Also included in the plan – measures banning officials from his administration from lobbying for five years and from lobbying for foreign entities.
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"That's an idea we've been lobbying for, and by 'lobbying for,' I mean complaining about," said Owen Terexia, a freshman political science major at John Brown.
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America's steel industry has been lobbying for protection for decades.
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Consequently, he began lobbying for better regulation of sperm banks.
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It's in different countries, all over, she's lobbying for them.
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It will specialize in management consulting and lobbying for nonprofits.
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Saudi Arabia is reportedly still lobbying for support from Russia.
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Mr. Falih has been traveling the world, lobbying for cuts.
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Businesses are still lobbying for exemptions from Chinese tariffs, too.
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At press time, they had not disclosed lobbying for Facebook.
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"I know you weren't lobbying for the sanctions," Menendez replied.
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But he insists he's doing no lobbying for his clients, whatsoever.
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Since then he's traveled around the country lobbying for the law.
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In 2007, the organization started lobbying for laws to protect fashion.
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Elsevier's efforts weren't limited to lobbying for more-restrictive laws, either.
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The alcohol industry has been lobbying for such cuts for years.
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Dillashaw immediately began lobbying for a title fight with Demetrious Johnson.
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Appointees would also be permanently barred from lobbying for foreign governments.
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He was indefatigable in reaching out to reporters, lobbying for coverage.
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He spent the next ten years lobbying for a safer harbor.
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But lobbying for what you want is nothing new in Washington.
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Neither can I. She's still lobbying for a ticket to "Frozen."
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Half of Washington seems to be lobbying for Ukraine or Turkey.
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And he's lobbying for more funding for community behavioral health clinics.
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The president appeared not to understand the bill he was lobbying for.
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One imagines the company is already lobbying for a change in legislation.
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But Hara doesn't want that—with Staples, he's lobbying for heightened appreciation.
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Google, which has spent the past few years aggressively lobbying for RCS.
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There is a reason Exxon has been lobbying for a carbon tax.
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But there's very few people that are lobbying for fairness in general.
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He has appeared at congressional hearings lobbying for the boy&aposs return.
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There is some precedent for brands lobbying for Unicode approval via Change.
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At the same time, many groups have been lobbying for special interests.
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Some investors also are lobbying for a change in Chipotle's board leadership.
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What was the cable industry like when I was lobbying for them?
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Intelligence officials have been lobbying for the Prez to withhold the release.
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Federal investigators are also reportedly looking into Flynn's paid lobbying for Turkey.
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Lawmakers said the administration had spent weeks lobbying for a weaker bill.
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Lane is lobbying for the Shark Fin Trade Elimination Act of 85033.
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"I'm always lobbying for the irrepressible strength of love," Mr. Porter said.
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The former New York City mayor is publicly lobbying for the position.
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The group is also lobbying for educational programs for those already here.
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Barbara Simons of Verified Voting has been lobbying for them for years.
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I'll go back to Boston, I know they're lobbying for New York.
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And when companies move overseas, they stop lobbying for immigration at home.
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My dad got involved in lobbying for rent stabilization for small businesses.
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At the same time, religious conservatives had been lobbying for the law.
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President Trump began work on one of his signature campaign promises on Saturday by signing an executive order that banned administration officials from lobbying for five years after they leave office, and prohibits them from lobbying for foreign entities.
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Studios also are lobbying for a share of revenue higher than 25 percent.
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It looked like this: Britain's Future has been lobbying for a hard Brexit.
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Tax software giants have been long lobbying for control of the bill's language.
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Foreign casino-operators have already begun lobbying for a slice of this pie.
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The pharmaceutical industry didn't get the Medicare "fix" it had been lobbying for.
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And, meanwhile, banks are spending increasing amounts of money lobbying for greater liberalization.
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She is at ease in political circles, lobbying for candidates such as Sen.
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Go deeper: Drug industry lobbying for a big Medicare break in opioids bill
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Trump notably imposed tough restrictions on former administration officials lobbying for foreign governments.
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He also played a major role in lobbying for Russia's intervention into Syria.
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What: Organizers in DC are lobbying for sex workers by meeting with representatives.
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Mr. Obama is lobbying for India to win membership through a special exception.
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In the 20th century, the islands began lobbying for independence, according to Britannica.
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So they have been lobbying for a blend-wall increase to 28503 percent.
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Jochum Shore has been lobbying for Lyft since March 2014, according to forms.
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Wheeler then spent years lobbying for energy clients, including coal giant Murray Energy.
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Telcos are lobbying for the law to be expanded to encompass Internet companies.
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Rather, it's about raising awareness and lobbying for tougher laws against child predators.
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Two Flynn associates were charged earlier this week over illegal lobbying for Turkey.
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Then you have people of color lobbying for fair representation—whatever that means.
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Owners of money-losing baseload power plants have been lobbying for subsidies too.
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The president used executive authority to institute some of the ethics reforms he promised from the campaign trail, imposing a lifetime ban on White House staffers lobbying for foreign governments and imposing a five-year ban on lobbying for domestic clients.
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Now the freed Yazidi campaigner is furiously lobbying for the survival of her people.
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Country Time realizes that lobbying for change, even if it's legalizing lemonade, takes time.
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In truth, the lobbying for the grant was led by Riverside Assemblyman Jose Medina.
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"We're not lobbying for changes to any rules," the company said in a statement.
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Cook also spoke passionately about immigration, saying he "personally" is lobbying for DACA reform.
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The banned MPs also visited families lobbying for the return of bodies from Israel.
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Finance ministry officials told Reuters that India's government is lobbying for a rate cut.
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In mid-March, advocates were lobbying for several health-focused policies for veteran women.
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Didn't get the job in 21 but has been lobbying for it ever since.
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Banks have been lobbying for a lower minimum provision ratio to free up funds.
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That's a startling sum even in the lucrative business of lobbying for foreign governments.
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Some RSS groups exercise quiet influence, lobbying for more "nationalist" economic policy, for instance.
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Several civil society groups are also lobbying for a woman to lead the organization.
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Prosecutors claim he hid millions of dollars in income from lobbying for Ukrainian politicians.
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At the same time, there are now large corporations lobbying for the other side.
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The first group of charges deals with money Manafort made lobbying for Ukrainian politicians.
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Kardashian West said she was motivated to professionally train herself while lobbying for Johnson.
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She has also been lobbying for a return of the Redskins to the district.
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The coal and power plant industries have long been lobbying for changes like this.
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Who, I wondered, was lobbying for the American workers competing with the new arrivals?
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China and Russia are currently lobbying for relief, but America can brush this off.
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Vin Weber (R-Minn) is lobbying for Airbnb through the public affairs firm Mercury.
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Public relations work doesn't count as lobbying for the purposes of lobbying disclosure rules.
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At that time, he was lobbying for KCI USA, a medical device manufacturing company.
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Activist investor Barington Capital is lobbying for changes at popular steak restaurant Outback Steakhouse.
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The American Farm Bureau is on the job, lobbying for regulations and crop insurance.
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And two employ lawyers who worked for Madigan while also lobbying for the utility.
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Mr. Menendez had been charged with lobbying for Dr. Melgen after receiving campaign donations.
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The president has yet to endorse a candidate amid intense lobbying for the post.
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But more than that, he's cosmically wrong to be publicly lobbying for low rates.
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Odontuya started lobbying for the introduction of palliative care in earnest from 2000 onwards.
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Groups such as Transparencia Mexicana can help by lobbying for politicians to reveal their assets.
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Wong has been active in lobbying for US support for the Hong Kong democracy movement.
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I understand Poland is lobbying for more permanent presence, possibly the Baltic States as well.
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Thousands of them signed heartfelt petitions lobbying for her creative freedom from from Dr. Luke.
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They also become a powerful force in national politics, organizing and lobbying for immigration reform.
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He was lobbying for the government of Ukraine, and then concealed some proceeds from it.
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Within Time's Up, I'm working towards lobbying for legislation — with education being a big focus.
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Big business has been key to lobbying for change on gay marriage around the world.
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Modi's government favors a GST rate of 18 percent but states are lobbying for more.
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Corporate giants are all too good at buying up troublesome rivals and lobbying for privileges.
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Democrats began lobbying for the hearing to adjourn immediately after it began on Tuesday morning.
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Flynn was under investigation for lobbying for Turkey during the presidential campaign without declaring it.
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Now as president, he's openly lobbying for U.S. involvement in saving a major Chinese company.
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The second policy will bar Trump's political appointees from ever lobbying for a foreign government.
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Kim is fighting for criminal justice reform and lobbying for the freedom of nonviolent offenders.
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Local media had said banks were lobbying for permission to deduct up to 40 percent.
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But instead of lobbying for change in Riyadh, Prince Turki publicly backed Crown Prince Mohammed.
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She's proposing a lifetime ban on lobbying for every member of Congress and the cabinet.
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Last fall, he was lobbying for an upper limit of 200,000 asylum seekers per year.
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In the meantime, Republicans are lobbying for their own replacement plans ranging the ideological spectrum.
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He's interested in grandstanding and lobbying for more expansive powers in the office he holds.
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Since then, Kjellberg has continued to highlight and praise fans who are lobbying for his cause.
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Parents can spend months or years lobbying for a proper assessment or even just basic services.
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It is lobbying for protection in Europe and America and promoting educational campaigns such as #MilkTruth.
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LAZARD TEAM INCLUDES FORMER GERMAN DEPUTY FINANCE MINISTER TASKED WITH LOBBYING FOR DEAL IN BERLIN - SOURCE
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However, he began lobbying for a seat on one of the EPA's advisory councils last year.
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That led to Red Wings fans confusing me by unanimously lobbying for someone named Dr. Cox.
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Lobbying for stability at a successful firm is consistent with demanding change at an unsuccessful one.
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Provinces are now lobbying for UHV connections allowing them to sell surplus power to other regions.
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Industry groups will be lobbying for these constantly, and environmentalists may struggle to play defense here.
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"We can become a stronger voice in lobbying for policies like fuel export quotas," Jiao said.
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TELECOMMUNICATIONS. Glover Park Group is lobbying for Starz Entertainment, which is being acquired by Lionsgate Entertainment.
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He has also proposed banning former White House officials from ever lobbying for a foreign government.
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In Turkey, jailed gold-traders helping Iran evade sanctions relied on Giuliani for lobbying for freedom.
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His next trial for unregistered lobbying for foreign interests is scheduled in mid-September in Washington.
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The two charges included money laundering and illegally lobbying for a Kremlin-friendly group in Ukraine.
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Nuclear operators in other deregulated states are lobbying for credits similar to New York and Illinois.
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Ben Quayle (R-Ariz.) is lobbying for both an electric car manufacturer and a coal company.
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The cotton and dairy industries have been lobbying for an expansion of certain federal crop subsidies.
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He is also lobbying for Pope Francis to visit the North, which would be another first.
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Energy companies are lobbying for a change in the rules but with little sign of success.
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Prosecutors, who had scrutinized Mr. Manafort's foreign lobbying for years, began investigating that area in earnest.
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As more staff members got involved, they even began lobbying for the publication of particular photos.
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However, the American Heart Association has been lobbying for all states to adopt telephone CPR requirements.
