Sentences with phrase «lobby working at»

We started at 7:00 after dinner and I went to bed at around 11:30 or so, and teams were sitting the hotel lobby working at some of the bars near the hotels and working on their problems.

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A source at ride - sharing start - up Lyft told Inc. there are at least two initiatives in the works that that will bring together policy (and potentially lobbying) efforts to the sharing economy.

The head of personal investing at a $ 1.2 trillion fund manager says she plans to rescind investments in companies that haven't worked at reducing climate change — and she's lobbying other fund managers to follow suit.

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.

In her considerable spare time she went to work on her credentials: She enrolled at UCLA as a political science major; she founded the Women's Sports Foundation with King and served as its president for seven years; she worked on various Olympic committees; she lobbied for, and helped frame, the Amateur Athletic Act of 1974; and she got involved in the Special Olympics.

I had my phone hooked up to the Tune - In app, radio on at work, and game on the TV in the lobby; there was no way I would miss any moment of it.

We work hard to keep fatherhood on the agenda — lobbying for change at government level; working with public services, employers and others to help them «see» and respect fathers; and working directly with disadvantaged dads.

So when a group of health - care workers and advocates from the Mississippi Breastfeeding Coalition asked her in January to join their movement to lobby the Legislature to allow women to breast - feed at work and in public, she jumped at the opportunity.

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.

I'm a relative newcomer to PR — after almost two decades of having fun in journalism and politics I settled down and set up a consultancy, and Lionel has written one of the first handbooks for anyone contemplating a career in lobbying, and for the 4,000 people he estimates work at agencies or in - house in the UK.

I reached Dopp at Patricia Lynch Associates (the Albany - based lobbying / consulting firm where he has worked since departing the Spitzer administration in the wake of the scandal) earlier today.

The MP for Witham, who used to work at lobbying firm Weber Shandwick, also supports bringing back the death penalty.

«The Chair of the Senate Environmental Conservation Committee makes extra money by working at a law firm that lobbies on conservation issues.

Our meeting at the HQ of PR and lobbying firm Portland, where Campbell works part - time, comes 10 weeks after the prime minister's big speech pledging to tackle the «stigma» around mental health problems.

While Howe's work was only recently registered with state lobbying regulators, he was a paid adviser to both SUNY Poly and COR at the time of fundraiser.

JCOPE commissioners voted to move forward in the process of implementing several regulations at a monthly meeting today, including broad lobbying guidelines that have been long in the works.

He announced the state will create a new website for students to lobby their state and national electeds on gun control, and also touted a bill working its way through the state legislature that would ban bump stocks — devices that allow semi-automatic rifles to fire at rates comparable to automatic rifles.

Howe was banned from lobbying the administration and last month stopped working at the Albany - based firm of Whiteman, Osterman & Hanna.

Gillibrand, who used to work for Gov. Andrew Cuomo at HUD, is not at the Capitol today, but members of her staff are joining with Miss New York Claire Buffie and other gay marriage advocates in lobbying senators on this issue.

The staffers include Ben Kalish, the group's former director of development, who has left to work at the Fortune Society, and Jamin Sewell, the firm's director of lobbying and government relations, who has left to serve as counsel and managing director of policy and advocacy at the Coalition of Behavioral Health Agencies.

In one of three alleged schemes, prosecutors said that the two men solicited bribes from Charles Dorego, a real estate executive at Glenwood Management, who directed $ 20,000 check for title insurance work to the younger Skelos, at a time when the company was lobbying for housing and rent - related legislation that was crucial to its business.

Member survey 2012 The Member Survey looks at the views of small businesses on an array of issues including employment, growth prospects, innovation, access to finance and procurement and helps to inform policy work and what the FSB lobbies on for small firms.

Keith Powers, former staffer for Jonathan Bing and currently working at Peter Vallone's lobbying firm;

«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.

Another interesting connection: Thompson's 2009 campaign manager and longtime former aide, Eddy Castell, is now at the lobbying / consulting firm, the MirRam Group, and is working for Schneiderman's opponent, Sean Coffey.

That's similar to what he did in his pre-Senate job at Housing Works, although I believe he did lobby for that organization, too.

James Gurling is a senior PR and public affairs man who previously worked alongside John Major's former press secretary at Hanover Communcations and is now a director at MHP Communications, the UK's largest lobbying firm.

Disabled workers from factories around the UK will lobby MPs at the rally at the House of Commons on Tuesday 27th November, urging MPs to press ministers to deliver on the new direction agreed at Labour Party Conference based on choice for disabled workers and public procurement to ensure a flow of work to keep the Remploy factories open.

