Sentences with phrase «lobbying campaign»

Nor does the dissolution of a public lobbying campaign in favor of a private one.

They've spent millions on lobbying campaigns alone — this is old hat.

But veterans groups and state lawmakers in recent years had launched a sustained lobbying campaign for the bill's approval.

The effort to create a public financing system has been one of the more costly lobbying campaigns this year.

The public will now be better served with information about who is funding the state's large lobbying campaigns.

But it's widely supported by lawmakers on both sides of the aisle who have faced intense lobbying campaigns by patient groups and the biopharma industry.

A 27.5 percent increase in funding for Teacher's Choice, the UFT's top budget priority, was secured for the 2016 — 17 fiscal year after an intense lobbying campaign by members on social media and by union leaders at Council meetings and hearings.

Firms including Fairholme Funds Inc., Paulson & Co. and Perry Capital have sued the government or funded lobbying campaigns in an attempt to change the policy.

GOP gubernatorial candidate Rick Lazio turned his attention from Democratic LG contender Bob Duffy to his No. 1 target, AG Andrew Cuomo, slamming the gubernatorial designee for being the top recipient of lobbying campaign contributions in recent years.

EEI implemented an extensive lobbying campaign against the provision, warning Republican Senators and the White House that the bill would cause sharp increases in electric rates.

The architect of Britain's most successful lobbying campaign of 2009 is not a professional lobbyist.

But there he was — speaking at the ultra-right wing American Enterprise Institute and happily taking a question from the paid lobbyist whose organization has led the most expensive lobbying campaign in state history.

If its $ 2.2 million October total is replicated in both November and December, Families for Excellent Schools will have spent $ 13.4 million in 2014, a total that would make theirs the most expensive single - year lobby campaign in state history.

(Fla.) Representatives of the state's traditional public schools have mounted an aggressive lobbying campaign aimed at getting Gov. Rick Scott to veto the budget bill approved by the Legislature earlier this month.

The same ConnCAN that spearheaded the multi-million dollar lobbying campaign on behalf of Malloy's «education reform» bill.

Access Copyright engages in revisionist history as it seeks to hide its extensive lobbying campaign that warned that the reforms would permit mass copying without compensation...

But even an intense bipartisan lobbying campaign from fellow elected officials, business leaders and members of Congress did little to sway the Republican majority in the State Senate.

Claiming to have chapters on 100 college campuses, SFER is among the organizations that joined in the record breaking lobbying campaign in support of Governor Dannel Malloy's education reform agenda.

NAR has kicked off a congressional lobbying campaign aimed at maintaining your ability to diversify a real estate business and offer consumers one - stop shopping for real estate — related services.

The Property Council launched a huge lobbying campaign while Costello mapped out the passage of the reforms through the Senate.

Bill Hammond notes that the makers of the anti-addiction drug Vivitrol — whose controversial nationwide lobbying campaign was spotlighted by the New York Times last week — appear to be getting results in Albany.

The amount appears to be more than double the previous record for spending by any lobbying client during these months, a time of year when most political activity is directed toward elections and lobbying campaigns rarely top a few hundred thousand dollars, according to information maintained by the Joint Commission on Public Ethics.

Separately, administration officials said they had approved a $ 1.06 billion loan guarantee for an Oregon wind farm, the world's largest, after project developers waged a vigorous lobbying campaign to bring the year - long application process to a conclusion.

But Steve Brill, in yesterday's New York Times Magazine story, says that it was «a ferocious lobbying campaign by the state teachers» union that generated more than 100,000 e-mail messages and phone calls to Crist's office.»

Arts groups have already begun a furious lobbying campaign to press Republicans in Congress to save the endowments.

Thanks in part to Canada's strong lobbying campaign there is important American opposition to termination in Congress as well as in many state governments and the U.S. business establishment.

His data power Facebook's and Microsoft's own lobbying campaigns.

Google said that Oracle is «running a well - documented lobbying campaign against us,» and that the non-profit's other corporate «backers won't «fess up either» about their financial ties to the group.

And for that, Google can thank Google, and an unorthodox lobbying campaign to shape the road rules of the future in car - obsessed California — and maybe even the rest of the nation — that began with a game - changing conversation in Las Vegas.

The correspondence also touched off an unusual lobbying campaign among the upper crust of the local political class, aiming to pressure Tribune Publishing to sell.

The Chamber on Monday launched the latest chapter of its on - going lobbying campaign, aiming to highlight the concerns its small - business members have with the legislation.

Both Uber and Lyft have conducted an extensive public lobbying campaign over the last year to expand services, especially in upstate cities like Buffalo, which is being countered by an effort to block the measure by upstate taxi and livery companies.

Jon McLeod on how to run an effective lobbying campaign across the three party conferencesA friend...

The FAQ comes amid blowback from consultant firms — and editorial boards — over the advisory opinion that is aimed at having public relations consultants who engage in «grassroots» lobbying campaigns register as lobbyists with the state.

GOP legislators had for years kept the bill from reaching the Senate floor, but relented in 2011 after a well - heeled lobbying campaign by gay rights advocates and their supporters.

Treasury officials say they will include a more workable definition of «beneficial ownership» in the draft money laundering regulations, following a sustained lobbying campaign by the Law Society.

Today's vote in the European Parliament in Strasbourg follows a major lobbying campaign by Guide Dogs and organisations representing blind and partially sighted people across Europe.

City Hall's remote lobbying campaign continued even as the Legislature began its final day.

Despite the ongoing lobbying campaign to legalize ride - hailing, Yuhnke says, the service is already available in the Buffalo area.

The push comes amid a strong anti-Airbnb lobbying campaign from New York's hotel industry accusing the company of lowering the stock of affordable housing in New York.

Gural specifically faulted Cuomo for asking him to contribute $ 800,000 to a pro-casino lobbying campaign, implying he had an expectation his investment would be repaid.

Intended to address the roles of consultants as «architects of grassroots lobbying campaigns to the public,» the rules at issue were adopted by JCOPE in January.

For his part, Mr. Cuomo remained out of sight, although he made his presence known in a statement offering support for the Vernon Downs casino and racetrack, which has been the subject of a last - minute lobbying campaign from nine Mohawk Valley legislators seeking a relief package.

The law, which was passed by the Legislature late in the night in June on the final day of the legislative session, would require 501 (3) charities to disclose all their donors of more than $ 2,500 over six months if they contribute more than $ 2,500 to substantial lobbying campaigns run out of issue - oriented 501 (4) nonprofits.

«We kind of took them by surprise but we did our homework very well,» says Takalani Nemaungani, an engineer at South Africa's Department of Science and Technology who led his country's SKA lobbying campaign.

Calls for free allowances come amid an intense behind - the - scences lobbying campaign to fill out what Rep. Ed Markey (D - Mass.)

But a fierce lobbying campaign persuaded Congress saved the MIT project for 1 year.

Apropos your cogent discussion of the role of land - use changes in bee population declines, I'd like to note the efforts of the Xerces Society to coordinate a small lobbying campaign.

A school - choice bill voted down by the Pennsylvania House last month likely will be resurrected in some form this year, bringing with it a continuation of one of the most acrimonious lobbying campaigns in the state's history.