Sentences with phrase «lobbying dollars»

«For years, the teachers unions flooded Albany with millions of lobbying dollars resulting in a virtual monopoly on influencing education policy,» she said.

«It is disturbing that the same companies and investors who have pledged to work with the City to respect California public safety and public realm laws are spending lobbying dollars in Sacramento to repeal them,» San Francisco Supervisor Aaron Peskin, who has been leading the charge to regulate the scooters, told TechCrunch.

Follow the Money: The flow of lobbying dollars from out of state, leading to the flow of taxpayer funds from Connecticut and our schools districts to education companies... and then back to some of the very people who are making the decisions to privatize our education system.

Top technology companies have devoted lobbying dollars and dispatched their executives to the nation's capital in order to save the program, called Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, which benefits some of their employees.

Why spend R&D dollars when lobbying dollars generate more profit?

The only thing getting accelerated is lobbying dollars into politicians» pockets.

You can't, hypothetically, groom an AI for years as your company's lawyer and then spend millions of lobbying dollars getting them into a position to eventually dismantle consumer protections as the head of the FCC, for example.

I'll note that Representative Barton has the distinction of being the Congressman who received the highest amount of lobby dollars from the oil and gas industry — 1.7 million dollars over the past 20 years.

Simplifying the tax code is a noble endeavor but we have all experienced the inability of Congress to crush the self - interests that without presidential leadership it attempts fail under the weight of lobbying dollars.

So the most evident problem with this new venture is that it is illegal and in the current political climate, no matter the lobbying dollars involved, is unlikely to change the laws sufficient to allow this business to ever launch.

But Booker sits on the Senate Commerce Science and Transportation Committee, another big target for Pfizer's lobbying dollars.

It's also a richly detailed, if depressing, behind - the - scenes account of how Big Food's lobbying dollars and the rancorous atmosphere in Congress have made healthy school food, once supported by both sides of the aisle, a deeply partisan issue.

The lobbying dollars is likely part of its push for expanded casino gaming and the state's approval of a massive convention center at the Aqueduct race course.

The authors found that four industries — automobiles and parts, basic resources, oil and gas, and utilities — devote the majority of their lobbying dollars to climate change topics.

During that same period, these companies spent $ 45 million on ads for clean coal and $ 125 million in lobbying dollars to defeat a national renewable energy standard and federal legislation to place mandatory limits on CO2 emissions.

(The report also presents all lobbying money spent by USCAP companies, although clearly all their lobbying dollars did not go toward supporting a climate bill.)

That is no less true in politics, which is fueled by campaign donations and lobbying dollars that move policy on every important issue under the sun.

Just listen to his speech and look at the votes and look at the lobby dollars.