Sentences with phrase «not lobbyists»

We are well connected but we are lawyers not lobbyists.

They are also not lobbyists because they keep secret who pay them, and they claim to be independently presenting scientific findings.

These officials are supposed to represent the interests of citizens, not lobbyists for powerful industries.

Josh Vlasto, a spokesman for Cuomo, said he «has brought fundamental change in the process and made it work for the people of the state — not the lobbyists or special interests.

Skelos shut down the Senate lobby to everyone BUT lawmakers — and not lobbyists, in spite of a sign that indicated otherwise.

The mandate tonight is to clean up Albany and to have elected officials who represent the people of this state and not the special interests and not the lobbyists,» said Cuomo.

«New Yorkers — not elected officials, not lobbyists, not special interest organizations — will decide by majority vote.»

Let's all agree that the only objective of any government should be to act in the best interest of citizens, not lobbyists, and then act accordingly.

He has no business running the CFPB, an agency devoted to the protection of consumers, not lobbyists.

As individuals you have the same right as any other citizen but as a group until you start paying taxes, not lobbyist, butt out and obey the laws made by the government.

I'm not a lobbyist, just a mom without much money who is sad that Americans don't have anyone to teach them this easy way to save thousands of dollars in the first year.

The bulk of the money among the highest spending groups was used on advertising and events, not lobbyist retention or compensation.

Mr. Rosen is not a lobbyist and as such does not have to disclose his meetings with the mayor, but his firm represents a slew of boldfaced names that have major business at City Hall.

Fiona MacTaggart (Lab, librarian) asks how the reforms would affect a Werritty - style situation if, according to Sir George, he isn't a lobbyist.

I know Owen Smith says technically he wasn't a lobbyist, but for practical purposes he was and party members will look at this issue because there is no issue closer to party members hearts than the NHS,» she said.

How many more Katrina's or Iowa floods or petroleum price increases will we witness before we realize that our economic system must be synchronized with natural systems to reflect the laws of natural and physical sciences, and not the lobbyist ($ $ $) driven laws of a false economy?

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«This means that he is not only the most influential lobbyist, but the best informed and he is lobbying for his own interests, which are not always benign or sensible.»

An EPA watchdog's review did not determine whether Administrator Scott Pruitt stuck to the terms of a controversial condo rental linked to an energy lobbyist.

The EPA is not required to act on its advisors suggestions, and industry lobbyists are intent on seeing the final report retain its sweeping language.

Since January, Canada's federal lobbying commissioner has been investigating whether the fundraiser violated government rules, which say lobbyists can not lobby officials they helped get elected.

Another industry lobbyist said Section 702 surveillance is «not a C - suite issue» that concerns chief executives in Silicon Valley like other issues, including encryption.

Auto industry lobbyists and government officials said they did not expect the USTR negotiators to reveal specific targets on Lighthizer's demand that a minimum percentage of North American vehicles be produced in the United States.

When lawyers, MBAs and financial managers run your industry and your lobbyists are ex-Senators, understanding technology and innovation is not one of your core capabilities.

Not necessarily — Wheeler is a former cable lobbyist who was widely seen as a terrible choice for open - internet interests at first, but turned out to be one of the more progressive chairs in recent memory.

While things arguably haven't gone too badly so far, there are mounting factors such as vertical integration, subtle net neutrality violations and attempts by copyright lobbyists that are swinging the pendulum closer to the Repressive side of the spectrum.

Don't the banks have enough paid lobbyists?

But ISP lobbyists suggest electricity isn't that different from the Internet because it is a usage - based utility, and a non-neutral market has in fact emerged around it.

President Donald Trump's lawyer told ABC News on Sunday morning that Donald Trump Jr.'s meeting last June with Russian lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya and Russian - American lobbyist Rinat Akhmetshin was innocent because if it weren't, the Secret Service would not have «allowed these people in.»

Hours after a gunman killed more than 20 people in a Texas church, Sen. Chris Murphy issued a scathing statement blasting his colleagues in Congress for accepting money from gun lobbyists and what Murphy said was not doing enough to prevent the attack.