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But as she established herself in Akureyri, Mayor started lobbying for Sierra to join her there.
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The ramp up in lobbying for online auctions is happening because the climate justice movement is growing.
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Even a far from perfect campaign like FF15 was far more impactful than insider lobbying for labor.
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Activist hedge fund manager Mick McGuire is lobbying for changes at popular wing restaurant Buffalo Wild Wings.
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They&aposre calling this woman who Kim Kardashian is lobbying for, this first-time nonviolent drug offender.
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Gazprom remains a U.S.-sanctioned entity, but Moscow is intensifying its lobbying for an end to sanctions.
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Each proposal causes winners and losers, which causes industry groups lobbying for things to go their way.
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Airbnb is also busy lobbying for legal status locally, as part of a 2016 state government inquiry.
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Along with Major League Baseball, it is greedily lobbying for a 1% "integrity charge" on legal wagers.
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This is odd, given how much effort they spent over the previous 20 years lobbying for globalisation.
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He's been lurking on the fringes, lobbying for the declassification of so-called "Tesla teleportation," ever since.
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The hugely successful Love Has No Labels campaign has been lobbying for this shift this past year.
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Corporate America has been lobbying for many years for a territorial system that would make deferral obsolete.
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The 39-year-old is there with the Environmental Working Group lobbying for environmentally-friendly cosmetic products.
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In two cases, the transition officials resumed lobbying for same firm in the second quarter of 2017.
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Prater, who has advocated for colleagues in the past, is now lobbying for increases for Starbucks managers.
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His testimony that day was a rare — if utterly Trumpian — public foray into Washington lobbying for him.
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Fortuno has been lobbying for Energy Answers through his well-connected Washington law firm, Steptoe and Johnson.
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DeFazio's bill would apply the same penalties to Trump's five-year ban and lobbying for foreign governments.
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Brazilian banks have been lobbying for lower taxation as a way to reduce interest rates for consumers.
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And there is no powerful industry — like the pharmaceutical industry — lobbying for insurance coverage of these treatments.
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Some groups, including Amnesty International, are still lobbying for Sudan to extradite al-Bashir to the Hague.
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Uber and Lyft, in particular, have been lobbying for an exemption to the bill in the Senate.
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The other is an overweight pragmatist who made a fortune lobbying for all manner of liberal boogeymen.
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Despite successfully lobbying for the Palais, Njami thinks African governments do woefully little to support the arts.
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Connie Mack (R-Fla.), through his firm, Mack Strategies, is lobbying for private prison company GEO Group.
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Before that, she worked at Families USA, lobbying for the advocacy group and managing its legislative strategy.
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"We've been lobbying for the opening of the negative list," said Mike Wiluan, CEO of Infinite Studios.
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Many conservative groups have rallied to defend Christmas, lobbying for decorations in public schools or town halls.
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Capitol Counsel will be lobbying for CECU on issues related to higher education, according to disclosure forms.
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And two months later, he filed false statements about his foreign lobbying for the government of Turkey.
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He said he was aware Manafort was acting as an unregistered foreign agent in lobbying for Ukraine.
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Now fans are lobbying for Rosie O'Donnell to be brought onboard as chief White House strategist Steve Bannon.
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Other analysts see Amazon's lobbying for a higher minimum wage as shrewd business practice disguised as progressive policy.
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Many admire the Canadian system, which prohibits ministers and MPs from lobbying for five years after leaving office.
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At best, companies reacted immediately with vocal dismay, decrying the order in public statements and lobbying for change.
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Israel and Jordan were lobbying for American forces to remain in some areas, particularly Tanf in the south.
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Tim Hutchinson (R-Ark.), now at Greenberg Traurig, is lobbying for Sergei Poymanov, a Russian national and businessman.
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Rather, it is trying to determine whether Mr McAuliffe may have violated restrictions on lobbying for foreign governments.
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In between stints in government, she worked on K Street, lobbying for Koch Industries and Carnival Cruise Lines.
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Advocates like Franks have for years been lobbying for a federal law, but so far none has passed.
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London's former mayor, the Conservative gadfly Boris Johnson, is gleefully lobbying for Britons to leave the European Union.
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While Apple would get fewer brownie points, the money might be better spent lobbying for growth-friendly reform.
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Flynn pleaded guilty to lying to investigators in that interview and about his lobbying for the Turkish government.
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We should impose an ironclad lifetime ban on lobbying for members of Congress with real penalties for violators.
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For Sisi, the diplomatic break is an opportunity to punish Qatar, something Egypt has spent years lobbying for.
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Capitol Counsel is lobbying for Americans for Responsible Solutions, an organization and super PAC founded by former Rep.
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Airlines, meanwhile, had been lobbying for the tariffs to be structured in a way that minimized their pain.
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Iran's biggest oil customers are China and India, who have both been lobbying for extensions to sanction waivers.
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Bijan Kian was charged with illegally lobbying for Turkey and is set to go on trial this summer.
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Executives from T-Mobile spent $195,000 at Trump International when they were lobbying for their merger with Sprint.
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That was not the case with Raines, who has been lobbying for Montreal to get a new team.
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It's not clear what role the Post's ultimatum played in BGR's decision to stop lobbying for Saudi Arabia.
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Nippon Ishin no Kai has been lobbying for one of the first casinos to be built there. Opinion
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The lawyer mentioned, Natalia Veselnitskaya, was at the time lobbying for the removal of U.S. sanctions on Russia.
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Industry groups are lobbying for the date to be changed to the date FDA issues its final rule.
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After two or more years lobbying for impeachment, outside progressive groups like Stand Up America finally smell blood.
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The bill comes after years of law enforcement lobbying for a crackdown on the online classified site backpage.
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Rick Santorum (R-PA), who has been lobbying for Graham-Cassidy and voted for the 2138 law, told Stein.
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The MPAA has a long history lobbying for stronger copyright protections, which has often alienated it from silicon valley.
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A group of 9/11 family members lobbying for the bill blasted Corker and Graham in no uncertain terms.
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Celtics edge 76ers behind Thomas PHILADELPHIA — Boston Celtics guard Isaiah Thomas has been lobbying for more fourth-quarter minutes.
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And that was before revelations that his former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn had been lobbying for the country.
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As he has said before, he is not engaged in government affairs or lobbying for corporations, governments or individuals.
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Warsaw blamed members of the main opposition parties in Poland for lobbying for the vote in the European Parliament.
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Jeffrey Tambor's unapologetic when it comes to lobbying for more work on "Arrested Development" ... sexual misconduct allegations be damned.
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An updated version of the article no longer states that the company has been lobbying for the tax break.
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Some large banks have been lobbying for more time, saying Brexit has made the separation more complex and costly.
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It pledged to spend more of the area's vast wealth on residents rather than on lobbying for financial services.
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House Democrats on Wednesday introduced legislation that would block former U.S. intelligence officials from lobbying for a foreign government.
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Dean Heller of Nevada is lobbying for the Raiders' Las Vegas dome to have access to tax-exempt bonds.
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Statoil, a Norwegian state-owned oil company that exited Alaska in November, is lobbying for future Arctic lease sales.
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A Trump executive order bans former federal officials like Zinke from lobbying for their former agencies for five years.
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But Democrats did dig into his time lobbying for coal and energy firms, including leading coal miner Murray Energy.
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The survey was funded by labor groups lobbying for increased pay, and was criticized by Disney at the time.
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Our jobs are tied to putting forward the best policy proposals that we can rather than lobbying for them.
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Separately, he pleaded guilty to two conspiracy charges in September for lobbying for politicians supportive of Russia in Ukraine.
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That's what happens when special interests muscle out policy merit, and industry boosters have been heavily lobbying for months.
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The AARP and several other groups have already been lobbying for measures to shore up Social Security for years.
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But they also roved the hallways of the Capitol, meeting with lawmakers and lobbying for action on gun violence.
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That's when they're not busy happily killing net neutrality or lobbying for the death of other meaningful consumer protections.
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We know what it looks like when they come in and start seriously lobbying for a set of policies.
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Black-led activist groups have been lobbying for years for the renaming of Mohrenstrasse, or Mohren Street, in Berlin.
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That might include more mandated purchase orders from state-controlled companies, and lobbying for tax breaks and other assistance.
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Russia had reportedly viewed the program as an attack on its interests and had been lobbying for its cancellation.
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In fact, the predators Boaz is talking about are specific interests lobbying for subsidies, tariffs, quotas, or trade restrictions.
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Ruiz had sent Joshua's promoter, Eddie Hearn, a message on Instagram lobbying for the chance to get the fight.
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It's shorthand for a bevy of renter-friendly reforms that a large coalition of tenant groups is lobbying for.
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That means lobbying for changes and fixes that will make cities more amenable to the growth of their products.
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And one of those matters arising from that is Paul Manafort's actions in lobbying for Ukraine, pro-Russian Ukrainian interests.
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So the company looks to be trying something new vis-a-vis lobbying for taxi industry deregulation in the market.
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Correction: An earlier version of this story stated that Fidelity was lobbying for employer loan repayments to be tax deductible.
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But multiple sources with direct knowledge told Axios that Cohen was lobbying for a White House job during the transition.
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Restraint in lobbying for tax breaks and regulatory relief would change my view but I have seen little of that.
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The legislation is a result of years of law enforcement lobbying for a crackdown on the online classified site backpage.
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This raised hopes that a draft bill campaigners have been lobbying for five years could soon be adopted, said Popova.
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A patchwork of such programs exist across Canada, with addictions advocates in cities like Calgary and Vancouver lobbying for more.
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Democrats began lobbying for the hearing to adjourn immediately after it began Tuesday morning, interrupting the proceedings to do so.
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He's the former editor of The Recycler and has been lobbying for change in the printer-ink industry for years.
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His said that he was there to provide "information"—neutral input—as opposed to lobbying for or against the legislation.
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Mary Bono (R-Calif.) and other lobbyists at FaegreBD Consulting are lobbying for Sargento Foods, which sells various cheese products.
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Asked whether he was planning on lobbying for the firm, Keating says it's "too early" to speculate about federal advocacy.
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Former Trump campaign officials Paul Manafort and Rick Gates already face charges relating to their undisclosed foreign lobbying for Ukraine.
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Former Trump campaign officials Paul Manafort and Rick Gates already face charges relating to their undisclosed foreign lobbying, for Ukraine.
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America's Voice, which is active in lobbying for immigration reform in Washington, will conduct bilingual polling in Spanish and English.
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They don't have trade groups giving millions to members of Congress and lobbying for influence over the nation's nutrition policy.
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FirstEnergy, a utility with coal and nuclear assets, has been aggressively lobbying for government support, Bloomberg and others have reported.
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He has been lobbying for Sudan to be removed from a list of countries Washington considers state sponsors of terrorism.
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Lieberman initially said he would not be lobbying for the company, but in January registered as a lobbyist for ZTE.
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It's also a reason some in Silicon Valley are lobbying for direct listings, which don't have the same selling restrictions.
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She also would end lobbying for foreign entities, a practice that's currently legal through the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA).
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Mr. Peries said at the time that he had been lobbying for decades for better film preservation in his country.
