Sentences with phrase «years as a lobbyist»

Despite Lynn's years as a lobbyist for Raytheon, a defense contractor, the administration appointed him as Deputy Secretary of Defense.

Howe had also been listed earlier this year as a lobbyist for The Hudson Group.

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Manafort also attended a meeting last year at Trump Tower with Trump's son Donald Trump Jr. and son - in - law Jared Kushner as well as two Russian lobbyists who were said to have offered dirt on Hillary Clinton.

In the coming year, Prompt Alert plans to set up a base in Washington D.C. as a means of staying close to politicians, health care regulators and lobbyists.

But last year's increase in campaign donations and lobbying seem like more than business as usual for Novo Nordisk, said Billet, a former AT&T lobbyist who directs GWU's Legislative Affairs program.

Before joining the White House this year, Delrahim served as an antitrust lobbyist for Comcast *, which purchased NBCUniversal in 2011, and he also worked the halls of Congress and the federal government on behalf of Qualcomm, federal records show.

Rice joined Facebook from Verizon more than four years ago to serve as the company's top Democratic lobbyist.

Vanecko, who also works as a lobbyist, did not play any role in the new deal, although he was involved in arranging the current five - year contract with the district, the spokeswomen said.

Advocates, lobbyists and even some state lawmakers privately fear this could become one of the least productive legislative sessions in years as «scandal fatigue» pervades the Capitol and criminal allegations dominate the headlines and deflate the desire to get things done.

As you'll recall, Cuomo said during his State of the State address that he would be the self - appointed «lobbyist» for public school students this year, taking on what he perceives to be the bloated bureaucracy in the education system.

Duffy won't be registering as a lobbyist, but he's still adhering to a two - year ban on lobbying his old colleagues in the administration — a ban that includes Gov. Andrew Cuomo.

That's how one of state government's best - known lobbyists described the atmosphere at the Capitol as lawmakers face what is expected to be a series of bitterly contested and highly divisive reelection battles next year in the midst of a bitter and highly divisive presidential campaign.

Individuals who have registered with the state as lobbyists within the past year are also prohibited from serving on the commission.

A former Labour party head of briefings, O'Donovan was a special adviser in the New Labour years and is now seen as one of the key Blairite lobbyists in the private sector.

Hussain started out in public affairs working for Refugee Council and cemented his credentials as a top voluntary sector lobbyist when stepped up to his present post at the end of last year.

While he has lobbied the federal government for years, Howe only registered as a lobbyist with the state's Joint Commission on Public Ethics in December.

He worked for Andrew Cuomo for two years at HUD before leaving for a career as a lobbyist in the private sector.

James Capalino's eponymous firm surpassed Kasirer as the city's top lobbyist in 2014, Bill de Blasio's first year as mayor, and the common assumption was that its revenues rose because of its chief's ties with the mayor.

A Cuomo campaign spokesperson didn't directly address the allegations, but alleged that Cox worked as an unregistered lobbyist for an oil company several years ago.

Manhattan - based Park Strategies, which is also one of the larger state lobbyists, filed in Nassau to represent 20 clients, including Forest City Ratner (which also registered its own employees as lobbyists); Gannett Fleming Engineers, which has won more than $ 6 million in county contracts since 2011, mostly to design and oversee wastewater treatment plant improvements; and Allvision, a company that was poised to erect large electronic billboards across Nassau before the project stalled earlier this year.

Cuomo used it to devastating effect during his four years as attorney general, stringing along major lobbyists, Wall Street executives and Eliot Spitzer until he deemed them sufficiently castigated to move along.

The panel, the Joint Commission on Public Ethics, has been investigating the nonprofit, the Campaign for One New York, since last year, seeking to determine whether it ran afoul of state regulations by failing to register as a lobbyist in 2015.

As the 2016 session of the Legislature wrapped up last week and came to a typically ugly end in the wee hours Saturday morning — with bleary - eyed lawmakers forced to vote on measures they didn't even have time to read — The Post asked several lawmakers, lobbyists and journalists to assess the first full year's performance of Democrat Heastie, a key ally of Mayor de Blasio, and Flanagan, the most powerful Republican in the state.

Masiello has been serving as an Albany lobbyist in recent years.

Even if IE reform is a heavy lift, other lawmakers were pointing to the remarks from Cuomo on Wednesday at Fordham — including a push to have consultants register as lobbyists — as being a way to subtly critique Mayor Bill de Blasio, whom the governor has feuded with over the last year.

