Sentences with phrase «pay as a lobbyist»

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But the House bill is unlikely to be taken up in the Senate, where Republicans have a 52 - 48 seat majority and they need to pay heed to moderates within their own ranks as well as Democrats, lobbyists and analysts said.

Smithfield Foods paid at least $ 280,000 in lobbying fees in 2017 to Hart's firm, and Hart was listed by name as representing Smithfield as its lobbyist when he wrote the email, according to federal lobbying records.

As individuals you have the same right as any other citizen but as a group until you start paying taxes, not lobbyist, butt out and obey the laws made by the governmenAs individuals you have the same right as any other citizen but as a group until you start paying taxes, not lobbyist, butt out and obey the laws made by the governmenas any other citizen but as a group until you start paying taxes, not lobbyist, butt out and obey the laws made by the governmenas a group until you start paying taxes, not lobbyist, butt out and obey the laws made by the government.

«Lazio may want to hide what he made as a Wall Street lobbyist from the public, but his Wall Street bosses used our tax dollars to pay Lazio and have an obligation to disclose how much he made in their service,» King said in a press release.

Whereas Senator Sheldon Silver has refused to take up legislative action that would eliminate the «Pay for Play» culture that allows for our legislators to be used as bought and paid for commodities by outside business concerns, as your Governor I must fully investigate the Assembly and Senates ties to Business and the Lobbyists who curry favor with our legislators to gain undo advantage for those businesses at the peoples expense.

As for paying for hotels, dinners and meetings, as a campaign and office, we have a strict policy of never allowing a constituent, lobbyist or other party to ever pick up a tab, we pay for all meetings to avoid any question of impropriety.&raquAs for paying for hotels, dinners and meetings, as a campaign and office, we have a strict policy of never allowing a constituent, lobbyist or other party to ever pick up a tab, we pay for all meetings to avoid any question of impropriety.&raquas a campaign and office, we have a strict policy of never allowing a constituent, lobbyist or other party to ever pick up a tab, we pay for all meetings to avoid any question of impropriety.»

Howe was a paid adviser to the SUNY Polytechnic Institute as well as COR and LPCiminelli — both of which won contracts to build multi-million dollar high - tech facilities for the school — but only recently registered as a state lobbyist.

Reality: As Wall Street's top lobbyist Rick Lazio has made $ 8 million the past decade, including a $ 1.3 million bonus in 2009, paid for with taxpayer bailout funds.

Major issues during the 2014 legislative session included creating a new budget, a pay raise for teachers, Common Core and banning legislators from serving as lobbyists immediately following their departure.

But the contest sprawls far beyond their numbers, bringing in unions and lobbyists as well as a coterie of high - paid consultants each of whom has been active for months in trying to shape opinion.

Unfortunately freedom of speech is contingent to how much money you have given that the media is itself a business that has to make profits as well, so a «lobbyist» like this comes to this program without any ethics, without any remorse but with a lot of money as well to openly acknowledge that: yes, we put money in this governor's elections, we are expecting he pay us back and will stand on our side of the equation, and yes, we have collected (very fast) the private necessary money to run a public relations campaign (of lies if necessary) to guarantee that our privileges are well kept; and he finds a free stand to speak out freely and without appropriate response As far as Liz, I'm not sure if it is only a being naïve issuas well, so a «lobbyist» like this comes to this program without any ethics, without any remorse but with a lot of money as well to openly acknowledge that: yes, we put money in this governor's elections, we are expecting he pay us back and will stand on our side of the equation, and yes, we have collected (very fast) the private necessary money to run a public relations campaign (of lies if necessary) to guarantee that our privileges are well kept; and he finds a free stand to speak out freely and without appropriate response As far as Liz, I'm not sure if it is only a being naïve issuas well to openly acknowledge that: yes, we put money in this governor's elections, we are expecting he pay us back and will stand on our side of the equation, and yes, we have collected (very fast) the private necessary money to run a public relations campaign (of lies if necessary) to guarantee that our privileges are well kept; and he finds a free stand to speak out freely and without appropriate response As far as Liz, I'm not sure if it is only a being naïve issuAs far as Liz, I'm not sure if it is only a being naïve issuas Liz, I'm not sure if it is only a being naïve issue.

Five public relations firms have brought a federal suit seeking to block the JCOPE from enforcing the portion of a recent advisory opinion that would treat people paid to discuss legislation with editorial writers as lobbyists.

