Sentences with phrase «lobbying laws for»

The group is calling on Cuomo to lead the effort to modernize the state's lobbying laws for local governments.

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

Stonewall said it will lobby the UK Government, devolved administrations, and political parties for recognition and protection of non-binary people in law, as well as appropriate ways to record gender in all official documents.

And while the insurance lobby is lauding the rule, it's also expressed deep concerns about the uncertainty still swirling around the health law, which is making it difficult for insurers to effectively set their rates for next year.

Although many charities are adopting a wait - and - see attitude about tax reform, others have already lined up against the tax reform bills and are initiating efforts to mobilize opposition, within the boundaries allowed for «lobbying» under the tax law.

With a solar tile roll out slated for the next few months, Tesla and CEO Elon Musk will no doubt be watching to see the impact the lobbying efforts and traditional power money have on actual laws.

As my research shows, there are always competing voices lobbying for and against trade protection, and those preferences alone aren't enough to push a protective measure into law.

Adapt has worked with state legislators and federal policymakers about adjusting laws and removing burdens for access, and spent $ 470,000 on lobbying in 2016 and 2017, according to OpenSecrets.org, which tracks political spending.

They're challenging a 2011 state statute, backed by the gun lobby, that outlines penalties for elected officials who try to enact local gun laws, including a $ 5,000 fine and the prospect of being removed from office.

As a former public office holder, he is forbidden by law from lobbying the federal government for a period of five years as of the date of his political retirement in 2016.

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.

The public law allows for people to lobby to change laws.

In the early 2000s, the Church lobbied successfully for a law returning church property that had been confiscated by the Soviet state.

Some say the emphasis should be on new federal legislation, while others support local and state laws, and still others lobby for a constitutional amendment.

saopaco If these Christians were like the flat - earthers you describe they'd be lobbying for laws to prevent our ships from crossing the ocean, and there would be opportunistic presidential candidates like Santorum right there to get their vote.

«If these Christians were like the flat - earthers you describe they'd be lobbying for laws to prevent our ships from crossing the ocean»

Bhatti, who was Pakistan's Federal Minister for Minorities Affairs, was well known for campaigning against the nation's strict blasphemy law and lobbying for the rights of religious minorities.

Evangelicals have increasingly embraced state versions of the federal government's Religious Freedom Restoration Act, and some have lobbied for same - sex marriage laws to include sufficient religious exemptions.

They lobbied for changes in immigration laws and raised money for refugees.

Or for lobbying to stop laws that would help children victims.

Finally, HOBBY LOBBY's attorney said, «All they're asking for is a narrow exemption from the law that says they don't have to provide drugs they believe cause abortions.»

New laws making it illegal to take pictures or film agricultural animals came into force in the US states of Utah and Iowa, lobbied for by an industry attempting to keep secret what happens on factory farms.

Also in 1917, GMA begins its lobbying role for the industry, and Massachusetts adopts a law «recommended by GMA.»

In the absence of clear imported food labelling requirements in Australia, Australian Organic Ltd has lobbied for truth in labelling for years, including a submission to the Council of Australian Governments» (COAG) review of food labelling law and policy, headed by Dr Neal Blewett, in 2009.

In spite of the decision by the 1982 jury, and the fact that antitrust laws were designed to promote free enterprise and competition for the benefit of business, employees and consumers, the NFL continues to lobby in Congress in hopes of obtaining limited exemption from antitrust laws, retroactively, thereby forcing the Raiders to return to Oakland and blocking other teams from moving in the future.

After his release, he lobbied for stronger animal protection laws and became the NFL's 2010 Comeback Player of the Year.

When parents have the motivation to find out the science behind laws and regulations, they can quickly become as qualified as the experts to lobby for safer practices, she says.

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.

• We lobby for changes in the law, in Government policy and in the targets set for public services that support families, while paying particular attention to families who are disadvantaged.

«There's a lot more to nutrition than that,» said Lemon, whose organization lobbied for a change in the state law.

The couple, who are planning a hospital birth with a nurse - midwife for their baby due this summer, have lobbied Illinois legislators to change the law.

The group helped lobby for the legislation at the center of the debate: the 2010 Healthy Hunger - Free Kids Act, a law championed by the first lady that mandates more fruits and vegetables, whole grains and less sodium in exchange for more federal funding on meals.

Groups such as Momsrising lobby for passage of laws that help protect kids not only from recalled toys, but from toys containing unsafe levels of chemical toxins.

McDonnell lobbied law makers in 2010 to change the rules for public schools, and she thinks it's about time the same happens for rec leagues.

Illinois supporters lobbied for two decades before a 2007 law authorized a pilot program that allows 10 free - standing centers around the state.

Since AJOG has not managed to lobby strong enough to manage to pass a law calling for the death penalty or at least jail time for homebirth, they must resort to quoting the Daily Mail.

Wicker Park residents disturbed by discarded syringes and condoms strewn in their yards are lobbying for increased law enforcement and stiff penalties against prostitutes and their clients.

Jeffries blamed the Senate Republicans for blocking any substantive strengthening of the rent laws, accusing them of being a «wholly - owned subsidiary» of the real estate lobby.

Residents of his district deserve to know: Did he seek approval from the Legislative Ethics Commission, as required, before he moved to lobby for his law firm and their labor pals?»

Also at 5:30 p.m., an opening reception for «Their Glory Can Never Fade: The Legacy of the Harlem Hellfighters,» will be held in the lobby outside the Vietnam Memorial Gallery in the Robert Abrams Building for Law and Justice at the Empire State Plaza, Albany.

Like every new president, he's expected to take some time in picking the nation's U.S. attorneys, but here in Buffalo, candidates are already jockeying and lobbying for the top federal law enforcement job in the region.

In our eyes, JCOPE will have little credibility until new laws are passed which prohibit the Committee from appointing an executive director, or senior managers, who have worked for a sitting governor, attorney general, comptroller, the legislature, or a firm which lobbies the state of New York.

The measure would make changes to the state's lobbying laws, campaign finance limits for state legislative candidates, and legislative redistricting process.

The governor successfully passed a gay marriage law and lobbied for women's rights.

One major cause of concern for the pro-choice lobby is that the public is consistently less liberal on abortion than the current law reflects.

De Blasio traveled to Albany in June to lobby for an extension of mayoral control, as well as changes made to the 421a tax abatement and an extension and strengthening of rent control laws in New York City.

Paul Vallone works for his father's lobbying firm and is attached to the old Vallone & Vallone law firm, which now serves largely as an «of counsel» answering service for Sacco & Fillas, another Queens law firm.

«If the governor is going to hire people for his political operation, he should be much more transparent and not bury them in corners of state government so as to avoid scrutiny,» said Dick Dadey, executive director of the government reform group Citizens Union, which is currently in litigation with the Cuomo administration over a 2016 nonprofit lobbying law.

«The federal government must take action, but for too long forces in Washington backed by the gun industry lobby have offered empty words instead of life - saving laws and policy changes.

But tenant groups went to Albany on Tuesday to lobby for the repeal of the vacancy allowance, which they call the «eviction bonus,» in the state's rent law.