Sentences with phrase «own political action»

California Sen. Kamala Harris (D) has pledged not to accept money from corporate political action committees.

David McIntosh, the President of Club For Growth, a Conservative Political Action Committee, called the policy an «affront to economic freedom.»

A newspaper is reporting that a Florida state senator who resigned this week after using a racial slur hired a former Hooters «calendar girl» and a Playboy model with no political experience to be consultants for his political action committee last year.

Nor, for that matter, is he adept at the political stunt: When McConnell stood onstage at the annual Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) meeting in March waving a flintlock musket over his head as a show of his support for gun rights, the senator was roundly mocked.

New York Senator Kirsten Gillibrand will no longer accept money from political action committees linked with corporations for her reelection campaign, she announced on Tuesday, citing the «corrosive» effect of corporate money in politics.

Gillibrand was endorsed Tuesday by End Citizens United, a political action committee established in 2015 to push back against the results of the 2010 court case.

Ladar Levison speaking at the 2013 Liberty Political Action Conference (LPAC) in Chantilly, Virginia.

The industry has stepped up its political contributions, snatched up some of Washington's finest consultants and lobbyists and just launched the first tech super PAC — or political action committee — led by none other than that hoodie - wearing, 28 - year old social media whiz Mark Zuckerberg.

We are determinedly non-partisan — we maintain no political action committee.

McCabe's wife, a Democrat, had received several hundred thousand dollars in donations from a political action committee controlled by a close friend of Clinton for her unsuccessful Virginia state Senate bid in 2015.

Political action committees, or PACs, face different contribution regulations and file records of contributions with the FEC on a different schedule than presidential campaigns.

This fall, in addition to releasing Fifth Estate, the provocative Wikileaks film, the Montreal - born billionaire launched Pivot Media, an ambitious new cable network that aims to inspire millennials to social and political action.

The Center for Responsive Politics» numbers include all donor contributions to outside groups and political action committees, as well as individuals giving over $ 200.

At the Conservative Political Action Conference in March, he continued to define his agenda by focusing on fixing the immigration system and education.

Shortly after Mitt Romney's loss to Barack Obama that year, Trump had his lawyers trademark the slogan, «Make America Great Again» for «political action committee services, namely, promoting public awareness of political issues and fundraising in the field of politics,» The Washington Post reported last year.

For instance, nations consciously took political action to shrink the ozone hole, are working to curb carbon emissions and are looking for ways to prevent asteroids from bombarding Earth.

Contributions from Bank One Corp. and Northwestern Mutual were a large part of the $ 60,000 political action committees and bank employees donated to Ryan's first reelection campaign in 2000.

But it represents a rising wave of overtly racist political action in the U.S., with scheduled speeches from alt - right leaders including National Policy Institute head Richard Spencer.

It's starting to draw a lot of media attention but very little political action.

The drugmaker's political action committee spent $ 405,000 on federal campaign donations and other political outlays last year, more than in 2016 — an election year — and nearly double its allocation for 2015, data compiled by Kaiser Health News show.

Like most big corporations, Novo Nordisk runs a political action committee, or PAC, which solicits employee donations and gives the proceeds to political candidates» campaigns.

Point Bridge Capital, a financial firm in Fort Worth, Texas combed through election filings to identify 150 corporations whose employees, management and political action committees have donated the most money to Republican candidates for office and any party - affiliated federal committees or groups.

Even so, political action has its risks.

These ties also lead to civic engagement and local political action.»

Moveon.org, a liberal political action group, immediately put out a statement denouncing Tester's vote, saying it was «yet another outrageous example of how our elected officials in Congress are beholden to the NRA.»

Some analysts, though, wonder if Luckey's political actions and legal issues may have overshadowed him, making him more of a liability to virtual reality start - ups.

In this regard, Entrepreneur India personally interacted with Revathy Ashok who is not only associated with the Indian Angel Network but is also Chief Executive Officer and Managing Trustee at Bangalore Political Action Committee (B.PAC) which works at improving urban governance in the city by engaging both elected representatives as well as citizens.

Last August, OdysseyRe, a wholly owned U.S. subsidiary of Canada's Fairfax Financial Holdings Ltd., donated US$ 1 million to a political action committee backing Mitt Romney.

That need for capable employees is part of the reason Facebook formed a political action committee to lobby Capitol Hill on the issue.

White House Chief of Staff Reince Priebus makes remarks during a discussion at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) at National Harbor, Maryland on Feb. 23, 2017.

There's also Countable, which lets readers instantly send their opinion to lawmakers, Act On This, which has dubbed itself a «political action cheat sheet,» and Phone2Action, software that connects constituents to lawmakers.

Apple does not have a political action committee.

FCC Chairman Ajit Pai was honored at the Conservative Political Action Conference in Oxon Hills,...

• From the trail: Carly Fiorina's political action committee took out a full - page ad in the NY Times today, defending its candidate's record as CEO of Hewlett - Packard.

He also reportedly sent emails to workers threatening them with layoffs if they failed to donate to his Republican political action committee, according to an October story in The New Republic.

Apple doesn't have a corporate political action committee that gives to federal candidates, so Cook has acted as the company's ambassador to leading politicians.

It should be noted that Cook chose to hold the event «on his own accord» because «Apple does not have a corporate political action committee like Facebook (fb), Google (goog) and other tech giants in Silicon Valley,» according to Politico.

The risk that some will interpret DSM's participation as political action is one that its leadership wrestled with; ultimately they decided the message of the march was too important.

Before becoming directly involved in the process, Luckey met the man who would serve as the liaison for the nascent political action group, and provide legitimacy to a Reddit audience for later donations without having to reveal Luckey's identity: Breitbart tech editor and Trump booster Milo Yiannopoulos.

Just days after launching a new political action committee, former Biden will join Republican officials and donors at a weekend retreat hosted by former GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney.

Great America Committee is a «leadership» political action committee.

But the contract between the political action committee and Cambridge, a copy of which was obtained by The New York Times, offers more detail on just what Mr. Bolton was buying.

February gifts to the NRA's political action committee provided a precursor to the Political Victory Fund's March windfall.

WASHINGTON — The political action committee founded by John R. Bolton, President Trump's incoming national security adviser, was one of the earliest customers of Cambridge Analytica, which it hired specifically to develop psychological profiles of voters with data harvested from tens of millions of Facebook profiles, according to former Cambridge employees and company documents.

The biggest contributors to Hensarling are employees and political action committees of banks, securities and investment firms and other financial companies, which have given him about $ 6.9 million since he first ran for Congress in 2002.

Make America Number 1 (MAN1) is a political action committee that sought to achieve a meaningful impact on the 2016 Donald Trump vs. Hillary Clinton presidential election.

Students from the school in Parkland, Marjory Stoneman Douglas High, sprang into political action after losing classmates and teachers in the Feb. 14 mass shooting.

The ability to swiftly react in real - time, draft focused creative, place ads in front of the right voters, and measure the impact of the ads made MAN1 an elite and influential political action committee.

The IAN investment was led by Revathy Ashok, chief executive and managing trustee Bangalore Political Action Committee (BPAC) and angel investor Raj Rathi.

«It's worth noting that donations to political action committees and groups designated as 501 (c)(4) nonprofit organizations are not tax - deductible,» said Kay Bell, author and tax journalist for the blog Don't Mess With Taxes.