Sentences with phrase «own lobby groups»

He was ousted from a pro-Trump lobbying group in April amid questions about Russia's election interference, but he continued to visit the White House as late as June, according to The Daily Beast.

Western Australia's peak industry lobby group has repeated its call for the federal government to come up with credible evidence to support its proposed changes to the 457 visa program for temporary s

Greens and Chevron set to face off over Gorgon vision Chevron is set for fresh battles with WA's powerful green lobby group after the US giant said yesterday it wanted to nearly double the size of the $ 50 billion Gorgon liquefied natural gas project on environmentally fragile Barrow Island off WA's North West.

The industry's lobby group does regular demographic check - ups to see who is playing video games and the results are always informative.

This week, the lobby group TheCityUK, said that it had dropped its demand that the U.K. should keep its passporting rights.

Fueled by contracts on the VIX, the Cboe Futures Exchange handled 56 million contracts during the first three quarters of 2017, according to data compiled by the Futures Industry Association, the industry's trade and lobbying group.

He also is one of the founders of FWD.us, a lobbying group of powerful silicon valley entrepreneurs focused on many political matters, such as immigration and education reform.

The American Petroleum Institute, the principal lobbying group for the industry, said its members are working to become less dependent on fresh water, and instead draw on other sources.

The major ad lobby groups said yesterday they would ignore Microsoft's DNT signal on the grounds that it represents Microsoft's choice for the browser rather than the affirmative choice of the user.

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.

The state's largest agricultural lobby group has reported its first operating surplus since 2010, which was largely attributable to a reduction in costs.

Delta Air Lines Inc. and United Continental Holdings Inc. are among companies that cut ties with the NRA following online calls to boycott the gun lobbying group.

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.

Lobbying groups such as the Telecommunications Industry Association say prioritization is critical to doing business.

FRANKFURT, May 3 (Reuters)- A lobby group representing Germany's glass fiber industry says a European merger between Vodafone and Liberty Global should be blocked because it would create a cable TV monopoly in Germany.

Zuckerberg has been an immigration reform activist for years, dating back to his cofounding of the FWD.us lobbying group in 2013.

The industry's biggest lobbying group, PhRMA, has also remained mum.

The pro-Israel lobby group holds its annual policy convention in Washington Sunday through Tuesday and has confirmed both Trump and Democratic presidential front - runner Hillary Clinton as speakers.

Amid the countdown this week toward a U.S. Supreme Court ruling on the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act, a battle has escalated about funding for a small business lobby group.

Agriculture still dominates the NAFTA lobbying effort with 86 arrangements with lobbying groups.

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.

That sector had 52 lobbying groups discussing the trade pact with government officials between April and June.

But while the nonprofit, nonpartisan lobby group says it represents the interests of small business owners, some Democrats are raising questions about both its funding sources and its tax status.

The industry now has almost as many lobby groups representing its views on NAFTA as the transport sector, which includes automakers.

Indeed, a lobbying group called the Self - Driving Coalition for Safer Streets formed in April, linking Google, Uber, Lyft, Ford, and Volvo.

In a 2017 report, the lobbying group also scored U.S. dams, levees and drinking water facilities as in worse condition than bridges.

Some commenters on Reddit have suggested the newest comments stem from a 2010 press release from a conservative lobbying group, but the wording there is different enough to make any link tenuous.

An industry lobbying group in North Dakota, where fracking is common, said the industry is doing what it can, but some mistakes are inevitable.

Meanwhile, one of Washington's most powerful lobby groups and CFPB critics, the Chamber of Commerce, said it will «consider every approach to address our concerns,» which many interpreted as a threat to sue.

Over at the National Federation of Independent Business, the conservative lobbying group, tax counsel Chris Whitcomb says that the most urgent business in Washington is to postpone the tax cuts for everybody.

The Brussels - based lobbying group also said that the U.S. is the number one destination for EU car exports both in terms of units (approximately a 20 percent share) and value (almost a 30 percent share).

For instance, the SPLC documents its decision to include the Family Research Council by citing the evangelical lobbying group's promotion of discredited science and unsubstantiated attacks on gay and lesbian people.

«Elimination of caucuses and conventions would mean nuclear war with the grassroots, social conservatives, the Ron Paul movement and Tea Party Republicans,» said John Tate, a senior Paul advisor who now runs the Campaign For Liberty, a libertarian grassroots lobbying group.

More recently, the startup released emails from the American Egg Board, a lobby group backed by the US Department of Agriculture.

Last month the Canadian high - tech lobby group Information and Communication Technology Council along with Music Canada jointly made the case for increased government support of arts education, especially music, on the basis that music students «performed better in general intelligence skills such as literacy, verbal memory, mathematics and IQ,» are more creative and have better social skills.

When the White House announced on July 2 that companies would have an extra year to comply with the Affordable Care Act, lobbying groups representing small employers applauded.

During the summit held on Monday, attendees from various technology companies, lobbying groups, and law firms, gathered to discuss India's growing economy and its impact on U.S. businesses.

Bernard Lord, president and CEO of the Canadian Wireless Telecommunications Association (CWTA) lobby group, said the spectrum issue could be addressed when the federal government holds its next spectrum auction in January 2014, but more is needed.

Allen St. Pierre, the executive director of marijuana lobbying group NORML, takes a different point a view.

Most of those cases were filed this year, according to a study released by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the nation's largest business lobbying group.

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.

On Monday, the British Chamber of Commerce (BCC), a lobby group for U.K. firms, revised its forecasts to predict gross domestic product (GDP) growth will pull back to 1.1 percent in 2017 from 2.1 percent this year.

That powerful lobby group also claims that earlier Buy American rules tied to President Obama's 2009 stimulus package, delayed «shovel - ready» projects as municipalities conferred with lawyers and manufacturers refrained from bidding on projects because they found it difficult to avoid sourcing their materials from abroad.

With such lack of accountability it is not surprising that Alphabet contributed substantial funds to the tech lobbying groups who are opposing federal legislative efforts to give additional options to prosecutors and civil trial lawyers to fight websites like Backpage (child sex trafficking) and prevent them from flourishing.

There's nothing new about a Democratic presidential nominee seeking to close the loophole (Barack Obama campaigned on this in both 2008 and 2012), but Trump's endorsement puts industry lobbying groups in an unfamiliar position of having to persuade both parties to maintain the status quo.

Contractors are already grappling with higher prices on key materials for construction projects like diesel fuel, steel, copper, wallboard, and lumber, said Ken Simonson, chief economist for the Association of General Contractors, a lobbying group with about 26,000 members which also includes suppliers.

In fact, all of the Canadians on the NACC are members of the powerful CCCE lobby group, and the CCCE serves as the Canadian secretariat.

The comments, made at a conference organized by a leading U.S. health insurer lobbying group, stoked speculation over what steps the administration of U.S. President Donald Trump may take to rein in lofty prescription drug costs.

Furthermore, the controversial repeal was influenced heavily by corporate lobbying groups.

The first blow has already fallen, says Fergal O'Brien of IBEC, a business lobby group.