Sentences with phrase «lobbying effort»

It has to be the single most successful lobbying effort in a long time.

The changes are the result of lobbying efforts by various municipalities and transit authorities, claiming increases in the costs of claims and difficulty in investigating these types of accidents.

We'd like to do that to increase lobbying efforts with government.

Nor does it seem to be the product of fierce lobbying efforts from north of the border.

As usual, real estate was a strong presence in local and state lobbying efforts last year.

Please remember that political activities, such as sign - making, letter writing, and organizing lobbying efforts, are strictly prohibited during the school day and on school grounds.

The Canadian government has undertaken an aggressive lobbying effort to stop the law.

, solar installations declined 2 percent this year, the victim of saturated markets, financial issues at top manufacturers and a targeted lobbying effort from traditional power companies.

A march against bad science campaigns and corporate lobbying efforts.

This is an unprecedented lobby effort to open up the European market to oil from its devastating tar sands.

Her conviction that animals are a part of our moral community, deserving of justice, informs her grassroots legislative lobbying efforts.

That requires an organized campaign, part of a large lobbying effort.

The new push promises to inject a mighty lobbying effort into next year's legislative session.

We do not have the resources, frankly, or the patience to engage in a traditional policy lobbying effort.

This is in reference to lobbying efforts by media executives in favour of the public interest exemption.

The increased restrictions were in response to lobbying efforts from a number of environmental organizations.

EFI is a member of numerous natural health associations and actively participates in lobbying efforts on behalf of the natural product industry.

Guess it pays to be the biggest oil company in the world — even though their profits are at the lowest they've been in six years, Exxon still managed to spend more money on lobbying efforts for the climate bill than the entire clean energy industry combined.

Because a massive lobbying effort of Republican lawmakers by the frozen pizza industry, among other corporate interests, is underway to get around Obama Administration guidelines to make school lunches contain healthier options.

[12] An increase in public funding for legal aid by $ 46.3 billion — not just once but on an annual basis — would, at a minimum (taking inspiration from the ABA Best Practice Document), require highly intensive, non-stop, long - term lobbying efforts at the federal level as well as at the level of each and every one of the 50 states, the District of Columbia and the territories.

While Glenwood Management executive Charles Dorego continues to find himself involved in federal cases against former Albany politicians Sheldon Silver and Dean Skelos, public documents have revealed the role of Dorego's ex-wife, attorney Doreen Small, in obscuring lobbying efforts against city waste removal initiatives.

Control of the city's public school system was given to the mayor in 2002, following a massive lobbying effort by Mayor Mike Bloomberg.

During this time, she broke numerous stories on energy policy, including one on the Koch Brothers» European lobbying efforts as well as investigations into the cross-Atlantic climate denial lobbying network.

State policymakers, some fearing high - profile stories of scandal and others feeling the pressure from intense lobbying efforts on all sides, are racing to catch up.

This law is the direct result of strong lobbying efforts by our union and others and it will beneficially impact all Hotel Trades Council members employed in New York State.

And it wasn't afraid to put its money where its mouth is, either, sinking roughly $ 190,000 into lobbying efforts over the spring and summer of 2011.

A 2017 investigation into lobbying efforts by «Big Pharma» conducted by The Washington Post and 60 Minutes found that the companies spent more than $ 106 million to lobby Congress in an effort to pass more favorable drug laws.

The Yankees, of course, front a major lobbying effort in Albany and state government in addition to being a baseball team (disclosure: I'm a Yankees fan).

While our attorneys have the expertise, experience and relationships to lead lobbying efforts on life sciences and health care regulation on both the executive and legislative levels, we have found that our strategic approach to legal matters — which is based in a long Foley Hoag tradition of public sector representation and administrative law — has been well suited for collaboration with our clients» internal and external lobbyists.

The HSUS, on the other hand, is a multi-million dollar lobbying effort aimed at eliminating animal agriculture in all forms and turning us all into vegans.

Assisted Government Relations Director with Congressional affairs, and compiled lists of Congressional members and designed federal lobbying efforts for all member organizations.

The letter is yet another show of responsiveness from the UFC, which has an extensive lobbying effort over the past several years to bring MMA to New York.

Friedrichs is challenging California's largest teachers union on First Amendment grounds, arguing, in part, that mandatory union dues deny individual members the right of free speech through lobbying efforts and campaign contributions that don't necessarily comport with the views of all union members.

Jonathan Sackler founded 50CAN, the ConnCAN knockoff, which is attempting to spread the charter school lobbying effort across the country.

A wealthy Oregon businessman who has a history of pushing school privatization initiatives around the country financed lobbying efforts for the bill.

Most brilliant new lobbying effort yet.

McGuire Woods lobbyist Harry Kaplan explained to N.C. Policy Watch that Education Freedom Alliance was one of their clients and that on their behalf, he was behind lobbying efforts to create an «achievement school district» designed to allow charter school operators to take over the state's poorest performing schools.

ConnCAN, ConnAD and A Better Connecticut led the record - breaking $ 6 million dollar lobbying effort in support of Governor Malloy's «Education Reform» initiative.

The pro-charter group Families for Excellent Schools Inc. reported spending nearly $ 2.9 million on lobbying efforts during September and October.

In 2011, Nevada became the first state to pass legislation to let companies operate autonomous vehicles on public roads, largely due to Google's lobbying efforts there.

A concerted lobbying effort last year pushed for publicly financed campaigns, with advocates ranging from Jonathan Soros to Democratic House candidate Sean Eldridge contributing money for the effort.

This is the organization's latest lobbying effort employed during the National Organic Standards Board (NOSB) hearings on the suitability of nonorganic substances allowed as ingredients in U.S. organic foods.

ALBANY — Executives from the largest mixed martial arts league will begin their annual lobbying effort Tuesday, hopeful the inclusion of enabling legislation in Gov. Andrew Cuomo's budget proposal will pave the way for legalization of the sport in New York State.

Law professor Marci Hamilton (at mic) at the state capital in Albany as part of a two - day lobbying effort calling on legislators to pass the Child Victims Act.

Among the more visionary and, for that matter, realistic companies pushing back against the enormous lobbying effort include Nike, Starbucks, HP, Duke Energy, PG&E, and Levi - Strauss (see Deborah Fleischer's post for more about the companies involved).