Sentences with phrase «lobbying money»

Crowley sits on the powerful House Committee on Ways and Means, the second largest target of lobbying money from Pfizer in 2014.

For most of these years, government officials were complicit in the spiraling problem, happy to accept Big Pharma lobby money in exchange for looking the other way.

The lobbying firm that drew the most tobacco lobbying money from 2011 through June 2013 was Albany - based Ostroff, Hiffa & Associates.

Although the settlement with New York's Joint Commission on Public Ethics (JCOPE) presents the first public admission of the funding source, Glenwood's backdoor funneling of anonymous lobbying money to Pledge 2 Protect was well documented.

With more than 100,000 people mobilized through the ESA's Video Games Voters Network, and $ 100k in lobbying money spread around, the ESA hopes to make some noise on the political front in ways that WILL affect how we consume games.

Lobbying monies paid are facts.

A great deal of lobbying money and Congressional attention has been invested in expanding MEP availability.

Not hard because the lobbying money is all lined up on the side of the broker - dealer world.

God doesn't want you to vote democrat or republican, he wants all that lobby money they collect to be used to feed the poor, not to build huge houses to themselves and threat war on other countries.

«We need to stop talking about a divide between campaign money and lobbying money and start to talk about political money.»

They're going to use their lobbying money to try to influence state lawmakers into restoring the cuts.

What Riccards conveniently sidestepped was that they were moving the lobbying money through ConnAD and not ConnCAN and that ConnAD was set up in such a way that it did not have to file any documentation about where they got their money.

That's right, you're owned by News Corp., and they lobbied money to have the bill passed.

(The report also presents all lobbying money spent by USCAP companies, although clearly all their lobbying dollars did not go toward supporting a climate bill.)

The girth of the influence peddling by the energy industry and corporations is much larger if you include individual corporate PR contracts and lobbying money.