Sentences with phrase «of advocacy groups say»

A number of advocacy groups say there's an opportunity for lawmakers to act to address some of the harm that they say President Donald Trump's policies are causing.

A number of advocacy groups say there's an opportunity for lawmakers to act to address some of the harm that they say President Trump's policies are causing.

A pair of advocacy groups said they're going to court to overturn the Trump administration's ban on transgender troops serving in the military, in the latest legal assault on the controversial directive.

«Toxic Dangers in Plastic Baby Bottles --» In the latest assault on plastics widely used in consumer products, a coalition of advocacy groups says that heating plastic baby bottles releases harmful quantities of Bisphenol A (BPA) into milk.»»

Not exact matches

«The schools have reasonably concluded that they are quite likely to become the next target of OCR if they follow their religious convictions on these matters,» said Baylor, whose Christian legal advocacy group has advised some colleges on how to seek the exemptions.

Health Care: «I don't think there is much doubt as to where Senator Clinton is on the issue of health care,» says Raymond J. Keating, chief economist for the Small Business & Entrepreneurship Council, a small - business advocacy group based in Vienna, Virginia.

«Jeb Bush has a big interest in Latin America, and I expect he would follow in the footsteps of [his] father and brother in being more internationally focused on trade issues,» says Todd McCracken, president and chief executive of the National Small Business Association, a business advocacy group.

Graham Richard, chief executive officer of clean energy advocacy business group Advanced Energy Economy, said the report «seriously overstates the challenges associated with new energy resources.»

Public Knowledge, a consumer advocacy group, said Pai had a «history of attacking consumer protections» and urged him to keep the FCC's recent initiatives intact.

Owners may also feel better about borrowing when they see what the Trump administration and Congress can accomplish in terms of taxes and regulations, says Raymond Keating, chief economist with the advocacy group Small Business & Entrepreneurship Council.

«The Trump administration has made very clear that they've declared war on the immigrant community on all levels,» said Javier Valdez, co-executive director of the advocacy group Make the Road New York.

In the mid-to-late 1990s, says MacKenzie, big companies «steered clear of [advocacy groups] like the third rail of the subway.»

«Instead of working to protect American families, President Trump's plans put the interest of big - money special interests over people,» said Nat Mund, legislative director of the Southern Environmental Law Center, a Virginia - based advocacy group.

Edwin Lyman, a physicist at the Union of Concerned Scientists, a science advocacy group based in Washington, says solving the problem of plutonium storage is urgent.

«In order to trade securities, they need to be a broker - dealer,» said Jerry Brito, executive director at Coin Center, a digital currency advocacy group based in Washington, D.C. «I could imagine [Coinbase] could sell a number of other tokens» with the license.

Following Chan's appearance, the founder of ethics advocacy group Democracy Watch said he plans to file a formal complaint with the lobbying commissioner.

Meanwhile, Craig Aaron, president and CEO of the net neutrality advocacy group Free Press also voiced dissatisfaction with the ruling, saying it allows phone and cable companies to «block and discriminate» against their customers» communications.

«I recommend routinely tracking what the industry analyst firms like Gartner are reporting about your industry, as well as trade associations and advocacy groups,» says Becky Sheetz - Runkle, author of Sun Tzu for Women: The Art of War for Winning in Business.

«This is not the deal that we have wanted to see,» says John Arensmeyer, CEO of Small Business Majority, an advocacy group.

Daniel Bernhard, executive director of the advocacy group Friends of Public Broadcasting, said he was optimistic about Tait's tenure, but needed to wait and see how she changes the CBC.

Li & Fung's ability to exert pressure on factories can have unfortunate consequences, said Guadalupe Palma, director of Warehouse Workers United, a labor advocacy group.

Joy Schoffler, principal of Leverage PR and board member of CFIRA, the crowdfunding industry's advocacy group, says the SEC and Congress members need to be reminded to ignore the naysayers.

«I certainly believe that logically thinking people would look to North Carolina and look to Indiana,» said Chuck Smith, chief executive of Equality Texas, an LGBTQ advocacy group.

Jonathan Zaid, the executive director of patient advocacy group Canadians for Fair Access to Medical Marijuana, said the enhanced coverage comes after years of litigation to gain this level of acceptance for medical marijuana.

We need the consumer being confident and strong, having those extra dollars to go out and have a set of wine glasses or buy some extra dinnerware,» said Walt Rowen, owner of Susquehanna Glass Co. in Columbia, Pa., at the press conference Small Business Majority, an advocacy group based in Washington, D.C.

It's not too much of an exaggeration to say the 2012 budget was inspired by, and might as well have been written by, Ethical Oil, the oil - patch advocacy group inspired by an Ezra Levant book, and by Vivian Krause, a British Columbia blogger who spins tales of foreign meddling in Canada's mineral wealth.

