Sentences with phrase «lobbying lawmakers»

Just days after the shooting, they began holding rallies, lobbying lawmakers and harnessing the power of social media in support of reform.

Survivors of the Parkland shooting quickly became the faces of a national conversation on gun control, and are lobbying lawmakers for more restrictive gun laws — including a ban on assault - style rifles and higher - capacity magazines.

Rent control continues to diminish in popularity, with rental property owners lobbying lawmakers for bills banning the practice.

State Rep. Brandon McGee, D - Hartford, is being thanked with a glossy mailer from a special interest group that has spent more than $ 1.1 million this year lobbying lawmakers and Gov. Dannel P. Malloy to make sure two new charter schools were included in the state budget.

(Calif.) Advocates for early learners have inundated the Legislature over the past two weeks, lobbying lawmakers to enhance services for infants and toddlers — especially those living in low - income neighborhoods.

School district superintendents, the Wisconsin Association of School Boards and the School Administrators Alliance have been lobbying lawmakers as Republicans write education legislation.

In cities across the country — Baltimore, Chicago, New Orleans, New York, Los Angeles, and Washington — and many states, parents and parent groups are forming coalitions, lobbying lawmakers, creating new schools, and generally bringing about school change.

Instead, they're more likely to patrol the corridors of power in sport jackets, lobbying lawmakers for oversight or suing biotechs in court.

The state Legislature must sign off on a final budget, and both the UFT and NYSUT, its state affiliate, are lobbying lawmakers to restore the school aid funding.

Meanwhile, Catholic bishops have spent on average $ 300,000 a year lobbying lawmakers in New York on a variety of topics, including against passage of the Child Victims Act, which would change the statute of limitations on civil and criminal cases of child sexual abuse and allow victims a one - year window to sue over potentially decades - old allegations.

Local 1199 of the Service Employees International Union is lobbying lawmakers to include a passage in the state budget that would set a «standard wage» for nursing home employees.

According to the leader of protesters, Mr. Saka Yusuf - Ogunleye who addressed press men at the assembly entrance alleged that Governor Mimiko was lobbying the lawmakers to earn life pension from the resources of the state.

Charter advocates have already begun lobbying lawmakers to include the removal of the cap in the state budget.

Bill sponsors insisted they had the votes available for a Friday vote on the measure, but the effort has been met with stiff resistance from racino operators, who spent much the day personally lobbying lawmakers in the Senate.

Governor Andrew Cuomo at this time last year was intensely lobbying lawmakers to pass a bill to legalize gay marriage.

Members of the Wisconsin Contractor Coalition, which formed to oppose right - to - work efforts and has about 350 construction - related businesses on board, are lobbying lawmakers on the issue, said the group's spokesman Steve Lyons.

NYPIRG has been lobbying lawmakers in Albany for several years to pass comprehensive ethics reform.

The first lady put an early stamp on the bill, lobbying lawmakers to back it.

As a result, nursing mothers have become proactive in recent years, not only lobbying lawmakers to change laws and provide penalties for those who do not comply but also staging huge «nurse - ins» at businesses that have rejected public nursing.

In the wake of unfair wage lawsuits taken up against the league by players — which the league has emerged victorious from so far — MLB is pushing harder than ever to make sure minor leaguers are not privy to the benefits of normal hourly workers, lobbying lawmakers constantly to push this into law.

The Consumer Bankers Association has already begun lobbying lawmakers to use the CRA on the rule, said its president Richard Hunt.

The Washington - based Organisation for International Investment (OFII), which represents the North American operations of HSBC and other global companies with US operations, is resisting the CFIUS legislation by lobbying lawmakers, according to people with knowledge of the matter.

«Whether they made their money lobbying lawmakers at the Capitol or cashed in on a tech IPO, rich millennials are clustered in cities where there are lots of high - paying professional jobs,» reads a post today on Zillow's Porchlight blog.

