Sentences with phrase «lobbying reports»

The Company also files lobbying reports with many U.S. state and municipal governments as required by law.

The unions have been joined by several groups supportive of issues they've opposed, such as expansion of charter schools and a tax credit that would redirect money to private schools, according to a POLITICO New York analysis of lobbying reports submitted to the Joint Commission on Public Ethics and campaign finance disclosure reports submitted by state - level candidates and parties to the Board of Elections.

The New York State Joint Commission on Public Ethics (JCOPE) released its annual lobbying report on Thursday.

A coalition of at least 74 investors have filed proposals at 50 companies asking for lobbying reports that include federal and state lobbying payments, payments to trade associations used for lobbying, and payments to any tax - exempt organization that writes and endorses model legislation.

According to the latest lobbying reports filed with the Connecticut Ethics Commission, the charter school industry and their corporate education reform allies spent another $ 555,000 during this year's legislative session in their ongoing effort to support Governor Malloy and persuade Connecticut legislators to divert even more public money to the privately owned and operated charter schools in the state.

Lawyers for the Joint Commission on Public Ethics said the office's investigators rely on a variety of methods to ferret out violations of lobbying law: tips that come in from whistleblowers; their own investigations of discrepancies in lobbying reports; news stories that mention lobbyists who haven't registered; and even their own physical observations of people who are in the Capitol, wandering the halls, but who haven't filed paperwork disclosing who they're working for.

That likely will place Park Strategies in the top five companies when the annual state lobbying report is published in March.

The $ 1.72 million was one of the largest totals disclosed in March lobbying reports during Cuomo's six years in office.

With the end of the 2012 Legislative Session, came the final lobbying reports from the corporate - funded «Education Reform» groups.

The new lobbying reports reveal that at least two «education reform» organizations that were engaged in lobbying activities failed to file any reports this year, raising the question as to whether the Office of State Ethics has begun an investigation in ethics violations by any of the «reformers» or «reform groups.»

During his presidential campaign, Barack Obama promised to «create a centralized Internet database of lobbying reports, ethics records and campaign finance filings in a searchable, sortable and downloadable format.»

The Trump International Hotel recently took in about $ 270,000 in payments tied to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia as the country fights to roll back a U.S. terrorism law, according to newly filed lobbying reports.

According to the latest lobbying reports filed by the various corporate education reform lobbying groups with the Office of State Ethics, the corporate - funded advocacy organizations that support charter schools, the Common Core and the absurd Common Core testing scheme spent more than $ 1.9 million lobbying Malloy and the legislature in 2015.

That's according to the Joint Commission on Public Ethic's annual lobbying report, which shows $ 205 million in 2012 was spent trying to influence public policy in Albany.

New York's Joint Commission on Public Ethics released its 2011 lobbying report this week, which found that the lobbying industry spent a record sum of $ 220 million last year in its efforts to influence state legislators.

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Groups tied to the Coalition for Opportunity in Education, which has since renamed itself the Invest in Education Coalition, spent $ 5.2 million of the $ 5.7 million spent by the tax credit's supporters in 2015, the vast majority of which went toward lobbying rather than campaign donations, the lobbying reports indicate.

StudentsFirstNY, another influential education reform group that has advocated both for charters and for Common Core standards, increased its spending on lobbying nearly tenfold in 2015, to $ 2.4 million, the lobbying reports show.

The UFT was responsible for an additional $ 1.5 million in political activity, according to the lobbying reports.

And to make matters even more suspicious, the lobbying reports that the Connecticut Council for Education Reform (CCER) has submitted to the Office of State Ethics doesn't come close to showing the time and costs CCER has already devoted to the task of «helping» Alliance Districts.