It also lobbies for better laws to fight human trafficking.
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That group that lobbies for the rights of Wal-Mart workers.
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The newspaper lobbies for Trump to appoint either Taylor or Warsh.
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He has multiple times suggested that the paper lobbies for Amazon.
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She primarily lobbies for change working as a sex toy consultant.
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BGR lobbies for Credit Suisse and MassMutual, among other financial clients.
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Gabby Giffords and her husband Mark Kelly, lobbies for gun safety legislation.
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They came from lobbies for trade unions, civil-rights groups and businesses.
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The advocacy group lobbies for policies that reduce nuclear proliferation around the world.
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A membership association, the group lobbies for legislation and changes in criminal justice procedures.
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She approached A Better Balance, a nonprofit that lobbies for more work-life equity.
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BSA-The Software Alliance: Lobbies for enterprise software companies like IBM, Salesforce, Adobe and Siemens.
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Hart is chairman of a firm that lobbies for the export of liquefied natural gas.
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Turnberry also lobbies for wireless company T-Mobile and energy management company Redhorse Corporation, among others.
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There's even an advocacy organization, Kids Listen, which lobbies for more and better content for children.
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The forum is a left-right coalition that lobbies for unauthorized immigrants and expansive immigration policies.
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Harper's successor, Justin Trudeau, continues to put up an optimistic face as he lobbies for NAFTA's survival.
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It is the Financial Services Forum — not the Financial Services Roundtable, which lobbies for the financial industry.
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In prison, Atkins became a model prisoner, married twice, taught other inmates, and launched controversial lobbies for parole.
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Needham will leave his job leading Heritage Action, which was founded in 2010 and lobbies for conservative policies.
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The 3 Million, which lobbies for the rights of EU citizens in Britain, is to launch a registration push.
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Jameson Taylor is the vice president of the Mississippi Center for Public Policy, an organization that lobbies for conservative principles.
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Amazon, too has considered joining the organization, which lobbies for copyright protection, anti-piracy protection and tax credits for productions.
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Making Change at Walmart, a group that lobbies for the rights of Wal-Mart workers, was skeptical of that promise.
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Mr Corbyn is a longtime supporter of Hands Off Venezuela, a British outfit that lobbies for the ailing chavista regime.
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He advises top White House officials, works for GOP campaigns, lobbies for major corporations and opines on political talk shows.
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Catanzaro lobbies for many fossil fuel companies and associations, such as Devon Energy and the American Fuel and Petrochemical Manufacturers.
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On July 9, he attended a candidate forum organized by Moms Demand Action, a group that lobbies for gun control laws.
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Burton, it should be noted, is an anti-vaxxer who now lobbies for an organization founded by the Church of Scientology.
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The policies the NRA [National Rifle Association] lobbies for makes it easy for domestic abusers to get their hands on guns.
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State gun laws are tracked, in detail, by the Giffords Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence, which lobbies for gun control.
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Along the way, BoJack lobbies for an Oscar nomination at film festivals and at a bat mitzvah—for an actual bat.
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The screams of opposition from America's organized lobbies for doctors, hospitals, and other health care providers ought to provide a clue.
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Milton Friedman said that you can tell who benefits from licensing by watching who lobbies for it—and rarely is that consumers.
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The promise is welcome, but not convincing to Sekhar Raghavan of the Rain Centre, an NGO that lobbies for better water management.
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The corporation commits over 320,000 abortions every year, and lobbies for abortion with no restrictions — up through the ninth month of pregnancy.
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"It is pretty scandalous," said Graham Smith, chief executive officer of Republic, a group that lobbies for the abolition of the monarchy.
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The ICC lobbies for the code to be enacted into law, and earns revenue by selling code books and running accreditation programs.
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Wilmer Hale, the law firm where Ennis previously worked as a partner, lobbies for a number of clients with business before Interior.
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The FTTH Council Europe, which lobbies for access to high-speed networks, defines this as 20 percent of households having a fibre connection.
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Macra na Feirme, which lobbies for young Irish farmers, argues that forest payments are now preventing good land from coming onto the market.
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And while West Hollywood lobbies for Trump's star to be removed, Bill Cosby is still honored despite being convicted of aggravated sexual assault.
