Sentences with phrase «through lobbying efforts»

Through its lobbying efforts, the Alliance helped establish the Large Carnivore Act which requires the humane treatment of large cats such as lions and tigers, and even bears.

Through its lobbying efforts and petitions, Animal Aid USA strives to end animal cruelty, focusing on banning inhumane ways animals are euthanized such as the gas chamber and intracardiac injection without anesthesia.

Friedrichs is challenging California's largest teachers union on First Amendment grounds, arguing, in part, that mandatory union dues deny individual members the right of free speech through lobbying efforts and campaign contributions that don't necessarily comport with the views of all union members.

Introduced at the end of July by City Councilman Mark Levine, the bill has since gained the support of 12 fellow councilmembers through the lobbying efforts of Levine's staff and parents at P.S. 163, a West 97th Street elementary school that would neighbor a construction site under a plan to build a 20 - story nursing home development.

Not exact matches

With the tech world playing an increasingly influential role in mainstream politics (and not just in lobbying efforts) it seems like advocating for greater gender equality in tech through Girls Who Code and being separately involved in politics would make Saujani appealing.

While collecting this type of information can be valuable to business owners, if the collective outcry over the NSA's data - mining efforts is any indicator then customers may have a negative knee - jerk reaction to having their movements tracked and recorded every time they go to a coffee shop or pass through a hotel lobby.

Instead, legislators appear to have bought into the false notion that pass - throughs are small businesses, and are responding to the organized efforts of trade groups composed of pass - throughs, who push that narrative aggressively (and with the help of pass - through lobbying firms).

Kinder Morgan's Alberta lobbying efforts over the past nine months focused exclusively on the Trans Mountain expansion, seeking, amongst other objectives, to «convey economic importance and benefits of the proposed Trans Mountain Expansion Project through increase market access for Alberta crude oil products.»

Yet through the non-stop efforts of Jewish lobbying, US citizens are required to send billions of tax - payer dollars to Israel (each year forevermore) to subsidize their lifestyle.

Evangelical and fundamentalist mission agencies have grown in proportion, while mainline bodies have focused more on assisting indigenous ministries, supplying social services, lobbying for social justice through political channels, and even turning the cultural conduit around by sponsoring reverse missionary programs.14 Viewed from only the American context, it appears that mainstream Protestantism has suffered a serious decline in its missionary efforts.

While they do lobby Congress with the goal of resisting efforts to streamline the process (you can't e-file on your own, for example; you have to go through a licensed preparer, and they do make sure the IRS information is limited only to help filling out forms), the real, simple answer is:

The state's lobbying regulator on Tuesday required public relations consultants to register their efforts to influence government through public campaigns — including newspaper editorials — in a move one public relations firm said would allow government to spy on journalists.

Cunningham and her lobbying partner John Cordo each gave Cuomo $ 1,000 last summer, but worked through the winter to coordinate Cuomo's fund - raising efforts in Albany, in the days when he was waging stealth war against Paterson.

NOM isn't through with its lobbying efforts.

New York State United Teachers, with local unions and advocacy groups, announced Thursday an upcoming effort to lobby Gov. Andrew Cuomo, the state Legislature, the state Education Department and the Board of Regents to end testing in pre-kindergarten through second grade.

The Democratic officials say the ads are aimed at providing the political cover that Obama and his top aides promised lawmakers in the final stages of the lobbying effort to get the legislation through the House on Sunday night.

What these latest State Election Enforcement Commission reveal is that Patrick Riccards, ConnAD and ConnCAN have now moved past their efforts to influence policy through their lobbying and have begun to directly campaign for and against individual candidates.

The platform will now read: «We oppose making Colorado's public schools private or run by private corporations or becoming segregated again through lobbying and campaigning efforts of the organization called Democrats for Education Reform and demand that they immediately stop using the party's name Democrat in their name.»

MIPFS organizes grassroots lobbying efforts and direct lobbying of state policymakers on education issues; it also works to help parents form local organizations to support their schools and to change the current public discourse about public schools through education efforts.

Then, in April, state lawmakers in both chambers successfully pushed through a bill delaying the use of the PARCC tests by one year, despite an intense lobbying effort by Gov. Haslam and Huffman to shut it down.

His efforts led to the successful passage of legislation in forty - two states, through direct lobbying activity as well as grassroots lobbying efforts, including the passage of stricter animal abuse laws for horse racing, dog racing, dog fighting, cockfighting, puppy mills, and pet stores.

Illinois is now the most humane state in the U.S., according to the Animal Legal Defense Fund, an organization that fights to protect animals through the legal system, but she says the state wasn't so pet - friendly when she first kicked off her lobbying efforts.

Most of ALEC's 2013 efforts were defeated through lobbying and grassroots initiatives undertaken by renewables advocates and climate change activists like Greenpeace and the Natural Resources Defense Council.

Their efforts include scientific research; testifying, marching through the streets, creating PSA videos about storm drains, doing eco-artwork, lobbying at the capitol, calling & writing, TV, newspapers, magazines, blogs & podcasts.

EPI's investigation reveals an ongoing effort by utilities and fossil fuel interests to influence public officials through university courses and conferences and fund reports authored by academic staff to boost lobbying efforts targeting state government officials and decision makers.

ALEC Exposed Also run by the Center for Media and Democracy, ALEC Exposed tracks the corporate - funded American Legislative Exchange Council's efforts to undermine the public interest and democracy through lobbying and collaboration between corporations and politicians on «model bills» developed behind closed doors to shift state laws in favor of corporate interests instead of the public.

Planned Parenthood affiliates across the country mobilized young people on college campuses to reach out to members of Congress through letters, phone calls and lobby visits to Capitol Hill in an effort to raise awareness about the need for a commonsense fix.

Adoption UK has a proven track record of influence decision - makers at all levels through our campaigning and lobbying efforts.

We engage with key stakeholders through formal consultation as well as through our campaigning and lobbying efforts.

CREA's «rewards» for everyone «but» the 100,000 great unwashed must be free, because the non 100,000 have gained their rewards through back - room lobbying efforts, without the financial input ($ 20,000,000, soon to be $ 24,000,000, in DUES) that the lowly 100,000, generators of the wealth in the first place, upon which everyone else is successfully feeding off of, have been again forced to cough up.

We do that through our chapters, allied associations and through ASHI's lobbying efforts in Washington D.C.