Sentences with phrase «lobbyists at»

At least since 1977, when Gallup launched its annual «honesty and ethical standards» poll of more than 20 professions, Americans have consistently ranked car salesmen, Members of Congress and lobbyists at the bottom of the list, while nurses have occupied the No. 1 slot year after year.

Rules that made sense in the past can get pushed out by high - powered insurance lobbyists at the legislature.

Berger is sending Blaine, described by lobbyists at the meeting as the «right hand man» to the most powerful person in North Carolina politics, to make presentations across the state to gain input and support of a plan as an alternative to Burr's bill.

After all, the lobbyists at CO2 Science say so.

Assistance from Holmstead and other polluter lobbyists at Bracewell & Giuliani costs Southern $ 120,000 in annual lobbying fees, part of Southern's $ 8 million lobbying budget.

The new ALEC resolution was crafted with help from lobbyists at Edison Electric Institute, the primary trade association for Duke and most other large U.S. utility companies.

Well - connected lobbyists like those of Peabody, enable ALEC legislators to tap into large funds, but the relationship is one that appears to benefit the lobbyists at least as much.

It also does not include money spent by corporate lobbyists at special parties for lawmakers or state delegations at some of the most expensive restaurants in San Diego, nor money spent by some of the corporations to fund the trips for state lawmakers to San Diego for what ALEC has dubbed «scholarships.»

We suspect there are powerful lobbyists at work.

For example, it's one thing for the lobbyists at PIJAC to describe what your business does for companion animals and pet lovers.

Charters have huge lobbyists at the state.

And Stand for Children's lobbying stable includes some of the biggest contract lobbyists at the Statehouse.

Post the names of the testing profiteers, corporations, contractors, subcontractors, executives, politicians, and lobbyists at the high - stakes feeding trough.

This means that the unions can rally their rank - and - file members to serve as lobbyists at the state and local levels.

Most of these «policies,» generated by lobbyists at the Foundation for Florida's Future, are designated «model» legislation endorsed by the American Legislative Exchange Council and State Policy Institutes.

The claim that charter schools achieve superior test results as a result of effort, choice, accountability, educational program, governance structure, or some other reason, is frequently cited by charter school lobbyists at the legislature and the CT State Department of Education.

This year, lawmakers visited the member lobbyists at the convention center instead of receiving them in the Legislative Office Building.

Wright adds to an already seasoned team of lobbyists at DHC, led by Sid Davidoff in New York City, Steve Malito in Albany, and other government affairs professionals.

I still see lawmakers talking to lobbyists at their fundraisers about issues they're lobbying on,» the lobbyist said.

Trump is slated to address gun lobbyists at the National Rifle Association's annual meeting for a third year in a row this week in Dallas, Texas.

The real question is: why isn't your organization, which represents the very people in need of funding, which has high - powered lobbyists at its disposal and which has amply proven its clout on Capitol Hill, also asking for that money, instead of asking to roll back nutritional gains?

The 60 biggest companies in the Toronto Stock Exchange have almost a thousand lobbyists currently registered to represent them in the halls of government, and when you add the lobbyists at the trade associations to which those companies belong, their ranks grow considerably.

Critics accuse the governor of having political advisors that are top lobbyists at NV Energy.

Many of the names of the R.G.A.'s corporate donors would be expected: Allen Richardson, a government affairs manager at Koch Companies Public Sector; Randy Kozuch and Erika Scheffer, political affairs executives at the National Rifle Association; Bill Miller, the chief lobbyist at the Business Roundtable, which represents the chief executives of the largest companies; and Bill Guidera, the senior vice president of Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation.

The meeting with lobbyists from Ballard Partners, which came two months after Bernhardt met with another lobbyist for MGM Resorts, raises still more ethical concerns involving the former energy lobbyist at a time when Secretary Ryan Zinke and his team are facing mounting criticism over their spending, travel and apparent conflicts of interest.

Connecticut Democrats making an issue out of a GOP candidate for governor pictured dining with a former Enron lobbyist at the Trump Hotel DC pic.twitter.com/HiIWEZ 6mxc

Our favourite this week has been Brad Banducci's chief lobbyist at supermarket giant Woolworths, one Christian Bennett, formerly of GE.

The release also includes some helpful back - up for King's statements, including reports on Levy's association with Ethan Ellner, whose title company received $ 85,000 worth of county business even though he is an ex-con, and Lazio's Wall Street bonus and efforts to fight consumer protections while he was a lobbyist at JP Morgan.