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In contrast to Gerhard Schröder, the former German chancellor who now lobbies for Mr Putin, Mrs Merkel has become a steadfast ideological opponent.
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Four years later, Bahrami left the F.A.A. to take a job with the Aerospace Industries Association, which lobbies for Boeing and other manufacturers.
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Chris Chmielenski, the deputy director of NumbersUSA, which lobbies for lower legal immigration, said companies should be pressured to hire more Americans instead.
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The group that lobbies for them in Washington said Tuesday that opponents are mischaracterizing the proposal to alter the nation's flight navigation system.
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Ennis previously worked as a partner at the Washington-based law firm WilmerHale, which lobbies for a number of clients with business before Interior.
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A health care success could give Trump legislative momentum as he lobbies for a tax reform; a defeat could make it that much tougher.
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In the 90-degree heat, they waited in long lines in housing project lobbies for a single working elevator because the others were broken.
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European stocks have been on fire this year as ECB President Christine Lagarde lobbies for more fiscal stimulus in the region, particularly from Germany.
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The energy ministry, which often lobbies for the interests of the domestic producers, had expected the new tax system would tentatively be introduced from 2018.
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That is largely thanks to Jinja Honcho, which lobbies for conservative causes, for the sake "of our nation and nationhood", as Mr Tanaka puts it.
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"We don't see how this could be permanent," said Andrew Radford, a senior policy adviser with the American Petroleum Institute, which lobbies for oil companies.
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According to the Giffords Law Center, which lobbies for tougher gun laws, there have not been any successful legal challenges of any similar state laws.
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Still, needs are likely to grow, says Derek Brockbank, executive director at the American Shore and Beach Preservation Association, which lobbies for coastal governments and businesses.
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One group, the Washington-based Secular Coalition for America, which lobbies for atheists, agnostics and other nontheistic Americans, also called for a veto of the bill.
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The president and CEO of the trade group that lobbies for the ISPs that are trying to end net neutrality would like everyone to just chill.
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"I know they're worried about it," said Joel White, the president of Horizon Government Affairs, who lobbies for the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA).
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ILGA-Europe, which lobbies for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people, said employers needed to address the exclusion of the transgender community from the workplace.
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Every major industry lobbies for its interests, but congressional aides said that lobbyists for pharmaceutical companies were special: They outnumber the lobbyists for many other industries.
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Indonesia lobbies for Aisyah Indonesian authorities said earlier this week that Malaysia had agreed to release their citizen due in part to intense lobbying by Jakarta.
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"Folks are nervous," said Jonathan Gold, a vice president of the National Retail Federation, which lobbies for companies like Sam's Club, Macy's and Modell's Sporting Goods.
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Streamers will be able to create lobbies for fans to join and play with them on YouTube, and Stadia will support instant clipping to the video service.
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The group lobbies for the 25,2003 or so vendors, most of them immigrants, who sell food, jewelry, clothing and just about everything else in New York City.
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He set up the Pavement Dwellers Rights Association, which lobbies for welfare benefits and permanent homes within a 3 km (1.9 miles) radius of their current homes.
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"It's very difficult for turkeys to vote for Christmas," said Murray Hunter, a researcher and former spokesman for Right2Know, a group that lobbies for access to information.
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Zakka, a resident of Washington, D.C., is the leader of the Arab ICT Organization, a trade group comprising 85033 countries that lobbies for information technology in the region.
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"We're already at the edge of feasibility," said Nancy Young, the vice president for environmental affairs at Airlines for America, a group that lobbies for the airline industry.
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In full, the statement from the organization that lobbies for the games industry and puts on the annual E3 show said: The case in question was Brown vs.
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Ceres, a nonprofit that lobbies for companies to take action on climate change, applauded BlackRock's decision, particularly its intention to direct clients towards sustainable investment funds by default.
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The group lobbies for the 20,000 or so vendors, most of whom are immigrants, who sell food, jewelry, clothing and just about everything else in New York City.
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"This is a huge undertaking," said Hudson Hollister of the Data Coalition, an industry group that lobbies for government data to be posted online in standardized, accessible formats.
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The main lobbies for the industry — the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America and the Biotechnology Innovation Organization — said they had not taken a formal position on the legislation.
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Disability:IN, a nonprofit that lobbies for disability inclusion in the workplace, in 2017 convened an advisory group of businesses with autism-focused hiring programs for at least a year.
