Sentences with phrase «state lobbying report»

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The state's largest agricultural lobby group has reported its first operating surplus since 2010, which was largely attributable to a reduction in costs.

Business Insider reported last week, meanwhile, that the California State Teachers» Retirement System, one of the biggest pension funds in the world, was lobbying shareholders to vote against the proposal.

A coalition of at least 74 investors have filed proposals at 50 companies asking for lobbying reports that include federal and state lobbying payments, payments to trade associations used for lobbying, and payments to any tax - exempt organization that writes and endorses model legislation.

the real estate industry's largest lobby groups, Mortgage Professionals Canada, released a report last month analyzing the state of the country's housing market, it found, to absolutely no one's surprise, zero evidence of a bubble that would warrant political intervention.

When one of the real estate industry's largest lobby groups, Mortgage Professionals Canada, released a report last month analyzing the state of the country's housing market, it found, to absolutely no one's surprise, zero evidence of a bubble that would warrant political intervention.

The New York Times reported Trudeau has enlisted former Conservative Prime Minister Brian Mulroney to help with Trump, and Ontario's government has hired a New York - based lobbying firm to lean on New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo to go easy on imposing trade restrictions on the Empire State's northern neighbor.

** Enbridge Inc denied conflict of interest claims on Tuesday after a media report found that the head of United States energy regulator had been paying $ 50 a day for a property near Capitol Hill linked to the chairman of a key Washington lobby firm that represents the Calgary - based pipeline company.

But within weeks, lobby groups including the National Pork Producers Council, National Cattlemen's Beef Association and North American Meat Institute had stated they would be pushing government to reconsider the science behind the report.

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.

During this morning's JCOPE meeting the state ethics board released a draft report on disclosure rules requiring lobbyists and lobbying groups to disclose individual donors who give more than $ 5000.

Those lobbying state and local government spent a record $ 226 million in 2014 trying to influence public officials, according to an annual report released Wednesday by the state's ethics and lobbying regulations.

The report from the Joint Commission on Public Ethics found the lobbying in Albany and around the state accounted for a record $ 226 million last year.

A record $ 243 million was spent on lobbying state and local governments in 2015, an annual report from the Joint Commission on Public Ethics found.

The annual state report on lobbying is out, and it finds that $ 226 million was spent on influencing government leaders, with the largest amount from education groups.

New York's Joint Commission on Public Ethics released its 2011 lobbying report this week, which found that the lobbying industry spent a record sum of $ 220 million last year in its efforts to influence state legislators.

The natural gas industry has dramatically stepped up its efforts to lobby the New York state government since Gov. Andrew Cuomo took office in 2011, according to a new report from the nonprofit Public Accountability Initiative.

Former State Lobbying Commission Executive Director David Grandeau tells us why he thinks Judge Kaye's report clearly suggests that Gov. Paterson violated the Public Officer's Law.

The New York State Joint Commission on Public Ethics (JCOPE) released its annual lobbying report on Thursday.

Under terms of the deal, Howe would receive «favorable treatment» and «leniency» in exchange for supplying details of his lobbying work for state contractors who wanted to influence the Cuomo administration, the Post reported.

In the first half of 2016, Uber spent more than $ 750,000 lobbying New York lawmakers and was one of the top 10 lobbyists in the state, according to a report from the state's Joint Commission on Public Ethics.

The report outlined how much money was spent on lobbying in New York state during 2015.

There were 6,119 individual lobbyists and a record $ 243.1 million dollars was spent on lobbying state and local governments, according to the report.

Well, there's an International Business Times report out today detailing how News Corp. had business before the state and it lobbied your administration, both as A.G. and as governor.

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.

«After the November 2016 indictment of Percoco, CPV's state and federal lobbying efforts more than quadrupled,» the report found.

As reported in the New York Daily News, DeFrancisco pleaded a schedule conflict as he brushed past several victims of child abuse who sought to see him during a May 4 lobbying blitz in the state capitol.

While it is widely known that some companies and foreign governments gave money to the foundations, perhaps in an effort to gain favor, one of the key parts of the puzzle hasn't been reported: At least a dozen of those same companies lobbied the State Department, using lobbyists who doubled as major Clinton campaign fundraisers.

«While we can not be sure, we assume that such reporting ensures compliance with the state's Lobbying Law,» Horner and Haven write.