«Contractors and vendors in the transportation industry who did not know enough to retain the lobbyist that was paying off the Transportation Committee chairman and his son did not get the fair hearing and consideration that they expected and to which they were entitled as well,» Bharara's office wrote.

As I predicted earlier today, AG / Governor - elect Andrew Cuomo has announced yet another settlement in connection with his pay - to - play pension fund probe, this time with a lobbyist with long - standing ties to his father, former Gov. Mario Cuomo.

The New York Times reported in 2011 that Cuomo, as New York's attorney general in 2009, used his office to threaten legal action against Chevron when Hinton was being paid $ 10,000 a month as a lobbyist for a group suing the oil giant in a multibillion - dollar court action alleging massive environmental damage in the Amazon.

The Joint Commission on Public Ethics told the TU that «As a general matter, a reportable business relationship is one in which a lobbyist or client pays compensation to a state official who provides goods or services in return.

The law, passed in 2011 as part of Gov. Andrew Cuomo's first ethics reform bill, requires lobbyists or their clients who pay a state employee more than $ 1,000 in a year to submit a form detailing the exact amount every six months.

Yassky — who makes $ 10,000 a month as a consultant and Albany lobbyist for the Lyft ride - hailing system — also made enemies at Pace by slashing faculty pay by 10 percent and cutting positions shortly after his February 2014 hiring.

Consider donating food and supplies which can't be as easily used to pay government lobbyists.

«Former Rep. Blake Farenthold, the disgraced Texas Republican who resigned last month in the aftermath of a sexual harassment settlement, has secured his next paid gig — as a government lobbyist.

The thing about Hooke is that, as a paid lobbyist, he doesn't really believe any of it.

They've written letters to the government demanding that Ottawa stop a swarm of activist groups backed by foreign billionaires from hijacking — as the prime minister himself put it — the hearings over the Canadian Northern Gateway pipeline that would carry our oil from Alberta to B.C. Canadians have been calling into radio shows and writing blogs, and spreading the word in their communities about the fact that this crucial decision over Canada's national energy policy is being infiltrated by what are essentially the well - paid lobbyists of wealthy and powerful foreign interests.

The poor students, having paid for that rubbish, in time and cash and then be found with «knowledge» that is applicable nowhere except as a climate denier lobbyist.

it makes CO2 emissions avoidably worse in real engineering fact as the unspeakable lobbyists and therir well paid legislay tors and «experts» chase the easy money in the subsidy trough by law in preference to what works best to reduce CO2 on the physics..

[7] In the years that Holmstead was disclosed as a lobbyist for coal interests, those client companies have paid Holmstead's firm over $ 10.7 million.

Publicly described as an «ALEC Academy,» documents obtained by CMD show the legislators were accompanied on a chartered flight by a gaggle of oil - industry lobbyists, were served lunch by Shell Oil, dinner by the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers, and that the expenses of the trip were paid for by TransCanada and other corporations and groups with a direct financial interest in the Alberta tar sands and the proposed Keystone XL (KXL) pipeline.

More than 95 percent of climate lobbyists work on other issues such as tax and health care for their clients as well, and they don't have to report how much they're being paid on global warming specifically.

Or Option B: bluff it out as long as you can, pay lobbyists and think tanks to confuse the public debate and hope like hell you don't get your ass sued off when everyone gets wise to you?

Much of the public argument against the science indicating that our greenhouse gas emissions are driving global warming has been carried by lobbyists and paid spokesmen who attempt to reposition global warming as theory rather than fact.

Washington law firms have a great deal going: because their internal workings are necessarily somewhat opaque, their participants can inevitably engage in (and reap the high rewards of) some non-courtroom advocacy efforts on behalf of unpopular well - heeled clients without having to pay the public price of ostracism as lobbyists.

The brouhaha at the Post broke out last week, when Politico.com reported plans by Weymouth to host an exclusive «salon» at her home where Washington lobbyists and association executives would pay as much as $ 250,000 to attend and obtain off - the - record access to «those powerful few» — Obama administration officials, members of Congress and even the Post's own reporters and editors.

If the transaction is all cash, the buyers lawyer is the party that needs to gather the Fintrac required information, As usual money rules, CREA has let the Real Estate industry down again, by failing to aggressively lobby the government, to exempt us from Fintrac rules, The banking industry and the legal community have the ear of the government thru their financial contributions for campaigning, and their paid lobbyists, The government of Canada had to show that they are making an effort to stop money laundering, in order to meet International requirements for financing our massive National debt.