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New York Magazine reports that Cuomo spoke at tonight's rally led by Family Planning Advocates (an organization that lobbies for Planned Parenthood) about his proposed amendment to include Roe v.
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Negotiations would take a long time and the bloc could end up treating Britain as a less-regulated "off-shore" center, TheCityUK, which lobbies for Britain's financial services sector, said.
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Americans for Safe Access Foundation, which lobbies for safe, legal access to cannabis for therapeutic use and research,came out in January with its annual state medical marijuana program rankings.
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"IPAB was probably more terrifying to them than any provider group," said Rodney Whitlock, a former GOP Finance Committee aide who now lobbies for the Campaign for Sustainable Rx Pricing.
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For example, a company may reasonably believe that giving to an organization that opposes some of its products is worthwhile because the organization successfully lobbies for lower corporate tax rates.
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"Uber's absurd proposal is a street safety disaster waiting to happen," said David Beier, president of the Committee for Taxi Safety, a group that lobbies for the traditional taxi industry.
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The National Motorists Association, a grass-roots group that lobbies for safer traffic laws, blames the plague of left-lane laggards on the national speed limit imposed in the 1970s.
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Forbes Tate, a public affairs company that lobbies for many health care and drug companies, coordinates the work of the partnership, but is not registered to lobby on its behalf.
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"Historically the industry has taken the position that federal government is the sole purview of fuel economy," said Bozzella of Global Automakers, which lobbies for companies including Nissan, Hyundai and Kia.
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"Historically, the industry has taken the position that federal government is the sole purview of fuel economy," said Bozzella of Global Automakers, which lobbies for companies including Nissan, Hyundai and Kia.
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CJAC typically lobbies for legislation that will reduce the number of lawsuits filed against companies in the state, but it has recently been directing funds to oppose the net neutrality proposal.
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"We are watching the industrialization of commercial cannabis," said Tawnie Logan, chairwoman of the board of the California Growers Association, an organization that lobbies for cottage growers' access to the market.
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It also lobbies for a standard threshold of one year for habitual residence and advises parents to sign a pre-move contract stating that the child can go home at any time.
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It substitutes the power of political lobbies for market forces, favouring loud, well-organised producers over silent, disparate consumers and robbing economies of the nimbleness needed to adapt to changing technological conditions.
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The National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation, which lobbies for such laws and represents workers with legal claims against unions, contributed more than $750,000 to a campaign to defeat the referendum.
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The forum, which lobbies for black rights, criticised the mobile phone operator's decision saying it was retrogressive to plans for the inclusion of blacks in corporate boardrooms in Africa's most industrialised country.
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The group that lobbies for them in Washington said this week that opponents are jumping the gun and mischaracterizing the proposal to alter the nation's flight navigation system before it is unveiled.
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"We don't think it does the things economists say it's going to do," said James Gelfand, senior vice president for health policy for the Erisa Industry Committee, which lobbies for large employers.
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Also behind the measure were America's Health Insurance Plans, the giant trade group for insurers; AARP representing the elderly; the National Retail Federation, which lobbies for merchants plus doctors, hospitals and patients groups.
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The group that lobbies for battery markers in Washington, PRBA–The Rechargeable Battery Association, said the "decision by the ICAO Council was not unexpected," although its industry strongly disagrees with the regulators' conclusions.
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"By not trusting any company, ascribing to them sinister motives, that's raising eyebrows and is being perceived as unfair and potentially un-Republican," said Scheineson, who also lobbies for a flavored cigar company.
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Emily Scarr, the Director of U.S. PIRG in Maryland—a group that lobbies for the right-to-repair across the country—said corporate lobbyists have just begun to come out against the bill.
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TV's Krystal Ball knocks Clinton's 'mean girl' comments against Sanders MORE, for example, was criticized in February 22020 for having Steve Elmendorf of Subject Matter, who lobbies for Goldman Sachs, at a debate.
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The Motion Picture Association and the News Media Alliance, a group that lobbies for news organizations, have urged the Trump administration not to allow the protections in a future trade deal with Britain.
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During the week, Mr. Clark works as an optometrist, and Ms. Rettig runs a nonprofit group called Tampa Bay Free Beaches, which lobbies for opening up more areas of Florida to nude recreation.
