Sentences with phrase «lobbying firm of»

Bequest hired the national lobbying firm of Ballard Partners in 2016 and the legislation was filed early this year.

In charge of writing a new rule to limit mercury poisoning of children by electric power plants, Holmstead embraced a watered - down rule that essentially was written by his old lobbying firm of Latham & Watkins.

Lewiston Greenhouse had previously hired the lobbying firm of a Cuomo ally, controversial western New York political operative Steve Pigeon, for a hefty $ 25,000 - per - month fee.

BKSH is the successor to the lobbying firm of his father, Peter Galbraith Kelly Sr., himself a leading Democrat who was a partner with Paul Manafort, Roger Stone, and Lee Atwater in Black, Manafort, Stone and Kelly, which represented, among other clients, dictators Mobutu of Zaire and Ferdinand Marcos of The Philippines, Senators Jesse Helms and Phil Gramm, and Bethlehem Steel and the Tobacco Institute.

He replaced Kevin Wardally, who departed to join the lobbying firm of former Dinkins administration Deputy Mayor Bill Lynch.

Mr. Grodenchik served as a deputy borough president and worked for Parkside, the Queens Democratic Party's consulting and lobbying firm of choice.

(Tokasz now works for the lobbying firm of Pat Lynch, who was once a top aid to Speaker Sheldon Silver).

ALBANY — Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver's top spokesperson, Dan Weiller, is leaving to join the lobbying firm of his predecessor.

The de Blasio administration's recent recreation of 1986 World Series victory celebration for former Met Dwight «Doc» Gooden, whose battles with drug addiction caused him to miss the original festivities, was guided by the influential lobbying firm of James F. Capalino, whose name has been linked to several corruption probes.

Malito is joining the Long Island - based law and lobbying firm of Gerstman Schwartz, which is making him a partner, though he says he'll only be working part - time.

Meanwhile, the lobby firm of Gaffney, Bennett and Associates has been working for ConnCAN or ConnAD since the two organizations were formed about six years ago.

Not exact matches

Sen. Feinstein cites conflict of interest since his law firm, though not Bernhardt, is paid to lobby for the company.

The founder of Perth - based lobbying firm GRA Everingham has been named the next chief executive of Marketforce, succeeding John Driscoll, who has announced his retirement today.

The 2015 Liberal election platform had a proposal to limit the benefits of the 50 % employee stock option deduction by placing a cap of $ 100,000 on annual eligible stock option gains but this was dropped after intense lobbying by startups in the tech and resource industry who rely heavily on non-cash compensation such as stock options to attract much needed, specialized talent to their firms.

It was around that time that Manafort and Gates «solicited two Washington, DC, firms (Company A and Company B) to lobby in the United States on behalf of» the Ukrainian government, according to the newly unsealed indictment.

While tech companies often lobby Washington on privacy issues, the major firms have been hesitant to enter a fray over a controversial portion of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), industry lobbyists, congressional aides and civil liberties advocates said.

Companies like Quest Diagnostics (DGX), for instance, reportedly tests millions of urine samples every year and, along with other firms, is ramping up a lobbying push to block marijuana reform.

The CRP's database incorporates disclosures to both the Senate and the House of Representatives and includes both in - house lobbyists and external lobbying firms.

Flynn's registration this week with the Justice Department disclosed lobbying by him and his firm that may have benefited the government of Turkey.

Flynn's son also recently drew focus in the Russia investigation because of work he did for his father's lobbying firm, Flynn Intel Group, and legal analysts have said that Mueller's focus on Flynn Jr. could be an attempt to coerce his father's cooperation in the investigation.

On July 8, the U.S. House of Representatives caved into the lobbying interests of the world's biggest auditing firms and passed the Audit Integrity and Job Protection Act.

While in the midst of putting together one of her perfectly structured pay - for - play deals to help kill an import - tax bill (even hiring actors as instigators among the protesters), Sloane is asked to take the lead in her firm helping the gun lobby attract scared moms.

He was previously monitored under a separate FISA authorization that began in 2014, the report said, as part of an investigation into US lobbying firms» undisclosed work for the Ukrainian government.