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Former Representative Ed Whitfield, Republican of Kentucky, is listed as lobbying for AstraZeneca, Genentech and Johnson & Johnson, among other companies.
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They have been pressing for safer schools, lobbying for more restrictive gun laws and demanding a ban on assault weapons.
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The veteran political consultant pleaded guilty in August 2018 to unregistered lobbying for a pro-Kremlin political party in Ukraine.
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He has been lobbying for Sudan to be removed from a list of countries Washington deems state sponsors of terrorism.
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Together, they are lobbying for a tax bill to expand government subsidies to reduce the environmental impact of coal burning.
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Dysautonomia International is lobbying for additional government funding and is partnering with global advocacy groups to push for increased funding.
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I even checked my emails in his Senate Office while lobbying for Salone to be given another chance to rebrand.
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As with many large for-profit companies, lobbying for more favorable regulations is seen as an essential cost of business.
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The group opposes creating a national mandate for paid leave, and has been lobbying for the bill Walters is drafting.
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Michael Flynn cops to lobbying for Turkey during Trump's presidential campaign Michael Flynn cops to lobbying for Turkey during Trump's presidential campaign Former U.S. national security adviser Michael Flynn has retroactively admitted he was working as a foreign agent in the interests of the Turkish government in the months before he joined the Trump administration.
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This has given the activists the biggest role in chronicling the war in detail, and in lobbying for the world's response.
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He has been lobbying for Sudan to be removed from a list of countries which Washington deems state sponsors of terrorism.
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After Flynn's guilty plea in late 2017, prosecutors charged his Flynn Intel Group partner, Bijan Kian, with illegally lobbying for Turkey.
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Major retailers are lobbying against the change, as is Koch Industries, while a number of manufacturing companies are lobbying for it.
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Iran's biggest oil customers are China and India, both of which have been lobbying for an extension to the sanction waivers.
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Under current law, lobbyists can avoid registering by spending less than 20 percent of their time lobbying for a single client.
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Its affiliate, the U.S. Chamber Institute for Legal Reform, has been lobbying for mandatory disclosure of funding in federal lawsuits nationwide.
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Companies have long been lobbying for profit-based taxation, saying it would spur production while better reflecting exploration costs and risks.
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He might easily have played a part in lobbying for an Armenian homeland after the Ottoman defeat, but he kept aloof.
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Instead, they've chose to spend that money lobbying for state laws prohibiting your town or city from even exploring the option.
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Trump on Tuesday chose Exxon Mobil CEO Rex Tillerson as his secretary of State, ending Romney's open lobbying for the position.
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Consider, he suggested, groups that encourage people to eat less meat (by lobbying for "Meatless Mondays" in school cafeterias, for instance).
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The National Education Association, too, blasted DeVos for lobbying for school vouchers and pushing for private-school funding at taxpayers' expense.
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Democrats raised concerns about his work lobbying for Murray Energy, a major coal producer and supporter of the EPA's deregulatory effort.
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That's why Puerto Rico's retailers are lobbying for an emergency communications system that will still operate after the power goes out.
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Thus the restructuring — painful as it may be — provides greater value to creditors than lobbying for maintaining the status quo. Amen.
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Nepal's giant neighbours China and India both vie for influence in the country and have been lobbying for infrastructure projects there.
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He has been lobbying for Sudan to be removed from a list of countries which Washington deems state sponsors of terrorism.
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Wynalda, meanwhile, has spent years lobbying for head coaching jobs in MLS but never landed one, likely because of his outspokenness.
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Financial services firms actually spend three times as much money as the next biggest spender on lobbying for the federal government.
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He says he would also impose a lifetime ban to prevent senior executive branch officials from lobbying for a foreign government.
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After years of futile lobbying for public funding, he sought private donations to open the museum that commemorates the air raid.
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He found work at a bar but spent his free time lobbying for legal status for young Irish immigrants — himself included.
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It does not engage in the sort of political lobbying for which the American group has built such a fierce reputation.
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Microsoft competitors and critics say one of the wealthiest companies in the world is lobbying for an advantage and government money.
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But these cases do represent a challenge to Washington's elite, many of whom have earned rich paydays lobbying for foreign interests.
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One of the most influential groups lobbying for the 1977 law was a coalition of parent teacher associations, Mr. Gottfried said.
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Officials said he is lobbying for Mr. Trump to appoint him chairman of the Federal Reserve to replace Janet L. Yellen.
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He's also given tens of millions of dollars to environmental groups and spent millions more lobbying for new gun control laws.
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An organization called Alexa Is A Human, founded by a mother, has been lobbying for Amazon to help them since 2018.
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" As far as whether Obama has been lobbying for his Cabinet officials to Clinton on their behalf, Earnest responded, "Not necessarily.
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Ben Quayle (R-Ariz.) is now lobbying for both an electric car manufacturer and a coal company, new disclosure records show.
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Nepal's giant neighbors China and India both vie for influence in the country and have been lobbying for infrastructure projects there.
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Rubin has also received the backing of J Street, a liberal group lobbying for peaceful resolution to the Israel-Palestine conflict.
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A close U.S. ally, South Korea had stopped buying crude from Iran ahead of the sanctions while still lobbying for exemptions.
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Farmers with John Deere tractors have been hacking their equipment and lobbying for laws to bust up the manufacturer's repair monopoly.
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Ramaphosa, who is in a strong position to become the next president of South Africa, has been lobbying for Zuma's removal.
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He has also faced criticism for $750,000 he received in 2011 for lobbying for Ivory Coast President Laurent Gbagbo's government in 2011.
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The 1,500 hour requirement is set to expire this fall, and many regional airlines are lobbying for it not to be renewed.
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According to a Friday filing with Justice Department, Crowley is now lobbying for Victor Pinchuk, a Ukrainian oligarch and former Ukrainian politician.
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If he stopped lobbying for foreign governments in November 2016, as he said in his March FARA paperwork, then he's probably fine.
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Dole's office declined to comment to CNN on his relationship to the Trump transition and his lobbying for Taiwan, as did Trump's.
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Navient, one of the leaders in lobbying for loosening restrictions on robocalls, has regularly been accused of harassing consumers with automated calls.
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In politics, Mr Vachon says, unlike many big-time donors he "is always lobbying for a public purpose, never for private gain".
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China, the world's biggest buyer of Iranian oil, has formally complained to the United States, while Turkey is also lobbying for exemptions.
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He did some lobbying for the pharmaceutical industry, a potentially potent attack in a state that has suffered from the opioid epidemic.
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Cancer hospitals are lobbying for higher payments after Medicare said earlier this year it would pay $223,000 for the average inpatient treatment.
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From the 1970s businesses began lobbying for a lighter regulatory touch, Mr Hughes says, which inaugurated an era of globalisation and financialisation.
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Discrimination in California Richard Castillo never imagined spending most of his adult life behind bars, much less lobbying for better inmate treatment.
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At both the federal and state levels big box stores are lobbying for new unfair taxes on our nation's small internet retailers.
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Mutual fund managers are competing for a place in China's commercial pension program with insurers, who are also lobbying for tax benefits.
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He is also lobbying for the community to be given shares in any new company that comes to mine in the valley.
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Other colleagues of Rubio's, however, have been more critical of his effectiveness in lobbying for Zika funding over the last eight months.
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Businesses and industries are encouraged to spend their time and money lobbying for government favors instead of identifying and meeting consumer demands.
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On January 4, Flynn told the Trump transition team he was under criminal investigation by the FBI for secretly lobbying for Turkey.
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Participants have said the meeting quickly turned into Veselnitskaya lobbying for the repeal of a U.S. sanctions law called the Magnitsky Act.
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Some Republicans are particularly fond of the Cambridge-educated ex-spy, including those who were instrumental in lobbying for the Magnitsky Act.
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Long tail: The per-bet percentages are nominally small (typically 1%), but in aggregate represent a guaranteed revenue source worth lobbying for.
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When I want to be cheered up, I always think about Christie, who's currently lobbying for head of the Republican National Committee.
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However, the scrap industry is lobbying for a recategorisation of high-quality scrap from "solid waste" to "resource" to ensure continued supply.
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A June 8 indictment accused Manafort and a longtime aide, Konstantin Kilimnik, with tampering with witnesses about their past lobbying for Ukraine.
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To address that gap, he said the district has begun evaluating cost-cutting options and lobbying for compensatory funds from the state.
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After resigning last year, Farenthold raised eyebrows months later when he was back on Capitol Hill lobbying for the Calhoun Port Authority.
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For its part, Poland is actively lobbying for more US troops and has offered to pay a significant sum to attract them.
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The companies that make the drug have spent hundreds of thousands of dollars collectively lobbying for their interests at the state level.
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The country's diplomats in Europe resorted to smuggling cigarettes to make ends meet while lobbying for humanitarian aid for people back home.
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The Manafort aide was charged in June 20183 with tampering with witnesses about their past lobbying for Ukraine's former pro-Russian government.
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This is different than the Lobbying Disclosure Act, the law governing lobbying for domestic entities overseen largely by the House and Senate.
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Mr. Ross began lobbying for another trade deal, one that would essentially incorporate Central America into a free-trade zone like Nafta.
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Bolstered by more industry-friendly federal regulators, corporate trade associations are lobbying for constraints on activist shareholders and so-called "political" resolutions.
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Trian Management started lobbying for a DuPont breakup in 2013, ultimately losing a narrow proxy battle for board seats in early 2015.
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Companies have long been lobbying for profit-based taxation, saying it will spur production and it better reflects exploration costs and risks.
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But the once-overwhelmingly bipartisan legislation became the object of increasing debate as advocacy groups began lobbying for expansion of its protections.
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That's not to demean Anderson, who retweeted the picture and has guts lobbying for the fight without any nudging from the UFC.
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Bernhardt told the Senate during his confirmation hearing that despite filing the paperwork, he never actually did any lobbying for Blavatnik's firm.
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For instance, $100 million spent lobbying for a health reform bill could produce hundreds of billions of dollars in new health spending.
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But Yelp has been lobbying for stronger antitrust enforcement against Google for about a decade, both in the United States and Europe.
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The Post staffers have been lobbying for increased wages, equal pay, better retirement benefits, a higher 401(k) match and improved severance pay.
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Labour supports some changes to the mandate of the RBNZ, lobbying for employment to be added to the central bank's inflation-targeting mandate.
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LGBTQ advocates have tried to change this, including by lobbying for Obama to sign his executive action in the lead-up to 2014.
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Joel McHale is so impressed by how much Pete Davidson spent on Ariana Grande's engagement ring ... he's lobbying for an 'SNL' gig. Jokingly.
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Her father, who has never stopped lobbying for her conviction to be overturned, says that he won't stop until his daughter is home.
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I don't want to seem like I'm lobbying for the job, and quite frankly, I don't think it was what his focus was.
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So they have clout in lobbying for better regulation and infrastructure, or for their governments to intervene when another country mulls protectionist rules.
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But it is curious that someone Apple hired ostensibly to work on environmental issues is actually lobbying for Apple's interests in other areas.
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Amnesty International, for instance, is lobbying for a human rights framework for the use of AI, said Tanya O'Carroll, director of Amnesty Tech.
