Sentences with phrase «spending lobbying entity»

Since its formation last year, CSNY has emerged as biggest spending lobbying entity for state government.

With Cuomo's blessing, the committee quickly became the highest - spending lobbying entity in the state, raising at least $ 17 million, while allowing its donors to remain anonymous.

Not exact matches

Overall, education spending was a major driver of lobbying costs last year, accounting for $ 15.6 million of the nearly $ 25 million spent by the 10 largest lobbying entities.

The report released on Monday by lobbying and ethics regulators found the top lobbying entities this year so far have been the New York State Nurses Association, which spent $ 2.3 million — nearly double than what the group spent in the first six months of last year.

It's not a surprise that education entities spent the most money on lobbying than any other group in 2014, just as controversy over the new Common core standards and the related standardized tests reached a peak.

Late Tuesday evening, with de Blasio overnighting in Washington between an appearance with Massachusetts senator Elizabeth Warren and a call for more infrastructure spending, the Times reported that the state's lobbying oversight entity, JCOPE, was questioning why Campaign for One New York, a nonprofit set up to boost de Blasio's agenda and pay for his trip, hadn't registered its activities.

Lobbying in New York remains an expensive business, with entities spending more than $ 240 million in 2017 to influence state and local governments.

«The lack of disclosure of local lobbying activities in these communities makes it impossible to know how much is being spent to influence these governments and highlights that no single entity is charged with monitoring these activities,» the NYPIRG report found.

For example, a lobbyist for a corporate entity could spend Monday and Tuesday meeting with senators on a bill supported by the company and would need to report to JCOPE his or her salary for those days as part of the total spent on the company's lobbying campaign.

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State records show that the company has spent over $ 140,000 on lobbying in New York since the beginning of 2013 and that the executive branch was among the entities lobbied.

In 2011 and 2012, the entity spent some $ 16 million — more than any other lobbying group.

But a growing number are joined by entities whose main focus is lobbying and politics: 501c4 organizations and political action committees, free to spend limitlessly on lobbying for legislation, getting friendly candidates elected, advancing ballot initiatives, and more.

Republican gubernatorial candidate Bill Lee said he supports spending more public money on private school tuition around Tennessee, and that restrictions should be placed on lobbying by government entities that oppose school vouchers.

The new lobbying entity includes most of the same groups that spent in excess of $ 6 million lobbying for Malloy's initial education reform initiative, including ConnCAN, the Achievement First, Inc. charter school management company, the Northeast Charter School Network and Families for Excellent Schools, another pro-charter group entity.

In New York State Families for Excellent Schools Inc. has become the single largest lobbying entity in the State of New York spending nearly $ 10 million in 2014 alone to support the funding and expansion of charter schools.

Over the last three years, ConnCAN and its related entities have spent in excess of $ 3.5 million lobbying in favor of Malloy's anti-public school and pro-charter school agenda.