Sentences with phrase «lobbying disclosures»

He doesn't have to because his type of work isn't covered by lobbying disclosure laws.

Corporate lobbying disclosure remains a top shareholder proposal topic for 2016.

Publicly available state lobbying disclosure forms from January 2017 show that an Exxon representative William F. Coyne Jr, was paid a total of almost $ 50,000 in 2016 to oppose bills S. 1747 and S. 1786.

CPV has spent more than $ 140,000 lobbying the Cuomo administration and lawmakers in recent years, state lobbying disclosures show.

In response, Mangano in May instituted new lobbying disclosure requirements.

AG Eric Schneiderman has relaunched a website first created by then - AG Cuomo containing public information to match lobbying disclosures with specific legislation proposed and passed by state lawmakers.

The Committee to Save New York has made public, under state lobbying disclosure rules, that they've spent over $ 12 million dollars on advertising and other promotions of Governor Cuomo's policy agenda, including a property tax cap and budget cuts.

The Washington Post reported that Holmstead filied a new lobbying disclosure indicating he has dropped all of his longtime lobbying clients, including Duke Energy and Ameren, which he has represented since 2007.

JCOPE unanimously passed «emergency» regulations that will govern the state's lobbying disclosure rules should Gov. Andrew Cuomo sign an ethics reform package, as expected.

A review of 2016 lobbying disclosures filed with the Secretary of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts revealed that a registered lobbyist

In fact, the ACS paid lobbying firm Hicks Partners LLC at least $ 100,000 in 2005 to try to persuade congressional members, the NIH, and the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) that a «PubChem Project» would be a bad idea, according to public lobbying disclosures, and paid an additional $ 180,000 to the Wexler & Walker Public Policy Association to promote the «use of [a] commercial database.»

As a result of a loophole built into Connecticut lobbying disclosure laws, A Better Connecticut does not have to reveal from where it raised its millions.

One day before the state ethics commission is to hold hearings on new rules for lobbying disclosures, there are more revelations about a multi million dollar advocacy group associated with Governor Andrew Cuomo.

Earlier this week, the Washington State attorney general sued the Grocery Manufacturers Association for violating lobbying disclosure laws by hiding the identity of its individual members making donations.

After the case became public, Mangano, a Republican, issued executive orders, later passed into law by the county legislature, that established the lobbyist registry and required lobbying disclosure with each contract given to lawmakers.

Birchez's past lobbying disclosures have listed its dealings with the Division of Housing and Community Renewal as a priority.

Two days earlier at a monthly meeting, JCOPE released emergency regulations to comply with a new nonprofit lobbying disclosure law that was pushed through by the Cuomo administration on the final night of the 2016 legislative session.

All this comes after the most recently approved lobbying disclosure law was revealed to have far too many loopholes in it, with groups like Common Sense Principles essentially making a mockery out of it.

«New York State has led the nation in strengthening lobbying disclosure laws that create more transparency,» said Alex Camarda, senior policy advisor for Reinvent Albany.

The new bill sets the total lobbying disclosure threshold at $ 15,000, while requiring disclosure of donations of more than $ 2,500, as well as those donors» personal information.

These examples are likely just the tip of the iceberg, because lax lobbying disclosure requirements at the federal level and in most states mean we don't know what position ExxonMobil has taken on the many of the bills it has lobbied on.

Outside of these relatively obscure lobbying disclosures, the Energy and Policy Institute could find no public record of ExxonMobil's positions on the two bills.

«Lobbying disclosure records show that the Malaysian Palm Oil Council, the Indonesian Palm Oil Board and Neste Oil have brought on Holland & Knight, which is among K Street's highest revenue lobby shops,» writes Ben Geman on The Hill's Energy and Environment Blog.

Lobbying disclosure filings show Altria has hired at least 17 lobbying firms and Reynolds hired at least 13 such firms.

Real estate groups were among those spending heavily, according to lobbying disclosures released Friday for the three months ending Sept. 30.

In fact, the school's lobbying disclosure form said Columbia had lobbied Glaser personally in both the March - April and May - June lobbying filing periods of 2014.

A review of 2016 lobbying disclosures filed with the Secretary of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts revealed that a registered lobbyist opposed two carbon tax bills — S. 1747 and S. 1786 --(along with a number of other climate - related bills) on behalf of ExxonMobil.

Fred Palmer was also a lobbyist for Peabody between 2005 and 2015 according to public lobbying disclosures.

As a result of a loophole built into Connecticut lobbying disclosure laws, A Better Connecticut does not have to reveal where it raised its millions from.

«We discussed how to get around filing FARA and I was uncomfortable at that point,» recalled Torossian, who has advocated more uniform foreign - lobbying disclosure requirements.

Lobbying disclosures show Honeywell lobbyists met with executive and legislative branches of state government on a few issues, including «remediation of hazardous waste site.»

A government watchdog group, Public Citizen, said on Wednesday it will ask lawmakers to investigate whether billionaire investor Carl Icahn should have been subject to lobbying disclosure laws when he...

Amazon, a major cloud services provider and internet retailer, also cited NAFTA as well as «customs procedures» in its lobbying disclosure.

On a lobby disclosure form reviewed by Reuters, Cisco Systems listed NAFTA and government procurement as the trade issues handled by its lobbyists.

On Friday, Gonsalves (R - East Meadow) and a spokesman for County Executive Edward Mangano said that the pair are developing a lobbying disclosure law.

They could also have broader implications for New York's lobbying disclosure laws, as Pledge 2 Protect apparently found a loophole around requirements that lobbying groups spending more than $ 50,000 a year disclose the source of donations over $ 5,000.

Lobbying Disclosures, where shareholders can vote to have companies either disclose lobbying practices, or stop them all together

If you want to understand why America burns so much coal, spend a few minutes over at the lobbying disclosure website run by the Office of the Clerk of the U.S. House of Representatives (all numbers cited below are from the website).

The American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity (ACCCE), a coal trade group, paid the firm $ 10 million between 2008 and 2009 to fight the Waxman - Markey cap - and - trade legislation in Congress, E&E News reported, prompting a House committee investigation into ACCCE's lobbying disclosures.

This blawg «discusses political activity law: campaign finance rules and reforms, issue advocacy, House and Senate ethics, gift, and travel rules, lobbying disclosure at the federal and state levels, and all other aspects of laws regulating how individuals and groups participate in the political and policy process.»

«Posts on campaign finance, election, lobbying disclosure, congressional ethics, and other political law topics.»

In addition, he counsels organizations on issues relating to lobbying disclosure and ethics issues, including the regulation of gifts to and travel by Members of Congress and employees and officials of Executive Branch agencies.

If you take a look at Intuit's lobbying disclosure report, you'll see their specific lobbying issues in plain English.