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Seeing such distinct holiday decor within these NYC hotels made me think that people visiting any city should check out some of the bigger hotels' lobbies for a unique and free holiday experience.
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"Minor children are being brought under treacherous circumstances because we have incentivized this," said Dan Stein, president of the Federation for American Immigration Reform, a national organization that lobbies for curbing all immigration.
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"It creates numerous loopholes, intentionally blinds regulators, eliminates reporting requirements, and leaves the banks to self-regulate," said Dennis Kelleher, president and chief executive of Better Markets, a group that lobbies for tighter regulation.
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Here are ways to keep yourself safe during online transactions: Swap items in the lobby of a police station A lot of police departments nationwide allow the use of their lobbies for such transactions.
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Activist investors often build positions in what they view as undervalued companies with the goal of advocating for key changes, though Oram added that Praesidium typically lobbies for changes in private discussions with management.
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"ITI welcomes the administration's continued focused on IT modernization," said Trey Hodgkins, senior vice president for the public sector at the Information Technology Industry Council, which lobbies for companies like Google, Facebook and Apple.
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"They have got a bad story out there right now," Robert Harmala, a former House aide who lobbies for the Independent Cosmetic Manufacturers and Distributors, said regarding Guthy-Renker and its Wen product line.
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Blethen writes, speaks out and lobbies for newspaper interests and has long been a critic of newspaper chains and the massive consolidation that has taken place in the industry over the past 30 years.
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Mr. Trump's threat has particularly unsettled America's main Asian allies, Japan and South Korea, adversaries and neighbors of North Korea that have increasingly vocal lobbies for acquiring their own nuclear weapons to counter Pyongyang's.
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Garza, now thirty-five, is the special-projects director in the Oakland office of the National Domestic Workers Alliance, which represents twenty thousand caregivers and housekeepers, and lobbies for labor legislation on their behalf.
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First look at George Lucas' space-age art museum Friends of the Parks, a nonprofit organization that lobbies for the preservation of parks and open spaces in Chicago, filed a federal lawsuit to block construction.
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"What our Christian faith teaches us is we're supposed to worry about our actions," Sister Simone Campbell, Executive Director of Network lobby, a faith organization in DC that lobbies for social justice, told VICE Impact.
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To regular moviegoers, the MPAA is probably best-known (to the extent it's known at all) for its occasionally mystifying ratings system, but the group actively lobbies for the studios on a range of issues.
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Instead of building that one charter school, build an organization that lobbies for an end to the funding of public schools according to the value of the homes in the city where the child lives.
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"It's clear that net zero is where investors are pushing companies," Andrew Logan, senior director of oil and gas at Ceres, a nonprofit that lobbies for companies to take action on climate change, told me.
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Now the general counsel for the American Conservative Union, Mr. Safavian lobbies for legislation and programs granting leniency and job training for lower-level drug offenders as well as white-collar former convicts like himself.
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Michael McKenna, who lobbies for numerous energy companies like Southern Co., Competitive Power Ventures and Dow Chemical, said he left "reluctantly" but did not want to comply with the requirements that lobbyists end their federal registrations.
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"For the first time in while, I have been in a complete shock - it is happening in Moscow," Alena Popova, co-founder of the W Project, which lobbies for women's rights, told the Thomson Reuters Foundation.
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CAPE TOWN (Reuters) - A South African advocacy group that lobbies for the rights of white farmers will on Thursday challenge in court President Cyril Ramaphosa's plan to change the constitution to allow land expropriation without compensation.
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Qorvis MSLGroup, a communications firm that lobbies for the Saudis, has been organizing veterans and other activists to come to Washington to urge Congress to repeal the law letting 9/11 victims' families sue the kingdom.
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"You're hearing a desire to promote oil and natural gas opportunities on all lands, and on federal lands," said Erik Milito, the director of upstream issues for the American Petroleum Institute, which lobbies for oil companies.
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"Getting a driving permit will not only be a proof of identity but open another livelihood avenue, for instance, finding employment in cab companies," said Qamar Naseem of Peshawar-based Blue Veins that lobbies for transgender people.
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"There have been a lot of apologies but deep within, I don't think the Japanese are sorry for what they did," says Hideki Yano, who heads an NGO in Tokyo that lobbies for victims of forced labour.
