Sentences with phrase «pro quo deals»

But democracy itself encourages quid pro quo deals — many that are perfectly legal, and others that may not be, but that are hard to prove otherwise.

Speaker Heastie and other lawmakers are wary of a quid pro quo deal that might make it look like legislators are voting for certain bills in order to receive direct monetary gain, in the form of a raise.

Heastie and other lawmakers are wary of a quid pro quo deal that might make it look like legislators are voting for certain bills in order to receive direct monetary gain in the form of a raise.

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That's led some GOP politicians to claim there was a quid pro quo where the Clintons received money in exchange for Hillary's approval of the Uranium One deal, although there's no evidence to prove it.

The deal was also a blatant quid pro quo.

Gage repeatedly said that the charges against the senator failed to show a quid pro quo and that the senator's stances on issues dealing with real estate and the environment were «longstanding» and were not skewed by his relationship to the companies or his son's employment.

This deal, of course, will require quid pro quo at some stage in the future.

Since the issues of rent control and property tax cap are tied together as a all or nothing quid pro quo, if the Senate Republicans rail to get behind that compromise deal the upstate Senate Republicans may not survive the voter wrath following the huge property tax hikes coming via local governments.

Relatives of an asbestos - cancer victim steered to former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver's law firm in what the feds called an «illegal quid pro quo» say the disgraceful deal - making cheated them out of a rightful settlement.

Senate Finance Committee Chairman John DeFrancisco attributed the lack of deal - making desire to the ongoing corruption cases in state government and the reticence of appearing to perform a quid pro quo.

Robert Culp, Adam Skelos's lawyer, argued that in addition to the senator's arguments, his client's conviction should also be reversed because there was no evidence he actually knew of any corrupt quid pro quo legislative deals to secure the work.

Dr. Robert Taub allegedly was so unhappy with the deal to send asbestos - related cancer patients to Silver that once the speaker stopped their quid pro quo, the physician began referring his patients to more ethical lawyers, the paper says.

Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh is said to expect a «quid pro quo» from the United States to make the deal work, new documents show.

It deals with the «secret commissions» of agents, and once again, it's designed to prohibit quid pro quo transactions from people in positions of advantage.

In reality, deal making and contracts, quid pro quo, mostly operate in unhappy marriages.

Quid pro quo... have him reduce the price because it's no longer a seller financed valued deal and get bank financing... everyone gets what they want.