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Environmentalists are in a conundrum because lobbying for an end to oil-by-rail could mean that more oil is shipped through pipelines.
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The result of that has been companies biding their time, claiming their profits are "trapped" offshore while lobbying for a repatriation tax cut.
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At the post-fight press conference, between lobbying for a performance bonus and a title shot, Werdum briefly addressed the tiff with Tarverdyan.
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Flynn Intel Group had said in a September 2016 filing that it was lobbying for Inovo but did not disclose its Turkish links.
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She was kind, she was very giving with the information she had and she was always lobbying for the Afghanistan she first knew.
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He was initially ensnared in the Russia investigation on charges related to his foreign lobbying for a pro-Russia political party in Ukraine.
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Evan Jenkins attacked the now-Republican nominee for connections he and his wife, Denise Henry Morrisey, had to lobbying for major pharmaceutical companies.
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They've announced a nationwide protest on March 221 in Washington, D.C. They've traveled to the Florida State Capitol lobbying for stricter gun laws.
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The agency itself, which generally prides itself on avoiding politics, has taken an unusually active and open role in lobbying for Haspel's candidacy.
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It has sought help both from creditors, by proposing voluntary cuts to repayments, and Congress, by lobbying for legislation letting it cut debt.
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For example despite plenty of buzz about their support for a carbon tax, they've thus far avoided directly lobbying for it in Congress.
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In the Washington case, Manafort is accused of illegally lobbying for the government of Ukraine, money laundering, and allegedly tampering with potential witnesses.
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Corporations knew what they stood to gain and so were willing to spend a total of $282 million on lobbying for the holiday.
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Last year Americans for Prosperity spent $711,000 on lobbying for various issues, a near 43,000-fold increase since 2011, when it spent $856.
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Convicted on three perjury counts, he was fined $193,219, given a suspended three-year prison term and barred from lobbying for three years.
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In 22016, a prominent Australian senator, Sam Dastyari, resigned over accusations of lobbying for Beijing and taking money from Chinese-born political donors.
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The food service industry, worried about the potential effect on business, is heavily lobbying for a more liberal exemption for restaurants and bars.
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The "bouquinistes," sellers of old books and other printed material on the banks of the Seine, are also lobbying for the Unesco designation.
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"We have been lobbying for his release for some time now and appreciate the Bengals granting our request," LaFell's agent Jonathan Feinsod said.
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Some new allegations underscore the case against the president — a blow to Republicans lobbying for a quick dismissal of the articles of impeachment.
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The Treasury says Mr. Mnuchin was not aware that Mr. Milken was among the beneficiaries; Mr. Milken has denied lobbying for the change.
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Manafort admitted to bank fraud, money laundering and illegal lobbying for Ukrainians in the US as part of his conspiracy and obstruction plea.
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But they have made it clear they have evidence to charge him with secretly lobbying for Turkey, crimes that carry a stiffer sentence.
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As a result, it's a field that since its earliest days was shaped by commercial considerations, with early practitioners lobbying for self-policing.
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Sandstede proposed the bill after she was approached by the American Heart Association, which has been lobbying for these kinds of laws nationwide.
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The Parks Department renamed the playground the Nicholas Naquan Heyward Jr. Park in 2001, after Mr. Heyward spent years lobbying for the change.
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Protix is one of several firms lobbying for a exception to that rule for insect protein, which is not linked to the disease.
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Her position as leader has been weakened by ministers openly lobbying for different types of exit and hardline eurosceptics unhappy at her Brexit strategy.
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German carmakers initially offered software updates and shied away from endorsing hardware retrofits, instead lobbying for customers to buy new cars with cleaner engines.
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Some of those ties, previously reported, including lobbying for Citgo, a US-based subsidiary of the Venezuelan oil conglomerate, at his old law firm.
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Here's yet another example of EPA abuses: Federal agencies are supposed to be apolitical, and federal law prohibits lobbying for or against proposed legislation.
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Bloomberg unsuccessfully tried to impose a partial ban on soft drinks while mayor and has personally has poured millions into lobbying for soda taxes.
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The company, called Propy, had raised $15 million through an ICO in 2017 and forged Vermont connections, including lobbying for blockchain-friendly state legislation.
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In 2015, the GAO ruled the Obama administration's EPA had violated this rule while lobbying for the Clean Water Rule through social media campaigns.
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Ocasio-Cortez has been a frequent critic of lobbyists, and other legislators have proposed lifetime bans on lobbying for congressional members, most notably Sen.
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This presents the danger of regulating small firms out of existence, so it's no wonder Amazon and big box retailers are lobbying for it.
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Hundreds of fighters getting fades, wearing custom-tailored suits, lobbying for money fights, and trotting out their best (and worst) one-liners gets tiresome.
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Cruz has been successful in lobbying for a change to give insurers more flexibility to offer plans that don't comply with some Obamacare regulations.
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Pfeifer spent years lobbying for health benefits, through the Zadroga Bill and the World Trade Center Health Program, for those who survived the attacks.
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Abe was a leading force in lobbying for the CPTPP, and although Japan is likely to ratify the agreement, the schedule may be scuttled.
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Schaeuble also dismissed media reports that the German government was quietly lobbying for Bundesbank chief Jens Weidmann to succeed Mario Draghi as ECB president.
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He later corrected himself to reflect the fact that Flynn's undisclosed lobbying for Turkey ended before he joined the White House in January 2017.
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This month, reports surfaced that the biggest banks were lobbying for an extension, until 2022, to sell off certain investments outlawed under the rule.
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Disclosure filings show that Squire Patton Boggs began lobbying for the company in June 220006 and the firm has not filed any termination paperwork.
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Flynn personally informed McGahn during the transition that he was under investigation for his undisclosed lobbying for Turkey, according to The New York Times.
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On January 4, Flynn revealed to the Trump transition team that the FBI was investigating for covertly lobbying for Turkey; Flynn was not fired.
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Making lobbying for deregulation and (in the case of Uber) pushing into multi-modal transport options the regional long play for ride-hailing startups.
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The campaign organizes activists across eight states, raising awareness around the recurring attack on global reproductive rights and lobbying for legislation to end it.
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Emergent Strategies is now lobbying for the Online Lenders Alliance, an industry group for online lenders that often specialize in offering payday loan services.
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Americans for Responsible Solutions has an in-house lobbying team, but Capitol Counsel is the only K Street firm lobbying for the group. HEALTHCARE.
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But the WSJ editorial board argues that, in lobbying for a higher federal minimum wage, the company is making life more expensive for rivals.
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The pharmaceutical and health products industries spent $145 million on lobbying for the first half of 2017, according to the Center for Responsive Politics.
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In that position, he worked for clients including Google, Apple, Qualcomm and Zuffa, often lobbying for mergers or particular antitrust or intellectual property issues.
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Trump's five-point plan includes instituting a five-year ban on lobbying for executive branch officials, lawmakers and their staffers after they leave government.
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The deal also is expected to include a provision that prohibits the Israeli government from lobbying for more money from Congress beyond those parameters.
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But many companies are worried — so much so that they're lobbying for a weaker but overarching federal law to supersede California's new privacy law.
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The actors' union SAG-AFTRA has been lobbying for all states to implement protections on the use of images of celebrities after they die.
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That would be an expansion of the president-elect's proposal that people who work for his administration be barred from lobbying for five years.
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The Wall Street Journal reported that the call was facilitated by former Senator Bob Dole, who has a long history of lobbying for Taiwan.
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"If people started lobbying for gorilla-friendly cellphones and iPads, it would force the government of D.R.C. to take this more seriously," he said.
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German carmakers initially offered software updates and shied away from endorsing hardware retrofits, instead lobbying for customers to buy new cars with cleaner engines.
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As she did at Manafort's sentencing, Jackson also bluntly rejected claims that the pair's unregistered lobbying for Ukrainian interests amounted to a victimless crime.
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Moreover, the same domestic insurers lobbying for a tax on global affiliate transactions lobbied against restrictions on global affiliate reinsurance in Brazil in 2011.
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Behind the scenes, Ms. Haley has pushed back against the nationalists in the Trump camp by lobbying for relatively higher ceilings for refugee resettlement.
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Even if Cohen was doing some lobbying for Trump, as long as it was less than 20 percent of the time, that's allowed too.
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But only 16 states with Republican governors expanded Medicaid, including Ohio's John Kasich, who is among a group of state leaders lobbying for continuing expansion.
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Terri Sewell, an Alabama Democrat on the committee, focused almost all of her questions for Comey on Flynn's interactions -- including Flynn's lobbying for foreign governments.
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However, minor league teams have been lobbying for the Save America's Pastime Act as well, fearing that major league teams will actually pull the plug.
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Charges filed by Justice Department Special Counsel Robert Mueller alleged Manafort and business partner Rick Gates failed to properly disclose lobbying for a foreign government.
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That would shift all of the lobbying for repeal of those taxes to the tax reform fight, which is already likely to be complicated enough.
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Investors are also lobbying for greater lender protections in loan documents to sure up their credit investments if the economy turns towards a potential recession.
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US companies including Intel and Qualcomm have reportedly been quietly lobbying for the US government to ease the restrictions placed on companies selling to Huawei.
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In March, The Washington Post reported that the company had spent over $195,000 at the Trump Hotel in Washington, DC while lobbying for the merger.
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Netanyahu's government has made clear it would not now cede the Golan and has been lobbying for U.S. recognition of Israel's claim of sovereignty there.
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"[I]t is disappointing that the oil and gas industry's lobbying for weaker methane provisions appears to be successful," the nonprofit said in a statement.
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Mexicans lobbying for USMCA approval have focused their attention more on Democratic lawmakers since Democrats took control of the U.S. House of Representatives in January.
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If someone spends at least 20% of their time lobbying for a single client, under federal law, the person has to register as a lobbyist.
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Delgado said he did not have a direct role in drafting or lobbying for laws that require doctors to tell their patients about abortion reversal.
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Brownstein Hyatt brought in more than $1003 million last year from lobbying for a wide array of major corporations such as Citigroup and BlueCross/BlueShield.
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Amazon has also said that it will be lobbying for an increase in the federal minimum wage, which is currently set at $13 an hour.
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But The Storm Lake Community School District Superintendent Stacey Cole said the district, which is lobbying for another school building, does not share those concerns.
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Sunni politicians are lobbying for postponing parliamentary elections due in May to allow the displaced to return to their hometowns to cast their ballots there.
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In a senior staff meeting earlier this week, Pruitt told aides he wanted them to pump the brakes on publicly lobbying for withdrawal from Paris.
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Ensaf Haidar, Raif Badawi's wife and president of a foundation lobbying for his release, said Samar Badawi was charged with running al-Khair's Twitter account.
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Burke works on the Advanced Transit Association's California Infrastructure Institute, a nonprofit dedicated to researching and lobbying for full-scale PRT networks in the state.
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They even have the ability to become climate activists within Eco, proposing and lobbying for laws — but only if they are backed by scientific data.
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Perhaps it was the increasing footprint of money in politics, which has given more clout to corporate interests lobbying for smaller government and lower taxes.
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It was reported on Monday, however, that associates of Flynn are being charged with illegally lobbying for the extradition of a U.S.-based Turkish dissident.
