Sentences with phrase «of lobbying work»

And when Miranda's firm, the MirRam group, submitted a subsequent December disclosure about the purpose of its lobbying work, the description was taken nearly verbatim from a Klein press release distributed after the Oct. 27 news conference.

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.

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Flynn Jr. was his father's chief of staff, and appears to have worked closely with him in his lobbying work.

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.

«Having physical office space was tremendously legitimizing,» says the 31 - year - old, who spent two months working from the lobby of a defunct credit union as part of the program.

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.

Flynn has been under investigation for a wide range of allegations, including lobbying work on behalf of Turkey, but the fact that he was charged only with a single count of false statements suggests he is cooperating with Mueller's investigation in exchange for leniency.

And days later, on November 18 — just over a week after Obama warned Trump about Flynn — Rep. Elijah Cummings sent Pence a letter requesting more information about potential conflicts of interest posed by Flynn's lobbying work.

Last month, he picked Jeff Eisenach, an economist who has been on Verizon's (vz) payroll, and Mark Jamison, who formerly worked on Sprint's (s) lobbying team and now heads the University of Florida's Public Utility Research Center.

Every day that week I would go and meet John at his hotel in l'eixample and we would go to Starbucks or to the lobby of his hotel and work on the paper.

Flynn's son also recently drew focus in the Russia investigation because of work he did for his father's lobbying firm, Flynn Intel Group, and legal analysts have said that Mueller's focus on Flynn Jr. could be an attempt to coerce his father's cooperation in the investigation.

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.

As executive director of the Free Speech Coalition, a Los Angeles - based lobby group for the porn business, Duke, who previously worked for Planned Parenthood, leads many of the industry's anti-piracy efforts.

The pair did lobbying work on behalf of these entities in the US, and were later charged by Mueller for failing to disclose the nature of their foreign sponsors to federal authorities.

Anyway, if you work in one of the few organizations that haven't yet been bitten by this egregiously awful management fad, here are 16 solid arguments why private offices, working from home, and even cubicles are better for business than these glorified hotel lobbies.

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.

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

In recent weeks, the team hired K Street lobbying firm McGuireWoods Consulting, a move that comes on top of the team's work with crisis management expert Lanny Davis.

In his email to Raymond James advisors, Reilly writes that he was working with SIFMA in its lobbying efforts, «and rallying our senior management team and all of our associates to oppose the DOL's proposal.»

As a major creator and distributor of creative content, the United States has a great deal to gain from lobbying for rules making it illegal to enjoy American creative work without new licences.

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.)

The Ontario Real Estate Association's five - year strategic plan, which includes beefing up the image of Realtors, creating strong government lobbying efforts and working as an advocate for homeowners, was revealed recently in a livestreamed event.

Apart from not liking the video's message and concept, which, given his credentials as head of an anti-union «right to work» lobby group, doesn't come as a surprise, Oakey is particularly bothered by the fact that the PSAC — a union — produced the video.

In October, Mueller charged Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort and former deputy campaign manager Rick Gates with money laundering and failing to properly disclose their lobbying work on behalf of foreign clients.

One of the members of this Panel — Brenda Kenny — has worked for the NEB in senior positions and then joined the Canadian Energy Pipeline Association ultimately becoming President of this industry lobby group.

Different people, from the pastor to the visitor, are always pressuring, lobbying, praying, expecting, longing and working for their own fantasies of what the church should be to become a reality.

Because after a week of Facebook and school pick - ups and drop - off lines, a week of writing and laundry, a week of working and to - do lists, I hear my name called out in the lobby and, maybe for just a moment, someone sees me.

Evidently, the work of lobbying and convincing people is important.

Organizing also distinguishes itself from «advocacy,» the kind of work done by church lobbying offices in Washington and state capitals.

To many, it is basically a middle - class organization catering to those who want to take advantage of its insurance policies or its vacation discounts; they do not know of its legal and lobbying work on behalf of legislation to benefit the elderly of all economic levels.

A couple of examples are; that it is the church that established universities, it is the church that established hospitals, it was church people who worked to abolish slavery in the west, church people lobbied the British Parliament for an age of consent, the emancipation of women comes from Christian teaching.

If they truly want to be a witness, they should be taking care of their employees by [1] paying them a living wage and [2] supporting them with health care, not trying to run their lives by denying it because they personally don't believe in birth control *** AHEM HOBBY LOBBY, all you had to do was voice your objection and step aside, and the provider would absorb the cost, but NOOOOOOOOOO, you thought you knew better & said I FORBID YOU TO HAVE IT so your employees lost out on ALL health care, nice work in the name of the Great Physician *** or firing them because they get pregnant BECAUSE you didn't let them have birth control...