After working for Cuomo at HUD, Glaser and Howe would eventually go to work for the Mortgage Bankers Association, a Washington lobbying trade group.

As Glenwood was lobbying Skelos about rent laws, Skelos pressured an executive at the firm, identified by sources as senior vice president Charles Dorego, to arrange a $ 20,000 payment to his son Adam that prosecutors say was disguised as a commission for title work which he did not perform.

Also declaring family lobbying links are Tory MP Sir Alan Haselhurst, whose daughter is a director at the consultancy Blue Rubicon; and the unsuccessful Liberal Democrat leadership candidate Norman Lamb, whose son works as a researcher at the lobbying firm GK Strategy.

Members of the New York County Democratic Committee, upset about a backroom deal their chair, Keith Wright, cut to choose a candidate for a vacant state Senate seat, will push a resolution at a meeting tomorrow night that would prohibit county party officials from also working for firms that lobby.

Lehal is a highly - regarded public affairs consultant who set up his agency in 2006, having previously worked at top lobbying firms Westminster Strategy and Edelman.

Not only did he previously spend 10 years at top advertising agency M&C Saatchi, but before entering the Commons in 2010 he also worked for top lobbying firm Lexington Communications.

According to his corporate biography, he previously worked at Greenberg Traurig, an international law firm and one of the biggest lobbying firms in Albany.

Howe and Percoco, who in January began working as a top exec at Madison Square Garden, are at the center of a probe that Cuomo's office has said involves «questions of improper lobbying and undisclosed conflicts of interest by some individuals which may have deceived state employees involved in the respective programs and may have defrauded the state.»

John lobbying firm and a vice chair of the State Democratic Party, Peter Ajemian, who is State Senator Brad Hoylman's chief of staff, Brian Ellner, who was a Bloomberg appointee at the Department of Education and later played a leading role in the marriage equality fight in Albany, Matthew McMorrow, who is an aide to Mayor Bill de Blasio on gay issues, and Dirk McCall, who works for Bronx Borough President Ruben Diaz, Jr..

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.

«They can't campaign for a new leader so they're working on Brexit, they're using Brexit as a way to get at Jeremy and I think Jeremy and John McDonnell who were in every single lobby with me for years voting against the EU are clever enough to understand this.»

Howe then worked for Andrew Cuomo at the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development before going in to the private sector, eventually landing with Whiteman Osterman Hanna, one of the largest and most politically connected lobbying and law firms in Albany.

He also asked that I stay on, and so I expect that I will be continuing to work at the southern district,» Bharara said in the lobby of Trump's Fifth Avenue skyscraper following their 40 - minute powwow.

A de Blasio spokesman denied any connection between WeWork's donations and lobbying, and the work done at the Wall Street building, saying: «It was approved based on its merits and its compliance with existing building codes and the city's zoning resolution, as is the case for all building projects under this administration.»

It highlights all of Rice's negatives — from the fact that she used to be a registered Republican (she switched to independent when she went to work in Pennsylvania and then became a Democrat just before first running for DA in 2005) to her failure to vote for 18 years to her firing of women — mostly mothers — who were working part time at the DA's office to her alleged lobbying against «real» Rockefeller Drug Law reform.

Lawyers from Whiteman Osterman & Hanna, the Albany law and lobbying firm retained by LPCiminelli and that employed lobbyist Todd Howe, who did work at the same time for the state - created not - for - profit corporation that awarded the Buffalo Billion contract.

Fossella, a former congressman from Staten Island who did not run for a sixth term in 2008 following revelations that he had a second family living in Virginia, also works at the lobbying firm Park Strategies, which was hired to represent Bloomfield Industries.

During the 2000s, federal lobbying records show a two - man team at work in the Washington operation: Howe and John Regan.

The designation of UChicago as a National Historic Chemical Landmark joins the University's 2006 designation by the American Physical Society as an historic physics site to commemorate the work of Robert Millikan, who received the 1923 Nobel Prize in physics for experiments conducted at the Ryerson Physical Laboratory building, 1100 E. 58th St.. A plaque commemorating that work hangs in the first - floor lobby of the Kersten Physics Teaching Center, 5720 S. Ellis Ave.

Today, a 3» x 4» enlargement of Skop's Science cover hangs in the lobby of the Genetics - Biotechnology Center building at UW Madison, part of an exhibit Skop created to highlight the artistry and diversity of the work done in the department.

Nuclear fuel processing, the work that would have been done at the proposed Jiangmen project, poses little risk to public health, according to industry experts and the industry lobby group, the World Nuclear Association.

As America's patient lobby groups win increasing support for research into their own «pet diseases», scientists working at the more basic end of biomedical research are struggling to win a share of the funds.