Sentences with phrase «lobbying power»

Increase lobbying power to end legal exemptions that permit cruelty to animals in factory farms.

There's a lot of money on the table, and money usually equals lobbying power.

If the people of the future had the same lobbying power as the defense industry, we'd have that cash as well.

It's starting to change because renewable energy groups and things are beginning to acquire some power, but lobbying power belongs to people who've made money already.

Forget the vast lobbying power of dedicated green multinationals such as Greenpeace and WWF, do corporate interests — Enron — never lobby for environmental policies?

Bioethicist Hank Greely of Stanford University in Palo Alto, California, who also supported the biospecimens consent requirement, believes the decision to drop the proposal from the final rule is «a predictable result of the disparity in lobbying power» between research institutions and patients.

Further, Conrad believes the small business owners that use Zenefits have enough lobbying power to help the company avoid future regulatory fights.

«There are many changes in state law that will be coming up in the next few years, and I wouldn't want to be without lobbying power» in Springfield, she said.

Given that most of the Tory benches are sceptical about the need for either action to avert climate change or state intervention to direct investment into decarbonisation - and the significant lobbying power of the big energy companies - it is going to be difficult for him.

Given everything that's happened of late, the Senate rejecting gun safety legislation appears to make so sense whatsoever — unless, of course, we consider the continuing and maddening congressional deadlock, the sinful lobbying powers of the National Rifle Association (NRA), and the deeply - felt belief among many in the American public that more guns — not fewer guns — will keep us all safe.

It might not be politically correct to mention it, and some might exaggerate it and form crazy conspiracy theories based on it, but it is still a fact: Israel's media presence and therefore lobbying power is much stronger than of other countries.

He said, however, that Cuomo's biggest benefactors remain the traditional lobbying powers: businesses supporting his initiative to cap the growth of property taxes; landlords, developers and tenant advocates who sought the continuation of New York City's rent control law; and more from contributors with interests in health care and education.

A $ 341 - million technical change in New Jersey's $ 4.4 - billion school finance system has triggered an entire reshuffling of state aid, casting moderate - wealth school districts as big winners and potentially shifting the balance of political and lobbying power on the eve of the legislature's expected debate this session over changes in the funding system.

While the Australian Aluminium Council has mobilized more anti-Kyoto lobbying power than any other industry group, in the USA the parent companies of the biggest smelters in Australia — including Alcoa and Rio Tinto — have signed up to the Pew Center on Climate Change's Business Environmental Leadership Council which favours implementing the Kyoto Protocol as a first step in addressing climate change.

They have used lobbying power and the threat of financing primary opponents, using the same techniques we saw in the past with Big Tobacco to falsely create doubt.

The first thing I noticed is that the tragic demonstration of the raw lobbying power of Big Tech: The litigation reach back safe harbor seems to still be in there which is designed to deny due process and other Constitutional protections to songwriters whose works are infringed prior to the enactment of the Music Modernization Act.

regarding the eventual lobbying power od testing agencies.

Formerly known as the American Association of Retired Persons, AARP is well known for its substantial lobbying power, as well as its purchasing power — and because of that, it can provide discounts on everything from meals, to hotels, to life insurance for its many millions of members.

The term connotes the business and lobbying power of soft drink companies who, like Big Oil and Big Tobacco, would use that power to influence politicians and voters.

Your donation will also go to printing materials for grassroots community initiatives, as well as increasing lobbying power to close loopholes that allow for cruelty to animals in factory farms.

Their lobbying power is always visible and it is used to threaten our spineless law makers at every turn.

Secondly, it's also partly due to the lobbying powers of the NRA, as described in this article by Romper.

He blamed a combination of what he said are «extreme conservatives» in Washington and the lobbying power of the NRA.

But let's not forget the lobbying power of major contractors, financiers and consultants who make their money out of the success (and sometimes the failure) of such projects.

(while territories may not have congresscritters they still have theoretically at least some lobbying power, e.g. Puerto Rico has US citizens who can vote in US elections, if they live outside PR)

He blames a combination of what he says are «extreme conservatives» in Washington and the lobbying power of the NRA.

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.

Impecunious early - career scientists and lab workers can't match the lobbying power of more established groups and will need to do a great deal more before they stand a chance of effectively advancing their interests in the high - stakes Washington fray.

More recently, Southern deployed its lobbying power to block carbon emission limits for power plants proposed by the Obama administration.

Keep in mind that due to the sugar industry's lobbying power, it is the only component on nutrition labels that does not have a «recommended daily allowance» associated with it (24).

It's not difficult to trace the financial crisis back to politicians pandering to the lobbying power of the banking, sub-prime, construction & real estate sectors.

This is key — if DO'B keeps smashing his head into a brick wall (but don't underestimate his lobbying power), milking the company for cash or just selling it may finally become an easier & more compelling solution for both him and DD.

Their lobby powers are too great.

In the meantime, there's not much lobbying power in Washington for other alternatives — including making clean energy cheaper by boosting America's lagging research budget in energy - related sciences and propelling a quest to sharply, and profitably, cut energy waste.

And given the lobbying power of energy - extracting industries, along with those reliant on them (automakers, electric utilities), can embedded advantages, ranging from cheap rail rates for coal to direct tax breaks for oil drillers, be diminished?

The only reason for this option to dominate that burst of investment is lobbying power, to my mind.

However, the SA government can use its powers over related works approvals and its lobbying power with NOPSEMA to stop drilling in the Bight on climate grounds.

Furthermore, you just so happen to be finishing up your last term in office, therefore insulated from the lobbying power of the fossil - fuel industry, and given the freedom to implement a roadmap for a sustainable future

All that is required is to cherry pick the scientific literature for potential ambiguity and then use public relations and lobbying power to prey on the scientific illiteracy of Americans and policy makers.

However, only a few percent of Americans have ever heard of Atrazine, so raising awareness of the issue is critical if we are to overcome the lobbying power of the billion - dollar agro-chemical giants.

«It's fair to say that the «big four» escaped relatively unscathed — a testament to the strength of their lobbying power,» he says.

First, the lobbying power of the established banks.

As President Vicki Cox Golder writes in her column this month, there are people today who seek to weaken government backing of the housing industry, and NAR can be expected to put the full force of its lobbying power against such forces.