Sentences with phrase «of lobbying activities»

The same is true of lobbying activities.

The bill passed by the Senate includes anti-nepotism provisions, today: · Prohibits gifts from lobbyists and their clients of more than nominal value, including travel, lodging and other expenses, and broaden the types of lobbying activities that lobbyists must disclose; · Prohibits elected government officials and candidates for elected local, state or federal office from appearing in taxpayer - funded advertisements; · Closes the «revolving door» loophole by prohibiting former legislative employees from directly lobbying the Legislature for two years, and expands the revolving door restrictions for Executive Chamber employees to preclude appearances before any state agency; · Prohibits non-legislative employees from using their authority or influence to «compel or induce» any other employee to make political contributions; · Prohibits state employees from participating in any personnel decision or contracting matter concerning a relative.

«It's very hard to do a broad assessment of lobbying activities.»

They said they increased disclosure of lobbying activities and made it more difficult for «independent» campaign committees to coordinate spending efforts with candidates.

The agreement promises Howe, whose ties to Cuomo go back three decades, «favorable treatment» and «leniency» in the event that he's criminally charged, in exchange for full details of his lobbying activities on behalf of several major state contractors with senior Cuomo administration officials.

Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver said earlier this week that his chamber and the governor have a «virtual agreement» that includes «issues of financing, of disclosure, of lobbying activities by non-lobbyists.»

Chan, ex-policy director for former Liberal leader Michael Ignatieff, defended himself by saying it was unnecessary for him to register since the proportion of his lobbying activities falls well short of the Lobbying Act's 20 per cent minimum threshold.

Any given corporation is likely to get the full benefits of its lobbying activities, but only a tiny, probabilistic share of the benefits of public investment in education.

Parliament also needs to act with urgency to adopt legislation for a mandatory register of all lobbying activity so that the UK public knows who is lobbying whom for what, and how much they are paying for it.

Campaigners say that as little as 1 % of lobbying activity will be affected by it.

The lobbying bill — the Transparency of Lobbying, Non-party Campaigning and Trade Union Administration Bill — is now being examined in a most intense hub of lobbying activity in the UK, namely the House of Lords.

«Streamline and standardize disclosure of lobbying activity for better analysis and easier evaluation by the public.»

Common Cause has requested that the IRS investigate ALEC's 501 (c)(3) status for participating in a significant amount of lobbying activity by promulgating corporate - sponsored model bills and providing resources to the legislators promoting those bills.

Not exact matches

Google has dramatically increased its lobbying activities in Washington in the past few years: it spent US$ 8.95 million on lobbying just in the first half of 2012 (compare that to the US$ 9.7 million it spent in all of 2011).

This is another membership benefit which, like its current lobbying activity on behalf of motorists, doesn't derive a direct profit for the RAC but still sits comfortably with its core business.

Corporate political activity accounts for 26 percent of all ESG resolutions, with slightly more than half of them focusing on pressuring companies to increase disclosure of how companies lobby elected officials and regulators and insight into the reasons behind the lobbying.

The sporting goods store, under fire for refusing to sell rifles to anyone under the age of 21, is now officially lobbying Congress for gun control, according to federal lobbying activity records.

Dick's Sporting Goods, under fire for refusing to sell rifles to anyone under the age of 21, is now officially lobbying Congress for gun control, according to federal lobbying activity records.

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.

The Brewers Association recently mailed brewery members a letter regarding percentage of dues not tax deductible due to lobbying activities.

The Company has put in place effective compliance procedures for, and oversight of, lobbying activities, corporate contributions and Kraft Heinz PAC political expenditures.

While it's true that our letter relates to the activities of an organization of which Nancy and I are not members, let's not forget that SNA's lobbying efforts, if successful, will have an impact extending well beyond the organization's «family» of 55,000 school food workers.

This is one of the reasons we are so concerned about the lobby activities of ITSSD.

Free lobby activities: The lobby always has some sort of free activity or show going on for the kids.

Although your conferences, events, policy summits, lobby days, fly - ins, call - ins, rallies, and other all kinds of other activities will likely be taking place at an actual venue, you can just set up your own venue with the name of your event.

However, in its proposals, the term «lobbyist» is narrowly defined as those who undertake lobbying activities on behalf of a third party client.

