Sentences with phrase «lobbying efforts there»

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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.

-- It is clear that there are enormous lobbying efforts on multiple fronts to scrap the downpayment requirement.

«You don't ever really see him, when there's a financial interest or there's a big lobbying effort, where he abandons his principles,» said Edward Mills, a financial policy research analyst with FBR Capital Markets & Co..

Whether or not the present Government will seek to reintroduce some of these measures remains to be seen, but there has certainlybeen no let - up in the efforts of the sex education establishment to lobby in favour of statutory SRE and to remove the right of parents to opt out.

In California alone there are nearly 60 winery and grape grower associations, each helping its members support and promote their region with pooled marketing efforts, training, continuing education, industry updates, and government lobbying.

There have been some attempts to redesign the food pyramid to improve this problem, but several lobbying organizations always get involved in the process, which limits the influence of these efforts.

You can read their policy platform there, get talking points, send emails to your legislators from their site and also donate money to their lobbying efforts.

Senate officials and Ruskin have said Skelos, whose corruption trial begins Nov. 16, never got involved with any of the firm's lobbying efforts for clients, saying there was a «total wall» between the two.

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.

Asked about the lobbying drive just weeks ago, Melissa Sklarz, a leading transgender activist who is president of the Stonewall Democrats of New York City, told the newspaper, «I think there's been a wonderful concerted effort.»

«We have people there, I'm back and forth,» said Uber's Josh Gold on the lobbying effort.

There is some evidence that superintendents participate in lobbying or making efforts to influence state policy, but only as participants in coalitions.

Now there's a lobbying effort by various groups to have the Bill amended by the House or withdrawn in favour of a more expansive piece of legislation.

There's also a comment from Neuborne himself, where he cites the extensive number of hours that he has devoted to the case and also explains that his lobbying and negotiation efforts substantially increased the amount of money in the settlement pot.

There will be intense lobbying and a concerted effort to ban or make the technology illegal.

Where there does appear to have been a breakthrough for CREA with the federal government is in its lobby efforts to have FINTRAC's latest regulations revised, in regards to how they would impact Realtors.