Sentences with phrase «lobbying done»

OTOH the lobbying done by the unions to block the «Race to the Top» funding and failure to come up with a credible application for $ 300 million in Federal funds leaves me with no choice but to say «no» to any proposed tax increases for those poor, picked on teachers.

The study did not examine political lobbying done through trade associations.

Lobbying done by UFT members in Albany on March 9 helped boost state education funding, which UFT President Michael Mulgrew called «a down payment on the state's debt to public education.»

It literally looked like something every other player in an F1 2016 open lobby does.

Dibos had also revealed that those few players who are part of the lobby don't care about any protocols at all that the team management sets.

From outside, or even from the lobby it does not appear that so much is tucked in there.

House Speaker Michael Madigan blamed teacher unions on Friday for killing a proposal to send tax dollars to private schools, claiming the powerful lobby doesn't want competition for Illinois public schools.

The lobby didn't seem wholly convinced and David Cameron quickly dubbed the report «complete junk» but it had the effect of flushing out the truth on a number of Conservative Party positions.

Its prospects are even dimmer in the Republican - led Senate, where GOP lawmakers historically aligned with the real estate lobby do not let pro-tenant bills come to the floor for a vote.

He says a loophole says lobbyists don't have to disclose any lobbying they do in municipalities of 50,000 or fewer people.

«I hope the environmental lobby does not think that there's any diminution of safety,» says the official.

They have a very strong political power because of the lobbying they do.

But while I don't get paid by the veterinary lobby I do know that there are real reasons for the...

However, through advocacy and lobbying they did help the city make some impressive progress.

Meanwhile I regret that the fragrance in lobby did not meet your expectation.

Cons: — Private lobbies don't allow for player invites at this time - Online does have minor syncing issues for players

The lobbies don't give you much information about the others in there with you, so you might be racing with drivers who have a much different skill set than your own.

It'll probably be part of an extra playlist for those with the DLC or like in Halo Reach, the matchmaking won't offer the map as a choice if someone in the lobby doesn't have it.

Because this is Mr. Piano's first commercial gallery, Mr. Zwirner said, «I have to remind him we don't need coat checks, we don't need ticket booths and the size of the lobby doesn't have to be quite that large.»

And the linen - upholstered, dark - wood - paneled galleries along the UBS lobby don't do the paintings any favors.

The lobby doesn't want to look like a paper tiger.

The road transport lobby did not play a constructive role in the GST debate.

NRA spokeswoman Dana Loesch, interviewed on ABC's «This Week» on Sunday, said the gun lobby does not believe the age for purchases should be raised from 18.

Not exact matches

Google now spends as much on lobbying as Microsoft, Facebook, Amazon and Apple do — combined.

I had been waiting in the lobby of Virgin's New York offices to talk with Richard Branson about «Don't Look Down,» the documentary about his record - breaking trans - Atlantic and trans - Pacific hot air balloon voyages.

The industry's lobby group does regular demographic check - ups to see who is playing video games and the results are always informative.

What candidates do while they're waiting in your lobby can tell you a lot.

«One of the things I am doing is not just lobbying the British government but lobbying businesses to press upon their governments the fact that a hard Brexit would be bad for London and for Europe too,» Khan said.

Next thing I knew, we were on track to do $ 1 million in sales — out of our lobby.»

But lets assume for a moment Shively gets over this first hurdle without spilling his bong water, he will need to do so on his own lobbying dime.

Don't get me wrong, I get what's hip, and that lobby and bar were it.

What candidates do while waiting in the lobby can indicate a lot.

Lobbying groups such as the Telecommunications Industry Association say prioritization is critical to doing business.

This is another membership benefit which, like its current lobbying activity on behalf of motorists, doesn't derive a direct profit for the RAC but still sits comfortably with its core business.

Pence headed Trump's transition team, but he has insisted that he did not know about Flynn's lobbying work or conversations with the Russian ambassador before Flynn's ouster in February.

«I hope they recognize that to be seen as a credible industry within the North American context, they've got to find a way to sit down and talk to stakeholders — not lecture people, not do end runs around them by lobbying to government,» he says.

But Delrahim, who has lobbied on behalf of AT&T in the distant past, said in an interview on Canadian television last year he didn't see the deal as having a major antitrust problem.

The association is lobbying for more agricultural worker visas, known as an H2 - A, but part of what it wants to do is offer these workers a mult - year path to citizenship as an incentive for their agreeing to do farmwork.

An industry lobbying group in North Dakota, where fracking is common, said the industry is doing what it can, but some mistakes are inevitable.

The disclosures Friday indicate that Trump transition lawyers did not view Flynn's lobbying work for a Turkish businessman as a liability for an official who serves as the president's closest adviser on security and international affairs.

«If it's not engaging in lobbying, then what is it doing, given its peers seem to be engaged in lobbying?»

Unfortunately for the SSA that was doing her job correctly, she had to be subjected to the screaming with other customers in the lobby.

Flynn's son also recently drew focus in the Russia investigation because of work he did for his father's lobbying firm, Flynn Intel Group, and legal analysts have said that Mueller's focus on Flynn Jr. could be an attempt to coerce his father's cooperation in the investigation.

Tillerson, who flew to DC in 2010 to lobby against the section of the law driving the rule, argued that it placed an unfair burden on US companies that their foreign counterparts don't have to deal with — requiring them to disclose trade secrets.

«They are particularly useful when traveling, allowing you to stay connected 24/7 while working from airports, hotel lobbies or other locations that don't often provide easy access to power.»

While the CCA declares on its website that it doesn't lobby for policies that determine «the basis for or duration of an individual's incarceration or detention,» the Justice Policy Institute has documented several pieces of federal legislation the CCA lobbied on in recent years, including funding related to private prisons and Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention.

She's getting vocal too: Last year she lobbied for electronic trading at the New York Stock Exchange and said her scandal - plagued competitors did «stupid things.»

It's fair to say that this didn't go down well with the parliamentary press lobby.

As The Washington Post's Ezra Klein first noted, the reason why Democrats in the Senate lobbied for her was a different one: They didn't like Larry Summers, President Obama's initial pick, because of his perceived coziness with the big banks.

Individuals and families don't have much power to change that, given the powerful, well - funded lobbies that are are fighting to preserve the status quo.