ALBANY — While Gov. Andrew Cuomo has been downplaying his relationship with Todd Howe, a lobbyist at the center of a federal probe of his administration, records show that Howe was steering developers to contribute to the Cuomo campaign as recently as five months ago.

At the time the loan to Glenwood was approved, the NYHFA was headed by Cuomo appointee Bill Mulrow, an executive and registered lobbyist at Blackstone, a private equity and real estate firm.

«People believed in the change that Laura was advocating,» said Patrick Halpin, a Democrat who served as Suffolk County executive from 1988 to 1992, and now a lobbyist at Mercury Public Affairs in Manhattan.

Hamilton is a director at FTI Consulting who previously worked as a senior lobbyist at Bell Pottinger.

SYRACUSE, N.Y. - The lobbyist at the center of a trial looking at alleged corruption in state government was also at the center of a controversial 2013 plan to build a new Syracuse University sports stadium.

He sat on the party's National Executive Committee from 2010 to 2012 and has many years» experience as a lobbyist at the London HQ of global consultancy Weber Shandwick.

The well - connected lobbyist at the center of the Rivington House scandal is now being accused of quietly persuading the Department of Buildings to allow...

ALBANY — State officials have been formally banned from speaking with Todd Howe, a lobbyist at the center of a federal criminal probe into how SUNY Polytechnic Institute awarded several development contracts.

Walsh, now a lobbyist at the Washington, D.C., firm K & L Gates, has served on the Romney campaign as a volunteer recruiter of former members of Congress.

Scott Segal, an energy lobbyist at Bracewell & Giuliani, said that he expects Republicans to challenge the rule through tailored legislation and also attempt to nullify it through the Congressional Review Act, which allows Congress to overrule federal regulations.

«Regulations are really unnecessary window dressing» as industry is already reducing methane emissions, said Frank Maisano, a lobbyist at Bracewell LLP.

Frank Maisano, a lobbyist at Bracewell & Giuliani in Washington, D.C., who represents energy - industry clients, said plans don't count as much as action.

Elizabeth Sloane, (Jessica Chastain, The Martian, 2015), the eponymous «hero» in Miss Sloane as the star lobbyist at one the most powerful firms in D.C. Elizabeth will seemingly use anything at her disposal to fight against regulation or taxation that threaten her clients, whether they be Fortune 500 companies or foreign countries.

Jeffrey R. Holmstead, a lobbyist at Bracewell & Giuliani representing energy companies and other clients, who was formerly Mr. Bush's lead regulator of air pollution at the Environmental Protection Agency, said he thought Mr. Bush could have done a better job pointing out the high costs of climate bills being pushed by Senate Democrats and some moderate Republicans.

Immediately prior to taking the position of CEQ Chief of Staff, Cooney had been employed as a lawyer - lobbyist at the American Petroleum Institute (API), the primary trade association for corporations associated with the petroleum industry.

ALEC has since distanced itself from the language in the leaked agreement, although it is known that ALEC staff did present the document for board approval, but according to the meeting agenda obtained by CMD, another Peabody lobbyist at the meeting, Kelly Mader, advised those present on the «roles and responsibilities» of being an ALEC state chair.

Before going to the White House in 2001, he was the «climate team leader» and a lobbyist at the American Petroleum Institute, the largest trade group representing the interests of the oil industry.

In his time as a lobbyist at Bracewell & Giuliani, Holmstead was implicated in a 2010 scandal revealing that he and another former Bush EPA official - turned - lobbyist ghostwrote a legislative amendment for Senator Lisa Murkowski (I - AK) that would have undermined the Clean Air Act's provision to control climate - altering greenhouse gases from major emitters.

Holmstead remained a lobbyist at Latham & Watkins until 2001.

Matt Forrest, a lobbyist at Ballard Partners and registered lobbyist for Bequest, gave testimony (pdf, page 149) in favor of the bill in its first Florida Senate committee stop this year.

When attorney Preston Halliburton of Buckhead, Georgia is not operating his growing law practice, he might be working as a lobbyist at the state capitol for Preston Group Inc., the government relations firm his mother, Julianna McConnell, founded.

Other controversies have included Pruitt renting an apartment from an energy lobbyist at below market rates, defying the White House to give staff huge pay raises, and dodging normal congressional review procedures to stack positions at the agency with industry flacks.