Sentences with phrase «lobbying efforts at»

He is an active participant in NAPBS, the background screening industry trade association, including a role in their lobbying efforts at the federal and state levels.

Landin also has extensive experience in background screening operations, as well as legal compliance, and is an active participant in the National Association of Professional Background Screeners (NAPBS), the background screening industry trade association, including a role in their lobbying efforts at the federal and state levels.

And that's been the message of this lobbying effort at the military: the community loves Fort Drum.

Not exact matches

A source at ride - sharing start - up Lyft told Inc. there are at least two initiatives in the works that that will bring together policy (and potentially lobbying) efforts to the sharing economy.

Exxon Mobil (xom) has stepped up efforts to persuade investors to vote against climate - related proposals at Wednesday's annual meeting with a campaign of calling, writing and lobbying shareholders in person.

But the lawsuit is also in line with ongoing efforts by legacy telecoms to block competition, including lobbying at the state level to prevent cities from building their own broadband networks.

To paraphrase Charles Baudelaire's quip that the devil wins at the point where the public comes to believe that he doesn't exist, the financial sector's lobbying effort wins at the point where people believe that running into debt contributes to economic growth rather than burdens it, and that they will end up richer by acting as bank customers.

According to the New York Times, 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.

, 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 once obscure office at HUD is the subject of unusually intense lobbying effort Juliet Eilperin, The Washington Post

This speech was political theater, a lobbying effort aimed at the president of the United States — a point Netanyahu all but admitted at the end.

In fact, Mylan had recently started a major lobbying effort to encourage schools to stock EpiPens by arguing that people with serious food allergies are always at risk, and that EpiPens were a necessary supplement to emergency medical treatment.

One approach to answering these questions is to look at the political party financial donations and lobbying efforts made by Kinder Morgan Canada in recent years.

At the time, the whole pharmaceutical industry was engaged in a lobbying and public relations effort to restore opioids to the average middle - class family's pharmacopeia, where they had not been found since before World War I.

Clearly then, «Dignity in Dying» (formerly, the Voluntary Euthanasia Society), the lobby group at the centre of efforts to introduce assisted suicide, believed that the Falconer provisions contained the winning legislative formula that would have allowed them to get them this first crucial foothold in the law.

Don Browning, director of the Religion, Culture and Family Project at the University of Chicago Divinity School, has observed that in the 1970s and»80s most mainline Protestant denominations severely cut back their funding of family ministries programs while continuing to fund government lobbying efforts.

The Hagstrom Report (subscription only) reports that Stan Garnett, former director of child nutrition at the Agriculture Department, «has resigned from the School Nutrition Association over its efforts to encourage members to lobby Congress to pass a bill requiring the USDA to waive healthier school meal requirements to any school that says it has lost money in the program for six months.»

It was announced on Wednesday that Felder secured some $ 200,000 in discretionary funds for «education access» programs for Agudath Israel, the lobbying force that helped fight state efforts to impose instructional standards on yeshivas... What secular education young boys receive typically ends at the equivalent of about seventh grade, with only minimal English and reading studied after that.

She tried to convince top staffers at the state comptroller's office to approve investments proposed by her lobbying clients, and althoguh she was given preferred access to these staffers, her efforts were eventually rebuffed.

THE army of laid - off downtown «dot - commers» wants to get back into action, so there's a ground swell of support for a lobbying effort directed at Sens. Hillary Clinton and Chuck Schumer to establish what they're calling e-WPA — a 21st century version of the agency that created jobs in the Great Depression.

Introduced at the end of July by City Councilman Mark Levine, the bill has since gained the support of 12 fellow councilmembers through the lobbying efforts of Levine's staff and parents at P.S. 163, a West 97th Street elementary school that would neighbor a construction site under a plan to build a 20 - story nursing home development.

But the UFC has over the years funded a campaign and lobbying effort to bring the sport to the New York City and upstate markets, with the company planning an event later this year at Madison Square Garden.

While it is widely known that some companies and foreign governments gave money to the foundations, perhaps in an effort to gain favor, one of the key parts of the puzzle hasn't been reported: At least a dozen of those same companies lobbied the State Department, using lobbyists who doubled as major Clinton campaign fundraisers.

New Yorkers United For Marriage, the pro-same-sex marriage coalition formed at the behest of Gov. Andrew Cuomo, spent $ 1.8 milllion on lobbying efforts in the two months leading up to the successful vote.

Their calculation puts them at odds with four larger groups more directly involved with lobbying efforts to end the ban: the Human Rights Campaign, the Center for American Progress, Servicemembers United and the Servicemembers Legal Defense Network.

