Sentences with phrase «new lobbying bill»

Today ConservativeHome reported on the opposition from the Left to the new Lobbying Bill, which also covers trade unions and election campaigning by organisations which are not political parties, such as charities and campaign groups.

The government's new lobbying bill has very little to do with lobbyists, and everything to do with restricting the ability of trade unions to campaign for Labour.

Bloggers and campaigners could be issued with «stop notices» in the run up to the next election if the government's new lobbying bill is passed, MPs were warned today.

Not exact matches

U.S. lawmakers are close to delivering a draft of the Federal Aviation Authority's reauthorization bill, which will include rules for nonmilitary drones, and drone opponents are lobbying hard against the unmanned flying machines, The New York Times reports.

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.

RACHEL JACKSON: Yes, actually I found out about the federal bill and they knew about Mikael's bill on the assembly floor and so I drafted a mirror bill and gave it to senator Kennedy, New York State Senator Kennedy and he really ran with it and introduced it to the senate and so together where Tim and Kennedy have been working with him to get approval for that, so I was lobbying in Albany and that's where I got to meet Mikael and spoke with a lot of the assembly members, a lot of the senators and there was real overwhelming support for it.

Well, the National Organization for Women lobbied for the Family and Medical Insurance Leave Act, a federal bill that would have provided paid leave to new moms and dads.

The association, which initially supported the new standards, has been lobbying for just the sort of bill Republicans have produced.

JCOPE asked a court to compel the Campaign for One New York, a political nonprofit connected to NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio, to hand over documents related to its lobbying and fund - raising activities after the group's lawyer declared last week that he would not comply with the panel's subpoena.

In lobbying individual members of the state Legislature, the coalition supporting New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio's push for universal pre-Kindergarten is coming prepared with district - by - district statistics breaking down who benefits.

Campaign for One New York, a lobbying organization set up by NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio's campaign strategists, spent close to $ 1.7 million to advance his agenda during his first six months in office and got donations from unions, developers and people like Google's Eric Schmidt.

The measure is opposed by New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, whose lobbying efforts today have already been setback after the GOP - led Senate announced it would take up Gov. Andrew Cuomo's teacher evaluation disclosure bill, a measure his office also opposes.

Clinton's statement was released by the Human Rights Campaign, which is leading New Yorkers for Marriage Equality — the coordinated campaign spearheaded by Gov. Andrew Cuomo that is lobbying the Senate to pass the gay marriage bill before the legislative session ends in June.

Bill Hammond notes that the makers of the anti-addiction drug Vivitrol — whose controversial nationwide lobbying campaign was spotlighted by the New York Times last week — appear to be getting results in Albany.

Airbnb is already planning to oppose the legislation, noting that the forthcoming City Council bill is just another tactic to please the lobbying hotel industry and frighten «honest working New Yorkers,» reports Politico.

But she is a longtime political activist who has lobbied for better education funding, marriage equality and women's rights, and she has campaigned for such politicians as President Barack Obama and New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio.

Sometime after midnight on the last day of the legislative session — with zero public hearings, public review or consultation — Governor Cuomo rammed through a bill that includes very vague and very broad new reporting requirements for charitable groups which engage in lobbying or coordination with related charitable groups.

Ministers are overturning a Lords amendment demanding that «spads» be covered by the rules governing the new register of third - party lobbyists being set up in the lobbying bill.

«With at least 1.5 million gallons of oil still spewing into the Gulf every day, Senate Republicans plotted with BP's chief lobbying firm in Albany and voted to squash a bill that will help over 12 million New Yorkers living in polluted air.»

He announced the state will create a new website for students to lobby their state and national electeds on gun control, and also touted a bill working its way through the state legislature that would ban bump stocks — devices that allow semi-automatic rifles to fire at rates comparable to automatic rifles.

The United Federation of Teachers (UFT) and New York State United Teachers (NYSUT) also listed the Child Victims Act among bills targeted for lobbying in 2017.

Common Cause says the Moreland Commission should open a probe to see if there's a link between around $ 5 million spent by major pharmaceutical companies on lobbying and campaign donations to New York state politicians, and the failure to pass major consumer - friendly bills regulating Big Pharma.

Environmental groups such as the Natural Resources Defense Council, The Alliance for a Greater New York and the NYC Environmental Justice Alliance have also fought against the bill but they too lobby elected officials on a variety of issues.

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo says he knew nothing about a bill he signed — a bill that News Corp. lobbied on before the company gave Cuomo a lucrative book contract.

Harold M. Ickes, a longtime friend and mentor of Mayor Bill de Blasio, delivered about $ 13,000 in donations last week to the mayor's re-election campaign, on the day that one of his lobbying clients received the de Blasio administration's go - ahead to hold a lucrative music festival in New York City.

For New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio, a second - term Democrat, it poses the annual opportunity to lobby for the city's priorities, including small and large policy changes and additional funding for city agencies.

After years of lobbying, volunteer firefighters undergoing cancer treatment will be able to qualify for state health benefits in early 2019 through a bill recently signed by New York state Gov. Andrew Cuomo.