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"The committees required to address these complaints and grievances are either not properly constituted or simply do not exist," said TK Rajalakshmi, president of the India Women's Press Corps, that lobbies for the rights of female journalists.
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As people move to cities, where youth unemployment is huge, "it is becoming a timebomb", said Mahamoud, who lobbies for Somaliland's official recognition and supports the 21991,215 or so people from the republic now living in Britain.
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"The committees required to address these complaints and grievances are either not properly constituted or simply do not exist," said TK Rajalakshmi, president of the India Women's Press Corps, which lobbies for the rights of female journalists.
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"This is the next large fight," said James Maloney, vice president for public affairs at the American Investment Council, which lobbies for the private equity industry and considers the treatment of interest as its most pressing issue.
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"People who sell drugs, there tends to be dangerous activity that takes place around their residence," said Ed Klumpp, a retired Topeka police chief who lobbies for law enforcement at the legislature and opposes the current bill.
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"Private equity is an engine for American growth and innovation - especially in Senator Warren's home state of Massachusetts," Drew Maloney, head of the American Investment Council, an organization that lobbies for private equity firms, said in a statement.
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"The booksellers' disappearances were a vivid indication that the long arm of the Chinese security state could and would reach into Hong Kong and beyond," PEN America, which lobbies for free speech rights worldwide, said in a statement.
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Reversing that trend could have made a difference in two recent spree shootings, said Dr. E. Fuller Torrey, founder of the Treatment Advocacy Center, which lobbies for more investment in psychiatric beds for people with severe mental illness.
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"They really are setting a new standard for what leadership looks like in the industry," said Andrew Logan, senior director of oil and gas at Ceres, a nonprofit that lobbies for companies to take action on climate change.
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That sort of sensibility is voiced by a campaign group based in Washington, DC called In Defense of Christians which lobbies for the rights of religious minorities in places ranging from Egypt to Iraq and has chapters across America.
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David Hogg, a Marjory Stoneman student and leader in a student movement for gun control that has emerged from the Parkland, Florida, attack, used Shaw's example to taunt the National Rifle Association, which lobbies for gun rights, on Twitter.
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"Europe works in these long sweeping policy cycles," Janet Gunter, co-founder of The Restart Project—a U.K. based group that teaches people how to repair electronics and lobbies for the right-to-repair—told Motherboard on the phone.
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"With this compendium, Cheryl and Linda Costa have reminded the public and the media the extraterrestrial phenomenon continues unabated," said Stephen Bassett, founder and executive director of the Paradigm Research Group, which lobbies for disclosure of official U.F.O. records.
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"These might not necessarily result in near-term oil and gas production, but it could expand our opportunities in the future," said Erik Milito, the director of upstream issues for the American Petroleum Institute, which lobbies for oil companies.
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It was recently reported that EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt rented a condo from the wife of the head of the lobbying firm Williams & Jensen, which lobbies for businesses regulated by the EPA, for $50 per night he stayed there.
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"We're thrilled about the potential for a Supreme Court pick that could move to protect life and protect maternal health," said Jameson Taylor, the vice president of the Mississippi Center for Public Policy, an organization that lobbies for conservative principles.
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Savage is the Chair of the Kaurareg Native Title Aboriginal Corporation, the government-backed organization that lobbies for his people's land rights, but he also has tribal bloodlines that tie him to all the clans of Cape York, in northern Queensland.
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"Airlines have always worked to accommodate customers who are traveling together, including those traveling with children, and will continue to do so — without unnecessary federal mandates," the group that lobbies for most major carriers in Washington, Airlines for America, said Thursday.
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Terry Hartle of the American Council on Education, which represents and lobbies for higher education institutions, told The Washington Post that the number of submissions is roughly 20 times that of the number normally received for a major regulatory proposal.
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"It may not go as far as some people would like, but it certainly clips Mark's wings in a pretty significant way," said Michael Connor, who has helped coordinate Facebook shareholder action through Open MIC, which lobbies for better corporate governance.
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But Lucy Gilliam, aviation and shipping specialist at Transport & Environment, a European nonprofit that lobbies for clean transport, said there are drawbacks to offset programs, which need to be maintained over time and can take a while to kick in.