He sat on the party's National Executive Committee from 2010 to 2012 and has many years» experience as a lobbyist at the London HQ of global consultancy Weber Shandwick.

Lobbyist and longtime Mayor de Blasio pal Harold Ickes earned an infamous nickname during his years as a highly partisan political operative in President Bill Clinton's White House: The Garbage...

The aide, Micah C. Lasher, worked for the Bloomberg administration from 2009 until last year, serving most of that time as the mayor's chief lobbyist in Albany.

The State Joint Commission on Public Ethics is also examining whether the Campaign for One New York violated lobbying rules by not registering as a lobbyist last year, according to multiple people familiar with the inquiry.

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Teachout, meanwhile, struck a note of economic populism, calling for stricter banking regulations, higher corporate taxes and renegotiation of foreign trade deals, while painting Faso, who served 15 years in the state Assembly and has worked as a lobbyist, as a standard - bearer for the status quo.

Their objection is that the bill does not go far enough in limiting the influence lobbyists can have through the gift - giving process, or in strengthening the revolving door by which former legislators recast themselves as lobbyists within a year after leaving office.

Now a lobbyist, Mr. McMahon is quietly floating himself as a candidate for a potential special election in the Staten Island and Brooklyn - based district if Mr. Grimm is found guilty on tax evasion charges and steps aside next year.

While Mulrow was listed as a Blackstone lobbyist working to influence the $ 289 billion New York state pension system, Blackstone secured hundreds of millions of dollars in new pension investment commitments for the firm — far more than it had during the four - year period before Cuomo's first term.

According to Bolton's website: «As a lobbyist, Giorgio has worked on several successful procurement projects, including the New York State Prescription Drug Program, valued at $ 1 billion per year, and the New York State Mental Health Contract, valued at $ 120 million per year.

He has $ 24.2 million in his campaign account, and counts as supporters prominent Republicans like Alphonse D'Amato, a lobbyist who 18 years ago served in the U.S. Senate (and lost, in the end, to Schumer).

One lobbyist said that Robert Mujica, who is in his first year as the administration's budget director, had not yet signed off on Article VII policy bills as of late Friday.

The law, passed in 2011 as part of Gov. Andrew Cuomo's first ethics reform bill, requires lobbyists or their clients who pay a state employee more than $ 1,000 in a year to submit a form detailing the exact amount every six months.

That provision has been renewed every few years; its survival is a top priority for the lobbyists employed by PRI, as the company is one of two such firms operating in the red in New York.

But others — including advocates, lobbyists and even some lawmakers — privately fear this could become one of the least productive sessions in years as criminal allegations dominate the headlines and deflate the desire to get things done.

D'Amato had worked for years with Skelos as New York's Republican U.S. senator from Long Island and later as a major lobbyist in Albany.

Rules prohibit those with conflicts of interest from serving on the Commission including no person who has served in the last three years as a New York legislator, statewide elected official, member of congress, and spouses of the preceding groups, legislators» staff, lobbyists, state officers, state employees, or party chairs.

Cuomo pulled in $ 320,540 from lobbyists the past two years, even as he campaigns to thwart their political influence.

That's what House Democrats, science lobbyists, and officials at the National Science Foundation (NSF) may want to ask themselves as they attempt to salvage the 5 - year, $ 82 - billion reauthorization to boost spending for research, education, and innovation at NSF and two other science agencies.

But in a year when many civilian agencies are facing big cuts, science lobbyists saw the STEM numbers as a sign that the Administration was very supportive of science education.

She worked as a lobbyist for Planned Parenthood for nearly 30 years, literally fighting for the healthcare and rights of so many needing humans in our country.

«I don't want to be a salesperson, I don't want to convince anyone of anything,» says Aaron Eckhart, who earlier this year drew rave notices for doing just that as a smooth - talking tobacco lobbyist in Thank You For Smoking.

«Colleagues and lobbyists describe Mr. Jennings as at once disarming and demanding,» commented Education Week at the end of Jennings's 27 - year Capitol Hill career, «a consensus builder and a partisan.»

Nevertheless, after Levesque spent at least two years as a registered lobbyist for Lager's firm, Bush traveled to Ohio to give the commencement speech for ECOT.

Pacelle took office June 1, 2004, after serving for nearly 10 years as the organization's chief lobbyist and spokesperson.