Sentences with phrase «lobbyists in»

Our lobbyists in Tallahassee and Washington worked hard to get bills passed to stimulate real estate sales and the overall economy.

Met with activists and lobbyists in the delegate's office and briefed her on the relevant issues and legislation

The similar actions by these companies might seem to be coordinated but it is likely they are just copying one another, or that all their lobbyists in Washington are sending back to Silicon Valley the same warnings.

As Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg considers whether to testify before a Senate committee next month, Facebook is reportedly adding lobbyists in an effort to help shape any new policies that may come out of Washington in the wake of the ongoing Cambridge Analytica scandal and Russian election meddling.

Although Facebook employs a small army of lawyers and lobbyists in Washington, Zuckerberg himself has never testified before a congressional committee, according to a C - SPAN database.

• From lobbyists in the State legislature when it is in session.

There are now estimated to be around 2,340 climate lobbyists in Washington — more than one for every four members of Congress.The Climate Change Lobby With Obama asking Congress to send him legislation that places a cap on carbon emissions, and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid aiming to have a global warming bill ready by the end of the summer, those 2,340 voices will undoubtedly make the going rough for both.

In the United States, oil and gas companies are now perhaps the most powerful lobbyists in Washington.

On the rise of climate skepticism; «there are 2,300 lobbyists in Washngton DC, whose only job is to see no policy, no legislation comes into existence that will tackle the problem of climate change.»

Follow me on Twitter More on GOP's Anti-Clean Air Act Bill 5 Leading US Health Groups Oppose Efforts to Block EPA Regulating CO2 Fred Upton Met with Energy Lobbyists in Secret Before His About Face on Climate

-LSB-...] Whoever got things started, this is a ball which ExxonMobile picked up and ran with, shuttling lobbyists in and out of the White House as it did so.

Ohio Rep. Adams, for example, sent at least a dozen letters to corporate lobbyists in 2010, thanking them for writing checks to the ALEC scholarship fund, which paid his and his colleagues way to an ALEC conference.

The oil and gas industry has lavished more than $ 440 million over the past six years on politicians, political parties and lobbyists in order to protect its interests in Washington, according to a new report by the Center for Public Integrity.

But to move the idea past slick Wall Street lobbyists in Congress, we must show that the people are for it.

ALEC's own lawyers have written about their precarious relationship with IRS tax law, acknowledging they would need to spin off a sister organization and register some staff as lobbyists in order to avoid potential action from the IRS that could affect ALEC's tax - exempt status.

So let's be clear about the facts: Galileo had the courage to speak truth to the powerful interests of his day in the Roman Catholic Church, just as two generations of scientists have tried to speak truth about climate change to executives and lobbyists in the fossil fuel industry.

I have personally talked to forest industry lobbyists in charge of our forest policy, political operatives making decisions in EPA, and, on a local level, developers in water districts and planning commissions.

But I kept hearing that it was easier in the gas and oil industry to get the green light from top executives for drilling new wells than fixing old ones, and industry lobbyists in Washington have relentlessly fought stricter oversight.

But then again, aren't the banks the biggest lobbyists in Congress?

It registered 11 lobbyists in the state from 2007 through 2012, according to the National Institute on Money in State Politics.

As soon as Connecticut's school funding decision in the CCJEF case was rendered, charter lobbyists in Connecticut began salivating at the prospect of using their political influence to craft a new school funding system that would benefit charter schools.

I trust local wildlife managers to manage wolves and wildlife better than judges, lawyers & lobbyists in DC.

Unions are highly effective lobbyists in part because, unlike many advocacy groups, they are membership organizations (for the nation's largest profession).

Sloane laughs at his prospects of winning against one of the most well - funded lobbyists in D.C. Nonetheless, the next day she shockingly resigns in front of her team to join Schmidt in passing the gun regulation bill and poaches several members of her team.

They are themselves controlled by the AMA, who is controlled by Big Pharma, who also controls government and they have over 600 lobbyists in Washington.

Who knows, but we do know that the dairy industry is one of the 5 largest lobbyists in the nation.

