Sentences with phrase «lobbying push»

Last year, after a huge lobbying push by charter advocates, Mr. Cuomo rewarded them with the school - space provision.

Last year, after a huge lobbying push by charter advocates, Mr. Cuomo rewarded them with the school - space provision.

The Canadian government has nearly doubled its advertising spending to promote the Alberta tar sands in an aggressive new lobbying push ahead of Thursday's visit to New York by the...

(05/16/2013) The Canadian government has nearly doubled its advertising spending to promote the Alberta tar sands in an aggressive new lobbying push ahead of Thursday's visit to New York by the prime minister, Stephen Harper.

When the frozen food lobby pushed to keep pizza a school food vegetable (thanks to its tomato paste), the White House pointedly stayed out of the fray.

The visit to the Capitol by Dolan and bishops from across the state — including Buffalo Bishop Richard J. Malone — was part of the church's annual lobbying push as a new state budget is being negotiated.

Naturally the peasant - torture lobby pushes back, most notably Dowager Queen Juliane (Trine Dyrholm, so magnificently evil you expect her to offer Caroline a poisoned apple).

mr. president - to - be: while i realize you must cater to powerful lobbies pushing their utterly ideological agw agenda, you will be rewarded by hedging your bets, with an eye toward bailing out when the 2009 ipcc position is proven to be completely fictitious.

Thanks to no - fault insurance in Ontario and the insurance lobby push to limit recovery for whiplash, automobile litigation has become much more complex and there are a number of plaintiff - focused boutiques that have arisen, specializing in things such as catastrophic claims.

WASHINGTON — A bipartisan group of lawmakers, aided by banking and housing groups, are beginning a strong lobbying push to forestall a scheduled drop in the maximum sizes of mortgages backed by the government - sponsored enterprises.

Advocacy groups are gearing up in Washington for a lobbying push in 2018, looking to limit legislation that would subject cryptocurrencies to more regulation and change tax - reporting requirements.

Companies like Quest Diagnostics (DGX), for instance, reportedly tests millions of urine samples every year and, along with other firms, is ramping up a lobbying push to block marijuana reform.

The lobbying push from IBM comes about a month after the formation of the Congressional Artificial Intelligence Caucus, a group of Representatives that will study A.I. and seek to create policies related to its use and implementation.

And it's far less ambitious than than what people were hoping for just a year ago when the industry — notably Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg — got behind a lobbying push for more H1B visas for highly - skilled foreign born workers.

The del Lago casino in the Finger Lakes is making a lobbying push at the state Capitol this week and seeking a better tax break or other incentives.

Given the urgency and frenzy of the lobby pushing forward the Gay Marriage Bill you wouldn't think that no one had actually been able to give it a democratic mandate at the last election.

But the politically - split state Senate omitted it from its budget plan, and now is the focus of a lobbying push, a source said.

«A decade ago, New York's highest court ruled that our state must hand over billions of dollars to improve public education — but that money has not materialized,» said Zakiyah Ansari, the advocacy director of the Alliance for Quality Education, which organized the Jan. 10 press conference on the City Hall steps to kick off the lobbying push.

It's the second time in three months Uber has turned to broadcast ads in its lobbying push.

The lobbying push came after the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) highlighted firearms - linked deaths as a preventable public health problem.

ALBANY >> New York City Cardinal Timothy Dolan and bishops from around the state made a lobbying push at the Capitol on Tuesday for a long - sought tax credit that could save Catholic schools from shuttering.

The company's Watson team is embarking on a lobbying push to address what it sees as an incorrect, «dystopian» view of AI.