Sentences with phrase «of lobbying dollars»

You can't, hypothetically, groom an AI for years as your company's lawyer and then spend millions of lobbying dollars getting them into a position to eventually dismantle consumer protections as the head of the FCC, for example.

The authors found that four industries — automobiles and parts, basic resources, oil and gas, and utilities — devote the majority of their lobbying dollars to climate change topics.

Simplifying the tax code is a noble endeavor but we have all experienced the inability of Congress to crush the self - interests that without presidential leadership it attempts fail under the weight of lobbying dollars.

Not exact matches

The rising trend for taxes on sweetened drinks has prompted beverage industry giants like PepsiCo and Coca - Cola to spend billions of dollars on advertising and lobbying campaigns against the measures.

If you doubt this, then perhaps you might explain why Wall Street has spent millions of dollars lobbying against the fiduciary standard.

CEOs may snub a president who apologizes for white supremacy, but they'll continue to ring up Vice President Mike Pence, the repository of millions of dollars in corporate lobbying.

The biggest winners in the military buildup are the country's largest defense contractors, such as Boeing, Lockheed Martin and General Dynamics, which spend millions of dollars each year lobbying Congress.

«Just last week we exposed that several post-secondary institutions wasted thousands of dollars hiring B.C. Liberal - connected lobbyists to lobby the B.C. Liberal government,» said New Democrat justice spokesperson Leonard Krog.

Top technology companies have devoted lobbying dollars and dispatched their executives to the nation's capital in order to save the program, called Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, which benefits some of their employees.

Companies like Amazon, Facebook, Google and Microsoft spend many millions of dollars lobbying government each year, but their cries for immigration reform long have failed to penetrate the partisan divide on Capitol Hill.

For example, one study finds that for each dollar spent lobbying for a tax break, firms received returns in excess of $ 220.

Yet through the non-stop efforts of Jewish lobbying, US citizens are required to send billions of tax - payer dollars to Israel (each year forevermore) to subsidize their lifestyle.

Powerful lobbies such as the Pro Israel lobby, American Atheists and many others pay top dollar to have shills come to these forums, spread their agenda and copy whatever info they can get about the people who disagree with their point of view.

A cruel asymmetry exists in that the people we serve do not pay for the services they receive; they are not even organized into a lobby to push for their share of the Jewish community dollar.

After loosing his senate position Rick Santorum earned millions of dollars including payments from a lobbying firm, an energy company engaged in controversial practice which pollutes ground water and endangers the public and a hospital conglomerate that was sued for allegedly defrauding the federal government.

It's stupifying to see them make billions of dollars in tax - free earnings every year, and fighting - words to hear them lobby our public servants with those very funds.

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.

Gambling Industry Donates Millions to New York Politicians As Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature discuss the process of amending the State Constitution to allow up to seven new full - scale, privately owned casinos in New York, the gambling industry is funneling millions of dollars into lobbying efforts and campaign war chests.

The business lobby is serious about crushing «the little party that could» (a Newsday headline of a few years ago), spending millions of dollars on television and mail against WFP candidates, and even trying to hire well - known progressive public relations firms to wage a PR battle against them.

The I - Team reviewed lobbying records and found the insurance industry spent hundreds of thousands of dollars trying to influence Albany lawmakers in 2017.

The witness was «pressured» to arrange for Adam Skelos to be paid «hundreds of thousands of dollars in order to influence official actions by Dean Skelos,» according to the complaint, with the cash coming in response to a «series of demands made to Developer - 1 by Dean Skelos,» including while the developer was lobbying Mr. Skelos on legislation critical to its business success.

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A lobbying group closely allied with the policies of Governor Andrew Cuomo has been in the news a lot in the past couple of days, in articles raising questions about multi-million dollar donations to the group known as the Committee to Save New York, and policies later advocated by the governor.

But UFC promoters have spent nearly a decade and millions of dollars on lobbying to get it legalized in New York, which until this year remained the last state where pro matches had been illegal.

Advocates spent a million dollars on television ads and countless hours lobbying and holding demonstrations in favor of adopting a publicly funded, matching small donor system for statewide races, including the governor and the legislature.

Mayor Bloomberg aggressively lobbied against the legislation claiming it would cost the City of New York $ 16 million dollars.