The firm advised the best strategy would be to try and generate Tory splits on the issue with «strong local lobbying response in order to mitigate and combat the activities of Eric Pickles.»

Its provisions include putting tighter controls on lobbying and activities of political action committees that are independent of candidates.

It also comes as the consulting and lobbying firm, which had guided NYCLASS» political activities and press, has endured a barrage of bad reports related to campaign activities last year.

Under the changes — demanded by Cuomo in the wake of the arrest of former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver — groups spending more than $ 5,000 lobbying municipalities with populations of more than 5,000 will have to register that activity; the previous cutoff had been populations of 50,000 or more.

Skelos spokesman John McArdle said the senator had no knowledge of the activities of the lobbying firm, which is overseen by Ruskin Moscou partner Arthur (Jerry) Kremer, a former Assembly Democrat.

As attorney general, Cuomo launched Project Sunlight, a comprehensive online database of information related to campaign finance, lobbying activity and state contracts.

County officials, however, said that disclosures are required for all «lobbying activity,» regardless of company title.

Only certain areas — information on lobbying activity, fines and penalties, and the disclosure reports «filed pursuant to section seventy - three - a of the public officers law» — are subject to New York's transparency laws.

«The lack of disclosure of local lobbying activities in these communities makes it impossible to know how much is being spent to influence these governments and highlights that no single entity is charged with monitoring these activities,» the NYPIRG report found.

Conservative environment spokesman Peter Ainsworth said: «The question of our future energy supply is crucial and we can't have these decisions made on the basis of hidden links to the nuclear industry or lobbying activities.

By the end of 2016, Kramer Levin reported receiving more than $ 3 million in revenue from its activities lobbying the city.

«We believe that certain activities of the Democratic, Republican, Conservative and Working Families political parties have been oriented toward passage of state legislation and may be considered lobbying under the definition contained in the state's Lobbying Law,» NYPIRG writes in thelobbying under the definition contained in the state's Lobbying Law,» NYPIRG writes in theLobbying Law,» NYPIRG writes in the letter.

Washington (CNN)-- From staging rallies to mounting a caravan through California to setting up phone banks to more private lobbying activists on all sides of the immigration issue are vowing a month of activities to try to push members of Congress and the public over immigration reform during the coming congressional recess.

They're still around, though their registration to engage in lobbying activities in 2013 hasn't posted on the website of the Joint Commission on Public Ethics.

For more than a year, a major priority of the New York's lobbying and ethics watchdog panel has been writing «comprehensive lobbying regulations» that would govern the activity of state lobbyists and their clients.

In addition, the definition of lobbying will be expanded to include advocacy to affect the «introduction» of legislation or resolutions, a change that will help to ensure that all relevant lobbying activities are regulated by JCOPE.

The only detailed information in Parkside's disclosure report covering activity in September and October is that they lobbied Assembly staffer Joseph Garba and the offices of the chairmen who oversee gaming: Assemblyman Gary Pretlow and State Sen. John Bonacic.

The amount appears to be more than double the previous record for spending by any lobbying client during these months, a time of year when most political activity is directed toward elections and lobbying campaigns rarely top a few hundred thousand dollars, according to information maintained by the Joint Commission on Public Ethics.

'' Kirsten John Foye has been engaged in lobbying activities on behalf of Airbnb,»» Tom Cayley of the West Side Neighborhood Alliance said in a complaint filed with the state Joint Commission on Public Ethics and the City Clerk.

«We believe that certain activities of the Democratic, Republican, Conservative and Working Families political parties have been oriented toward passage of state legislation and may be considered lobbying under the definition contained in the state's Lobbying Law,» NYPIRG wrote in alobbying under the definition contained in the state's Lobbying Law,» NYPIRG wrote in aLobbying Law,» NYPIRG wrote in a letter.

«Conduct and activities of The Advance Group during the last election cycle may have involved the coordinating of independent expenditure Super PACs with official campaigns, and The Advance Group provided unpaid lobbying services to a public official and, as a consequence, The Advance Group will benefit from selling access to the public official to influence official acts,» the complaint alleges.

And you can't judge all our lobbying activities until you see all of the filings.»

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.

With regard to lobby reform, the legislation expands disclosure requirements for lobbyists to include «reportable business relationships» of more than $ 1,000, and activity that includes lobbying to affect legislation or resolutions.