Right - leaning non-whites and non-evangelical working class whites are closer to each other on economics than they are to either the business lobbies of the GOP establishment or to populist conservatives who think America has been morally lost ever since the FDR first became president.

This strategy largely writes off the non-evangelical white working - class in the hopes of winning over nonwhite voters and it aligns Republican policy even more closely with the policy preferences of the Washington business lobbies.

That statement would not have happened without the relentless, persistent work of human rights campaigner Nina Shea, who has lobbied for redress for persecuted Christians in the Middle East with a tenacity that deserves the highest respect.

The divorce papers of Democratic lobbyist super couple Tony and Heather Podesta show that for a certain class of people government is not a public service or a field for settling partisan disagreements so much as an opportunity for self promotion: «As a married couple who both lobbied they strategically cultivated their public image,» one document reads, «and worked to build the «Heather and Tony Podesta» brand for the success of their shared enterprise.»

If the abortion lobby is going to highlight the risks to women of unsafe abortion, the logical response would surely be to campaign against a medically unnecessary procedure and to work instead to offer women the assistance they need when facing a difficult pregnancy?»

IFOAM Latin America is a non-profit organization with a high level of capacity to lobby for organic agriculture, integrated by IFOAM members and supporters and individuals working in favor of Organic Agriculture in the region.

Mark O'Meara's heart beats true for the red, white and blue, but that doesn't mean he'll work for peanuts — which is why he's leading a lobby of players, from both teams, who think they should get more than a token fee to play in this week's Presidents Cup.

In her considerable spare time she went to work on her credentials: She enrolled at UCLA as a political science major; she founded the Women's Sports Foundation with King and served as its president for seven years; she worked on various Olympic committees; she lobbied for, and helped frame, the Amateur Athletic Act of 1974; and she got involved in the Special Olympics.

I had my phone hooked up to the Tune - In app, radio on at work, and game on the TV in the lobby; there was no way I would miss any moment of it.

The fitness center is open 24 hours a day, the lobby coffee shop serves Starbucks if you need a little pick - me - up and there's a legitimate on - site art gallery featuring the work of local artists.

Knowing all this information was out there, I couldn't believe there was anyone who didn't breastfeed these days, other than uneducated teenage moms, those with uncompromising work situations, or those unfortunate women who were physically unable to do so (and according to what I had read on the La Leche League website, there were very few of these women out there - far fewer than the formula lobby and misinformed doctors would have us believe).

So when a group of health - care workers and advocates from the Mississippi Breastfeeding Coalition asked her in January to join their movement to lobby the Legislature to allow women to breast - feed at work and in public, she jumped at the opportunity.

The Equal Opportunities Commission needs «real life» experiences to help build up a picture of the modern workplace — what it is, and what it could be, so it can lobby effectively for work - practices to support the lives people want and need.

She was an active member of both California Association of Midwives and California Nurse Midwives Association, working as a liaison to the boards of both during the licensed midwife practice act legislation in the 1990s, and lobbied extensively for both CNM and LM legislative efforts.

Of particular note to me are the direct ties of two of the appointees to Big Food: Tkacz most recently worked as a lobbyist for the Corn Refiners Association, the trade group representing manufacturers of high fructose corn syrup, and previously lobbied for the Snack Food AssociatioOf particular note to me are the direct ties of two of the appointees to Big Food: Tkacz most recently worked as a lobbyist for the Corn Refiners Association, the trade group representing manufacturers of high fructose corn syrup, and previously lobbied for the Snack Food Associatioof two of the appointees to Big Food: Tkacz most recently worked as a lobbyist for the Corn Refiners Association, the trade group representing manufacturers of high fructose corn syrup, and previously lobbied for the Snack Food Associatioof the appointees to Big Food: Tkacz most recently worked as a lobbyist for the Corn Refiners Association, the trade group representing manufacturers of high fructose corn syrup, and previously lobbied for the Snack Food Associatioof high fructose corn syrup, and previously lobbied for the Snack Food Association.

Abbi wrote: «In terms of influence, I have always wondered why you never speak of lobbying for an overhaul of the nursing programs that would require every nurse who intends to work on a maternity ward to take LC classes and all head nurses should also be IBCLC's.

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.

Makers of french fries and produce lobbying groups went to work, and 40 members of Congress have demanded reconsideration.