Sentences with phrase «of lobbying reports»

During his presidential campaign, Barack Obama promised to «create a centralized Internet database of lobbying reports, ethics records and campaign finance filings in a searchable, sortable and downloadable format.»

The unions have been joined by several groups supportive of issues they've opposed, such as expansion of charter schools and a tax credit that would redirect money to private schools, according to a POLITICO New York analysis of lobbying reports submitted to the Joint Commission on Public Ethics and campaign finance disclosure reports submitted by state - level candidates and parties to the Board of Elections.

Are any of the lobby reporting the result of the footy this morning.

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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.

USA Today in late February reported that Shulkin's assistant secretary for public and intergovernmental affairs, John Ullyot, in a call initiated by Cashour, had lobbied a senior aide on the House Committee on Veterans Affairs to persuade members of Congress to call the White House and request Shulkin's ouster.

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.

He was previously monitored under a separate FISA authorization that began in 2014, the report said, as part of an investigation into US lobbying firms» undisclosed work for the Ukrainian government.

Business Insider reported on Friday that Bank of America had been lobbying shareholders who own as few as 500 shares in the hopes of winning their votes.

Business Insider reported last week, meanwhile, that the California State Teachers» Retirement System, one of the biggest pension funds in the world, was lobbying shareholders to vote against the proposal.

The Internet Association, a D.C. - based tech lobbying group representing industry titans like Google, Amazon, and Twitter, will be filing legal arguments as an intervening party in support of the legal push to restore net neutrality, according to a report from Recode's Tony Romm.

A report published Monday indicates Dick's Sporting Goods hired three lobbyist for the purposes of lobbying Congress on matters «related to gun control.»

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

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.

the real estate industry's largest lobby groups, Mortgage Professionals Canada, released a report last month analyzing the state of the country's housing market, it found, to absolutely no one's surprise, zero evidence of a bubble that would warrant political intervention.

When one of the real estate industry's largest lobby groups, Mortgage Professionals Canada, released a report last month analyzing the state of the country's housing market, it found, to absolutely no one's surprise, zero evidence of a bubble that would warrant political intervention.

Last week, the New York Times reported that a group of venture capitalists has lobbied the US Securities and Exchange Commission to create a «safe harbor» for some currencies, which would presumably include ether.

The more than 50 resolutions addressing lobbying expenditures, John Keenan of AFSCME Capital Strategies wrote in the report, allow investors to ensure that «lobbying is consistent with a company's expressed goals and being done in the best interests of the company and shareholders.»

In a draft letter from the Futures Industry Association — the industry lobby group whose members include banks such as JPMorgan and Goldman Sachs — to the CFTC, the implementation of bitcoin futures contracts «did not allow for proper public transparency and input,» reports the Financial Times, who have reportedly seen the draft.

In a week when business lobby groups are appearing before the House of Commons Committee on Finance and calling for more tax breaks, the federal R&D Panel appointed a year ago released a very good report saying Canada's very generous system of R&D tax incentives haven't been effective and what we need instead are more direct grants -LSB-...]

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.

** Enbridge Inc denied conflict of interest claims on Tuesday after a media report found that the head of United States energy regulator had been paying $ 50 a day for a property near Capitol Hill linked to the chairman of a key Washington lobby firm that represents the Calgary - based pipeline company.

At this time, we're not gonna go into what Pai's motives may have been but it has been reported that the NRA, which has been lobbying for the repeal of these regulations has now honored him with a valuable handmade Kentucky long gun as a prize for the part he played «standing up under pressure with grace, dignity and principled discipline»

La Repubblica reported that the cardinals found evidence of a «gay lobby» within the Vatican but gave few details about it.

She has helped AFSA establish its voice and authority on a range of issues and secured frequent meetings with a number of politicians to lobby for significant reform, as well as leading the process for submissions to government inquiries, including the Productivity Commission's inquiry into the impact of regulation on agriculture, and the Victorian Government's Animal Industries Advisory Committee, which released its report in 2016 that includes recommendations for more scale - appropriate application of the planning scheme around extensive and intensive animal husbandry.