Tom Angell, cannabis advocacy group the Marijuana Majority, says it is hypocritical of the U.S. to deploy the Drug Enforcement Administration around the world while legalizing marijuana at home.

Although many of these drone advocacy groups differed with the FAA and DOT on the finalized registration process, Swanson said a number of groups banned together and agreed to be on the registration task force to «forestall more serious and tighter regulation from the Hill.»

says David Marlett, founder and executive director of the National Crowdfunding Association, an industry advocacy group.

Dan Gatti of the advocacy group Environment America says the Arkansas spill provides a glimpse into what would happen if the Keystone pipeline got built.

At the same time, opposition is so strong,» said Nikki Skuce, a resident of Smithers, B.C., and a campaigner for the environmental group Forest Ethics Advocacy.

Mike Toohey, president of the Waterways Council Inc, an inland waterways infrastructure advocacy group, said he was pleased to see the president addressing what he called the «silent r» of the transportation system — rivers.

«The $ 5 fee to cover administrative costs may prevent users from registering for both convenience and cost, especially in the case of small toy - like UAVs [unmanned aerial vehicle],» said a statement from the Small UAV Coalition, a drone advocacy group that includes Amazon (AMZN), Google (GOOG), and drone manufacture DJI.

Brian Wynne, the president and CEO of the advocacy group the Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International, said the FAA has so far analyzed and approved over 5,500 exemptions to use drones for 42 different types of drone operations.

When announcing the creation of his political advocacy group, Zuckerberg wrote a Washington Post op - ed, saying that technology leaders must band together to «advocate a bipartisan policy agenda to build the knowledge economy the United States needs to ensure more jobs, innovation and investment.»

Girls who are on social media are more likely to feel dissatisfied about their bodies,» Josh Golin, executive director of the advocacy group, said on Democracy Now!

Further, if the payment were a loan from Cohen, Trump may have had a duty to report it in his June 2017 financial disclosure form to the Office of Government Ethics, said Trevor Potter, a former Republican FEC commissioner and founder of campaign finance advocacy group Campaign Legal Center, in a statement.

A New York City advocacy group for low - income and minority residents filed a lawsuit against JPMorgan Chase Bank last fall for what it says are illegal and exploitative tactics that have cost the two named plaintiffs thousands of dollars in penalty fees it contends they shouldn't have had to pay.

Immigration advocacy groups have said that ending the program would be a coldhearted step that would yield no benefit to the nation while endangering large numbers of young people raised in the United States who are seeking to work and pay taxes.

Muslim Advocates, a legal advocacy group, presented the social media giant with a list of 26 different groups that they viewed as hate groups in December of 2017, but 24 of those remain active, they say.

«««By voting to roll back the CFPB's work, senators have emboldened banks and finance companies to engage in racial discrimination by charging millions of people of color more for a car loan than is justified,» said Rion Dennis of Americans for Financial Reform, an advocacy group.

«A new U.S. rule aimed at restoring consumers» ability to band together to sue financial companies has survived its first challenge, as a top banking regulator on Monday said he would not petition for it to be suspended... «The rule is a well thought - out response to the serious consumer harm of forced arbitration,» said Brian Marshall, policy counsel for advocacy group Americans for Financial Reform.»

«We tried this legislative approach,» said Mr. Barden, a founder and managing director of Sandy Hook Promise, a nonprofit advocacy group created after the massacre.

However, imposing taxes on products used daily by American consumers and job creators is not the way to achieve those ends,» said Myron Brilliant, executive vice president of the US Chamber of Commerce, an advocacy group that has long been opposed to Trump's trade policy.

Another of Ramirez's lawyers, Mark Rosenbaum of the legal advocacy group Public Counsel, characterized the DACA program as a promise from the federal government's executive branch that DACA recipients would not be targeted for deportation and said he hoped that promise would not be broken.

But even the expansion of rent controls to newer buildings, which has been welcomed by tenant groups, hasn't made finding an affordable rental easier, said Mary Todorow, research / policy analyst with the Advocacy Centre for Tenants Ontario.

Steph says that one of the best ways to ensure your employee advocacy solution launches successfully is to identify a savvy group of employees who would be naturally inclined toward sharing content.

Breadwinners: «If anyone in your life depends on you financially, you need life insurance,» said Marvin Feldman, CEO of consumer advocacy group LifeHappens.org.

Facebook «goes into this endless hairsplitting that people should have known,» said Marc Rotenberg, president and executive director of the Electronic Privacy Information Center, a nonprofit advocacy group that has brought privacy cases before the FTC.

said Katharina Kopp, director of policy for the Center for Digital Democracy, a privacy advocacy group.