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The department's inspector general is also examining whether he continued lobbying for Westlands after he formally de-registered as a lobbyist before joining the administration.
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In response, France is lobbying for more European involvement beyond an initial 50 million euros and at some point might push for a donor conference.
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A number of news organizations have reported that Cohen was upset lobbying for White House counsel, chief of staff, or other job in the administration.
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But such groups cannot fairly be called the vegan lobby because they're lobbying for the protection of animals, not in the interest of vegan businesses.
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" NBC weekend anchor and reporter Craig Melvin, a member of Kelly's panel, joked that it sounded like Kelly was "lobbying for an Oscars-hosting job.
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The actor, who plays the obsequious presidential "bag-man" Gary on "Veep," made the Capitol Hill rounds on Thursday lobbying for anti-human trafficking legislation.
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They fear the current coalition of activists and high-tech companies lobbying for reform could break up if laws were changed benefiting just one category.
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Some of the companies are lobbying for regulatory changes to pave the way for the broad adoption of the vehicles later on down the line.
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" P.S. A group of House Republicans is lobbying for a Nobel for Trump because of his work on North Korea, AP's Kevin Freking reports: "Rep.
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The Citizens' Climate Lobby, the other group lobbying for a carbon price, has a fee and dividend model that doesn't absolve oil companies of liability.
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Google, as well as many other tech companies and privacy advocates, have been lobbying for more sites to use HTTPS in the last few years.
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With Russia's representation in Rio at stake in both Olympic and Paralympic competition, the country is lobbying for its flag to fly at the Games.
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One anchor rejoiced that "Trump is dancing to Putin's tune," while others were amused by the "maniacal persistence" with which Trump was lobbying for Russia.
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The Brimley Group is lobbying for the National Alliance on Mental Illness, the nation's largest non-profit focused on mental health support, education and advocacy.
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Set to turn 21909 next month, Mr. Manafort has watched the curtains fall on a grand lifestyle funded by illegal lobbying for Ukrainian political figures.
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But land mines and weapons like the Harpy are not the kinds of autonomous weapons that those lobbying for a ban are specifically concerned about.
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Additionally, he took a narrowly tailored approach to his pledge to bar White House and congressional officials from lobbying for five years after leaving office.
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Automakers are now lobbying for Trump to relax the standards, purportedly because sales of fuel-efficient vehicles have been sluggish due to low gasoline prices.
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In its extensive lobbying for Energy East, TransCanada characterized the pipeline as an exercise in nation building that would end Canada's dependence on oil imports.
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For much of last season, Jenkins raised a fist during the anthem, and he has spent much time researching and lobbying for criminal justice reform.
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As well as complaints about "cultural genocide" and lobbying for international pressure on Beijing, there have been explosions of violence in both Tibet and Xinjiang.
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Oddly, I was just asked by the Grammy Committee to go to Washington for Grammys on the Hill, where they are lobbying for artists' rights.
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Advocates led by Dr. King's widow, Coretta Scott King, spent years lobbying for the holiday, testifying before Congress and gathering millions of signatures on petitions.
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Her plan also would expand the legal definition of what constitutes a lobbyist, while banning private lobbying for foreign governments, foreign individuals and foreign companies.
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The entire football team threatened to boycott the Holiday Bowl against Washington State while lobbying for due process for the 10 players who were investigated.
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Notable grassroots campaigns include the Black Lives Matter movement protesting police brutality against people of color or Parkland, Florida, students lobbying for new gun laws.
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"There was virtually no lobbying for the policy shift because he (Trump) knows us, he knows what we believe," Evans told Reuters in New York.
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Acknowledging this reality, many activists have begun lobbying for change at the corporate level, arguing that pressure should be placed on polluters rather than consumers.
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Manafort also faces a second trial in September in Washington, where he is accused of failing to disclose lobbying for Ukrainian politicians, among other crimes.
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The actor, who impersonates the president on Saturday Night Live, said during Wednesday's episode of Jimmy Kimmel Live that he's not not lobbying for the gig.
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Prosecutors said Manafort laundered illegal proceeds he generated by lobbying for Ukraine without registering as a foreign agent with the U.S. government as required by law.
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Those lobbying for lower taxes and less stringent regulation are unlikely to change their behavior in response to appeals on behalf of society as a whole.
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Individuals lobbying for foreign governments will have to be listed on a public register in a step toward making foreign influence on Australian politics more transparent.
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"The companies are still lobbying for some concessions, but I think they're getting pretty weary," said Scott Forbes, a vice president of research at Wood Mackenzie.
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Individuals lobbying for foreign governments would have to be listed on a public register in a step toward making foreign influence on Australian politics more transparent.
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It also said its public policy team will begin lobbying for an increase in the federal minimum wage, which has been $7.25 an hour since 2009.
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Labor advocates on the Hill say Amazon has been lobbying for a higher minimum wage, but it's unclear how hard the company is pressing the issue.
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Chuck Liddell and Tito Ortiz have been lobbying for a UFC fight for weeks -- but Dana White says there ain't a chance in hell Liddell vs.
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In December 252, the US passed the expanded legislation, and a few days later, Akhmetshin filed paperwork saying he was no longer lobbying for the foundation.
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SINCE the vote to leave the European Union in June 2016, the more optimistic among those on the losing side have been lobbying for a rematch.
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Trump has intensified his lobbying for the nearly $6 trillion tax overhaul plan, seeking a major legislative achievement after the collapse of the health care repeal.
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While legislation (and lobbying for it) is necessary for curbing PAE activity, companies can't sit on their laurels and wait for Congressional bills to get passed.
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Since Jacob's abduction, the Wetterling family has become noted advocates for missing and exploited children, founding a resource center in his name and lobbying for legislation.
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U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley took part in an emergency Security Council meeting on North Korea, lobbying for "the strongest possible" response to the recent nuclear test.
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Rosneft has been lobbying for access to a gas pipeline to China being built by Gazprom, which currently has a monopoly on Russian pipeline gas exports.
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Badawi's case appeared to be connected to her role in lobbying for the release of her brother, Raif, and her former spouse, Waleed Abu al-Khair.
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Many firms involved in lobbying for Taiwan either did not respond to a request for comment about their work for the island or declined to comment.
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However, Conor says he'd be open to fighting at 165 -- and creating a new division in the process, one that Nate has been lobbying for recently.
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Matt McGinley, the former chief of staff to Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price while he was in Congress, is lobbying for the Alzheimer's Association.
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He has said that he is "not at all ashamed" of his lobbying for the coal company Murray Energy Corp, the focus of criticism by environmentalists.
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When a union participates in collective bargaining with a government agency over wages and benefits, it is lobbying for policies that affect public finances and services.
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Some Vietnamese are so worried about Chinese expansionism that they are lobbying for U.S. forces to return to their war-era base at Cam Ranh Bay.
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According to Politico, the Saudis were important clients for Rogers, but BGR announced Monday that it would cease lobbying for the administration of Crown Prince Mohammed.
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They have increasingly sought to publicize their plight as a legitimate human rights concern, creating awareness campaigns and lobbying for their causes in courts and legislatures.
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Lieberman registered as a lobbyist for ZTE last month, but told Politico at the time that he wouldn't actually be doing any lobbying for the company.
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The law requires anyone doing lobbying for more than a certain percentage of their time to publicly disclose their clients – and fees – on a regular basis.
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Bernhardt, 49, pressed repeatedly about his past lobbying for oil and mining companies, sought to assure lawmakers he would make efforts to avoid conflicts of interest.
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But conservative religious and political groups immediately pushed back, lobbying for the law to be restored; in 2013 the Supreme Court unexpectedly overturned the earlier judgment.
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One source said institutional investors were lobbying for CFO Minali to get the job, since he has covered numerous roles at Generali since joining in 1991.
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In the early 1920s, European farms were recovering from World War I and emerging as a competitive threat to American farmers, who began lobbying for protection.
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You do not want people representing you in Washington with one eye out for a possible future career lobbying for the businesses they're supposed to regulate.
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Prosecutors say he concealed years of lobbying for the pro-Russia government in Ukraine and never properly registered with the United States government for that work.
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Another group, the Retail Industry Leaders Association, has been lobbying for updates to the 23-year-old Nafta that reflect modern shopping realities, including e-commerce.
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Second are Matchbox cars, something that I've been personally lobbying for ever since Hot Wheels got into the hall of fame a number of years ago.
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Gates pleaded guilty in February to helping Manafort use bank accounts in Cyprus and Grenadines to hide millions they had made while lobbying for Ukrainian politicians.
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The state's Chamber of Commerce and other business groups have been lobbying for changes, and have been urging lawmakers to consider a long list of exemptions.
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Amazon also said its public policy team will begin lobbying for an increase in the federal minimum wage, which has been $7.25 an hour since 2009.
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Amazon also said its public policy team will begin lobbying for an increase in the federal minimum wage, which has been $0003 an hour since 2009.
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With parallel projects popping up in British Columbia and Ontario, the Mental Health Commission of Canada got involved, lobbying for federal money to study the strategy.
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Mr. Brown declined to give details on the discussion or when it occurred, but said he hoped to continue lobbying for PG&E, even in bankruptcy.
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It keeps the spotlight on the nation's top steward of public lands, whose past lobbying for energy and agribusiness clients drew scrutiny from Democrats during confirmation hearings.
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Exhausted by years of lobbying for immigration reform that never came to pass and a Dream Act that never materialized, the friends wanted to stage a protest.
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The government is lobbying for Prince Charles to succeed his mother, Queen Elizabeth, as head of the organisation, despite reported unrest at that prospect among other members.
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Solomon and other members of the council say they have been lobbying for better roads from their local government, but their requests have fallen on deaf ears.
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Once a renowned political consultant who made a fortune lobbying for foreign dictators, Manafort's fall from grace was exacerbated by his chronic aversion to telling the truth.
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The big picture: Oil and gas companies are increasingly supporting and putting money behind lobbying for a carbon tax, driven by investor pressure and greater public awareness.
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Eating less meat creates a gateway to workplace advocacy—like encouraging digital meetings or lobbying for solar panels—which opens a door to signing petitions or protesting.
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"We believe this is a positive move and expect the hospital industry to actively be lobbying for improvements," wrote Leerink analyst Ana Gupte in a research note.
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Despite the White House lobbying for changes to the measure, the legislation will give Congress a new ability to block the administration from easing sanctions on Moscow.
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He had to resign as Trump's campaign chair after it came out that as recently as 2014 he had been lobbying for Ukraine's pro-Russian political party.
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Taseer was a liberal-minded businessman turned politician who had earned the hatred of religious hardliners by lobbying for a presidential pardon for a poor Christian woman.
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" The charges on failing to register their lobbying for foreign interests is in regards to work the two did "on behalf of Ukraine's then-president Viktor Yanukovych.
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Such activity may or may not be illegal, and often involves cartels and lobbying for rules that benefit a firm at the expense of competitors and customers.
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He first came to Trump's attention after buying apartments in Trump's developments and lobbying for Trump in a dispute with other residents, impressing Trump with his win.
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Mr. Giuliani is under investigation by Manhattan prosecutors and the F.B.I. over whether he illegally engaged in lobbying for foreign interests in connection with the Ukraine efforts.
