Sentences with phrase «lobbying arm for»

This past March of 2017, the Missouri Pet Breeders Association (MPBA) which serves as the trade association and lobbying arm for the commercial dog breeding industry in Missouri, elected a new president: Kevin Beauchamp, operator of Beauchamp's Puppy World.

Ms. Consolo noted that 10 percent of all statewide donations last year came from the 16,000 - member Real Estate Board of New York, the lobbying arm for the industry.

Family Planning Advocate's, the lobby arm for Planned Parenthood, accused Senator Klein of selling out women.

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After arm - twisting by Gov. Ann W. Richards, who had lobbied to keep Apple from going to another state, Mr. Hays joined two other commissioners to approve nearly $ 1 million in tax incentives to Apple in return for the company's agreeing to build an office complex in this suburban county a few miles north of Austin.

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.

We see it every time that government ministers sign military agreements and lobby for arms sales, and every time they turn their back on those living under Saudi oppression.

It is this same drive for arms sales and political influence which saw the Assad regime treated as allies and Tony Blair lobbying for him to receive a knighthood in 2002.

A Gonzalez win would also be very good for his (potentially former) employer, Make the Road NY, which recently established a lobbying arm in Albany.

Cable told the meeting that 95 % of those lobbying him about arms exports were calling for more promotion, not less.

Howe, 55, a former scheduler for Gov. Mario Cuomo and a longtime friend of Andrew Cuomo, ran the law firm's Washington, DC - based lobbying arm called WOH Government Solutions.

The governor had talked about following the money, so one of the first targets for Perry's team was New York's real - estate industry and its lobbying arm, the Real Estate Board of New York.

A spokesman for Families for Excellent Schools, a charter group that often serves as Success's lobbying arm, declined to comment.

While the response from the gun lobby has been remarkably similar — blaming the massacre on mental - health issues, advocating for policemen or armed teachers in schools as well as the need for «good guys with guns» — they have a new kind of adversary.

Dolan, who is also leader of the New York State Catholic Conference, the lobbying arm of the state's bishops, said the church is supportive of «very vigorous» changes to statute of limitations that would increase the age for victims to file civil and criminal actions.

On Monday night, spokesmen for the union representing the majority of workers at the Remington Arms plant in Ilion went to Albany to lobby legislators over the potential impact on jobs before the legislation was passed by the New York state Assembly on Tuesday.

Howe, who worked for the lobbying arm of Whiteman, Osterman & Hanna LLP, responded to O'Connor's email with «Congrats!!

Opposition to the measure has also come from the plastic bag industry — via its lobbying arm, the American Progressive Bag Alliance — as well as from those who, like Mr. Felder, said the fee amounted to a regressive tax, disproportionately affecting low - income and minority New Yorkers while failing to positive benefits for residents.

The National Rifle Association's Institute for Legislative Action, its lobbying arm, did not respond to a request for comment.

Armed with briefing materials, the union activists boarded buses at 7 a.m. from locations in the five boroughs for a full day of lobbying in the state capital.

Progun scholars have criticized it for just as long,» says John Frazer, who in 2013 was director of the Research and Information Division at the NRA's lobbying arm, the Institute for Legislative Action in Fairfax and today is the organization's secretary and general counsel.

Third is Online Mode that houses tournaments, ranked matches, and lobby rooms for you to fight fellow Tekken players you've never met before or a friend, not in arm's reach.

President Donald Trump again lobbied for increased school security measures, including armed staff, in a meeting with congressional lawmakers from both parties on Feb. 28.

The labs used their lobbying arm, the Council for Educational Development and Research, to protect their budgets even as funding for research proposed by individual scholars and other initiatives was disappearing or was dramatically curtailed during the Reagan years.

Students for Education Reform Action Network Inc. is the lobbying and political action arm of Students for Education Reform.

The other two primary funders of the A Better Connecticut's Bridgeport campaign are Families for Excellent Schools — Advocacy Inc., the lobbying and political arm of Families for Excellent Schools.

And three months after that, Jonathan Sackler and Alexander Troy set up ConnCAN's sister organization, the Connecticut Coalition for Achievement Advocacy, Inc. (ConnAD), which immediately became the lobbying arm of ConnCAN.

Dropped from the Chrysler menu in the USA as part of SRT's shift towards the Dodge brand, this 300 SRT has been upgraded primarily for the Australian market, after the company's local arm lobbied hard to keep the vehicle from death's door.

While the match types are compelling and the decision to pit stealthy bowman against heavily armed freedom fighter is engaging, it's unlikely Far Cry 4's multiplayer lobbies will remain full for long.

A spokeswoman at the American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity, the coal industry's main lobbying arm, did not have an immediate comment about the report.

According to the database, this is the only lobby meeting the representative for Koch's legal, lobbying and public affairs arm — known as Koch Companies Public Sectors — has had in the last six months with a member of the European commission.

A fancy word for lobbying, influencing, and maybe strong - arming the public and politicians.

Billy could form a «Let Billy show up to every meeting» party, run candidates for the legislature in every State and federally, lobby hard, raise funds for lawyers to run test cases, change the constitution, take control of the armed forces, pass a resolution through the United Nations General Assembly, etc etc..

Florida's governor announced plans Friday to put more armed guards in schools and to make it harder for young adults and some with mental illness to buy guns, responding to days of intense lobbying from survivors of last week's shooting at a Florida high school.