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"Everyone is coming to the realization that Republicans are going to need to sprint to the end of the year," said Ken Spain, a former spokesman for the National Republican Congressional Committee who now lobbies for companies on tax issues.
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"Tax reform is a series of battles," said Sage Eastman, who worked in vain on tax overhaul plans as a longtime senior aide on the House Ways and Means Committee and who now lobbies for Mehlman Castagnetti Rosen & Thomas in Washington.
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The letter is the latest pushback from the technology industry as is it lobbies for the White House and Congress to not restrict high-skilled worker visas, as some Republicans and Trump have floated curbing certain parts of the program.
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"Once they are in the country, they are home free because there is so little interior enforcement," said Jessica Vaughan, a former federal visa officer who is now policy director at the Center for Immigration Studies, which lobbies for restricting immigration.
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"Soil to me as a farmer means a nutrient-rich medium that contains biological processes, and that doesn't have to be dirt," said Marianne Cufone, an aquaponic farmer and the executive director of the Recirculating Farms Coalition, which lobbies for aquaculture.
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"We should not increase fees to such a degree as to make these places – protected for all Americans to experience – unaffordable for some families to visit," said Theresa Pierno, head of the National Parks Conservation Association, which lobbies for park interets.
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"Would it be positive if the government took away the internet and phones because they've been abused," asked Tara Burns, a trafficking survivor and former sex worker in Alaska who now lobbies for safety and protections for those in the sex trade.
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BEN WILLIAMSCommunications managerAdblock PlusCologne Calling for an end to job licensing, you referred to Milton Friedman, stating that "you can tell who benefits from licensing by watching who lobbies for it—and rarely is that consumers" ("Licence to kill competition", February 17th).
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Two more things to know:Until recently, Mr. Holmstead was a registered lobbyist on EPA and Energy Department issues, and his firm Bracewell lobbies for oil refineries urging EPA to change the types of companies that must comply with a federal ethanol mandate.
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These range from "Ped Drops" hacks, which trigger an endless rain of dead bodies with pockets lined with cash, to "money drops," where clients meet money dealers in game lobbies for hook-ups, typically pre-arranged in text messages or on Skype.
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According to CNN, senior White House aides are "exasperated" with the drama surrounding Pruitt's $50/night rental agreement with the wife of J. Steven Hart, who has contributed to Pruitt's political career and whose firm lobbies for the export of liquefied natural gas.
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Mr. Akhmetshin said he lobbies for a nonprofit group, the Human Rights Accountability Global Initiative Foundation, that records show is affiliated with Russian businessmen who have ties to the Russian government, including Denis Katsyv, whose businesses have been represented by Ms. Veselnitskaya.
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But those at #Cut50 — an organization that lobbies for criminal justice reform and reducing the U.S. prison population — the couple was instrumental in getting the First Step Act passed, which has the potential to reduce the sentences of thousands of people in federal prison.
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"What makes it important is the prominence of New York City — nationally and internationally — and the significance of opening up legal medical marijuana outlets here," said Ethan Nadelmann, the executive director of the Drug Policy Alliance, which lobbies for changes in national drug policy.
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Uber will also use its initial investment to collect and share data on street speeds and will donate funds to an organization that lobbies for friendlier bike policies in cities around the U.S. The company has unsuccessfully pushed for congestion pricing in the past.
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Related: A New Front Has Opened Up in the Legal Battle Over Climate Change Calls for Harris to launch an investigation were spearheaded by RL Miller, founder of the organization Climate Hawks Vote, which lobbies for candidates who are aggressive about tackling climate change.
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It also works with Cotton Council International, which, despite its name, is not an international organization and is actually the "trade arm" of the National Cotton Council — a Memphis-based PAC that lobbies for the passage of farm bills that benefit the cotton industry.
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The National Resources Defense Council, for example, is an environmental action group that pays particular attention to water quality in the U.S. The organization lobbies for the preservation of water, promotes water efficiency and works to raise awareness of climate change's impact on water.
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Those who would rather ban the drug should stop flogging the dead horse of prohibition and start campaigning for versions of legalisation that do the least harm (just as the temperance movement these days lobbies for higher taxes on booze, rather than a ban).