For example, he relates how, as a member of the Southern farm bloc in Congress, he has had to struggle over sugar subsidies with corn - syrup lobbyists in his state.

Greenpeace spent $ 46,291 on lobbyists in 2009, according to the Center for Responsive Politics.

Some of the 500 handwritten amendments scrawled by lobbyists in the margins of the bill may offer some clues, Murphy said.

BY ANDY HUMM Four out gay members of the City Council are siding with anti-gay lobbyists in their quest to secure tens, perhaps hundreds of millions of dollars in city funds to pay for school safety officers in religious and other private schools, despite the fact that many of them teach that homosexuality is immoral -LSB-...]

ALBANY — Daily fantasy sports site are preparing for a legislative push, retaining some of New York's most prominent lobbyists in the wake of Attorney General Eric Schneiderman's determination that the companies were facilitating illegal gambling.

The prevalence of lobbyists in New York — the lobbyist - to - state lawmaker ratio is somewhere in the neighborhood of 24 - to - 1 (the highest in the nation)-- is viewed by most good government groups as a big part of what ails Albany.

Pataki is incredibly anti-lobbyist, proposing a lifetime ban on elected officials ever becoming lobbyists in September of 2015.

She dropped her party affiliation because she became concerned about the influence of lobbyists in the legislature and she felt that» «individual thinkers are often marginalized» in the party.»

Her husband is one of the biggest lobbyists in Albany, she used to be a lobbyist, until she went to work for Spitzer and then used her elected office to stop an effort by Farley's son to have the Schenectady County Legislature object to Spitzer's crazy scheme to give illegal aliens drivers licenses.

At the same time, Heaney knocked his chief rival for the nomination, John Faso, saying that should Trump have followed through with his plan to run for governor in 2014, lobbyists in Albany would have been dealt a blow.

But the majority of lobbyists in the UK's # 2 billion public affairs industry work in - house for large organisations or for agencies, raising value - for - money questions about the estimated # 50,000 initial annual cost of the register.

Other major casino companies who have signed deals with lobbyists in the state include Boyd Gaming and [MGM](http://www.cityandstateny.com/mgm-hires-york-lobbyist-state-takes-step-casino-legalization/).

The governor spoke to a gathering of abortion rights lobbyists in Albany on Tuesday, where he gave an award to Cecile Richards, former President of Planned Parenthood, and daughter of former Texas Governor Ann Richards, and touted his record on women's issues.

In the first half of 2016, Uber spent more than $ 750,000 lobbying New York lawmakers and was one of the top 10 lobbyists in the state, according to a report from the state's Joint Commission on Public Ethics.

Her father and brother are some of the top lobbyists in Albany and her husband is a spokesperson and lobbyist for Uber.

The governor spoke to a gathering of abortion rights lobbyists in Albany on Tuesday, where he gave an award to Cecile Richards, president of Planned Parenthood and the daughter of former Texas Governor Ann Richards, and touted his record on women's issues.

Sierra Club representative Robert Ciesielski cited a study by Common Cause that the governor of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, had received over $ 1.6 million in political donations from the industry — a figure that, given the current state of New York's campaign finance laws, lobbyists in Albany could well surpass.

The developer also paid $ 900,000 to eight lobbyists in 2014 alone who pushed issues before state officials, including Silver.

«By revealing these lobbyists in consultants» clothing, we can continue to rebuild New Yorkers» confidence in government.»

Ms. Kasirer is perennially one of the highest - paid lobbyists in the city, advocating on behalf of major real estate developers and their projects.

The agency specialises in public affairs and community consultation, but Calvert has claimed: «We are a different beast to typical public affairs or political lobbyists in that our goals are to be advocates for the property industry.»

Several lobbyists in Albany said Howe was representing COR, although neither he nor WOH Solutions ever declared them as a client to JCOPE.

AG Andrew Cuomo is campaigning on a reform platform, but accepted $ 320,540 worth of campaign cash from lobbyists in 2009.

«Right now there are over 400 former members of the House and Senate who are registered lobbyists in Washington,» Pataki said during a Republican primary debate in 2015, according to a transcript.