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Court documents from prosecutors on Friday also revealed how Flynn obscured his foreign lobbying for Turkey when he registered the work with the Justice Department in March.
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He is part of a team at Baker Donelson Bearman, Caldwell & Berkowitz that is lobbying for the health insurer Aetna, according to forms filed to the Senate.
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Donohue has said that the Chamber is in the business of providing "reinsurance" to companies that need help lobbying for positions that aren't publicly or politically palatable.
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Why it matters: This figure is exactly what three powerful groups representing physicians, hospitals and nurses had demanded, though for-profit hospitals were lobbying for much more.
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Poland's nationalist government is lobbying for a "red-card" system whereby a grouping of national parliaments can band together to block planned legislation in the European Union.
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"The sooner we get the figure out," Mr. Byford said, "the sooner we can start lobbying for it and justifying it and saying why we need it."
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Investigators also are looking into whether he improperly continued lobbying for those farmers even after he de-registered as a lobbyist just before joining the Trump administration.
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It wasn't until Wright was 86, in 1942, that he began seriously lobbying for the creation of National Freedom Day, according to the the National Constitution Center.
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The judge said the evidence in the case, involving lobbying for Turkish interests, was insufficient to sustain a pair of guilty verdicts a jury returned in July.
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Squire Patton Boggs' newly filed disclosure on its Q3 lobbying for Americans for Carbon Dividends shows $150,000 in expenses, the same level as the prior four quarters.
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Athletes are lobbying for the championships to be moved to a site outside Russia and for officials to revisit the standings of the 2014 Games as warranted.
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Stack said that he encountered partisan gridlock while lobbying for gun reform in Washington, DC, with Republican politicians refusing to engage with ideas like universal background checks.
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He's even had to cancel a speech to the Colorado River Water Conservation District due to ethics concerns about his previous work lobbying for other water districts.
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And it is lobbying for provisions in the reauthorization bill that would require "sense and avoidance" technology that would automatically steer a drone away from a nearby object.
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And in an age of populism, nativism and political expediency, there is something magnificently improbable about a prestigious US agency lobbying for the rights of Muslims in China.
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Heilongjiang in the northeast was one of several provinces lobbying for more support for its NEV industry this year, saying it would help revive China's old rustbelt region.
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Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) has been lobbying for three years for a resolution that would tie Trump's hands in Yemen, but it has always gone down in defeat.
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Rep. Maxine Waters says what many are afraid to say about Donald Trump, continually calling him out for corruption and unfitness for office, and lobbying for his impeachment.
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And it's TPUSA — which has been lobbying for action to support conservatives on campus for some time — that played a major role in giving us the executive order.
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T-Mobile has admitted that after it began lobbying for a merger with Sprint, it started to book stays for top executives at President Donald Trump's Washington hotel.
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Lobbying for reform is an odd coalition: a group called Atheist Ireland, plus the low-church Evangelical Alliance, and Ahmadi Muslims, who complain of bullying by Irish Sunnis.
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This is usually a formality, but lobbying for the deal—and against Ms Vestager's dogged adherence to the rules-based system—will go on until the last minute.
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All of Australia's intelligence allies—the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, and New Zealand, known collectively as the Five Eyes—have spent decades lobbying for these mechanisms.
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The tie-up could reduce costs as both companies separately fund legal defenses and lobbying for legislation to authorize fantasy sports in states that have declared it illegal.
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Foreign operators have been lobbying for more than a decade for direct access to a Chinese market set to become the world's largest bank card market by 2020.
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Cris Collinsworth is publicly lobbying for his old team to sign Colin Kaepernick -- telling TMZ Sports the 32-year-old can help the Cincinnati Bengals turn things around.
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More broadly, while shareholders may gain from revenue-maximisation techniques such as deceptive advertising and lobbying for biased regulation, these tend to be bad for the common good.
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One factor appears to be the success of various professional groups in convincing the government to tailor regulation to their needs, for instance by lobbying for occupational licensing.
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K&L Gates is now lobbying for the City of Murfreesboro's Water and Sewer Department on the House and Senate bills, according to disclosure forms filed this week.
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After years of lobbying for the project, TransCanada acknowledged in a July conference call that executives won't decide until late November or early December whether to begin construction.
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But even with President Obama in office for nearly eight years, and Senator John McCain and Congressman Peter King lobbying for a pardon, exoneration has yet to come.
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Lawmakers and musical artists came together Wednesday night for live performances, award presentations and even a touch of legislative lobbying for the annual Grammys on The Hill ceremony.
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The tie-up would reduce costs as both companies separately fund legal defenses and lobbying for legislation to authorize fantasy sports in states that have declared it illegal.
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Warren's bill would also impose a lifetime ban on lobbying for presidents and federal lawmakers, and would bar U.S. lobbyists from using foreign cash to affect American policy.
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President Barack Obama was deadly wrong in permitting Syrian use of chemical weapons to go unpunished, including by requesting prior congressional authorization but not seriously lobbying for it.
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Bail has become one of those issues, with advocates exposing the predatory bail bonds business, creating community-based bail funds, and lobbying for an end to cash bail.
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"Never in our wildest dreams were we going state by state asking lawmakers to punish juveniles," she told me, of her early years of lobbying for registry laws.
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According to the Wall Street Journal, internet companies have been lobbying for the legal protections to be included in the new US trade agreement with Mexico and Canada.
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Mr. Flynn had also formed a consulting group after he left the Obama administration that led to inquiries into questionable lobbying for foreign governments, including the Turkish government.
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But she left after complaints about her lobbying for a law firm that had advised U.S.A. Gymnastics during the period when the organization delayed revealing reports about Nassar.
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The nation's largest air carriers have been lobbying for such a change for years, but Republicans in Congress have failed to get enough support to pass a bill.
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MACCALLUM: No, I understood but you know, wasn&apost that something that the Russian lawyer and that group had been lobbying for and working on for a long time?
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Flynn's attorney said his client is cooperating with federal prosecutors in a case against Bijan Rafiekian, his former business partner who has been charged with unregistered lobbying for Turkey.
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At the same time, she has endured difficult conditions in prison, lobbying for medical treatment and battling with Fort Leavenworth's disciplinary tribunal in the wake of a suicide attempt.
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That imbalance at the synod, as the meeting is known, has disappointed women from organizations that have been lobbying for the church to give women more decision-making power.
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Israel and Jordan were lobbying for American forces to remain in some areas, particularly Tanf in the south—a request that American officials may be ready to accede to.
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In California, UltraViolet, a community-based women's rights group, has been lobbying for Assembly Bill 2888, which would require mandatory prison sentences and prohibit probation in cases like Turner's.
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They are lobbying for rules that would let the European Union place unilateral sanctions on subsidised foreign rivals, Chinese carriers among them, even before any investigation has been concluded.
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So it is odd to find a fund lobbying for an existing boss to stay on, as TCI has done in a spat with the London Stock Exchange (LSE).
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Attorney General Sessions cited the forthcoming OIG report as the reason for his termination, but Trump himself had also been publicly and privately lobbying for his dismissal for months.
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The banks are lobbying for AT1-related ADI to be determined using IFRS accounts, which would introduce greater harmonisation and make it easier for creditors to calculate ADI independently.
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But it looks to be playing a longer game of attrition in the market — focused on lobbying for regulatory change so that it could reintroduce other services in future.
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But it is fundamentally a charge related to the other charges of money laundering, misleading federal officials and investigators about foreign bank accounts, and lobbying for the Ukrainian government.
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Arconic said Kleinfeld's departure was not in response to the proxy fight Elliott launched or to the activist investor's criticisms of Arconic and lobbying for it to replace Kleinfeld.
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In February, the London-Irish Abortion Rights Campaign launched its #HometoVote campaign and is lobbying for Irish emigrants who are eligible to vote to come home and do so.
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Thus far, the Digital Right to Repair Coalition—which is generally made up of independent repair shops with several employees—is the only organization publicly lobbying for the legislation.
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Part of her mission is lobbying for privacy policies that prevent personal data from being used by large corporations and governments in ways that disproportionately affect people of color.
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Salvini is lobbying for Paolo Savona, who has decades of experience in academia, banking and government but has spooked markets with his eurosceptic views that chime with the League's.
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As it happens, some Vietnamese are so nervous about Chinese expansionism that they are lobbying for U.S. forces to return to their war-era base at Cam Ranh Bay.
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Gary Mendell, the founder and chief executive of Shatterproof, a New York-based anti-addiction advocacy group, had been lobbying for months to make prescription drug monitoring programs mandatory.
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This year, it came to light that Podesta Group had not fully disclosed the extent of its work lobbying for a Ukrainian group also tied to Manafort, CNN reported.
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Malloy has made multiple trips to the White House and Congress lobbying for stricter gun restrictions after enacting one of the toughest state laws in the country in 2013.
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Banks have pressed their case with the FASB, members of Congress, and regulators, lobbying for modifications or a delay in CECL so that its impact could be studied further.
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In Europe, eliminating dozens of national airspaces borders could reduce fuel consumption by around 6 percent, but lobbying for a Single European Sky has been bogged down for years.
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The industry is lobbying for British government support, which could be required to kick-start investment in parts production that would be new for Britain, such as alloy wheels.
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A4E is also lobbying for the reform of the continent's air traffic control system, something it says could immediately reduce carbon emissions from the industry in Europe by 10%.
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Economy Minister Bruno Le Maire has been lobbying for a new tax so that tech giants would stop optimizing their European corporate structure to lower their effective tax rate.
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Clooney and her co-counsel Jared Genser are lobbying for Congress to impose potential sanctions against the Maldives government if they do not release Nasheed and other political prisoners.
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The team produced the 2016 story that exposed Manafort's secret foreign lobbying for Ukraine and suspected money laundering, a story that led to Manafort's demise as Trump campaign chairman.
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"He has an interest in serving in the Senate, yes, but he has no interest in lobbying for a vacancy that doesn't exist," the source close to Salmon said.
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The American Israel Public Affairs Committee, the Iranian opposition group Mujahedeen Khalq and Saudi Arabia, all with longstanding anti-Iran agendas, have intensified their lobbying for punishment over engagement.
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The decision reportedly came as a surprise as Ayers had been lobbying for the job for months, boosted by Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump, who both clashed with Kelly.
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The American Civil Liberties Union has condemned the bill, which the American Israel Public Affairs Committee is lobbying for, as a threat to the constitutional right to free speech.
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Hospitals and doctors didn't get their way in Congress' initial effort to tackle surprise medical billing; they're lobbying for changes that would make the final proposal more provider-friendly.
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Now, STL is rewarding Barclay for the good job he did this season ... giving him a championship hat -- and lobbying for his name to be inscribed on Lord Stanley!
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Bruni: There you go again, lobbying for your beloved Amy Coney Barrett, whose nomination you once accurately tweeted — and I mentioned your tweet in a column of my own!
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The group posted a statement there in February that said it had been lobbying for five years for new appliances to have fully fire-resistant backing — to little avail.
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Mr. Giuliani was at times so insistent that a number of White House officials came to believe he was secretly lobbying for Turkey, one of the former officials said.
