Sentences with phrase «lobbying firm headed»

He has since worked for the Park Strategies lobbying firm headed by former Sen. Alfonse M. D'Amato, another close political ally.

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** Enbridge Inc denied conflict of interest claims on Tuesday after a media report found that the head of United States energy regulator had been paying $ 50 a day for a property near Capitol Hill linked to the chairman of a key Washington lobby firm that represents the Calgary - based pipeline company.

(Sen. Barack Obama, Remarks, Des Moines, IA, 1/3/08) in fact A list of Obama's own top fundraisers features a number of people involved in the business of influencing government, including the head of a lobbying and public relations firm, the corporate executive who oversees Comcast's lobbying efforts and the chairwoman of pharmaceutical giant Pfizer's political action committee, among others.»

Public records indicate that between January and June of this year, Genting spent $ 340,000 on lobbying, with $ 100,000 going to the Albany - based government - relations firm Meara Avella Dickinson; $ 25,000 going to Patricia Lynch and Associates, headed by the Assembly speaker's former top aide; $ 195,000 going to Cordo and Company; and $ 20,000 going to Empire Strategic Planning.

Taking the title of VP, head of global comms and policy, she will advise the firm on how to lobby the government, although Rogers is banned from becoming personally involved in lobbying the UK government on behalf of Deliveroo for two years after leaving office.

Lobbying receipts rose to an all - time high of $ 86 million in New York City last year, boosted in part by a single - firm record of nearly $ 13 million for an outfit headed by one of de Blasio's friends and fundraisers.

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.

After being asked by the head of the gun lobby to conduct a campaign that makes guns more palatable to the female voter, Sloane abandons her conservative lobbying firm to join a small band of lobbyists pushing for a stricter gun control bill.

I just read in its 22 March edition, under a heading «The hot air of hypocrisy,» that at a March meeting of European leaders, «Leaders from countries with powerful heavy - industry lobbies called for explicit measures to «protect» European firms in case talks on a global climate - change deal failed... Germany, France, Austria, Italy, and the Czech Republic all asked the EU to plan for failure, insisting that defensive measures must be agreed before climate - change talks in Copenhagen at the end of 2009.»

The head of a public relations firm that Entergy New Orleans hired to lobby the New Orleans City Council tried to deflect blame Friday for a scheme in which actors

Of course, out of context, this sounds absurd, but Jack goes on to write that «getting the new norm to be «we fill out our data forms after every matter» requires firm leaders to proselytize their practice group heads, requires those heads to lobby the partners and senior associates in their groups, and requires those lawyers to set the expectation with the junior lawyers that those forms must be completed.»