Sentences with phrase «lobbying efforts last»

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

Uber and Lyft both stepped up their lobbying efforts last year, with Uber aggressively campaigning local and state politicians from across New York.

The Log Cabin Republicans were very involved in the lobbying effort last December to try to convince some GOP senators to vote «yes» on marriage — an effort that ultimately failed when the entire 30 - member conference, joined by eight Democrats, voted «no» on the measure, killing the bill in the process.

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.

Not exact matches

It has, over the last five years, stepped up its lobbying efforts in Washington.

New York's Joint Commission on Public Ethics released its 2011 lobbying report this week, which found that the lobbying industry spent a record sum of $ 220 million last year in its efforts to influence state legislators.

Cunningham and her lobbying partner John Cordo each gave Cuomo $ 1,000 last summer, but worked through the winter to coordinate Cuomo's fund - raising efforts in Albany, in the days when he was waging stealth war against Paterson.

They identified 129 different bill numbers as the subjects of their lobbying efforts in the last six months of the year.

The report highlights the money spent by CPV on lobbying and other public relations efforts as the trial of Joe Percoco approached last year.

Both Uber and Lyft have conducted an extensive public lobbying campaign over the last year to expand services, especially in upstate cities like Buffalo, which is being countered by an effort to block the measure by upstate taxi and livery companies.

Most of the same groups who lobbied in the last legislative session for the women's equality act have joined the effort again for 2014, with one major exception.

Last month, Lynch shifted Danna DeBlasio (no relation to the mayor), who had previously managed the firm's Latino Affairs division, to serve as head of its effort to lobby the New York City Council.

In the last six months of 2015, two key education factions pulled back their advocacy efforts as imminent threats to unions subsided and charter groups dialed back their lobbying efforts in accordance with Cuomo's shifting priorities.

ConnAD was a primary funder behind the lobbying effort to pass Malloy's education bill last spring, and more recently, helped fund Mayor Bill Finch's failed effort to eliminate a democratically elected board of education in Bridgeport and replace it with one appointed by the Mayor.

Families for Excellent Schools is the corporate funded, New York based, charter school industry lobbying group that bused in students and parents from as far away as New York City and Boston, last year, to attend a rally in support of Governor Dannel Malloy's effort to divert even more taxpayer money to Connecticut's privately owned and operated charter schools.

In addition to «The Big Six,» other organizations that are presently lobbying Connecticut legislators in favor of the charter school and «education reform» agenda include the Bronx Charter School for Excellence, the North East Charter Schools Network, Achievement First, Inc., the large charter school chain with schools in New York, Connecticut and Rhode Island, and Families for Excellent Schools, the New York - based lobbing and political entity that bused in charter school students and parents from as far away as New York City and Boston last year to rally in support of Malloy's efforts to hand charter schools even more public funds.

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.

Just last week, the climate bill, into which they'd poured countless hours of effort, lobbying, campaigning, arguing, and advocating, died an unceremonious death.

Last year, United Airlines, along with the airline industry lobby group, Airlines for America, led the way on a massive lobbying effort on Capitol Hill to try to kill a plan that would see US airline companies participate in the European Union's climate law for all their flights to and from Europe.

Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D - RI) and Rep. Henry Waxman (D - CA), advocates for the environmental lobby, met with White House Chief of Staff Denis McDonough last week so they could coordinate efforts with the Obama administration in pushing their environmentalist agenda.

Days after receiving several campaign checks from the food lobby last May, Sen. Amy Klobuchar, a Minnesota Democrat who is up for re-election this year, sent a letter raising concerns about the Federal Trade Commission's efforts to develop voluntary guidelines aimed at toning down the marketing of junk food to kids.

In the last five years, Congress has twice tried to fix the country's dysfunctional patent laws only to see those efforts founder at the hands of shrewd lobbying by reform opponents.

The total sum for lobbying efforts is double than the amount the Cupertino company spent in the same period last year.

She was named one of the most compelling Calgarians by The Calgary Herald for her efforts in lobbying Locally and Provincially to implement stronger tobacco reduction legislation and in 2008 received The Graduate of the Last Decade award from The U of C.