Sentences with phrase «lobbying spending on»

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

Not exact matches

Google has dramatically increased its lobbying activities in Washington in the past few years: it spent US$ 8.95 million on lobbying just in the first half of 2012 (compare that to the US$ 9.7 million it spent in all of 2011).

This has a growing number of technology industry executives spooked, and for good reason: Companies including Amazon, Apple and Google rely on foreign talent, and have spent millions lobbying Congress to raise the H - 1B visa cap.

Google now spends as much on lobbying as Microsoft, Facebook, Amazon and Apple do — combined.

The rising trend for taxes on sweetened drinks has prompted beverage industry giants like PepsiCo and Coca - Cola to spend billions of dollars on advertising and lobbying campaigns against the measures.

The API has spent more than $ 7.7 million on lobbying the federal government so far this year and is also spending $ 300,000 buying ads to urge Democratic Senator Mark Udall to approve the Keystone pipeline.

(Imagine if the $ 110 million / year spent on lobbying went to disruptive innovation.)

Lobbying records show that in November 2012, Google spent $ 79 on dinner and transportation for Padilla when he visited Washington, D.C., as well as $ 9 on a gift bag.

Lobbying, both public and private, is likely to occur when companies think that governments are spending too much money on one thing, and (as a natural result) too little on others.

Also on the proxy this year is a shareholder proposal requiring ExxonMobil to offer additional transparency in its lobbying and political spending.

Though the president surprised many when he suggested raising the age during a meeting following the Parkland, Fla. shooting that left 17 dead, this official plan from the administration lines up more closely with the views of the gun lobby, which spent more than $ 30 million on Trump's presidential campaign.

Facebook is spending millions on lobbying to try to ward off regulations, even seeking to narrow a Senate bill that lawmakers call «the lightest touch possible.»

We commend Google for updating disclosure on its website on political spending and lobbying but Google still does not disclose details about indirect lobbying, maintaining secrecy about its payments used for lobbying by trade associations.

The company spent just over $ 13 million on lobbying in 2017, according to disclosure records filed with Congress.

We commend Alphabet for disclosure on its website on political spending and lobbying but the website still does not disclose details about payments used for lobbying by trade associations.

It spends most of that money on, as far as I can tell, lobbying to be able to operate in different cities.

The majority of membership dues are spent on lobbying efforts.

In the first three months of the year, his company spent $ 270,00 lobbying on «pipeline related issues.»

Arguably, money speaks louder than words — technology companies have spent more on lobbying than ever under the new administration, according to documents compiled by BuzzFeed News.

The NRA spent $ 5,122,000 on its lobbying efforts in 2017, the highest ever annual total.

Adapt has worked with state legislators and federal policymakers about adjusting laws and removing burdens for access, and spent $ 470,000 on lobbying in 2016 and 2017, according to OpenSecrets.org, which tracks political spending.

«A broad coalition of investors wants companies to tell stockholders and the public more about so - called «dark money» spent both in campaigns and on lobbying by groups that use corporate money and don't say where it comes from,» Welsh of Si2 said.

«In 2014, the Chamber of Commerce spent $ 124 million to lobby, and it has spent over $ 1 billion on lobbying since 1998,» Keenan wrote.

The company spent roughly $ 2.1 million to lobby the U.S. government between Jan. 1 and March 31, including on issues such as trade and tariffs, according to an ethics report filed last week.

Led by the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) and Walden Asset Management, ICCR members are shining a light on corporate lobbying and political spending.

Americans for Financial Reform reported that the financial sector spent $ 2 billion on political activity in the 2016 election cycle, including $ 1.1 billion in campaign donations and the rest for lobbying.

Companies like Amazon, Facebook, Google and Microsoft spend many millions of dollars lobbying government each year, but their cries for immigration reform long have failed to penetrate the partisan divide on Capitol Hill.

With Trump in the White House and more business - friendly Republican - controlled Congress, banks seized the opportunity spending a record $ 66.7 million on lobbying last year, according to the political contributions database OpenSecrets.

Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America, or PhRMA, the trade group that advocates for drug companies, spent almost $ 10 million on lobbying in the first quarter of 2018, according to the Center for Responsive Politics.

Said «non-profit» spent $ 11 million dollars for media advertising, $ 7 million on mailings an $ 1 million on lobbying in 2009.

The burden falls on the GOP establishment and conservatives to tell the employer lobbies that the party of lower taxes, lower government spending, and lower regulation will not design an immigration system to ensure that low - skill workers never get a raise.

Corporate Europe Observatory, a Norwegian NGO, estimated that the industry spent one billion Euros on lobbying on this issue.

i bet his defense will be that he thought that whole bus was full of Khabib's teammates and that he didn't know other fighters were in the bus...... after all the sh & % $ it UFC went thru to get MMA legal in N.Y., not to mention $ $ $ $ $ they spend on lobbying, and this moron does this, which will get ammunition to all «MMA haters» politician in N.Y.............

According to the Center for Responsive Politics in the US, Nestlé is spending about US$ 4 million per year on lobbying, with US$ 200,000 specifically by Nestlé Waters North America (and US$ 120,000 by Nestlé Infant Nutrition).

Spending boatloads of money on professional lobbying and a massive postcard campaign to legislators, the organization and their deep - pocketed friends like PepsiCo, Coca - Cola, Con Agra and Schwan's killed the state school nutrition bill, ensuring many more years of junk food for New York's schoolchildren.

It has spent $ 120,000 on lobbying so far this year, listing school nutrition, GMO - labeling and tax extenders as the issues it's engaged on.

Earlier this year, the SNA successfully lobbied to insert language in the Congressional report accompanying the 2014 Omnibus Spending Bill, advising USDA to grant schools a one - year waiver on either requirement, if implementing the requirement would result in increased cost.

Military contracting companies spend over $ 100 Million per year on lobbying politicians.

The report released on Monday by lobbying and ethics regulators found the top lobbying entities this year so far have been the New York State Nurses Association, which spent $ 2.3 million — nearly double than what the group spent in the first six months of last year.

Records show that during the same time period last year, NYSUT spent a fraction of that amount on lobbying costs: $ 179,350.

A group that pushed for the education investment tax credit spent more than $ 5 million on the effort, according to a report from lobbying and ethics regulators released on Thursday.

The governor largely lost that fight, however, even after he spent some of his own cash on an air war with the health care lobby.

A record $ 243 million was spent on lobbying state and local governments in 2015, an annual report from the Joint Commission on Public Ethics found.

Intuit spent more than $ 2 million lobbying last year, much of it spent on legislation that would permanently bar the government from offering taxpayers prefilled returns.

So I'm wondering how many of these are in the oil, coal and gas business, and how much do they spend on their lobbying?

According to NYPIRG, the ABA spent the third highest amount ever on lobbying by a single organization in a year.

The NEA has around 3 million members, spends quite a bit on lobbying, and makes substantial contributions directly to election funds and such (enough to rank as the third largest political donor in the US, according to opensecrets.org).

The Lobbying Act amended legislation to restrict spending by «non-party campaigners» during election periods (there are different thresholds for registered (# 20,000) and non-registered (# 320,000) campaigners; the threshold for registered campaigners is higher but also attracts onerous reporting requirements on spending and donations.

Some money is being diverted - like the # 200m spent on the tiny island of St Helena's new airport, after apparent lobbying from Lord Ashcroft - equivalent to the DfID's entire budget for clean water and sanitation.

The annual state report on lobbying is out, and it finds that $ 226 million was spent on influencing government leaders, with the largest amount from education groups.