Sentences with phrase «special interest groups fighting»

You can also be sure that many special interest groups fight against these wins for wildlife and other animals.

Not exact matches

And no special interest group has a bigger agenda than the believers, who are fighting to keep their mental illness from being recognized as just that.

King said in a statement Monday that the meeting, organized by the state Parent Teacher Association, was «co-opted by special interests,» which a spokesman further described as groups that are fighting the implementation of the Common Core and the state's teacher evaluation system.

This so - called «statutory instrument» is a shoddy concession to a special interest group which had multiple opportunities to stop the original bill, fought ferociously to thwart its enactment — and lost.

«Every day, Assembly Member Micah Kellner is fighting for people who don't have the backing of a special interest group or corporate money,» the campaign said in a statement.

«Reagan Vs. Cities and States: The 20th Century Battle over South African Apartheid» tells the story of how cities and states joined the fight against apartheid in South Africa and won even as the Reagan administration and special interest groups like the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) sought to suppress those efforts.

As a result, the fight between special - interest groups is moot now that ethanol is effectively built into the U.S. transportation system.

The Koch brothers, their family members, and their employees direct a web of financing that supports conservative special interest groups and think - tanks, with a strong focus on fighting environmental regulation, opposing clean energy legislation, and easing limits on industrial pollution.