Dimon, who in the past has described himself as «barely» a Democrat, has been going to Washington more often since the 2016 elections to lobby lawmakers on issues including changes in corporate taxes, immigration policies and mortgage finance.

Attend NSBA's annual D.C. meeting June 11 - 12 where we lobby lawmakers, hear from the Administration and much more.

Especially since they lobby lawmakers to stop laws that would expose pedos.

Pharmaceutical companies won't see it that way, and they have a lot of money available, thanks to the high prices of their products, to lobby lawmakers with arguments about safety standards and the like.

The bill had been swiftly approved by the Republican - led Senate and Democratic - controlled Assembly after firefighters, police and other first responder groups lobbied lawmakers to make the change.

It's posted on the organization's Web site, launched last year to help same - sex marriage supporters lobby lawmakers to pass the bill.

Afterwards, the Let NY Vote Coalition will lobby lawmakers.

Advocates came to the Capitol to lobby lawmakers, but the bill is getting bogged down over political skirmishes.

That is the day seniors from all over the state will lobby lawmakers for passage of a single payer health insurance bill.

Gov. David A. Paterson delivered impassioned speeches, Senator Kirsten E. Gillibrand headlined a giant rally and City Council Speaker Christine C. Quinn shuttled back and forth to Albany to lobby lawmakers.

Faso did not lobby lawmakers and regulators on behalf of the project.

During the same period, however, a Pershing official reported lobbying the lawmaker on «legislative initiatives related to consumer protection and pyramid schemes.»

MANHATTAN — Mayor Michael Bloomberg will travel to Washington again on Tuesday to lobby lawmakers to pass a health care bill for 9/11 responders before Congress changes hands.

New Yorkers with terminal conditions and relatives of people who died after painful illnesses have repeatedly lobbied lawmakers to pass legislation in New York to legalize physician - assisted suicide but top lawmakers have said they don't expect the measure to come up for a vote this year.

Talia Rumsky, a 16 - year - old Stoneman Douglas High student who was at school during the shooting, was among those who traveled to Tallahassee Wednesday to lobby lawmakers about gun control.

Christopher Goeken, Director of Public Policy and Government Relations at New York League of Conservation Voters, said the personal products industry successfully lobbied lawmakers into stalling legislation that bans microbeads, though some larger manufacturers have already pledged to phase out certain products.

As part of the effort, Uber is launching a television advertisement this week and emailing upstate New Yorkers urging them to lobby their lawmakers.

Expect more heated education rhetoric at the Capitol on Tuesday, when advocates for pre-K, including New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio, are scheduled to lobby lawmakers the same day representative of charter schools make their case.

Queens chapter leaders teaming up to lobby lawmakers are (from left) Charles DiBenedetto of Richmond Hill HS, Kelly Ann Bellico, of John Adams HS and Linda Bell of Math and Science Research and Technology Magnet HS.

WASHINGTON — Mayor Michael Bloomberg Wednesday lobbied lawmakers here for New York State's $ 42 - billion disaster - aid...

Two thousand LGBT New Yorkers are in Albany today to lobby lawmakers on marriage equality for the Empire State Pride Agenda's «Equality and Justice day».

Last year, as Governor Cuomo was leading a push to legalize same - sex marriage, Ms. Quinn, a Democrat, traveled to Albany to personally lobby lawmakers, invoking her and Ms. Catullo's wish to marry while their fathers were still alive.

He portrayed the vote as a test of Republicans» loyalty to their president and said Bush himself lobbied lawmakers.

De Blasio insisted that the tax hike was necessary to ensure future funding, and he lobbied lawmakers to pass it.

The DAE members attended the meeting to support Chapel Hill - Carrboro City School teachers, who asked the school board to cancel classes May 16 so they could go to Raleigh to lobby lawmakers for better working conditions and pay.

Not when those who teach the teachers, develop the leadership, and lobby the lawmakers are in control.

The AKC tracks dog related legislation in the United States, lobbies lawmakers and issues legislative alerts for members.