Sentences with phrase «lobbying groups like»

What role should lobbying groups like the 30 % club, Stonewall, the Business Disability Forum and Race for Opportunity play?

He's met with representatives from powerful lobbying groups like the the Louisiana Association of Business and Industry as well as representatives from the office of Gov. Bobby Jindal.

The debate, for now, has been waged by groups in favor of making changes to the cap, including the New York State United Teachers and representatives of local government lobbying groups like the New York State Association of Counties, New York Conference of Mayors and the Association of Towns.

Unlike so - called super PACs, which are active chiefly during campaigns, lobbying groups like the Committee to Save New York are not required to disclose their donors.

A motion to compel Rio Tinto to review its membership of lobby groups like the Minerals Council looks set to fall short of majority support.

We should as a party be very careful of lobby groups like the Conservative Friends of Israel, Turkey, Cyprus, Bangladesh etc..

From the range of indicators available, governments naturally choose those which show them in a good light, while lobby groups like FASTS choose those which suggest that more should be done.

ConnCAN, the «Education Reform» lobby group likes to claim that Hartford has had the «greatest gains on state assessments of any Connecticut City.»

There may be some green lobby groups like Greenpeace that would like to see this happen, but I would think that the nations that have territorial claims there would not agree.

Your proposal to build new nuclear plants in place of new coal - fired plants makes sense, except to those people who have been brainwashed by the earlier anti-nuclear fear mongering campaigns by environmental lobby groups like WWF and Greenpeace.

Don't know about Australia, but China doesn't have an EPA plus a tangled web of regulations and it doesn't allow green lobby groups like WWF, Greenpeace, etc. to mobilize lawyers (also missing) to stop progress.

Not exact matches

With such lack of accountability it is not surprising that Alphabet contributed substantial funds to the tech lobbying groups who are opposing federal legislative efforts to give additional options to prosecutors and civil trial lawyers to fight websites like Backpage (child sex trafficking) and prevent them from flourishing.

Contractors are already grappling with higher prices on key materials for construction projects like diesel fuel, steel, copper, wallboard, and lumber, said Ken Simonson, chief economist for the Association of General Contractors, a lobbying group with about 26,000 members which also includes suppliers.

The Internet Association, a D.C. - based tech lobbying group representing industry titans like Google, Amazon, and Twitter, will be filing legal arguments as an intervening party in support of the legal push to restore net neutrality, according to a report from Recode's Tony Romm.

While the remaining three candidates may not espouse hard edged conservatism like Dr. Morton or Mr. Orman, the three candidates have received financial support from not - so - progressive groups, like the Merit Contractors Association, which is an anti-union lobby group in the construction industry.

Apart from not liking the video's message and concept, which, given his credentials as head of an anti-union «right to work» lobby group, doesn't come as a surprise, Oakey is particularly bothered by the fact that the PSAC — a union — produced the video.

That's why big business groups like the US Chamber of Commerce are ramping up their lobbying effort against the US negotiators» latest demands.

The biggest mistake that most atheists make is painting with the broadest of brushes: rather than use words like «some» or «many» or «most» re Christians, most atheists simply paint the entirety of U.S. Christianity as a monolithic group that supports everything the so - called «Christian right» (which, like the Moral Majority before it, is neither) lobbies for.

If progressive evangelicals want more free exchange and less institutional solidarity, perhaps they should lobby a bit more aggressively for the conscience rights of beleaguered institutions like Biola University and groups like Bowdoin Christian Fellowship.

It will have become something else... like a lobbying group, an activist group, a missional group, or something other than just a church.

The Catholic Church is like a large lobby group this year, tellling members that it's a sin to vote for pro-choice candidates.

He cited studies by the industry and a number of talking points used by lobby groups, trying to discredit those with legitimate concerns, like Cornucopia and its members.

However, years of lobbying from groups like the La Leche League, the United States Breastfeeding Committee, and the American Academy of Pediatrics» Breastfeeding Section resulted in the United States adopting much of the Code in 1994.

The email is entitled Reducing the c - section rate could save $ 5 billion annually and it was sent out by the Childbirth Connection, a group that lobbies on behalf of «natural» childbirth professionals like childbirth educators, doulas and midwives.

This came in response to years of lobbying by environmental health watchdogs like the Safer Chemicals Healthy Families Coalition; Healthy Child, Healthy World, The Campaign for Safe Cosmetics and The Environmental Working Group; physicians like Dr. Alan Greene; authors like Stacy Malkin of «Not Just a Pretty Face,» Diane MacEachern of Big Green Purse, Jennifer Taggert of The Smart Mama's Green Guide, and Nena Baker of «The Body Toxic,» and yes, activists like Moms Rising and bloggers like my Green Moms Carnival friends.

