Sentences with phrase «lobbying spending»

Facebook is reportedly third in lobbying spending after Google's parent, Alphabet, and Amazon.

In February, Bloomberg reported that the company had «increased lobbying spending by more than 400 percent,» outpacing all of its rivals.

Of the approximately $ 131 million in total lobbying spending for January through June of 2015, about $ 101 million was spent on compensation to retained or in - house lobbyists, and $ 30 million went to advertising, events, and other expenses.

Total lobbying spending accounted for some $ 131 million between January and June 2014.

Facebook is reportedly third in lobbying spending after Google's parent, Alphabet, and Amazon.

The well - funded dairy lobby spends a great deal of money (an estimated $ 80 to $ 100 million each year — ironically paid for by the higher prices consumers pay), persuading federal and provincial politicians that supply management «protects the family farm,» «ensures food security» and that, because these farmers are so numerous, doing anything to upset them would be political suicide.

The report includes facts about lobbying spending that hit $ 2 billion in the last election cycle, and continues unabated, Wall Street executives in the Trump administration and regulatory agencies, tax cut windfalls for the finance industry, and a deregulatory free - for - all.

Following corporate lobbying spend is not new, and figuring out the biggest corporate lobbyists is just a Google search away.

Since the disclosure law took effect in 2012, however, NYPIRG's lobbying spending through the 501 (c) 4 has dipped considerably.

But total lobbying spending declined slightly since 2016, with groups spending $ 2.6 million less in 2017, according to a report released Wednesday by the Joint Commission on Public Ethics.

JCOPE in 2016 and 2015 tracked $ 243 million in lobbying spending on issues before state and local governments.

Public records indicate that legal maneuvers by Small's law firm facilitated nearly $ 700,000 in anonymous lobbying spending for Pledge 2 Protect, a nonprofit founded in 2013 to fight the city government's plan to build a marine waste transfer station on the Upper East Side that would haul away garbage by barge.

That change of heart coincided with the cigarette lobby spending an estimated $ 50 million on campaigning.

PhRMA's state and federal lobbying spending rose by more than two - thirds from the previous year, to $ 57 million.

The union's political lobbying spending has more than tripled since 2004, as the graph below shows.

This represents a substantial increase, almost doubling BP's declared lobby spend for the previous year, when it spent up to # 1.16 m ($ 1.5 m).

Last year, the anti-labeling lobby spent $ 55 million fighting the California bill.

Lerner said Common Cause's larger financial supporters included the Proteus Fund, the New York Community Trust, the Robert Sterling Clark Foundation and the Park Foundation, which sponsored a 2014 Common Cause report on campaign and lobbying spending by the hydrofracking industry.

For tech's «big five» (Apple, Amazon, Google, Facebook and Microsoft), a massive push in Washington — reflected in a 24.3 percent quarter over quarter spike in lobbying spending, much of which was focused directly on the tax bill — just paid off in spades.

In recent years, Uber has hired top political operators and ramped up its lobbying spending as it faces regulatory battles around the country.

So far this year, those same companies have spent $ 24.2 million, a pace that would easily top last year's lobbying spend.

On its face, the shift in spending is odd: Such charities, which can take tax - deductible donations, face strict limits from the Internal Revenue Service on the levels of their lobbying spending.

That meant the lobbying spending had to be picked up by the 501 (c) 3.

Some of NYPIRG's donors are unknown because of a sudden shift in the group's lobbying spending in 2012 as a new disclosure law came into being — timing that Horner said is a coincidence.

A shift in policy by NYPRIG has meant that donors behind its lobbying spending aren't disclosed to JCOPE, a result Horner insisted was coincidental.

Hector Figueroa, president of 32BJ, said the lobbying spending was necessary to push the cause of workers whose economic needs are not being met.

The lobbying spending went up by 189 percent for Uber and 92 percent for Lyft, compared to 2015.

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CPI points out that «lobbying spending» is on the wain, while «soft lobbying», advertising and PR, are on the rise.

I encourage readers to engage with the complete Chapter 1 of the report, which reviews for the first time in systematic detail total revenues, spending, climate specific spending, advertising spending, and lobbying spending by the coalitions mobilized in support and against cap and trade.