Sentences with phrase «new lobbying arm»

The Alliance to Protect Nantucket Sound, a tax - exempt, nonprofit, charitable organization established in 2001 to block development of the Cape Wind offshore power generating project six to eleven miles off Cape Cod, has created a new lobbying arm.

Washington, DC — The Alliance to Protect Nantucket Sound, a tax - exempt, nonprofit, charitable organization established in 2001 to block development of the Cape Wind offshore power generating project six to eleven miles off Cape Cod, has created a new lobbying arm.

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Perusing the index of Origins, the weekly publication of representative documents and speeches compiled by Catholic News Service, our imaginary historian will note, for example, the following initiatives undertaken at the national, diocesan and parish levels in 1994 - 95: providing alternatives to abortion; staffing adoption agencies; conducting adult education courses; addressing African American Catholics» pastoral needs; funding programs to prevent alcohol abuse; implementing a new policy on altar servers and guidelines for the Anointing of the Sick; lobbying for arms control; eliminating asbestos in public housing; supporting the activities of the Association of Catholic Colleges and Universities (227 strong); challenging atheism in American society; establishing base communities (also known as small faith communities); providing aid to war victims in Bosnia; conducting Catholic research in bioethics; publicizing the new Catechism of the Catholic Church; battling child abuse; strengthening the relationship between church and labor unions; and deepening the structures and expressions of collegiality in the local and diocesan church.

Ms. Consolo noted that 10 percent of all statewide donations last year came from the 16,000 - member Real Estate Board of New York, the lobbying arm for the industry.

The governor had talked about following the money, so one of the first targets for Perry's team was New York's real - estate industry and its lobbying arm, the Real Estate Board of New York.

While the response from the gun lobby has been remarkably similar — blaming the massacre on mental - health issues, advocating for policemen or armed teachers in schools as well as the need for «good guys with guns» — they have a new kind of adversary.

The New York Daily News once noted that the bishops» lobbying arm spent $ 2.1 million on lobbyists from 2007 through 2015, or an average of about $ 230,000 a year.

Dolan, who is also leader of the New York State Catholic Conference, the lobbying arm of the state's bishops, said the church is supportive of «very vigorous» changes to statute of limitations that would increase the age for victims to file civil and criminal actions.

The mayor has already won the support of the Real Estate Board of New York, the industry's powerful lobbying arm.

On Monday night, spokesmen for the union representing the majority of workers at the Remington Arms plant in Ilion went to Albany to lobby legislators over the potential impact on jobs before the legislation was passed by the New York state Assembly on Tuesday.

Opposition to the measure has also come from the plastic bag industry — via its lobbying arm, the American Progressive Bag Alliance — as well as from those who, like Mr. Felder, said the fee amounted to a regressive tax, disproportionately affecting low - income and minority New Yorkers while failing to positive benefits for residents.

A mailer Reclaim New York's lobbying arm sent out to Lincoln residents regarding a local fertilizer plant project.

«Supervisor Santino's shameless personnel moves reveal a disturbing attitude that government exists to serve the interests of a political machine at taxpayers» expense,» according to a statement from Reclaim New York Initiative, the nonprofit lobbying arm of Reclaim New York.

The Reclaim New York Initiative, the nonprofit lobbying arm of the nonpartisan Reclaim New York, has just sent mailings into two Hempstead Town board members» districts essentially calling Santino a bully.

«The letter, from some of the world's most knowledgeable experts in the fields of nuclear weapons and arms control, arrives as Mr. Obama is lobbying Congress, the American public and the nation's allies to support the agreement,» William J. Broad wrote in an article in the New York Times.

This past March of 2017, the Missouri Pet Breeders Association (MPBA) which serves as the trade association and lobbying arm for the commercial dog breeding industry in Missouri, elected a new president: Kevin Beauchamp, operator of Beauchamp's Puppy World.