Sentences with phrase «lobbying dollars getting»

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.

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Powerful lobbies such as the Pro Israel lobby, American Atheists and many others pay top dollar to have shills come to these forums, spread their agenda and copy whatever info they can get about the people who disagree with their point of view.

But UFC promoters have spent nearly a decade and millions of dollars on lobbying to get it legalized in New York, which until this year remained the last state where pro matches had been illegal.

What got me really pissed while watching the movie was learning that when the World Health Organization came out with revised guidelines on sugar consumption in 2003, the sugar lobby in the US demanded that Congress withhold the 408 million dollars in funding the WHO receives from the US each year.

He startles a plain vanilla church congregation into silence, and rips the insurance lobby: «The reason the healthcare industry is so profitable is they get 24 cents of every dollar.»

Officially non-political dollars, such as «member communications» and related employee time, frequently get used for grassroots lobbying of union members.

The same Jonathan Sacker who set up ConnCAN's unknown sister organization called the Connecticut Coalition for Achievement Advocacy Inc. which poured more than half a million dollars into legislative lobbying over the past few years helping to get Achievement First more money and a special law exempting charter schools from having to have all their teachers certified.

However, what has remained relatively secret is that Bronin's PR person is a well - paid adviser for Families for Excellent Schools, the New York based charter school industry group that spent more than $ 1 million lobbying Connecticut legislators on behalf of Governor Malloy's proposal to divert millions of dollars in scarce state funds so that Bridgeport and Stamford could get new, privately owned, but publicly funded charter schools --- one of which will make former Capital Prep Principal Steve Perry very rich.

The union leadership sees this and gets all jizzy, thinking about how to steer some of that dough to their own pockets: «The four corporations that dominate the U.S. standardized testing market spend millions of dollars lobbying state and federal officials — as well as sometimes hiring them — to persuade them to favor policies that include mandated student assessments, helping to fuel a nearly $ 2 billion annual testing business, a new analysis shows.

I guess that's why, when the section dealing with how global warming could affect North American tourism got written, the IPCC chose to quote a dollar amount plucked from... drumroll please... a press release issued by an industry lobby group — in this case the International Snowmobile Manufacturers Association.

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

Rupert Murdoch and his colleagues, not content with grossing billions of dollars on their blockbuster movies have decided to spent some of those billions to lobby congress to try and get legislation passed that would give them the ability to more quickly (and with minimal due process) shut down file sharing sites that they think are hosting pirated content.