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Germany, which did not criminalize marital rape until 1997, has one of the worst records in Europe for protecting its women from sexual violence, said Brendan Wynne, a spokesman for Equality Now, an international rights organization that lobbies for better protection for women and girls.
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In a piece he penned for The Wall Street Journal, Chairman Pai lobbies for a repeal of the current neutrality mandates, which require internet access providers like Verizon, AT&T, Charter and CNBC parent company Comcast to be equal in their distribution of bandwidth.
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Uber, Lyft, DoorDash and the Internet Association, a group that lobbies for the technology industry, have spent more than $2900 million lobbying the legislature in just the past six months, much of it on AB 220006, according to a review of California lobbying disclosures.
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"Extending this waiver is an anti-consumer policy that risks causing costly engine and fuel-system damage to nearly three out of four vehicles on the road today," said Frank Macchiarola, a vice president of the American Petroleum Institute, which lobbies for oil companies.
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"If Walmart really wanted to invest in its workers, it would start people at $173 companywide and adequately staff its stores so they can service customers," said Judy Conti, federal advocacy coordinator for the National Employment Law Project, which lobbies for low-wage workers.
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Uber, Lyft, DoorDash and the Internet Association, a group that lobbies for the technology industry, have spent more than $1 million lobbying the Legislature in just the past six months, much of it on A.B. 5, according to a review of California lobbying disclosures.
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Kathleen Sgamma, president of the Western Energy Alliance, which lobbies for the oil industry, told CNN her organization did not raise concerns about safety with BLM but that energy companies within her organization's network did initially express concerns about the shutdown's potential effects on production.
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"That's something that does add a lot of friction into the system and is definitely going to need to be cleaned up and fixed in the U.S. tax code for this to fully take off," said Smith, whose firm lobbies for public policy on blockchain issues. Rep.
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Two-thirds of registered voters are more likely to vote for a candidate who supports regulating Wall Street and big banks when they talk about the economy, according to a September survey by The Harris Poll on behalf of Better Markets, which lobbies for tighter industry regulation.
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Alexandra Veitch, who's a lobbyist for Tesla, was a senior adviser to Pelosi; Tom Manatos, who lobbies for Spotify, was her senior adviser for member services; and Catlin O'Neill, who now works in Facebook's Washington, D.C., office, was her chief of staff before leaving in 85033.
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"'I'm not sure who's fought China and won, just like I'm not sure who's fought a casino and won in the long run," says Bruce Mehlman, who was an assistant secretary of commerce for technology policy under the Bush administration and now lobbies for several tech companies.
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"Pipelines like KXL are the backbone of our nation's energy infrastructure and one of the most environmentally sound ways to transport the fuel and petroleum products that power America," said Robin Rorick, vice president of midstream operations for the American Petroleum Industry, which lobbies for oil companies.
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"We are hopeful that an appeal of this case will move quickly and that we can proceed with the important work of exploring for America's offshore resources without unnecessary delay," said Erik Milito, a vice president of the American Petroleum Institute, which lobbies for oil companies.
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In an interview on Friday, Mr. Colicchio said he was frustrated with the core work of the organization, which analyzes food policy and lobbies for broad changes to encourage the production of more affordable, healthier and ethically produced food, as well as economic help for workers.
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The memo details Juul's response to 60 questions from the committee, ranging from the source of the tobacco for its nicotine — 100% of it is grown in India — to the number of states where Juul lobbies for its products, which is 48, excluding Missouri and Vermont.
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"Federal statistics show rail safety has been dramatically improving over the last several decades with freight railroads continuously taking action to enhance safe train operations, including ongoing operational reviews, increased track inspections and the use of trackside technology," the group that lobbies for railroads in Washington continued.
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"The courts and state legislatures alike have agreed that life without any chance of parole is an inappropriate sentence for a child," said Joshua Rovner, who focuses on juvenile crime for the Sentencing Project, a Washington-based nonprofit group that lobbies for reduced sentences in juvenile and drug cases.
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And in Taiwan, marriage equality has come closer to becoming a reality than anywhere else in Asia, according to the I.L.G.A, a Geneva-based group that enjoys consultative status at the United Nations and lobbies for L.G.B.T.G. equality on behalf of more than 20173,300 member organizations in 141 countries.
