Sentences with phrase «lobbying firms in»

The company has cut ties with top lobbying firms in Washington, including Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld and Squire Patton Boggs, and has brought on new advisors, Bloomberg reports.

According to his corporate biography, he previously worked at Greenberg Traurig, an international law firm and one of the biggest lobbying firms in Albany.

The 10 biggest lobbying firms in New York City have built their businesses on access and savvy.

The top lobbying firm in Albany in 2015 was Wilson Elser Moskowitz Edelman & Dicker, which received $ 10.5 million in compensation and reimbursements.

He avoided prison, and joined an Albany lobbying firm in 2013.

«With at least 1.5 million gallons of oil still spewing into the Gulf every day, Senate Republicans plotted with BP's chief lobbying firm in Albany and voted to squash a bill that will help over 12 million New Yorkers living in polluted air.»

Sam Hoyt, a former western New York economic development aide for Gov. Cuomo who recently quit while being investigated for sexual harassment, is starting his own lobbying firm in Buffalo.

Sam Hoyt, a former western New York economic development aide for Gov. Cuomo who recently quit while being investigated for sexual harassment, is starting his own lobbying firm in Buffalo, sources say.

A signed contract between the lobbying firm in March 2016 and Ciminelli's company said Whiteman Osterman & Hanna would be paid $ 55,000 in 2016 «to provide legislative and regulatory counsel.»

When Clegg has taken up whichever international job it is that he's meant to want and Alexander is running some ghastly lobbying firm in London, no one will much remember «Alarm Clock Britain», the pupil premium (much less its origin) or any other measure that excites the true believers for a few days but they will remember their years of under - employment and unemployment, the lies about tuition fees, the first time they saw ads for private provision in the NHS and, first and foremost, that they should never trust the Liberal Democrats again.

«The breadth of this rule is mind - boggling — it is a roving mandate to do good that the agency has taken upon itself,» says attorney Scott Segal of Bracewell & Giuliani, a law and lobbying firm in Washington, D.C., who is advising big energy producers and users on what he argues are EPA's many vulnerabilities.

She ends up on the other side, working for Rodolfo Schmidt's (Mark Strong) lobbying firm in favor of the legislation.

Doyle works for Wexford Strategies, a lobbying firm in Jacksonville and Tallahassee.

Managing partner Patrick Dunican confirms that «for the past nine years Gibbons has been named the top lawyer - lobbying firm in New Jersey.

Not exact matches

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.

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.

It routinely works with lobbying firms to help them get back in compliance by registering and disclosing their work.

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.

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.

Gates initially joined Manafort's lobbying firm Davis Manafort in 2006.

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 (research and development), even for the firms that lobbied for the tax holiday stating these intentions,» the study concluded.

«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.

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.

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.

In some American cities, peer - to - peer taxi services have been banned after lobbying by traditional taxi firms.

Amid intense lobbying by financial firms, U.S. policy makers for years have rejected attempts by big companies to muscle in on banking.

According to the Center for Responsive Politics, Squire Patton Boggs (the law firm where Cohen's office was raided by the FBI last week) generated over $ 98 million in lobby fees from 2014 through 2017.

Smithfield Foods paid at least $ 280,000 in lobbying fees in 2017 to Hart's firm, and Hart was listed by name as representing Smithfield as its lobbyist when he wrote the email, according to federal lobbying records.

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

Firms engage in political «rent seeking» — lobbying for regulations that provide them sheltered markets — rather than competing on innovation.

Another expert who wished to remain anonymous, Mr. Orange, says he could walk into a financial firm and attempt to exploit security breaches just by signing into a guest network in the lobby.

(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.

Billy Wynne is a partner in Thorne Run lobbying firm.

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.

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.

I reached Dopp at Patricia Lynch Associates (the Albany - based lobbying / consulting firm where he has worked since departing the Spitzer administration in the wake of the scandal) earlier today.

Malito said he hopes to be a rainmaker for the firm, bringing in business and assisting with lobbying when he can, though he probably won't be spending very much time in Albany.