Sentences with phrase «lobbying against legislation»

From both a cost - savings perspective and a moral perspective, these companies should stand with survivors and help facilitate the healing process, instead of protecting institutions that put children in harm's way and lobbying against this legislation,» said Michael Polenberg, Vice President of Government Affairs at Safe Horizon.

«They stand out as being particularly bad in terms of lobbying against legislation,» she said.

Mayor Bloomberg aggressively lobbied against the legislation claiming it would cost the City of New York $ 16 million dollars.

According to the following article «ETS has lobbied against legislation to require agencies to «immediately initiate an investigation» after complaints on «inadequate» testing conditions.

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Instead of viewing regulations like those mandated by OSHA as a nuisance (NAM and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce for years fought against implementation of the original OSHA legislation and continue to lobby against efforts to expand the legislation), Keller came to see them as a blueprint for improvement.

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

not only will this save us money we can use the money we save to improve are education infrastructure, which help reduce crime, something FOP and CCPOA (i do not now what the call it in other states) have been historically against, those two Gangs have no desire to reduce crime in fact they lobby to increase it; by supporting new legislation and fighting against ones that will reduce crime

Not only are we up against a school district food system that is set in it's ways, we're battling a larger food culture that values high calorie, highly processed convenience food AND huge food lobbies that have great influence over Congress and the legislation that is passed.

Only 35 countries have legislation fully implementing the Code — often because Nestlé and the rest of the baby food industry has lobbied against such measures.

Atlantic Bridge was itself a partner of the American Legislative Exchange Council, a US lobbying group funded by the Charles G Koch Foundation (predominant funders of the US Tea Party), the National Rifle Association and the Tobacco Institute, to name but a few, and which campaigns against climate change legislation and regulation of tobacco.

The most significant spending on the pro-gun side, however, has come from the National Shooting Sports Foundation — a Newtown - headquartered gun industry trade association that lobbied aggressively against the state gun control legislation.

According to the group's filing with the Commission on Public Integrity, NOM spent $ 735,963 in May and June lobbying against the same - sex marriage legislation.

There was heavy lobbying on both sides of the issue — with yellow cab drivers who were against the legislation surrounding the Capitol with their cabs and livery drivers who spent hours debating legislators in the halls.

And that campaign, involving all sorts of organizations that have lobbied against climate change legislation, has led some people to conclude that this is connected to a larger campaign by special interests to attack the science of climate change, to prevent policy action from being taken to deal with the problem.

So if we want to make sure the legislation works with the industry rather than against the industry there needs to be an association that can help lobby in the best interests of the industry and the best long - term interests of consumers.

An ambitious lobbyist faces off against the powerful gun lobby in an attempt to pass gun control legislation.

By lobbying against good charter legislation and fair funding (see Figure 1), financing anti-charter studies and propaganda, filing lawsuits, and engaging the public battle of ideas, teacher unions and other charter opponents openly wage what might be called an «air war» against charters.

Gladys researched this topic and successfully lobbied against proposed breed restriction legislation in Florida's state capital, Tallahassee.

The public at large needs to understand that MORE than just animal welfare is at stake here, and animal lovers need to understand that the AVMA and all its state affiliates are concerned ONLY with the financial interests of its members, NOT with animal welfare, since they lobby against humane legislation to protect companion animals at every chance they get.

[8] However, the AKC has no specific health standards and lobbies against breeding standards and other humane legislation.

[8] The AKC lobbies against breeding standards and other humane legislation.

To name a few, we're lobbying to get Nosey's Law, Pedals» Law, and the Trap Ban passed and fighting against harmful legislation — the poaching, logging, and prescribed burning bills.

The new rankings used a methodology developed by the US - based Union of Concerned Scientists to measure corporate positions on climate legislation against criteria such as transparency, company performance and lobby interventions.

These were virtually all educational contacts; The Heartland Institute only rarely lobbies for or against pending legislation.

APS is not alone in lobbying against net metering policy, their proposed changes mimic ALEC's new model legislation that was crafted, at least in part, by EEI.

And just ten months ago carmakers in America were lining up to lobby Congress against proposed legislation that would oblige them to achieve a fleet - average fuel consumption of 35 miles per gallon (mpg) by 2020.

Moreover, the legislation puts the interests of the oil and gas lobby over millions of citizens, thousands of businesses and hundreds of coastal communities who spoke out against new offshore drilling during the federal government's extensive planning process.

The U.S. Chamber of Commerce lobbied against climate change legislation to be introduced by congress (namely the Waxman - Markey Climate Bill).

But the most interesting part of the segment is an interview with Joe Lucas, head of the American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity (nee Americans for Balanced Energy Choices), a coal industry front group that has spent tens of millions of dollars on deceptive advertising and political activities, as well as more than $ 10.5 million to lobby Congress directly on behalf of dirty coal and against legislation to fight global warming and promote clean, renewable electricity.

organizations are allowed to conduct activities that are political in nature but are not related to elections, such as lobbying for or against legislation

In California, one of the first states to enact legislation mandating that drivers use handless devices, cell phone carriers such as AT&T, T - Mobile and Sprint all lobbied against the law.

Zuckerberg reiterated his support for the legislation in his post, although as Quartz has reported, the company has lobbied against it.

@Emma4Change and the children who marched through the city streets last weekend simply refused to accept their parents» defeatist assumption that even a 75 percent majority in want of stricter firearm legislation (according to an NPR poll released last week) was impotent against the wishes of an all - powerful gun lobby.

In addition to the bar leadership, Judges were caught secretly lobbying against Shared Parenting legislation, raising serious questions about separation of powers and prompting one Senator to ask them «to stop hiding in the bushes and trying to kill this.»

Lobbied Congress against usurping state authority by enacting federal legislation that would allow the payment of fees by any individuals (except real estate settlement service providers) to affinity groups for the referral of business