Kathryn Robb, a survivor of childhood sexual abuse by her brother, at the state capital in Albany as part of a lobbying effort to pass the Child Victims Act on Tuesday, May 3, 2016.

Assembly Democratic leaders are refusing to allow Assemblywoman Margaret Markey (D - Queens) from holding a screening of the film at the Capitol complex during a two - day lobbying effort in May to build support for her bill to make it easier for people sexually abused as kids to bring lawsuits as adults.

Singh said he talked to Cairo as part of a lobbying effort to provide food at Nassau's OTB in Hempstead Town.

REBNY has traditionally focused its lobbying efforts — and dollars — on candidates for state office rather than in New York City, for two main reasons, Lerner said: First, the city's relatively stringent campaign finance laws have historically made it harder for special interest groups to gain as much influence here; and second, although many key issues — such as 421a tax abatements — affect only New York City, they are decided at the state level.

Opponents of News Corp's bid for British Sky Broadcasting have taken their fight to the corridors of power with a direct lobbying effort principally aimed at Liberal Democrat MPs and peers.

Already, though, legislators and interest groups are publicly lobbying it in an effort to affect, or at least pre-spin, its eventual recommendations.

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.

The Democratic officials say the ads are aimed at providing the political cover that Obama and his top aides promised lawmakers in the final stages of the lobbying effort to get the legislation through the House on Sunday night.

In exchange for the funds, Seminerio, Boyland and Kruger advocated on Rosenâ $ ™ s behalf with state agencies, co-sponsored legislation to benefit MediSys and lobbied on the health systemâ $ ™ s behalf in its effort to acquire St. Johnâ $ ™ s Hospital in Elmhurst and Mary Immaculate Hospital in Jamaica, which at the time were owned by Caritas.

Newtown (Unrated) Political gridlock expose» chronicling a grieving Connecticut community's futile lobbying effort for gun reform legislation in the wake of the mass murder of 6 teachers and 20 students at an elementary school.

Both NEA and AFT insert themselves into state and local politics all over the country by throwing millions of dollars at candidates, initiatives and lobbying efforts that support their self - serving agenda whenever and wherever they can.

The charter lobby in California has successfully fought off legislative efforts to bring more accountability to the charter sector — at least so far.

AFC has spent nearly $ 400,000 in its lobbying efforts in Wisconsin in the past four years, focusing on numerous bills that critics say are aimed at privatizing the public educational system.

So is the effort to lobby and work on policymaking at the state level (an approach that, until now, was only successfully embraced by Achieve Inc.).

«We've seen some pretty remarkable success in a first year of Denver Public Schools» effort here at Far Northeast Denver,» A + executive director Van Schoales said Wednesday as he stood in the lobby of High Tech Early College, one of the smaller schools opened with grant dollars awarded to remake long - struggling Montbello High School.

Shortly after a divided Baltimore County school board voted to hire Verletta White as superintendent last month, dissenting members began a lobbying effort to ask the state schools chief to do something none of her predecessors have done in at least a half - century.

In the midst of the crisis, GM called upon the brand's global chief, Bob Ferguson, to head up lobbying efforts in Washington, D.C.. That's essentially the role he filled before former CEO Dan Akerson installed him at Cadillac in late 2012.

Although the UAW conceded defeat in the initial vote, aggressive lobbying by state officials, including former Chattanooga Mayor and current U.S. Senator Bob Corker, raised some red flags for UAW officials, who promise to continue their organization efforts at other plants in the south, with the next focused effort being the Mercedes - Benz plant in Tuscaloosa, Alabama.

We congratulate the Kunming activists for their success and we will continue our efforts to encourage greater awareness of animal welfare issues, support capacity building, assist in lobbying activities aimed at policy change, respond to distress calls and monitor developments as the Chinese animal protection movement grows.

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.

Smaller U.S. airlines JetBlue and Hawaiian have long opposed the Big 3's effort to rein in the Gulf carriers, characterizing the lobbying campaign as an attempt to protect market share at the expense of U.S. consumers.

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.

The Trust for Public Land was what is known as an «eco-profiteer:» an organization charged with buying private land at distress prices from rural owners, usually under threat of federal condemnation, then, with the help of huge lobbying efforts and insider congressional contacts, selling it to the federal government at fair market prices and taking a cut.

«The Canadian government is heavily lobbying European countries to derail European climate change efforts, such as the Fuel Quality Directive aimed at reducing emissions from imported transport fuels.

The letter, dubbed the «We Can Lead» campaign, is part of a broader effort lending support for passage of the legislation, even in the face of unprecedented lobbying from vested interests opposed to the bill (or any real action at all on climate and sustainable energy).