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The government has been lobbying for an amnesty programme because slow economic growth has meant tax revenue this year is well below the target and lower than in 2015.
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A memorandum of a July phone call between Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky shows Trump suggested Kiev probe Biden over his role in lobbying for the prosecutor's dismissal.
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The lawyers said the furniture maker will also meet with representatives of Parents Against Tip-Overs, an advocacy group lobbying for safer furniture designs and more stringent testing standards.
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He is part of a team at Baker Donelson Bearman, Caldwell & Berkowitz that is lobbying for the health insurer Aetna, according to forms filed to the Senate. http://bit.
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Counterintelligence officials also warned the Chinese-American businesswoman may have been lobbying for a construction project in Washington, D.C., that was funded by the Chinese government, the Journal reported.
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In parliament last week, Obeidi accused Jabouri and five other MPs of lobbying for businesses seeking contracts to sell overpriced planes, vehicles and other goods to the armed forces.
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Manafort's criminal prosecution has led to several related criminal cases and investigations and a multimillion dollar Justice Department settlement with a US law firm for illegal lobbying for Ukraine.
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An alternative paragraph that said Germany would consider lobbying for the introduction of a minimum price on European carbon-dioxide emissions has also been taken out of the document.
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All but five of the 140 schools currently participating in the program are Catholic or Protestant, and the Diocese of Des Moines is among those lobbying for the expansion.
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He says he watched two now-preteen girls spend years lobbying for that change, and one had "tears streaming down her eyes" as she watched Branstad sign the bill.
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But this was also a time, Reagan said, in which women were lobbying for entrance into Harvard Medical School, in part so they could pursue work in obstetrics and gynecology.
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Moderate Labour MPs such as Chuka Umunna, who had been convinced that Mr Corbyn would go down to a catastrophic election defeat, are now lobbying for jobs in his cabinet.
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Washington (CNN)President Donald Trump's original pick for deputy national security adviser is now lobbying for a Ukrainian businessman who once advocated that Kiev acquiesce to Moscow's annexation of Crimea.
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But if there was more undisclosed lobbying for foreign governments — more Turkey payments, or undisclosed activity for Russia — than he disclosed in March, then he's potentially in serious legal trouble.
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Rumors of Trout having interest in playing for the Phillies someday gained momentum with Harper subtly lobbying for Trout to join him in Philadelphia when he becomes a free agent.
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Once big companies get a taste of selling poppy or coca tea, they could start lobbying for the ability to sell more of their products or even cocaine and heroin.
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"We can tell the difference between feedback about a genuine technical flaw and generalised lobbying for lighter-touch regulation," Woods told the annual conference of the Association of British Insurers.
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If he's seen to be lobbying for Natalie's ouster, Angelina might suspect him of playing too hard, and word could get back to the Goliaths that he's a tribal traitor.
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At the national and subnational level, there will always be powerful interests lobbying for their own needs, whereas those without access to clean water are, almost by definition, the powerless.
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The legislation from Republican Senator Rob Portman and Democratic Senator Richard Blumenthal in August came after years of law-enforcement lobbying for a crackdown on the online classified site backpage.
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It was a position, aides said, that by the end of the selection process Christie was openly lobbying for -- and one he acknowledged afterward he was disappointed not to receive.
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The dermatologists' association is lobbying for topical steroid skin medications to be added to the Schedule H list, which would restrict their availability in pharmacies by requiring a doctor's prescription.
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Giant ISPs like AT&T and Comcast are lobbying for this plan because they know it will reduce the government's ability to rein in bad behavior in an uncompetitive market.
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The film's title was almost DoomsdayScreenwriters/directors/producers Roland Emmerich and Dean Devlin were lobbying for Independence Day, but the rights to that name were held by a different studio.
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Newton -- who tried to become Randy's conservator last year -- says he's not lobbying for the role this time around ... he's just worried Randy will put unqualified friends in the position.
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Chamber President Tom Donohue has said that the Chamber is in the business of providing "reinsurance" to companies that need help lobbying for positions that aren't publicly or politically palatable.
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Former Bank of France governor Christian Noyer, who is lobbying for Paris, said attitudes have improved since Emmanuel Macron, a pro-EU ex-banker and economy minister, won the presidency.
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The Paris agreement affords oil, gas and coal companies a globally visible platform through which to peddle influence and appear engaged on climate change while lobbying for business as usual.
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Amazon has moved its baseline pay up to $15 an hour, and started lobbying for increasing the federal minimum wage, which has remained stagnant at $7.25 an hour since 2009.
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Prosecutors say Manafort hid millions of dollars from the IRS stemming from work he did consulting and lobbying for pro-Russia officials in Ukraine, hiding the money in overseas accounts.
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Voicing support for a carbon tax through the Climate Leadership Council is good, but it's time to start actively lobbying for such policies, and supporting politicians who will enact them.
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Network also lobbying for criminal justice reform) (Associated Press) THE CLOSER Don't miss this pix taken by photographer Paul Morse during former first lady Barbara Bush's Saturday funeral in Houston.
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Luckily, a suicide prevention net that Hines and so many others have been lobbying for is now under construction on the Golden Gate Bridge, with a projected completion of 2021.
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The Conservatives were keen to keep hold of the post, which does not run the City of London financial district but has influence over government in lobbying for the capital.
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The Center for Media Democracy and Common Cause say ALEC is engaging in corporate lobbying for organizations like Exxon, while working under an IRS nonprofit designation that prohibits such lobbying.
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The Washington Post reports that prosecutors have entered 1,500 possible exhibits into evidence and say they will closely examine the extent of Manafort's lobbying for pro-Russia causes in Ukraine.
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Russell will be lobbying for a "soft" exit "that looks as much like remaining in the EU as possible," ideally including continued free movement of capital and labor, she said.
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It's why the Aluminum Association and sister bodies the world over are united in their lobbying for a multilateral campaign to tackle China's allegedly unfair dominance of the supply chain.
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As a part of his plea deal, Gates pleaded guilty to helping Manafort use bank accounts in Cyprus and Grenadines to hide millions they made while lobbying for Ukranian politicians.
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In a sign of Washington's importance for Bongo, Gabon's government has three firms listed with the U.S. Justice Department lobbying for his interests, more than any other sub-Saharan country.
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Trump's ethics plan would ban all executive-branch officials from lobbying for five years after leaving their government jobs — one of several policies aimed at curbing the influence of lobbyists.
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What he did not do was disclose much of his activity to the Justice Department, as required by the Foreign Agents Registration Act, the law governing lobbying for foreign interests.
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First flagged by LegiStorm, the group Turnberry Solutions LLC, which was founded by former Trump 2016 campaign aides Jason Osborne and Ryan O'Dwyer, is now lobbying for American Ethane Company.
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In lobbying for its bid, South Korea used a potential handicap — Pyeongchang's proximity to the North Korean border, in a region bristling with troops and weaponry — as a selling point.
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National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster had been lobbying for the president to drop the expression for months now, agreeing with his predecessors that the phrase set up a dangerous dichotomy.
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After they arrived and observed what was happening, the lawyers, including representatives of some of the nation's most prominent law schools, immediately began lobbying for the children to be released.
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Various sectors of corporate America — airlines, cruise ships, hotels, restaurants and small businesses — are all lobbying for help staying afloat while the economy goes into stasis because of the outbreak.
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In 1981, however, the Pro-Life Amendment Campaign, a lay group backed by the Roman Catholic Church, began lobbying for a constitutional amendment that would prevent terminations on any grounds.
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Industry chambers are lobbying for a cut in goods and services tax rate on passenger vehicles and cement to revive growth, warning that falling sales could force more job cuts.
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Banks had been lobbying for a wider guarantee on the loans subject to the moratorium because they are concerned about potential losses, a person involved in the measures told Reuters.
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After lobbying for the American Public Power Association, Mr. Billings was recruited to join the Subcommittee on Air and Water Pollution of the Senate Committee on Public Works in 1966.
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The Student Debt Reduction Coalition's goals include lobbying for changes to the tax code that allow for employer-sponsored student loan repayment plans — comparable to how a 401(k) functions.
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Franklin's signature song and biggest hit, "Respect" burst from dance halls, car radios and porch windows amid a turbulent year marked by racial tensions and women lobbying for equal rights.
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Trump has dragged federal prosecutors into politics, bringing one of them — John Huber, Utah's top federal prosecutor — to the White House to give a speech lobbying for new immigration laws.
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The Saudis deny that bin Salman had any involvement in Khashoggi's death, just as they deny that female activists jailed for lobbying for the right to drive have been tortured.
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News reports indicate different owners are lobbying for various scenarios, including the Rams and Chargers playing together in either the Carson stadium or an Inglewood venue proposed by the Rams.
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Ever since Khashoggi was reported missing on October 2, the Post has been lobbying for information about his whereabouts and justice for his death in the Saudi consulate in Istanbul.
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Trying to buy the Panthers is great and all, but New York congressman Gregory Meeks is lobbying for Diddy to focus his efforts on a MUCH needier squad -- the Jets!!
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He was approved by the Republican-controlled Senate over the objections of Democrats concerned that his former lobbying for industry means he will favor energy and minerals development over conservation.
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Yes, it is true: The PAC is called Americans for Carbon Dividends (AFCD) and it is educating the public about, and lobbying for, a policy called carbon tax-and-dividend.
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But it is fundamentally a charge related to the other charges of money laundering and misleading federal officials and investigators about foreign bank accounts and lobbying for the Ukrainian government.
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In lobbying for tariffs, Christopher follows in the footsteps of his father, who fought to implement an anti-dumping duty of up to 400 percent on Chinese garlic in the 1990s.
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Centeno would not directly answer a question about whether he or the Portuguese government was lobbying for him to become the next chairman of the Eurogroup of euro zone finance ministers.
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This week in Cleveland she has been everywhere, lobbying for her father with delegates and donors, appearing in television interviews and leaving a trail of picture-taking fans in her wake.
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These incidents and others offer clear examples of why the FCC's promise that ISPs won't do That Bad Thing They've Been Lobbying For Years To Do is complete and utter bullshit.
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An analysis of tax reforms in America in 2004 found, for example, that firms which spent money lobbying for special tax benefits enjoyed a return on their investment of roughly 22,000%.
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Sherman's source says Murdoch is also lobbying for further conditions on AT&T's proposed acquisition of Time Warner, potentially because he sees the new conglomerate as a threat to his holdings.
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It added accounts of meetings showed industry representatives used the contact groups as platforms for lobbying, for instance to voice their opposition to a proposed tax on financial transactions in Europe.
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I wanted to be able to say that I didn't turn on her like that because even when it was her and Keshia, I was still lobbying for Keshia to go.
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Campaigners and human rights groups around the world are now lobbying for her conviction to be overturned, with many using the hashtag #JusticeForNoura to draw attention to the issue on Twitter.
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In a post-publication statement to The Verge, Facebook emphasized that the tag suggest feature could be turned off at any time, and denied any direct lobbying for the new amendment.
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But if there is more undisclosed lobbying for foreign governments — more Turkey payments, or undisclosed activity for Russia — than he disclosed in March, then he potentially would've faced serious legal trouble.
