Sentences with phrase «lobbying efforts during»

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

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She was an active member of both California Association of Midwives and California Nurse Midwives Association, working as a liaison to the boards of both during the licensed midwife practice act legislation in the 1990s, and lobbied extensively for both CNM and LM legislative efforts.

During an interview taped this afternoon for this evening's «Capital Tonight,» SUNY Chancellor Nancy Zimpher refused to point fingers for the failed empowerment plan (including one she broke during the course of her intense lobbying effort) and insists she's still optimistic it will pass — soDuring an interview taped this afternoon for this evening's «Capital Tonight,» SUNY Chancellor Nancy Zimpher refused to point fingers for the failed empowerment plan (including one she broke during the course of her intense lobbying effort) and insists she's still optimistic it will pass — soduring the course of her intense lobbying effort) and insists she's still optimistic it will pass — someday.

Ride - sharing company Uber put its lobbying efforts into high gear during the first half of 2017, spending more than $ 1.2 million to influence lawmakers, records show.

Mayor Bloomberg just announced during his State of the City address that pension reform will be his «number one priority in Albany» this year — a lobbying effort that will be led by former NYC Mayor Ed Koch.

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.

«The governor's approach is actually antithetical to the behind - the - scenes lobbying effort being waged by the gay marriage advocates, who were so concerned the GOP would use this potentially controversial topic as a wedge issue that they all - but refused to talk about it during the 2008 campaign, even as gay money poured into the Democrats» coffers and helped them win the majority.

Lobbying efforts and peaceful demonstrations on the part of Christian school leaders that took place during the late 1970s to reduce private school regulation culminated in the passage of two bills in 1979.

In addition to being one of Malloy's largest sources of campaign cash during his 2014 re-election campaign, the owners and operators of Connecticut's charter schools, along with the corporate elite who support Malloy's «education reform» initiatives have dumped more than $ 9 million into the lobbying effort to support Malloy's agenda to undermine public education in Connecticut.

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.

Despite their ongoing lobbying, both before and during the illegal takeover and throughout the effort to persuade legislators to support Malloy's education reform bill, neither Lowney, Snow nor Excel Bridgeport registered to lobby with the Connecticut Office of State Ethics, as required by law.

The chancellor's statement that the arbitrary nature of the bands «appeared to believe the Caribbean was further away than California,» is also a clear recognition of a crucial issue raised by the organisation during lobbying efforts to have the tax reformed.

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.

Now, every self - respecting oil company channels money into front groups, lobbying campaigns, and PR efforts, not just during a spill, but all the time to keep public opinion in check, and to hedge against such disasters.

Fueled by the intense and relentless lobbying efforts of insurance companies, legislative agendas designed to limit the liability doctors, nurses, surgeons and other medical professionals face in cases of medical malpractice have been gaining substantial ground during the past ten years.

Understand this, it stands to reason that TREB has to be extremely careful to not say or do anything during this hearing that may be construed as prejudicial or as a lobbying effort of any sort so do not take their silence as disengagement.

Several groups have said they lobbied tax - writers during the months leading up to the release, including an effort that succeeded in killing a proposed levy on imports.