Sentences with phrase «of lobbying company»

A group of environmental campaigners have temporarily occupied the premises of lobbying company Endelman.

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Sen. Feinstein cites conflict of interest since his law firm, though not Bernhardt, is paid to lobby for the company.

After five years of lobbying, the company is understandably disappointed.

In a time when tech companies are starting to behave like industry giants of the past, taking their interests — and their money — to K Street to influence legislation (consider Mark Zuckerberg's immigration lobby), it seems natural that several of these scrappy sharing - based start - ups are beginning to band together.

The company has also lobbied against a proposed cap on the number of scooters allowed in San Francisco.

This has a growing number of technology industry executives spooked, and for good reason: Companies including Amazon, Apple and Google rely on foreign talent, and have spent millions lobbying Congress to raise the H - 1B visa cap.

The head of personal investing at a $ 1.2 trillion fund manager says she plans to rescind investments in companies that haven't worked at reducing climate change — and she's lobbying other fund managers to follow suit.

The change is the result of months of lobbying and negotiations between the state's DMV and companies testing self - driving cars.

The lobby has a twisting slide; bright, funky art covers the walls; and there's the lively bustle of a company engaging in the very processes that the students are studying.

With pictures of the Guggenheim museum in the Toronto office lobby (an homage to parent company Guggenheim Funds Services Group) and the company's namesake, Scottish Claymore swords, in the boardroom, Seif's passion for the arts is visible.

It was around that time that Manafort and Gates «solicited two Washington, DC, firms (Company A and Company B) to lobby in the United States on behalf of» the Ukrainian government, according to the newly unsealed indictment.

«Disputes like this hurt the open Internet,» Craig Aaron, president and chief executive of Free Press, whose Save the Internet campaign lobbies to maintain net neutrality, wrote on the company's website Monday.

Signs are emerging that companies and investors are starting to push back against the gun industry and its main lobbying group, the National Rifle Association (NRA), in the wake of last week's Florida high school shooting.

But then again, as the president and chief executive of the Consumer Electronics Association — a powerful lobby group that represents more than 2,000 technology companies operating in the United States, including Samsung, Microsoft and Apple — he's supposed to be.

The companies, working with privacy rights activists, successfully lobbied Congress two years ago to pass legislation that curtailed the NSA's bulk collection of call records.

While tech companies often lobby Washington on privacy issues, the major firms have been hesitant to enter a fray over a controversial portion of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), industry lobbyists, congressional aides and civil liberties advocates said.

Companies like Quest Diagnostics (DGX), for instance, reportedly tests millions of urine samples every year and, along with other firms, is ramping up a lobbying push to block marijuana reform.

A pair of parrots in the lobby of the company's headquarters was trained to say «buy» and «hold.»

The company lobbies Washington on a wide range of issues including diabetes prevention, budget matters, chronic disease and making obesity an accepted medical disease that insurers will pay to prevent, Brooks said.

Tech companies and trade organizations disclosed they had 48 arrangements with lobby groups that discussed NAFTA with administration officials or lawmakers in the second quarter, up from 17 groups in the first quarter and one group at the end of 2016, according to the data.

The issue is symptomatic of the tension that exists between the technology industry — which increasingly relies on foreign talent, and has lobbied Congress to maintain existing immigration programs — and President Trump, who has repeatedly argued that companies abuse visa programs to avoid hiring American talent.

Technology companies, such as Microsoft and Cisco Systems have ramped up lobbying ahead of talks to renegotiate the North American Free Trade Agreement, looking to avoid any future restrictions on cloud storage and to promote an international pact to eliminate technology goods tariffs.

The Washington - based Organisation for International Investment (OFII), which represents the North American operations of HSBC and other global companies with US operations, is resisting the CFIUS legislation by lobbying lawmakers, according to people with knowledge of the matter.

The company also paid $ 1.2 million to consultants who were lobbying on behalf of the company's efforts to change law related to how grant funds are taxed, the report said.

