Sentences with phrase «lobbying against acting»
There are reports that oil, coal and gas industries in America have invested more than half a billion dollars on lobbying against acting on climate change.
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With respect to the June 2016 Trump Tower meeting, Trump Jr. initially said in a statement that it was not related to campaign issues and that they had primarily discussed Russian adoptions and the 2012 Magnitsky Act, which Veselnitskaya aggressively lobbies against.
There has been strong pressure from US business lobby against use of the Jackson - Vanik Trade Act of 1974 for denying MFN status to China.
«They're asking us to help shore up a piece of Obamacare that we had fixed in the American Health Care Act that they lobbied against.»
One other online politics - related story to note — super-easy publishing platform Tumblr has gone enabling activism to encouraging it, by asking its users to lobby against the «Stop Online Piracy» act in the House.
The American Chemistry Council has spent considerable amounts of money to lobby against the Child Safe Products Act, state records show.
Leah Barrett, Executive Director of New Yorkers Against Gun Violence said opposition to the SAFE Act is influenced by the gun industry lobby, and said the acts of protest from local officials do not surprise her.
Springer joined a group of survivors and advocates outside Zurich Insurance Group in Lower Manhattan to protest the insurance industry's quiet lobby effort against the Child Victims Act.
Supporters of conservation brought up strategies to stop the sale of the island, including lobbying Congress to revoke the act putting Plum Island up for sale, designating the island as property for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Services, selling it to New York State or a non-profit group that will focus on preservation, or — if necessary — filing a lawsuit against the government.
Meanwhile, Catholic bishops have spent on average $ 300,000 a year lobbying lawmakers in New York on a variety of topics, including against passage of the Child Victims Act, which would change the statute of limitations on civil and criminal cases of child sexual abuse and allow victims a one - year window to sue over potentially decades - old allegations.
Tisch's ambivalence toward the bond act reflects that of statewide school groups, which routinely advocate for increased funding but don't plan to lobby for or against the bond issue.
1912: NEA endorses Women's Suffrage 1919: NEA members in New Jersey lead the way to the nation's first state pension; by 1945, every state had a pension plan in effect 1941: NEA successfully lobbied Congress for special funding for public schools near military bases 1945: NEA lobbied for the G.I. Bill of Rights to help returning soldiers continue their education 1958: NEA helps gain passage of the National Defense Education Act 1964: NEA lobbies to pass the Civil Rights Act 1968: NEA leads an effort to establish the Bilingual Education Act 1974: NEA backs a case heard before the U.S. Supreme Court that proposes to make unlawful the firing of pregnant teachers or forced maternity leave 1984: NEA fights for and wins passage of a federal retirement equity law that provides the means to end sex discrimination against women in retirement funds 2000s: NEA has lobbied for changes to the No Child Left Behind Act 2009: NEA delegates to the Representative Assembly pass a resolution that opposes the discriminatory treatment of same - sex couple
Earlier this year, Ron Harper aggressively lobbied against the Lieberman - Warner Climate Security Act of 2007 largely on the grounds that the cost to the consumer would be to high.
Fox narrates, «The FRAC Act is making its way through Congress, and industry is lobbying hard against it.»
For example, in 1999 the Citizens for a Sound Economy lobbied against the Clear Air Act.
The fallout from those revelations acted as a counterweight to high level U.S. lobbying against strengthening privacy protections.
Zuckerberg also expressed his support for the Honest Ads Act bill currently working its way through the Senate — despite Facebook having previously lobbied against it.
In addition, the bill would have codified and dramatically expanded upon the Siljander amendment to the FY 2006 Appropriations Act, which currently restricts U.S. funds from being used to «lobby for or against abortion.»
On Wednesday, Nov. 19, the Coalition to Insure Against Terrorism, or «CIAT,» conducted a lobbying day on Capitol Hill, meeting with over thirty key members of Congress to urge for a long - term reauthorization of the Terrorism Risk Insurance Act of 2002, or «TRIA.»
Be sure to visit the Fair Housing Act lobby display to pledge your commitment to Article 10 of the Code of Ethics, which states REALTORS ® should not discriminate against any person based on race, color, religion, sex, handicap, familial status, national origin, sexual orientation or gender identity.
TREB is making a concerted effort to lobby against a possible foreign buyer tax on homes in Ontario, arguing that such a tax would be «misguided» when just 4.9 per cent of its member agents acted on behalf a foreign buyer in 2016.