Sentences with phrase «powerful lobbyists at»

We suspect there are powerful lobbyists at work.

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-- At Sheldon Silver's trial, lobbyist Brian Meara testified that he was worried and concerned after learning that the powerful assembly speaker was receiving a share of legal fees from Glenwood Management.

Elizabeth Sloane, (Jessica Chastain, The Martian, 2015), the eponymous «hero» in Miss Sloane as the star lobbyist at one the most powerful firms in D.C. Elizabeth will seemingly use anything at her disposal to fight against regulation or taxation that threaten her clients, whether they be Fortune 500 companies or foreign countries.

It's at first at coy device, though it becomes less so as the series goes in its machinations from D.C. abstracts to grounded details, ones involving the Teachers Union, a powerful oil lobbyist and former colleague named Remy (Mahershala Ali), Claire's water nonprofit and an ambitious blogger named Zoe Barnes (Kate Mara) who develops a mutually beneficial relationship with Underwood.

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.

In this Republican Congress, almost anything is up for sale to the highest bidder and most powerful lobbyists — including the literal definition of the word «vegetable» — and this time, it's coming at the expense of our kids» health.

Berger is sending Blaine, described by lobbyists at the meeting as the «right hand man» to the most powerful person in North Carolina politics, to make presentations across the state to gain input and support of a plan as an alternative to Burr's bill.