Sentences with phrase «to lobby lawmakers»

Rent control continues to diminish in popularity, with rental property owners lobbying lawmakers for bills banning the practice.

It's posted on the organization's Web site, launched last year to help same - sex marriage supporters lobby lawmakers to pass the bill.

Bill sponsors insisted they had the votes available for a Friday vote on the measure, but the effort has been met with stiff resistance from racino operators, who spent much the day personally lobbying lawmakers in the Senate.

APP is a dominant voice in Indonesia's pulp and paper industry association, APKI, which lobbies lawmakers on forest policy and influences the forestry department and its appetite for law enforcement.

The Consumer Bankers Association has already begun lobbying lawmakers to use the CRA on the rule, said its president Richard Hunt.

Last year, as Governor Cuomo was leading a push to legalize same - sex marriage, Ms. Quinn, a Democrat, traveled to Albany to personally lobby lawmakers, invoking her and Ms. Catullo's wish to marry while their fathers were still alive.

Talia Rumsky, a 16 - year - old Stoneman Douglas High student who was at school during the shooting, was among those who traveled to Tallahassee Wednesday to lobby lawmakers about gun control.

Meanwhile, Catholic bishops have spent on average $ 300,000 a year lobbying lawmakers in New York on a variety of topics, including against passage of the Child Victims Act, which would change the statute of limitations on civil and criminal cases of child sexual abuse and allow victims a one - year window to sue over potentially decades - old allegations.

The Oakland, California - based nonprofit, which lobbies lawmakers on how to improve their states» medical marijuana laws and seeks to educate patients on their rights, will work with Orrick lawyers to update a series of manuals on state medical marijuana laws.

«Whether they made their money lobbying lawmakers at the Capitol or cashed in on a tech IPO, rich millennials are clustered in cities where there are lots of high - paying professional jobs,» reads a post today on Zillow's Porchlight blog.

Faso did not lobby lawmakers and regulators on behalf of the project.

The Washington - based Organisation for International Investment (OFII), which represents the North American operations of HSBC and other global companies with US operations, is resisting the CFIUS legislation by lobbying lawmakers, according to people with knowledge of the matter.

In the wake of unfair wage lawsuits taken up against the league by players — which the league has emerged victorious from so far — MLB is pushing harder than ever to make sure minor leaguers are not privy to the benefits of normal hourly workers, lobbying lawmakers constantly to push this into law.

As a result, nursing mothers have become proactive in recent years, not only lobbying lawmakers to change laws and provide penalties for those who do not comply but also staging huge «nurse - ins» at businesses that have rejected public nursing.

Meanwhile, relatives of people who died following long and in many cases painful terminal illnesses are back at the state Capitol to again lobby lawmakers to pass a law authorizing physician - assisted death.

Governor Andrew Cuomo at this time last year was intensely lobbying lawmakers to pass a bill to legalize gay marriage.

During the same period, however, a Pershing official reported lobbying the lawmaker on «legislative initiatives related to consumer protection and pyramid schemes.»

New Yorkers with terminal conditions and relatives of people who died after painful illnesses have repeatedly lobbied lawmakers to pass legislation in New York to legalize physician - assisted suicide but top lawmakers have said they don't expect the measure to come up for a vote this year.

Christopher Goeken, Director of Public Policy and Government Relations at New York League of Conservation Voters, said the personal products industry successfully lobbied lawmakers into stalling legislation that bans microbeads, though some larger manufacturers have already pledged to phase out certain products.

WASHINGTON — Mayor Michael Bloomberg Wednesday lobbied lawmakers here for New York State's $ 42 - billion disaster - aid...

School district superintendents, the Wisconsin Association of School Boards and the School Administrators Alliance have been lobbying lawmakers as Republicans write education legislation.

Despite the state's many fiscal challenges, California education officials are quietly lobbying lawmakers for a full adoption of new math textbooks that could come as soon as next year.

In 2012, the SRC lobbied lawmakers to attempt to get an amendment to the takeover law that would give it the absolute right to impose terms on its unions.

«There is a clear conflict of interest — Glenn Vaad was a high - ranking representative of a corporate lobbying group that is coordinating a national attack on clean energy,» explains Gabe Elsner, Executive Director for the Energy and Policy Institute, «In the past year, ALEC's utility and fossil fuel members lobbied lawmakers in at least 15 states to introduce legislation repealing Renewable Energy Portfolio Standards.

Dozens of similarly situated homeowners in deed - restricted developments lobbied lawmakers for a bill that would permit them to install solar panels.

NYPIRG has been lobbying lawmakers in Albany for several years to pass comprehensive ethics reform.

Dimon, who in the past has described himself as «barely» a Democrat, has been going to Washington more often since the 2016 elections to lobby lawmakers on issues including changes in corporate taxes, immigration policies and mortgage finance.

Charter advocates have already begun lobbying lawmakers to include the removal of the cap in the state budget.

Meanwhile, progressive leaning groups lobbied lawmakers to raise taxes on corporations in the new budget.

Talia Rumsky, a 16 - year - old Stoneman Douglas High student who was at school during the shooting, was among those who travelled to Tallahassee Wednesday to lobby lawmakers about gun control.

That is the day seniors from all over the state will lobby lawmakers for passage of a single payer health insurance bill.

Michelle Obama took her healthy eating agenda from the White House — where she built an organic vegetable garden — to the halls of Congress, where she lobbied lawmakers in the passage in 2010 of the Healthy, Hunger - Free Kids Act.

Attend NSBA's annual D.C. meeting June 11 - 12 where we lobby lawmakers, hear from the Administration and much more.

Then headcovering went out of fashion in Europe, and Jewish women found that financing startups or negotiating treaties in a hat was bad for business, so they lobbied their lawmakers.

Especially since they lobby lawmakers to stop laws that would expose pedos.

The first lady put an early stamp on the bill, lobbying lawmakers to back it.

Michelle Obama took her healthy eating agenda from the White House - where she built an organic vegetable garden - to the halls of Congress, where she lobbied lawmakers in the passage in 2010 of the Healthy, Hunger - Free Kids Act.

Afterwards, the Let NY Vote Coalition will lobby lawmakers.

In addition to campaign contributions, both sides spent huge sums on lobbying lawmakers, according to state records.

Advocates came to the Capitol to lobby lawmakers, but the bill is getting bogged down over political skirmishes.

The state Capitol is going to be packed to capacity today as thousands of New Yorkers travel from all corners of the state to lobby lawmakers on various issues.

Members of the Wisconsin Contractor Coalition, which formed to oppose right - to - work efforts and has about 350 construction - related businesses on board, are lobbying lawmakers on the issue, said the group's spokesman Steve Lyons.

Gov. David A. Paterson delivered impassioned speeches, Senator Kirsten E. Gillibrand headlined a giant rally and City Council Speaker Christine C. Quinn shuttled back and forth to Albany to lobby lawmakers.

Sen. Charles Schumer (D - NY) asked students at Syracuse University Monday to lobby lawmakers to support the «In the Red Debt Free College» proposal.

The move failed as students, some from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School who traveled to Tallahassee to lobby lawmakers, looked on.

Agreements that DraftKings and FanDuel reached with AG Eric Schneiderman's office mark a shift in legal strategy over the fate of daily fantasy sports, which experts say could better set the companies up to lobby lawmakers to clearly legalize the contests.