Currently, a Vancouver bylaw restricts the number of permanent taxis to 588, and the city's four cab companies fiercely lobby to keep that number from rising.

The president has allowed for other exemptions, setting off a flurry of lobbying by countries and companies in the U.S. and abroad.

The lobbying on behalf of Inovo BV, a Dutch - based company owned by Alptekin, occurred from August through November.

The company reintroduced the drink at the behest of The Surge Movement, a Millennial - led online fan base that had spent years lobbying for its return.

It's a restrained approach compared with Google's aggressive lobbying campaign in 2006 when Sergey Brin, one of the company's co-founders, went to Capitol Hill to argue for the importance of net neutrality.

Tillerson, who flew to DC in 2010 to lobby against the section of the law driving the rule, argued that it placed an unfair burden on US companies that their foreign counterparts don't have to deal with — requiring them to disclose trade secrets.

More than 80 % of members of a U.S. business lobby in China say foreign companies are less welcome than in the past, a survey released on Wednesday showed, with most saying they have little confidence in China's vows to open its markets.

Signs for company Cambridge Analytica in the lobby of the building in which they are based on March 21, 2018 in London, England.

At the time, his company was little more than another bit provider of lobby watchmen.

The prospect of tariffs seemed likely to incite a period of fierce lobbying by foreign governments and multinational companies who will argue that their products should be exempted from any sanctions.

The company has ramped up efforts to hire Republican lobbying firms and in - house lobbyists to change the composition of its Washington office.

Since the beginning of this year, company executives have lobbied for more support from banks, as slowing growth and a property slump have reduced China's demand for steel.

Neither Kinsella nor Jiles was available for an interview, though Jiles released a statement Friday that said the company registers whenever it does work that meets the definition of lobbying.

The new venture probably won't affect the polarized healthcare debate in Washington, but could alter the dynamics of the issue down the line if the companies come up with some innovative ideas, said Neil Trautwein, a vice president at the National Retail Federation trade group who lobbies Congress on healthcare issues.

In the case of Whole Foods, Neuberger Berman lobbied for the activists to do the messy work of battling the company in public.

That's part of the reason US companies spent the past few weeks lobbying against the proposed tariffs, arguing that they'd raise costs for their businesses and make Chinese - made goods, like iPhones, more expensive for US customers.

The firm, created for the sole purpose of lobbying Taseko to replace two directors and give it a say in key company decisions, had no choice: by the meeting's cut - off date for advanced voting, with 50 % of the votes in, shareholders had voted a resounding 94 % against the dissident's proposals.

In February, Bloomberg reported that the company had «increased lobbying spending by more than 400 percent,» outpacing all of its rivals.

An article on Thursday about threats against critics of the video game industry misstated, at one point, part of the name of a lobbying group for video game companies.

«Threats of violence and harassment are wrong,» the Entertainment Software Association, the main lobbying group for big game companies, said in a statement.

After arm - twisting by Gov. Ann W. Richards, who had lobbied to keep Apple from going to another state, Mr. Hays joined two other commissioners to approve nearly $ 1 million in tax incentives to Apple in return for the company's agreeing to build an office complex in this suburban county a few miles north of Austin.

In the first three months of the year, his company spent $ 270,00 lobbying on «pipeline related issues.»

The most elite group, known as the Statesmen, whose members donated $ 250,000, included Aetna; Coca - Cola; Exxon Mobil; Koch Companies Public Sector, the lobbying arm of the highly political Koch Industries; Microsoft; Pfizer; UnitedHealth Group; and Walmart.

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.

IT industry lobby National Association of Software and Services Companies (NASSCOM) is in the process of setting up newer co-working centers, christened «Startup Warehouse», across major cities.

A coalition of at least 74 investors have filed proposals at 50 companies asking for lobbying reports that include federal and state lobbying payments, payments to trade associations used for lobbying, and payments to any tax - exempt organization that writes and endorses model legislation.