Sentences with phrase «lobbying work»

His professional practice included political consulting, lobbying work on behalf of family farm groups and business development work benefiting family - scale farmers.

The interface and lobby work well and it's a suitable alternative any other online racer out there.

The most senior member of his staff, Martha Embrey was working on the siliocone breast implant problem, and Carlo had registered the Breast Implant Public Health Project (BIPHP) as a Deleware company for lobbying work on behalf of Dow.

Mercury Public Affairs is the only firm among the five plaintiffs that also engages in lobbying work for certain clients.

But increasingly, law firms are grabbing a larger piece of lobbying work, much of which is sheltered from disclosure under the Lobbying Disclosure Act (LDA).

The pair did lobbying work on behalf of these entities in the US, and were later charged by Mueller for failing to disclose the nature of their foreign sponsors to federal authorities.

The two men have pleaded not guilty to the charges, which include money laundering, failure to file reports of foreign bank accounts, and filing false or misleading statements about their foreign lobbying work.

They'll talk about how lobbying works in New York State and what's wrong with the process.

(I ordered my usual size in other Fryes, it's a little loose w / tights but perfect w / socks) I am sitting in a hotel lobby working right now (long story) and I just keep looking at them, people must be wondering what my problem is.

Flynn has been under investigation for a wide range of allegations, including lobbying work on behalf of Turkey, but the fact that he was charged only with a single count of false statements suggests he is cooperating with Mueller's investigation in exchange for leniency.

NBC reported last month that Mueller had compiled enough evidence to bring charges against Flynn and his son, Michael Flynn Jr., related to Flynn's lobbying work throughout the latter half of 2016 — while he was a top Trump campaign surrogate — for a businessman with ties to the Turkish government.

Even within the United States the corporate lobby works, sometimes successfully, to undermine such environmental protection as we now have.

De Blasio last year also sought to shore up his alliance with Cuomo through lobbying the Working Families Party to endorse the governor for re-election.

My suspicion: The two techniques can live nicely side - by - side, just as social media and email advocacy have coexisted and cooperated with traditional lobby work for years now.

I did because this doesn't seem to show any research effort at all, and I don't think that lobbying works differently in Canada than anywhere else (in a broad, fundamental way).

(This is not a criticism of people involved in ECPC - indeed arguably insider lobbying worked better over the past decade than grassroots mobilisation, but campaigns which rely on lobbying are inherently more vulnerable to changes in government).

An exception would be granted for groups engaged in sensitive lobbying work, like Family Planning Advocates, where large donors face the potential of threats or harassment.

Coats's victory came after a surprisingly difficult primary campaign in which he struggled to adjust to Democratic attacks on his past lobbying work, and to deflect a statement he made in 2008 that he planned to move to North Carolina when he retired.

While the online lobbies work well enough, there have been problems with the online matchmaking system.

Maybe, but Los Angeles sure did not feel like a footnote after the Watts riot — or, as Melvin Edwards defines it in the other lobby work, the Watts rebellion.

The first things one sees upon entering the Hammer Museum are the ramp leading up to the atrium, and, for the past ten years, just beyond its sleek metal balustrade, the latest temporary site - specific lobby work commissioned by the museum.

We started at 7:00 after dinner and I went to bed at around 11:30 or so, and teams were sitting the hotel lobby working at some of the bars near the hotels and working on their problems.

Flynn is under a separate FBI investigation for failing to register as a foreign agent when he did lobbying work on behalf of the Turkish government, and it emerged last week that Mueller subpoenaed a close associate of Flynn's Turkish client.

Enter Todd Howe, who is being probed by the feds for lobbying work he did for three firms that are part of the Cuomo administration's economic - development program, the Buffalo Billion.

The more Canadians learn about the covert operations of the foreign lobby working to shut down Canadian jobs and opportunities, the more Canadians will stop believing the spin coming from the anti-Gateway groups.

To many, it is basically a middle - class organization catering to those who want to take advantage of its insurance policies or its vacation discounts; they do not know of its legal and lobbying work on behalf of legislation to benefit the elderly of all economic levels.

Meeting rooms (up to 12 delegates), Fax facilities, Free wireless internet, Work desks, Free newspapers in the lobby

Flynn Jr. was his father's chief of staff, and appears to have worked closely with him in his lobbying work.

Pence headed Trump's transition team, but he has insisted that he did not know about Flynn's lobbying work or conversations with the Russian ambassador before Flynn's ouster in February.

And days later, on November 18 — just over a week after Obama warned Trump about Flynn — Rep. Elijah Cummings sent Pence a letter requesting more information about potential conflicts of interest posed by Flynn's lobbying work.

In November, Maryland Rep. Elijah Cummings, the top Democrat on the House Oversight Committee, sent Pence a letter warning about conflicts created by Flynn's lobbying work.

The disclosures Friday indicate that Trump transition lawyers did not view Flynn's lobbying work for a Turkish businessman as a liability for an official who serves as the president's closest adviser on security and international affairs.

In October, Mueller charged Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort and former deputy campaign manager Rick Gates with money laundering and failing to properly disclose their lobbying work on behalf of foreign clients.

I'm betting on the remarkable marketing and lobbying work done by the dairy industry.

The wireless internet in the lobby worked well and there were nightly music performances in the lobby bar during our visit.

He left after discussion of his lobbying work became a distraction (somehow his Clinton campaign equivalent, John Podesta, avoided serious scrutiny for his, very similar, lobbying work).

«If you don't know how the lobby works you're missing a trick.

Some records pertaining to Howe's lobbying work were removed last week from the JCOPE website.

Under terms of the deal, Howe would receive «favorable treatment» and «leniency» in exchange for supplying details of his lobbying work for state contractors who wanted to influence the Cuomo administration, the Post reported.

And when Miranda's firm, the MirRam group, submitted a subsequent December disclosure about the purpose of its lobbying work, the description was taken nearly verbatim from a Klein press release distributed after the Oct. 27 news conference.

A Democrat running for the House in Colorado attacked his Republican opponent for taking money from the «gun lobby» despite being a partner at a law firm that has done significant legal and lobbying work on behalf of pro-gun interests, including opposing a bill that limited magazine capacity and another that expanded background checks.

The Advance Group, which does lobbying work in addition to campaign consulting, spearheaded an early attack against one of Mr. de Blasio's chief rivals in the mayor's race, Christine Quinn, on behalf of an animal rights group funded by top de Blasio donors.

She has been involved in Democratic politics since 2004, training and organizing hundreds of progressive New Yorkers to engage in electoral and lobbying work on behalf of policy issues that include economic justice, marriage equality, campaign finance reform, and non-partisan redistricting in New York State.

But he added that Flynn's representative only asked for guidance and did not provide more details about the lobbying work or Flynn's business dealings.

In addition to their lobbying work with ConnCAN, Alexander and Johnson were the individuals who formed A Better Connecticut, Inc. yet another education reform industry front group that spent more than $ 2 million on television ads during the year before the last gubernatorial election to «thank» Governor Malloy for his «leadership» on behalf of the corporate education reform agenda.

The likes of Tom Harris, better known for his lobbying work on behalf of the Canadian energy industry, and Fred Singer, formally a tobacco company expert - for - hire, are trying to make headlines again claiming that the warming of our planet has significantly slowed down.