Sentences with phrase «of lobbying bill»

Scottish Labour MSP Mary Fee says her party backs the general principles of the Lobbying Bill which are transparency, accountability and openness.

... Liberal Democrat sources said the government will retreat on some parts of the lobbying bill as early as next week, after charities raised serious concerns that it would have a «chilling effect» on their ability to campaign.»

As reported by Guido, a range of think tanks and campaign groups have this afternoon written to the Government expressing concerns about the impact of the Lobbying Bill on their work:

The sad tale of the Lobbying Bill shows us how.

The government's transparency of lobbying bill will only require consultancies whose main business is lobbying to take part.

«The government may be preparing for a humiliating climb down on some of the worst parts of the lobbying bill.

Not exact matches

Their lobbying effort will begin once MPs start debating the government's budget implementation bill, which in its current form would apply the taxes to all but a small group of cannabis - based drugs.

But small business groups such as the National Federation of Independent Business and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce are vocal opponents, and have lobbied extensively to fight the passage of wage reform bills in Congress.

Republicans executed a plan - the timing, the language of the bills, the media strategy, and perhaps most importantly, the behind - the - scenes lobbying of top Republicans including Snyder.

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.

The patent fight billed as the «Ali - Frazier Fight of Biotech,» and a «clash of titans,» and the «last great priority dispute of the «first - to - invent» era of US patent law» (um, okay, that final image is perhaps less evocative) had its first and only hearing before judges yesterday — and the line to get a glimpse of the brief proceedings wound its way around the lobby Christmas tree in the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office building in Alexandria, Virginia (a view of which can be found here, in lawyer Jacob Sherkow's enthusiastic Twitter feed).

While in the midst of putting together one of her perfectly structured pay - for - play deals to help kill an import - tax bill (even hiring actors as instigators among the protesters), Sloane is asked to take the lead in her firm helping the gun lobby attract scared moms.

Tester said the bill would ban members of Congress from lobbying for five years upon leaving their seats.

The three lobbyists tapped by Dick's to push for gun control are listed by name in the federal disclosure forms, which are required by the Lobbying Disclosure Act of 1995 to be filed quarterly: Joel Johnson, who worked for both President Bill Clinton and Senate Democrat leadership; Andrew King, who worked for Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.)

A Canadian subsidiary of Equifax Inc. is lobbying Ontario politicians to pump the brakes on a government bill — proposed after the massive data breach at the Atlanta - based company last year — that could provide consumers stronger controls over information held by it and other credit - reporting agencies.

The company bills itself as «the most experienced group of targeters in Republican politics,» offering media analytics services to corporations, lobbying groups, and GOP political campaigns seeking to reach specific target demographics.

Afterward, at an event kicking off a lobbying day for more than 300 evangelical pastors on Capitol Hill, Richard Land, president of the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission and a leader of Evangelical Immigration Table, said that anyone who says the bill provides amnesty needs «a course in remedial English.»

From the church directory in the hotel lobby, Bill chose the name of a clergyman at random.

The Bill, which was passed by 268 votes to 177 and now goes to the House of Lords, is strongly supported by the Catholic Education Service (CES), which last week hailed an amendment to the Bill that it said it had secured after «extensive lobbying».

The government's controversial Lobbying Bill has been temporarily put on hold following months of pressure from religious groups, charities, thinktanks and NGOs to give it further scrutiny and for major changes to be made before it is passed.

The government's controversial Lobbying Bill has been temporarily put on hold following months of pressure from religious groups, charities, thinktanks... More

Then, when the United Nations was founded at San Francisco in 1945, non-governmental groups lobbied to include a bill of rights in the body's charter.

In earlier years, when mainline churches and parachurch organizations like Bread for the World lobbied on the farm bill, they emphasized the importance of nutrition programs.

The mere $ 440,000.00 that trade groups spent lobbying against this bill would improve the quality of school lunches for every kid in my state for twelve years.

The food companies that produce frozen pizzas, salt and potatoes have lobbied Congress for changes and now the final version of the bill released last Monday would block or delay school lunch standards the Agriculture Department proposed earlier this year, according to the Associated Press.

The companies have the Department of Trade and Industry lobbying legislators on their behalf, while the Department of Health, WHO and UNICEF have said in joint statement that the draft bill: «aims to support multinational companies while damaging the Filipino society: families, the mothers and children.»

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.

He has assisted NACPM with lobbying efforts, working for the passage of the Access to Certified Professional Midwives bill in the U.S. Congress to gain federal recognition of Certified Professional Midwives, and worked with NACPM on a project basis in 2014.

«Davis lobbied Sen. Blanche Lincoln, the author of the Senate bill, to drop the provision,» says McGehee.

In the wake of this lobbying, the provision calling for further study of functional ingredients was dropped from the Senate version of the bill.

The Hagstrom Report (subscription only) reports that Stan Garnett, former director of child nutrition at the Agriculture Department, «has resigned from the School Nutrition Association over its efforts to encourage members to lobby Congress to pass a bill requiring the USDA to waive healthier school meal requirements to any school that says it has lost money in the program for six months.»

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.

In the last Congressional session, industry lobbying succeeded in getting language into the House Education and the Workforce Committee's draft Child Nutrition Reauthorization (CNR) bill that would have allowed all FFVP schools to serve «all forms» of produce, expressly stating that the program is «no longer limited to only fresh fruits and vegetables.»

With the debate over the 2012 Farm Bill currently underway in the Senate, most of the media's attention has been focused on how direct payments — subsidies doled out regardless of actual farming — are being replaced with crop insurance, in a classic shell game that Big Ag's powerful lobby is likely to pull off.

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

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.

But this bill does nothing to clean up lobbying or to keep big money out of politics.

We initially feared that the transparency of lobbying, non-party campaigning and trade union administration bill would be a crude party political attack on unions.

Ministers face howls of anger after publishing the transparency of lobbying, non-party campaigning and trade union administration bill.

Lobbying filings show Lyft has retained Berlin Rosen, a consulting firm with ties to Mayor Bill de Blasio's administration and has done campaign work for a host of elected officials, including Attorney General Eric Schneiderman and City Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito.

«If this bill is about cleaning up lobbying it should be used to clean up the lobbying at the heart of Downing Street.

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.

The opposition will whip its MPs through the «aye» lobby when it comes to the general second reading vote, but vote against the programme motion which seeks to restrict the amount of time the bill will be debated for.

Frontbenchers of all parties will be hoping the lobbying bill will placate public anger after the latest wave of scandals hit Westminster this spring.

Firefighters, who were at the Capitol today to lobby for two priority bills, say that like local governments they are hindered by a 2 percent property tax cap and are increasingly running the risk of slashing EMS services if the money to pay for services isn't there.

With an aggressive lobbying effort, apparently strong public support and even the endorsement of the governor, you'd think a bill to legalize ride - hailing services in upstate would pass pretty quickly whenever legislators end up returning to Albany.

Also at noon, the Coalition for Affordable Homes lobbies members of the state Assembly and Senate to support bills A7406 / S648 that would create a tax on real estate speculation, Million Dollar Staircase, state Capitol, Albany.

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.

Mosley was one of the original sponsors of the legislation, but withdrew his name from the bill after a lobbying campaign by those favor it.

This being Albany of course (some things never change), the bill language had yet to be finalized which led to days of advocates on both sides of the issue shuttling between Silver's outer office off the floor and the Senate lobby where the real estate lobbyists hung out.