He worked with Cuomo in 2012 and 2013 to lobby Washington lawmakers to pass a multibillion dollar aid package after Hurricane Sandy, and he has been a vocal supporter of Cuomo in the months since.

Thousands of dollars, so he supports the legislation that the gun lobby supports.

The company has spent hundreds of thousands of dollars lobbying state officials on issues related to medical malpractice, according to the state's lobbying database.

Glenwood, which not accused of any crime, paid nearly a million dollars to lobbying firms.

Connor: I think Cuomo's very beholden to corporate interests, particularly individuals from the finance sector of New York City who have donated tens of thousands of dollars to his campaigns — directly to Cuomo himself but also to his affiliated organization, the Committee to Save New York, which is this opaque lobbying organization that has fought for his various budget proposals.

News Corporation, which was one of the two companies that lobbied for the bill, was at the time investing tens of millions of dollars in such a publication.

In recent years, PRI has spent hundreds of thousands of dollars lobbying state officials on legislation related to medical malpractice.

The gaming industry has spent hundreds of thousands of dollars this year lobbying the state's executive and legislative branches, and if recent news is any indication, the investment is paying off.

Maple Street Charter School, the for - profit charter school hoping to open in Rochester next year, has paid tens of thousands of dollars to a lobbying firm at the center of a rapidly expanding federal investigation into improper influence in Albany.

«When millions and millions of dollars are spent on lobbying, there's no way for a disinterested decision to be made,» said Stephen Shafer, of Coalition Against Gambling.

Seneca Nations of Indians President Robert Odawi Porter, in Albany today to lobby on gaming issues, admitted that he can't match the thousands of dollars being poured into campaign coffers by Genting New York.

Which is EXACTLY what GE did (hundreds of millions of dollars spent on lobbying).

That the Governor who raised 33 million dollars from real - estate donors and corporate entities before the gubernatorial campaign even started may have allowed undue influence for these entities to lobby and pass legislation they desired as a result of their donations to the Cuomo campaign war chest.

For example the firm of the Assembly Speaker's former press secretary, Patricia Lynch Associates, netted nearly $ 8 million dollars form lobbying clients.

A lobbying group closely allied with the policies of Governor Andrew Cuomo has been in the news a lot in the past couple of days, in articles raising questions about multi million dollar donations to the group known as the Committee to Save New York, and policies later advocated by the governor.

The governor's change of plans come amid reports that the gambling company Genting, contributed over $ 2 million dollars to a lobby group closely associated with the governor.

The Committee to Save New York has made public, under state lobbying disclosure rules, that they've spent over $ 12 million dollars on advertising and other promotions of Governor Cuomo's policy agenda, including a property tax cap and budget cuts.

The New York Times reports that the Committee to Save New York, a lobbying group of primarily business interests that has run ad campaigns to support the governor's positions, received $ 2 million dollars from Genting in December.

The hearing comes two days after the New York Times reported that a lobby group closely associated with Governor Cuomo, the Committee to Save New York, had received over $ 2 million dollars from the gambling corporation Genting, just weeks before Cuomo made a Genting convention center project the centerpiece of his State of the State message.

Brooklyn's Maimonides Medical Center bought ads on Hikind's radio show through Hikind's for - profit ad agency while the hospital was applying for hundreds of thousands of dollars in state grant money and lobbying the assemblyman for help.

ALBANY — Companies involved in bidding for casino licenses in New York State spent nearly $ 11 million on lobbying and campaign donations in 2012 and 2013, and are donating hundreds of thousands of dollars to campaign committees through holding companies, according to a new report from the New York Public Interest Research Group.

«Tenants are always on the defensive in Albany because of the millions of dollars the real estate lobby throws at our politicians every year,» said Michael McKee, Treasurer, Tenants Political Action Committee.

As former NYC Mayor Rudy Giuliani rails against Black Lives Matter, his law firm reaps tens of thousands of dollars lobbying Congress for the biggest operator of private prisons in America.

Capalino has steered tens of thousands of dollars in donations to the mayor — $ 50,000 after lobbying for Rivington, $ 40,000 for de Blasio's reelection campaign, and $ 10,000 to the Campaign for One New York — the mayor's controversial nonprofit.