Sentences with phrase «public lobbying disclosures»

Fred Palmer was also a lobbyist for Peabody between 2005 and 2015 according to public lobbying disclosures.

In fact, the ACS paid lobbying firm Hicks Partners LLC at least $ 100,000 in 2005 to try to persuade congressional members, the NIH, and the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) that a «PubChem Project» would be a bad idea, according to public lobbying disclosures, and paid an additional $ 180,000 to the Wexler & Walker Public Policy Association to promote the «use of [a] commercial database.»

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Among Citizens Union's proposals are: independent budgeting for JCOPE; investing in database resources and information technology; an open process of personnel selection; making internal workings public and transparent; improving the process of financial disclosure reporting by coordinating with different agencies; reducing response time to complaints; and improved guidance of grassroots lobbying to ensure ethics compliance.

After the case became public, Mangano, a Republican, issued executive orders, later passed into law by the county legislature, that established the lobbyist registry and required lobbying disclosure with each contract given to lawmakers.

Only certain areas — information on lobbying activity, fines and penalties, and the disclosure reports «filed pursuant to section seventy - three - a of the public officers law» — are subject to New York's transparency laws.

The Legislature in 2011 adopted an ethics overhaul measure that required greater disclosure of sources of outside income for state elected officials, as well as the creation of the latest lobbying regulator, the Joint Commission on Public Ethics.

AG Eric Schneiderman has relaunched a website first created by then - AG Cuomo containing public information to match lobbying disclosures with specific legislation proposed and passed by state lawmakers.

The Committee to Save New York has made public, under state lobbying disclosure rules, that they've spent over $ 12 million dollars on advertising and other promotions of Governor Cuomo's policy agenda, including a property tax cap and budget cuts.

The agreement includes mandatory compliance training for local development corporation employees, more public disclosure of interaction between these corporations and reminders that it is illegal to lobby the Council regarding development projects, even indirectly.

Lt. Gov. Bob Duffy defended the relatively narrow look - back period for the disclosure of contributors to lobbying organizations proposed by the Joint Commission on Public Ethics, saying it reflects well on Gov. Andrew Cuomo's transparency policy.

A government watchdog group, Public Citizen, said on Wednesday it will ask lawmakers to investigate whether billionaire investor Carl Icahn should have been subject to lobbying disclosure laws when he...

Those changes came after the public disclosure of state and federal investigations into potential bid - rigging and improper lobbying — and after much of the money allocated for major projects had been spent.

«Streamline and standardize disclosure of lobbying activity for better analysis and easier evaluation by the public.»

That law also required public disclosure of the amount of money — within a narrow category — that officials receive from outside employment and investments, and mandated that some lobbying groups list the donors that fuel their advocacy campaigns.

A coalition of the state's leading political public relations firms filed a federal lawsuit Tuesday against the state Joint Commission on Public Ethics, claiming its new rules requiring disclosure of outreach to editorial boards represents an unconstitutional expansion of the definition of «lobbying.&public relations firms filed a federal lawsuit Tuesday against the state Joint Commission on Public Ethics, claiming its new rules requiring disclosure of outreach to editorial boards represents an unconstitutional expansion of the definition of «lobbying.&Public Ethics, claiming its new rules requiring disclosure of outreach to editorial boards represents an unconstitutional expansion of the definition of «lobbying.»

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The unions have been joined by several groups supportive of issues they've opposed, such as expansion of charter schools and a tax credit that would redirect money to private schools, according to a POLITICO New York analysis of lobbying reports submitted to the Joint Commission on Public Ethics and campaign finance disclosure reports submitted by state - level candidates and parties to the Board of Elections.

Less formal communications also can mark the beginning of the end: Chatting about your invention in a hotel lobby is considered a public disclosure, as is slapping your data onto a Web site, giving a departmental seminar, tacking up a poster, or publishing an abstract.

readers now know that despite the plethora of Connecticut laws requiring honest and public disclosure when it comes to lobbying state officials, Michelle Rhee's StudentsFirst organization failed to file any of the appropriate Connecticut forms or reports despite spending over $ 352,000 lobbying in Connecticut during February and March of this year.

«If you pay twice the amount of the minimum, that repayment period gets cut in half,» says Ed Mierzwinski, who lobbied for laws requiring these disclosures as the consumer program director of the U.S. Public Interest Research Group, a federation of nonprofits.

Outside of these relatively obscure lobbying disclosures, the Energy and Policy Institute could find no public record of ExxonMobil's positions on the two bills.

However, the real estate industry has firmly resisted disruption, successfully lobbying for state laws banning commission rebates, preventing the public disclosure of residential sales prices, and requiring consumers to purchase real estate services that they may not want, as well as blocking third parties from accessing listing data.