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The American Chemistry Council, a deep-pocketed trade association that lobbies for the plastics industry, has backed bills in at least five states — Michigan, Ohio, South Carolina, Indiana and Arkansas — that would require local governments to open up bids for municipal water projects to all suitable materials, including plastic.
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Club for Growth Action, a super PAC affiliated with the conservative group Club for Growth, which lobbies for lower taxes Reach: Aired in Florida as part of a $1.5 million ad buy Impact: This rather standard ad suggests that Donald Trump, for all his tough talk, is actually a weakling.
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During this time, the number of public psychiatric beds available has plunged, to 11 per 100,000 people from 360 per 100,000 in the 303s, according to Dr. E. Fuller Torrey, founder of the Treatment Advocacy Center, which lobbies for more investment in psychiatric beds for people with severe mental illness.
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For six years, Gary Andres was the Republican staff director of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, which is responsible for legislation that affects prescription drugs and the F.D.A. In February 2017, he became a senior executive vice president of the Biotechnology Innovation Organization, a trade group that lobbies for biotech companies.
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They've featured talks with Kate Black, the chief of staff at Emily's List, an action committee that helps elect pro-choice female candidates into office, and Sarah Dachos, a military veteran who runs the DC chapter for Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America, a gun violence prevention organization which lobbies for gun reforms.
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The effort is backed by capital raised by The Center for Humane Technology, a non-profit led by early Silicon Valley investors and technologists that have been vocal about the harmful effects of social media, and $7 million raised by Common Sense Media, an advocacy group that lobbies for better children's healthcare and education.
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"As someone who has been working on medical cannabis for three years now in this state, I have yet to know one patient that feels the program is serving their needs entirely," said Kate Hintz, state director of Compassionate Care NY, a group that lobbies for medical marijuana, citing a limited and inconsistent product selection.
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According to records kept by the New York Committee for Occupational Safety and Health, a nonprofit group that lobbies for worker safety, of the city contractors that were inspected from 2009 to 2014, 73 percent had at least one "serious" OSHA violation, mostly of "fall protection" standards — precisely the violation responsible for the most deaths.
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"Banks have been to some extent instructed by their supervisors, at least through the years, that there is a preference or even a requirement … that the banks hold high levels of excess reserves," said Bill Nelson, a former senior Fed official who is now chief economist for the Bank Policy Institute, which lobbies for larger banks.
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Most independent repair shop owners Motherboard spoke to said that iCloud unlocking is a dark side of the repair world that they worry will prevent them from being taken seriously as a legitimate industry, especially as the industry lobbies for right to repair legislation that would make it easier for them to buy repair parts and diagnostic tools.
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Other former Biden staffers on K Street include Sudafi Henry, a lobbyist who represents clients such as Facebook, FedEx and PepsiCo; Tony Russo, the top lobbyist for T-Mobile; Jeffrey Peck, who lobbies for clients such as Deutsche Bank and Anheuser-Busch; and Chris Putala, a lobbyist whose clients include Comcast and T-Mobile, according to disclosure filings.
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Former secretary of agriculture Tom Vilsack, for example, recently called out Democrats for lacking a vision for rural America, and although Vilsack put forward a laundry list of ideas, none of them address the root of the problem — perhaps because Vilsack now lobbies for a dairy export organization whose members admitted to driving down milk prices for thousands of farmers.
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One BIC advisory board member lobbies for New Yorkers for Responsible Waste Management, a trade association whose secretary-treasurer is a convicted racketeer: a lawyer named Ray Shain who was disbarred from practicing law in New York in 2003 after pleading guilty to a bid-rigging, bribery and kickback scheme that defrauded Queens public schools out of an estimated $6.3 million.
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Respecting, protecting and promoting the rights of Palestinian refugees to return to their homes and properties as stipulated in UN resolution 194 To do this, the BDS movement advocates for and organizes boycotts of Israeli goods and companies, calls for institutions like banks and universities to exclude Israeli companies from their investments, and lobbies for the imposition of international sanctions.
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" Erik Milito, a spokesman for the American Petroleum Institute, which lobbies for the oil industry and which joined the Trump administration's case, said, "While we disagree with the decision, our nation still has a significant opportunity before us in the development of the next offshore leasing plan to truly embrace our nation's energy potential and ensure American consumers and businesses continue to benefit from U.S. energy leadership.
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