Sentences with phrase «represented as a lobbyist»

Delrahim's other, older clients included AT&T, which he represented as a lobbyist in 2007 and 2008, federal records show.

Not exact matches

Lobbyist Steve Elmendorf, who represents the Federation of American Hospitals and Davita Health Care Partners, and Brian Pomper, who lobbies for BIO and Pfizer, are also on the bundler's list, as is Elizabeth Gore, who lobbies for the Consumer Healthcare Products Association and Walgreens.

Though one lobbyist representing Amazon expects new regulations to come gradually, rather than a single ruling banning delivery or making its widespread use legal, the next set of rules, anticipated as early as February, are not expected to allow for delivery.

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.

Of particular note to me are the direct ties of two of the appointees to Big Food: Tkacz most recently worked as a lobbyist for the Corn Refiners Association, the trade group representing manufacturers of high fructose corn syrup, and previously lobbied for the Snack Food Association.

Yesterday the Environmental Working Group's (EWG) AgMag Blog offered a much closer look at those corporate ties, as well as the role of SNA's lobbyists which, in addition to representing SNA, boast a roster of Big Food clients that includes General Mills, Kraft Foods, the North American Meat Association, the National Confectioners Association and the National Frozen Pizza Institute (whose members include Con Agra and Schwan.)

A former Cuomo aide, Joe Percoco, has received payments from two companies linked to state contracts, while lobbyist Todd Howe, who represented those firms linked to development, is under investigation as well.

Just as term limits have the perverse effect of giving power to the lobby (if members are term - limited, lobbyists and a handful of long - term staff become the only institutional memory), cutting Congressional budgets will in practice create even more distance between Congressmembers and the people they represent.

Several lobbyists in Albany said Howe was representing COR, although neither he nor WOH Solutions ever declared them as a client to JCOPE.

Mr. Rosen is not a lobbyist and as such does not have to disclose his meetings with the mayor, but his firm represents a slew of boldfaced names that have major business at City Hall.

Manhattan - based Park Strategies, which is also one of the larger state lobbyists, filed in Nassau to represent 20 clients, including Forest City Ratner (which also registered its own employees as lobbyists); Gannett Fleming Engineers, which has won more than $ 6 million in county contracts since 2011, mostly to design and oversee wastewater treatment plant improvements; and Allvision, a company that was poised to erect large electronic billboards across Nassau before the project stalled earlier this year.

So Paul Vallone has represented these folks as a lobbyist, and hopes to continue to represent his former clients when he takes office.

Howe, a former lobbyist with the firm Whiteman, Osterman and Hanna, represented firms that had contracts with the under - investigation Buffalo Billion, as well as SUNY Polytechnic, which is being investigated by the state attorney general's office.

Howe had represented a number of companies with business before the Buffalo Billion and was listed as a lobbyist for SUNY Poly, which plays a key role in distributing economic development spending.

Former Nassau County Executive Thomas Gulotta has registered as a lobbyist, representing five clients, including A. Vournou Construction Management Group, a Syosset contractor affiliated with a firm with a $ 20 million contract to build a new county crime lab.

He currently works as a lobbyist, pulling $ 4,000 a month for representing Dart Container Corporation on business matters before the City Council.

I asked Higgins if he regrets having spent at least $ 55,000 (as of late February — more than any other member of the delegation) on a lobbyist (Pat Lynch) to represent his interests in Albany during redistricting when, as it turns out, lobbying the Legislature was a moot point.

Political consultants who advise elected officials while also representing clients before the government do not currently register as lobbyists either - and they should also.

Despite the May terminations, it's not clear when exactly Howe's name was ever listed online as a lobbyist for SUNY Polytechnic, which has been represented by Whiteman Osterman as a lobbyist since May 2015, according to JCOPE records.

These concerns and more will be hammered out in Albany over the next two weeks as lobbyists from all sides dig in their heels to ensure their interests are represented in the adopted budget.

Frank Maisano, a lobbyist at Bracewell & Giuliani in Washington, D.C., who represents energy - industry clients, said plans don't count as much as action.

Science Europe defines itself as new European lobbyist representing many national funding agencies and some performing organisations.

As I suggested in my Follow the Money post in August, «our philanthropist reformers» may just be «responding to what has been the outsized influence over the system exercised by private teacher unions, textbook and testing companies, and a web of high - powered lobbyists representing all manner of industry associations.»

As if all of that wasn't clear enough, Bronin's donor list even contains most of the lobbyists who represent the pro-privatization, anti-teacher and anti-public education groups in Connecticut including the lobbyists for ConnCAN, the Northeast Charter School Network and the Connecticut Council for Education Reform.

As Sophie and I discuss, the swamps are teeming with lawyer / lobbyists «in alligator shoes,» representing financial special interests.

Business interests (or BINGOs as they're called in U.N. speak) «can have very little effect at these meetings,» according to Nick Campbell, a European industry lobbyist who has represented the International Chamber of Commerce at U.N. climate talks since the early 1990s when the global effort to fight climate change began with the Rio Earth Summit.

Mr. Willink earned his B.A. in economics from Cornell University and worked as a lobbyist for the Navajo Nation Washington Office representing the tribe in economic development and education.

As The Post reports, «Bernhardt is a former lobbyist with the law firm Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck, which has represented one of the largest water bottlers in the United States...»

She also maintained a general law practice while representing clients in government affairs before state and municipal adjudicatory boards, and as a registered lobbyist she has lobbied for community organizations and citizens» groups initiatives and funding.