These firms, putatively in the vanguard of advanced technology and certainly in the vanguard in Capitol Hill lobbying regarding H - 1B, are paying almost all of the foreign workers wages below the median for the given region.

On Monday, the British Chamber of Commerce (BCC), a lobby group for U.K. firms, revised its forecasts to predict gross domestic product (GDP) growth will pull back to 1.1 percent in 2017 from 2.1 percent this year.

The company has ramped up efforts to hire Republican lobbying firms and in - house lobbyists to change the composition of its Washington office.

In April 2000, bare months after opening its doors, the lobbying firm registered with Congress as representatives of the British Columbia Lumber Trade Council.

«He stresses that lobbying — promoting clients» interests to politicians or bureaucrats — is not in the firm's bag of tricks.»

«Repatriations did not lead to an increase in domestic investment, employment or R. & D., even for the firms that lobbied for the tax holiday stating these intentions,» concluded the study, which was conducted by a team of three economists that included a former Bush administration official.

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The firm, created for the sole purpose of lobbying Taseko to replace two directors and give it a say in key company decisions, had no choice: by the meeting's cut - off date for advanced voting, with 50 % of the votes in, shareholders had voted a resounding 94 % against the dissident's proposals.

Pence's own former congressional chief of staff has lobbied him on behalf of insurance company Aflac, tech giant Microsoft, biofuels trade group Fuels America, and telecom firms Verizon and AT&T.

In recent weeks, the team hired K Street lobbying firm McGuireWoods Consulting, a move that comes on top of the team's work with crisis management expert Lanny Davis.

Some of the nation's biggest investment firms such as BlackRock and State Street Global Advisors are lobbying for more women board members.

Instead, legislators appear to have bought into the false notion that pass - throughs are small businesses, and are responding to the organized efforts of trade groups composed of pass - throughs, who push that narrative aggressively (and with the help of pass - through lobbying firms).

One of the premier's most vocal right - wing backers has registered to lobby the government about its carbon capture and storage laws on behalf of the province's largest greenhouse gas producing firm.

** 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.

For example, one study finds that for each dollar spent lobbying for a tax break, firms received returns in excess of $ 220.

(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.»

After loosing his senate position Rick Santorum earned millions of dollars including payments from a lobbying firm, an energy company engaged in controversial practice which pollutes ground water and endangers the public and a hospital conglomerate that was sued for allegedly defrauding the federal government.

The assistant health minister's chief of staff, Alastair Furnival, who intervened to pull down a healthy food rating website, has an interest in his wife's lobbying firm, which acts for Cadbury's parent company.

Furnival was once chairman of APA and chief economist for Cadbury, but Nash has insisted there is no conflict of interest because he «receives no income» from a «shareholding» in his wife's lobbying firm and the firm has promised not to lobby her or the health minister, Peter Dutton.

The chief of staff, Alastair Furnival, resigned on Friday after being embroiled in allegations of conflict of interest over links with a firm lobbying for the junk food industry.

Times political reporter Nicholas Confessore does an excellent job of exploring the factors leading to this stunning reversal, which include a recent change in SNA's leadership, its choice of a new lobbying firm and its decision to use more aggressive legislative tactics to advance its agenda on Capitol Hill.

The organization's stunning about - face was examined in depth in a New York Times story last fall; the factors leading to the reversal include a recent change in SNA's leadership and its choice of a new lobbying firm.

One of the panelists at the SNA's policy session was Craig Burkhardt, a lawyer with the group's new lobbying firm, Barnes and Thornburg (whose clients include the National Rifle Association).

By moving to a lobbying firm, Wilson follows in the footsteps of his former colleagues Craig Oliver, Ameet Gill and Caroline Preston — all of whom have made a similar move since Theresa May entered Number 10.

A one - time Labour researcher, he began his lobbying career with the disgraced lobbying firm Ian Greer Associates, resigning in the aftermath of the «cash for questions» affair in 1996, shortly before the whole agency liquidated itself.

Kim has the support of the Queens Democratic Party and is currently an associate at the Parkside Group (a consulting / lobbying firm that also has close ties to the party).

Whiteman Osterman & Hanna is one of New York's largest and most prominent legal and lobbying firms.