When Mayor Bill de Blasio and Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito make their first lobbying trip to Albany on Monday, they'll be joined by more than a dozen City Council members, including some who previously opposed the new speaker, according to a list obtained from a Council source.

Of particular concern to the Housing Works crowd was Bloomberg's successful lobbying of Gov. David Paterson to veto the 30 percent rent cap bill for low - income New Yorkers living with AIDS.

In Albany, where a number of New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio's policy priorities have succumbed to resistance from Gov. Andrew Cuomo and state Senate Republicans, documents suggest that de Blasio has turned to the real estate industry's chief lobbying group in New York as an intermediary to press politicians on a matter beyond its traditional scope: the city's public school system.

The New York Gaming Association, which advocates for the interests of the state's nine racinos, filed a complaint alleging that several entities pushing a bill that would legalize daily fantasy sports betting have improperly failed to register as lobbying entities.

The lobbying and contribution data compiled by NYPIRG's Bill Mahoney was first reported by Capital New York.

Members of the New York Building Trades on Tuesday lobbied in Albany to push for a bill that revises the definition of public work in order to give workers expanded wages and benefits.

Kate Hinz is one of dozens of people who came to the Capitol on the first formal day of session to lobby for the bill to allow medical marijuana in New York as a treatment for a variety of medical conditions.

To me, this indicates something of a rift between legislators who have been championing the bill — O'Donnell and Sen. Tom Duane — and the new lobbying front, with which Cuomo is closely coordinating.

Bill Mahoney, a campaign finance analyst with the New York Public Interest Research Group, says the article illustrates the close ties between Governor Cuomo and the Committee to Save New York lobby group.

Mayor Bill de Blasio said that the recently - passed New York State budget is a mixture of «simple pros and cons» and vowed that he will lobby Albany on his proposal to impose a new tax on sales of properties worth $ 2 million and to see his administration's power over the city's school system extended at least another yeNew York State budget is a mixture of «simple pros and cons» and vowed that he will lobby Albany on his proposal to impose a new tax on sales of properties worth $ 2 million and to see his administration's power over the city's school system extended at least another yenew tax on sales of properties worth $ 2 million and to see his administration's power over the city's school system extended at least another year.

«Receiving a $ 60,000 gift from a business which lobbies is perfectly legal under the current campaign - finance law; that's why we support Gov. Cuomo's attempts to change this law,» said Bill Mahoney of the New York Public Interest Research Group.

«This was one of the greatest missed conservation opportunities in the budget this year, and we ask that legislative leaders get behind the proposal for next year's budget,» said Jessica Ottney Mahar, policy director for the Nature Conservancy in New York, which lobbied heavily for the bill.

NYC Public Advocate Bill de Blasio was at SEIU 1199's HQ in Manhattan last night to phone bank with New Yorkers United for Marriage, the coordinated campaign that is lobbying to get a bill passed in the Senate prior to the session's end next moBill de Blasio was at SEIU 1199's HQ in Manhattan last night to phone bank with New Yorkers United for Marriage, the coordinated campaign that is lobbying to get a bill passed in the Senate prior to the session's end next mobill passed in the Senate prior to the session's end next month.

Gabriel Sayegh, the New York State director of Drug Policy Alliance, one of the groups that has been omnipresent in lobbying for the legislation, said he would be surprised if Cuomo opted to sign the bill.

The new bill sets the total lobbying disclosure threshold at $ 15,000, while requiring disclosure of donations of more than $ 2,500, as well as those donors» personal information.

After a year of lobbying her colleagues, New York Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand's bill to change how the Pentagon handles sexual assault cases was rejected by the Senate.

Early this morning, dozens of domestic workers and their allies set up shop outside City Hall, participating in a 24 - hour vigil to lobby for a bill that would provide basic labor protections for domestic workers in New York.

Uber and Lyft are once again undertaking a lobbying campaign to legalize ride - sharing services outside of New York City, complete with advertisements, a stable of connected influence peddlers, PR stunts and statements of support from police chiefs to Bills co-owner Kim Pegula.

Expect more heated education rhetoric at the Capitol on Tuesday, when advocates for pre-K, including New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio, are scheduled to lobby lawmakers the same day representative of charter schools make their case.

Cheye Calvo, the mayor of Berwyn Heights, Maryland is lobbying for the Maryland legislature to pass a new bill that would require every SWAT team in the state to provide a monthly public report on its activities, including where and when it was deployed and whether an operation resulted in arrests, evidence seizures or injuries.

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork / AP)-- Labor leaders said they'll lobby state lawmakers to OK New York Mayor Bill de Blasio's proposal to offer universal pre-kindergartNEW YORK (CBSNewYork / AP)-- Labor leaders said they'll lobby state lawmakers to OK New York Mayor Bill de Blasio's proposal to offer universal pre-kindergartNew York Mayor Bill de Blasio's proposal to offer universal pre-kindergarten.

In June the Assembly passed a bill supported by both Speaker Sheldon Silver, D - Manhattan, and Minority Leader Brian Kolb, R - Canandaigua, that would have created new legislative, executive and lobbying commissions.

The head of the gun rights» lobby is looking for her services in converting women, who have not been gun allies traditionally, to their cause and thwart a new gun regulation bill that is an impending vote in the Senate.