The strength of the European food industry's opposition to the traffic - light system is illustrated by the volume of scientific reports produced by food industry bodies in Europe and the intensive lobbying of EU parliamentarians around the time of the vote.

The daughter of former Chicago Bulls great Scottie Pippen was arrested in an Iowa hotel after peeing in the hotel lobby, the Daily News reports.

Harbaugh being so open about the team's interest in Kaepernick as a means of lobbying the owner makes more sense with that insight and the report from Russini.

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.»

Meanwhile, a few other reports did a better job of explaining the massive industry lobbying at play.

The lobby didn't seem wholly convinced and David Cameron quickly dubbed the report «complete junk» but it had the effect of flushing out the truth on a number of Conservative Party positions.

The report released on Monday by lobbying and ethics regulators found the top lobbying entities this year so far have been the New York State Nurses Association, which spent $ 2.3 million — nearly double than what the group spent in the first six months of last year.

The fine stemmed from the company's use of a third - party service incorrectly reporting lobbying figures to the Joint Commission on Public Ethics as the company pushed back against New York City's efforts to curtail its operations.

The paper also reported that more than half of that cash has come from the biggest players in Albany: Labor unions, the real estate and construction industries, the health care sector and lobbying firms.

The Trump International Hotel recently took in about $ 270,000 in payments tied to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia as the country fights to roll back a U.S. terrorism law, according to newly filed lobbying reports.

New York's Joint Commission on Public Ethics released its 2011 lobbying report this week, which found that the lobbying industry spent a record sum of $ 220 million last year in its efforts to influence state legislators.

Sometime after midnight on the last day of the legislative session — with zero public hearings, public review or consultation — Governor Cuomo rammed through a bill that includes very vague and very broad new reporting requirements for charitable groups which engage in lobbying or coordination with related charitable groups.

Their lobbying had a huge positive impact; giving the push for marriage equality new momentum, as did lobbying and reporting by Benjamin Cohen of Pink News.

In addition, although the investigation of independent expenditure groups was part of the commission's mandate, the governor's staff allegedly told commissioners not to mention a pro-Cuomo organization, the Committee to Save New York — which spent more than $ 16 million on lobbying and elections without fully disclosing the source of its contributions — in their final report.

According to reports in the New York Times and the New York Daily News, the U.S. Attorney's office is investigating whether Percoco had undisclosed conflicts of interest and participated in improper lobbying related to companies that won contracts in the Buffalo Billion program.

That question from a reader in the wake of a CityandState report that casino mogul Steve Wynn has inked a six - month, $ 60,000 deal this month with the Albany - based lobbying firm spurred me to do a little a Internet searching.

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.

Empire Government Strategies took in $ 284,500, a minuscule amount when compared with the largest New York lobbying firms but enough to land it third on a list of fastest - growing firms, according to the New York Public Interest Research Group report.

Among Citizens Union's proposals are: independent budgeting for JCOPE; investing in database resources and information technology; an open process of personnel selection; making internal workings public and transparent; improving the process of financial disclosure reporting by coordinating with different agencies; reducing response time to complaints; and improved guidance of grassroots lobbying to ensure ethics compliance.

Based on the first six months of the year, Facebook is on track to spend nearly $ 10 million on federal lobbying in 2014, close to double what it spent in 2013, reports Russ Choma for the Center for Responsive Politics.

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.

Under terms of the deal, Howe would receive «favorable treatment» and «leniency» in exchange for supplying details of his lobbying work for state contractors who wanted to influence the Cuomo administration, the Post reported.

And at the end of August, it was reported that Special Counsel Robert Mueller was collaborating with Schneiderman on its investigation into former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort's lobbying and financial dealings.

In the first half of 2016, Uber spent more than $ 750,000 lobbying New York lawmakers and was one of the top 10 lobbyists in the state, according to a report from the state's Joint Commission on Public Ethics.

After lobbying by Greenfield and several other Council members, the program is to be continued until the end of the calendar year, both news sources reported.

«After the November 2016 indictment of Percoco, CPV's state and federal lobbying efforts more than quadrupled,» the report found.