Like environmental and gender equality lobby groups, MSF's ethic of refusal has one goal whichever government is implicated, that of influencing policy according to its philosophical beliefs.

Felkel said that as advocacy groups have enthusiastically embraced technologies like email, they've lost sight of the personal touch and real - life relationships that makes for successful lobbying.

Others, like Lerner with Common Cause, says the lobbying groups should have to reveal donors going back at least ten months, to when the new law was signed by Cuomo, on August 15, 2011.

There are also citizen organizations which engage in lobbying activity, like environmental or consumer rights groups.

Parents» groups like Class Size Matters marched and rallied for more involvement; Bloomberg's allies created Mayoral Accountability for School Success and lobbied Albany heavily.

Groups like Save New York have become increasingly common in Albany, as lobbying as morphed into a collection of «grassroots» third - party coalition that Common Cause has knocked for lacking transparency by hiding donors.

The group, which lobbied against the bill heavily in the weeks and months leading up to the vote, said the fund is being set up for town clerks like Laura Fotusky, the Barker, Broome County official who resigned rather than approve gay unions who could face «harassment, denial of rightful promotion, or unfair termination.»

The group also recruited celebrities like the actress Cynthia Nixon and New York Rangers Sean Avery to lobby in Albany.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo has been avoiding Albany and the state Capitol like the plague, choosing instead to hit the road in a customized RV to push his statewide $ 15 - an - hour minimum wage plan — a tour paid for by an outside registered lobbying group, the Mario Cuomo Campaign for Economic Justice.

An advocacy group, Friends of the Catskill Interpretive Center, was formed and lobbied endlessly, even as pundits like me predicted the thing would never be built.

While groups like the BNE and others have done extensive Canadian outreach, the key is to have a firm with deeper connections lobbying on the region's behalf.

Others, like Lerner with Common Cause, says the lobby groups should have to reveal donors going back at least ten months, to when the new law was signed by Cuomo, on August 15th, 2011.

Specifically referring to «in god we trust», like the Pledge of Allegiance, a group of people decided to lobby the powers that be to add it.

Critics have said that the Mario Cuomo Campaign for Economic Justice, like de Blasio's Campaign for One New York, created a shadow government apparatus, in this case where government employees did work for lobbying groups and consultants were paid for their efforts by the MCCEJ while also representing Cuomo's campaign.

Pack - Up was founded last year by members of Change - New York, an anti-tax lobbying group allied with politicians like Lewis E. Lehrman, the Republican - Conservative candidate for Governor in 1982.

According to Pappalardo, some members of Congress and influential groups — like the NASA Astrobiology Institute's Europa Focus Group and the National Research Council — support a mission to Europa, and are lobbying NASA for its implementation.

Steve: So, is this a trend we are seeing where industry - backed people are setting up what appear to be pro-environment groups, but are actually lobbying for the kind of legislation that industry rather than your typical environmental groups would like to see enacted?

Working in tandem with such groups as the Natural Resources Defense Council and the Coalition for a Safe Environment, along with the Teamsters and Longshoremen's unions and local activists like Martha Cota, they've done extensive lobbying in Sacramento and community organizing to push for enforcement of the California Environmental Quality Act and compel the Port of Los Angeles to initiate a suite of pollution - reduction strategies that have cleaned up the air.

And so in the aftermath of a food scare like that, you have certain lobbying groups saying we need to worry about genetically modified foods; you have the government saying it's all OK.

Some, like the Pew Environment Group, are lobbying President Obama to overturn the mining allowances; others are working the judicial angle.

The council, which spent $ 8 million on lobbying alone last year, has also put together a front group called the Progressive Bag Affiliates, made up of top bag manufacturers like Hilex Poly, Superbag and Unistar Plastics.

It's the food industry that has the powerful lobby groups protecting and pushing protein - It's like protein has it's own billion dollar PR agency!

The California law allows individual teachers to request a refund of the portion of their dues that is used to help elect candidates, lobby for union - sponsored legislation, or financially assist like - minded groups.

Influential groups like Parent Revolution and StudentsFirst have been lobbying for the cause and searching for parents to test out the fledgling laws.

«The district came back and said, «We would like a second chance to turn this school around,»» said David Phelps, spokesman for Parent Revolution, the nonprofit advocacy group that bankrolled the 24th Street push and lobbies for parent trigger legislation nationwide.