But while Obama refuses money from registered lobbyists, he's happy, as a Los Angeles Times report makes clear, to take contributions from their partners, not to mention the clients who hire them — a loophole large enough to drive a truck full of money through.

Fenwick McKelvey, an assistant professor in information and communication technology policy at Concordia University, said it's intriguing Facebook is not registered as a lobbyist, given that it's the most - popular social network.

Though one lobbyist representing Amazon expects new regulations to come gradually, rather than a single ruling banning delivery or making its widespread use legal, the next set of rules, anticipated as early as February, are not expected to allow for delivery.

«Business interests are generally not sold on the notion that Trump will be a more business - friendly candidate; there's a lot about Trump they don't know,» said Ed Rogers, a Republican lobbyist to the Journal.

The change she was offering was not away from a system dominated by PACs and corporate lobbyists.

But if you donate, you'll have pitched in to support an organization that's funded at the grassroots level by folks across the country — not Washington lobbyists or special - interest PACs.

They can't afford to hire a lobbyist to look out for their interests.

«When you're dealing with something like the bankruptcy issue, where all lenders stand pretty much in the same shoes, it shouldn't be a surprise when the smaller and larger banks find common cause,» said Steve Verdier, a lobbyist for the Independent Community Bankers Association.

And that's just another way of saying, «This joint runs great for those who can hire armies of lobbyists and lawyers and have them make big campaign contributions, but not here for real people.»»

On Wednesday's broadcast of CNN's «The Lead,» Senator Elizabeth Warren (D - MA) responded to Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Interim Director Mick Mulvaney's comments that there was a «hierarchy» in his Congressional office that he wouldn't talk to lobbyists who didn't give him money, but «might talk to» lobbyists who did by declaring the Trump administration the «Most corrupt administration ever.»

That doesn't necessarily mean Uber's operating costs were low — they spend money on everything from research and development to discounting worldwide to hiring lobbyists — but it did mean that Uber figured out a way to avoid adding drivers» employee benefits and car ownership, maintenance and insurance to those costs.

Their sincere and complete belief that laws can be changed based on the will of the people and not through paid lobbyists is truly inspirational.

Perhaps not many Icelanders realize that credit ratings agencies are, in effect, lobbyists for their clients, the financial sector.

The day after the New York Times published Gensler's remarks, lobbyist group Coin Center published a response from research director Peter Van Valkenburgh entitled «No, ether is not a security.»

When people see banks browbeating the bond rating agencies and accounting firms to whitewash the quality of what they're pawning off on their customers, when they see bank lobbyists getting Washington to block state prosecutions of financial fraud so as to clear the way for more predatory lending and false packaging of the junk securities they're selling and to win the right not to reveal their true financial position, there's a good reason not to buy what's in these black boxes.

As I mentioned earlier, the Treasury gave bank lobbyists the right not to disclose the accurate market value of their reserves, so nobody really knows their net worth or degree of negative equity.

And the Europeans are very angry that a few weeks ago Tim Geithner, the bank lobbyist, came over and insisted that Europe not forgive Greece's bank loans, not let Greece write down the loans, and indeed that it not even claim that Greece should do what Argentina is and write down the loans as a premise.

Conspiracy theories have started to widely circulate claiming that some of the most visible student activists are not actually students but «crisis actors» meant to carry a message for liberals and other anti-gun lobbyists.

Manafort, 68, and Gates, 45, remain under home confinement on pledges to pay $ 10 million and $ 5 million, respectively, if they fail to return to court after pleading not guilty Oct. 30 to charges of conspiracy, money laundering and making false lobbyist registration statements in connection with their work advising a Russia - friendly political party in Ukraine.

Despite its technical staff ruling in 2010 - 11 that Greece's foreign debts could not be paid and hence needed to be written off, its heads — first Dominique Strauss - Kahn and then Lagarde — acted in blatant conflict of interest to support the French bankers demands for payment in full, and U.S. demands by President Obama and Wall Street lobbyist Tim Geithner to insist there be no writedown at all.

Financial lobbyists and the their pet academics they corrupt promote austerity to weaken the demand for labor and drive down wages to a degree that could not occur on the company - by - company scale of clashing industrial employers and their workers.