«We can find no exception to the requirement that those entities register as lobbyists and report their lobbying as required under state law.»

The report, released by State Senator Daniel Squadron, Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer and Assemblyman Brian Kavanagh, also found that half of the area's New York City Housing Authority buildings did not have security cameras and many intercom systems and lobby locks were broken.

The hearing comes two days after the New York Times reported that a lobby group closely associated with Governor Cuomo, the Committee to Save New York, had received over $ 2 million dollars from the gambling corporation Genting, just weeks before Cuomo made a Genting convention center project the centerpiece of his State of the State message.

A new record has been reached in spending on lobbying in New York, according to a report released by the state's ethics commission.

ALBANY — Companies involved in bidding for casino licenses in New York State spent nearly $ 11 million on lobbying and campaign donations in 2012 and 2013, and are donating hundreds of thousands of dollars to campaign committees through holding companies, according to a new report from the New York Public Interest Research Group.

Since then, I've lobbied against the state's proposal and am pleased to report the facility is no longer on the chopping block for 2016 - 2017.

Shortly after the Daily News reported Friday that Howe, former Cuomo top aide and longtime friend Joseph Percoco, and others close to the governor were being probed by the feds, Cuomo Counsel Alfonso David issued a statement saying that the Manhattan U.S. Attorney's probe «has recently raised questions of improper lobbying and undisclosed conflicts of interest by some individuals which may have deceived state employees involved in the respective programs and may have defrauded the state.»

A report by the committee had stated that greater transparency would be achieved by «requiring Members to register family members involved in lobbying the public sector».

The only detailed information in Parkside's disclosure report covering activity in September and October is that they lobbied Assembly staffer Joseph Garba and the offices of the chairmen who oversee gaming: Assemblyman Gary Pretlow and State Sen. John Bonacic.

The Rent Stabilization Association of New York more than doubled its lobbying efforts in 2016, jumping from the $ 1.4 million it spent in 2015, according to a report released by the state's Joint Commission on Public Ethics on Thursday.

The ride - sharing company spent nearly $ 1.8 million on lobbying during the first six months of the year, the highest amount in the state, according to the mid-year report from the Joint Commission on Public Ethics.

The hearing comes two days after the New York Times reported that a lobby group closely associated with Governor Cuomo, the Committee to Save New York, had received over $ 2 million from the gambling corporation Genting, just weeks before Cuomo made a Genting convention center project the centerpiece of his State of the State message.

The Times reports that gaming interests spend $ 6 million in lobbying costs prior to the state referendum that approved casino gaming and that those same interests donated «amply, and continuously, to state politicians» campaign accounts,» including those of both Cuomo and Westchester County Executive Rob Astorino, a Republican who is likely to run for governor in November.

According to the state's Joint Commission on Public Ethics, which oversees lobbying, Patricia Lynch Associates in 2012 reported $ 6.7 million in total compensation and reimbursed expenses from lobbying.

NYU, which lobbies the state through the firm Wilson Elser, does not appear to have reported Lacewell's work.

Cheye Calvo, the mayor of Berwyn Heights, Maryland is lobbying for the Maryland legislature to pass a new bill that would require every SWAT team in the state to provide a monthly public report on its activities, including where and when it was deployed and whether an operation resulted in arrests, evidence seizures or injuries.

Reports late in the campaign suggested that Dole suffered from Barack Obama's decision to aggressively contest North Carolina in the presidential election, [21] while Hagan received substantial support from independent 527 groups lobbying / advertising against Dole, [20] as well as the Democratic Senate Campaign Committee, which spent more money in North Carolina than in any other state during the 2008 election season.

In 2006 Yankees ownership paid over $ 300,000 to a lobbying firm run by former Bronx Assemblyman Roberto Ramirez — the largest lobbying fee reported that year — as well as other influential lawmakers including former state senator Joseph Bruno, in an apparent effort to secure funding for the stadium.

Like 1199, a relative quieting of the public debate over the healthcare sections of budgets under Cuomo has led to a decrease in GNYHA's spending, but it still finished as the state's highest - spending lobby client in a recent bi-monthly reporting period.

In 2009, after several years of steady gains, her firm hit a high - water mark with $ 8.3 million in profits, according to lobbying data reported to the state's Joint Commission on Public Ethics.

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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.