Sentences with phrase «powerful lobbying firm»
Mayor de Blasio said he didn't see a Daily News story about how a loophole in the city's Campaign Finance Board has allowed a powerful lobbying firm to stay under the radar as one of his fundraisers.
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City Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito dodged questions Sunday about her cozy relationship with a powerful lobbying firm, arguing she's «doing everything by the rules.»
Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver's long - time Press Secretary Dan Weiller is leaving the Legislature to work for the powerful lobbying firm, Patricia Lynch Associates.
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It's never been entirely clear, though it may be related to the MirRam Group, the powerful consulting and lobbying firm that has long counted Espaillat and Klein as clients.
Yet despite the apparent industry names, the companies are connected to Park Strategies, the powerful Albany lobbying firm founded by former U.S. Senator Al D'Amato.
But the energy secretary does not state that her brother is the boss of the powerful financial lobbying firm Finsbury, Total Politics can reveal.
Lynch left Silver's office back in 2001, and started a firm that combined messaging strategy with old - fashioned lobbying, with an obvious connection to Albany's most powerful Democrat.
I just read in its 22 March edition, under a heading «The hot air of hypocrisy,» that at a March meeting of European leaders, «Leaders from countries with powerful heavy - industry lobbies called for explicit measures to «protect» European firms in case talks on a global climate - change deal failed... Germany, France, Austria, Italy, and the Czech Republic all asked the EU to plan for failure, insisting that defensive measures must be agreed before climate - change talks in Copenhagen at the end of 2009.»
An earlier version of the bill contained a provision that would let companies challenge suspicious «business method» patents — many of which cover basic software practices — at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, but a powerful lobby of old - guard firms (notably Microsoft (s msft) and IBM (s ibm)-RRB- lobbied to crush that part of the law.