to successful applications.

Thomas M. Susman, the new director of the ABA Governmental Affairs Office, says impact assessments on House resolutions will be useful to his staffers who lobby before Congress and with the executive branch in support of ABA policies.