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In lobbying for tariffs, Christopher follows in the footsteps of his grandfather, who fought to implement an anti-dumping duty of up to 400 percent on Chinese garlic in the 1990s.
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"We can tell the difference between feedback about a genuine technical flaw and generalized lobbying for lighter-touch regulation," Woods told the annual conference of the Association of British Insurers (ABI).
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The developments put paid to years of intensive Israeli lobbying for more comprehensive curbs on Tehran - a campaign that strained relations between Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and U.S. President Barack Obama.
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Congressional Republicans and President Trump have made tax reform a high priority, and a number of free-market groups are lobbying for FATCA repeal to be included in tax reform legislation.
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With today's movie technology opening up so many possible scenarios, actors' union SAG-AFTRA is lobbying for all states to enact protections on the use of celebrity images after they die.
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Several prominent Republicans are lobbying for Luther Strange (who lost in the primary against Moore) or Jeff Sessions (who resigned the seat to become Attorney General) to mount write-in bids.
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Samuel Patten was charged with violating the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA) for lobbying for the Ukrainian Opposition Bloc between 2014 and 2018, without disclosing the work to the U.S. government.
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The beneficiaries also complained about the trustees' support for the bill adopted in 23, saying that they spent more than $6 million of the pension fund's money lobbying for the legislation.
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The comment comes as Farenthold enters a new role -- lobbying for the Calhoun Port Authority in Point Comfort, Texas, for a salary nearly equivalent to what he was making in Congress.
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Overcapacity in the Chinese steel sector has led to a surge in exports which steelmakers in Europe and the United States have sought to counteract by lobbying for anti-dumping duties.
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School groups, like the School Nutrition Association, had been lobbying for sodium levels to be left where they are and for lawmakers to revert back to old standards for whole grains.
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The first project is lowering barriers to jobs for people with criminal backgrounds, and includes lobbying for specific policies and a $7 million investment in community organizations in several American cities.
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If the companies lobbying for this rule want to break into this market, they can — all they have to do is negotiate and pay for programming rights just as others have.
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Some ruling party lawmakers are privately lobbying for a package of up to 5 trillion yen, roughly the size of the annual revenue expected from the sales tax increase, they say.
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Outside groups that align with Miller's hard-line immigration agenda have panned the pick, however, citing Wolf's past work lobbying for companies that used H-1B visas to employ foreign workers.
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Wood, 30, is expected to be joined at the Rayburn House Office Building by representatives from the nonprofit Rise, an organization lobbying for sexual assault survivor protections in state legislatures nationwide.
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Mr. Trump would ban executive branch officials from lobbying for five years after they leave public service, and he would ask Congress to do the same for its members and staff.
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"My fear is that this isn't just about climate change," said Summer Dean, 22, a recent graduate from Portland State University, who had been lobbying for the bill for three years.
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We're going to drain the swamp in Washington, D.C. I've already imposed a five year lobbying ban on the executive branch officials and lifetime ban on lobbying for a foreign government.
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And so Democrats have to find a way to win in those places, even as the progressive wing of the party is ascendant and lobbying for control of the party's message.
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In connection with his plea, Flynn had been expected to testify at a trial last month against former business partner Bijan Rafiekian, who had been accused of secretly lobbying for Turkey.
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President Trump, in a break with White House precedent, had been lobbying for the Fed to slow down the rate hikes, but Powell said that had nothing to do the decision.
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Gates said he was guilty of helping Manafort use bank accounts in Cyprus and Grenadines to hide millions of dollars they made lobbying for Ukrainian politicians as far back as 2006.
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The Washington Post told a prominent Republican lobbyist he'd lose his gig as a contributing opinion writer unless he stopped lobbying for Saudi Arabia, a spokesperson for the newspaper confirmed Tuesday.
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Instead, the industry spent much of the early aughts suing and vilifying potential customers or lobbying for copyright laws like the DMCA that created more problems than they professed to solve.
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In Oregon, a campaign called PSI 2020 is lobbying for a measure on the ballot that could make the use of psilocybin, the hallucinogenic compound found in psychedelic mushrooms, legal statewide.
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They added their lobbying for Russia did not involve Uranium One but rather focused on regulatory issues aimed at helping Russia better compete for nuclear fuel contracts inside the United States.
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"—Marc Whiteman (@MarcWYFFNews4) December 3, 2019The head coach also joked that he would "like some time out" and would "like to take a nap" before lobbying for "adult time out time.
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Indonesia's trade minister Enggartiasto Lukita in July said he will advise Washington that Indonesia will remove trade barriers for U.S. apples following a WTO ruling as part of lobbying for GSP.
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Trump's White House has been aggressively lobbying for months for a clean, permanent renewal of the 702 authority, which the intelligence community maintains is critical to identifying and disrupting terror plots.
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The groups argued in court documents that Trump's action forces them to evaluate whether losing two rules is worth the benefit of a new one before lobbying for an agency action.
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Saudi Arabia: The young Saudi woman who fled her family and spent a week lobbying for her freedom from Bangkok's international airport arrived safely in Canada, where she was granted asylum.
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"I think it's terrible to 'cancel' someone's entire career over one matter," he said, citing Ms. Fairstein's history of prosecuting rapists and lobbying for policies that benefit victims of sexual crimes.
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To drain the swamp of corruption in Washington D.C., I've started by imposing a five-year lobbying ban on White House officials, and a lifetime ban on lobbying for a foreign government.
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The code still has to be signed into law by Kabila, and miners active in the country, including Glencore and Ivanhoe Mines, are lobbying for changes and talks about future taxation arrangements.
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That activity should have been reported to the Justice Department under the Foreign Agents Registration Act, the US law that requires people lobbying for a foreign government to register, prosecutors have suggested.
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Consider... Americans for Carbon Dividends — a group aligned with GOP elder statesmen and backed by major oil companies — is lobbying for a carbon tax that would nix key emissions regulations in return.
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Hedge funds and other investors have been lobbying for the removal of government controls over the mortgage giants' profits, which since 20083 have been transferred to the Treasury, and their eventual privatization.
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But if bankruptcy is a ploy for a bailout, PG&E is unlikely to have much support from the general public, which is increasingly lobbying for more control over their own power.
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In Europe, Air France-KLM and Lufthansa have been lobbying for a proposed reform of Regulation 868, which would allow the EU to impose sanctions on foreign airlines that get state subsidies.
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It took years of advocating and heartache for Jackie Robinson to break into "America's pastime," baseball, and even longer lobbying for Art Shell to become the NFL's first African-American head coach.
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Sanders must keep the apparatus he's built largely intact, but refocused on lobbying for progressive policies and promoting and financing progressive candidates—and making establishment Democrats fear the price of opposing both.
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But the Association of Flight Attendants worries the policy will "cause the loss of good, well-paying American jobs," which is why the group is lobbying for an exception to the rule.
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The Abood balance permits unions to charge non-members for collective bargaining efforts but not for overtly partisan endeavours like supporting political candidates (invariably Democrats) or lobbying for particular policies (invariably liberal).
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He left government to work for Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck, a natural resources law firm, where he earned at least $1.1 million lobbying for energy and mining companies, according to financial disclosures.
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Beall says she leans on lessons learned from competing in Brazilian jiujitsu matches while lobbying for the IFA's more than 28503,22019 members on labor and tax issues affecting the franchise business industry.
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The special counsel first unveiled a 12-count indictment in October 2017 charging Manafort and longtime business partner Richard Gates with crimes related to their lobbying for pro-Russian forces in Ukraine.
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Consumers can direct their buying power to responsible retailers such as Dick's Sporting Goods, which stopped selling assault weapons after the Parkland shooting and is lobbying for measures to reduce gun violence.
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A coalition against the beverage tax, the Ax the Philly Bev Tax Coalition, is still lobbying for a state-level bill that would ban soda taxes in Pennsylvannia, according to USA Today.
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The bill, titled the Intelligence Directors Lobbying Prevention Act, would bar members of the U.S. intelligence community (IC) who are charged with protecting the nation from then lobbying for a foreign government.
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The bill, titled the Intelligence Directors Lobbying Prevention Act, would bar members of the U.S. intelligence community (IC) who are charged with protecting the nation from then lobbying for a foreign government.
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Nevertheless, both Mueller and Rosenstein approved dozens of counts against Manafort for bank fraud, tax violations and other crimes related to his lobbying for the government of Ukraine years before the campaign.
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Manafort not on trial for 'lavish lifestyle,' judge insists Lobbying for and counseling foreign leaders -- as Manafort did for the party of pro-Russian former Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych, is not illegal.
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A former chief of staff to House Minority Whip Steny Hoyer (D-Md.), Alexander heads up lobbying for the nation's largest health insurer as it deals with a shifting and consolidating industry.
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The former Trump aide has also asked the judge to throw out a number of charges, including money laundering, that relate to his work lobbying for pro-Russian political parties in Ukraine.
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President Trump tweeted late Tuesday night that Japan and South Korea are lobbying for the U.S. to re-enter the Trans-Pacific Partnership, but South Korea was never part of the deal.
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The search giant has its headquarters in the North Bayshore district, owns much of the land in the area, and has long been lobbying for more housing near its sprawling corporate campus.
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Kalavritinos was the head of global lobbying for hospital supplier Covidien, which moved its global HQ to Ireland after being acquired by Medtronic in 2014 to take advantage of lower tax rates.
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To drain the swamp of corruption in Washington, C.C., I've started by imposing a five year lobbying ban on White House officials and a lifetime ban on lobbying for a foreign government.
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Prosecutors claim he hid millions of dollars in income from lobbying for Ukrainian politicians, all while failing to pay taxes and spending the money on US real estate and personal luxury purchases.
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One moment he has guests in his office and charms them over glasses of sweet tea, the next he yells down the telephone at employees or argues with people lobbying for help.
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The judge warned that Mr. Flynn could face prison for lying to federal investigators about his conversations with the Russian ambassador during the presidential transition and hiding his role lobbying for Turkey.
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Patten, a veteran political consultant and business partner of Kilimnik, pleaded guilty in August to unregistered lobbying for a pro-Kremlin political party in Ukraine and agreed to cooperate with Mueller's probe.
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The town's former mayor, Andrei Kholzakov, who chairs an international association of trade union groups lobbying for asbestos, said that hopes of a turnabout in American policy had been disappointing so far.
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The companies have spent at least $475,000 on lobbying for electric scooters and bikes at the state and city level during the first four months of this year, according to state records.
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Mr. Mueller and others at the Justice Department appear to have determined that the examination of lobbying for foreign powers, like Mr. Cohen's business dealings, could fall beyond the special counsel's mandate.
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Women continued Abigail's call to remember the ladies, starting with the first Women's Rights Convention in 1848 and culminating with women suffragists lobbying for the 19th Amendment, which was ratified in 1920.
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Paul Manafort, Mr. Trump's former campaign manager, who earned millions lobbying for years on behalf of dictators around the world, "did not need lessons in dirty tricks from Russia," Ms. Lipman said.
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Berlin officials agreed a couple of months ago to rename Petersallee and two other streets honoring German colonizers, much to the delight of activists who have spent years lobbying for the changes.
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The new British Foreign Secretary, Jeremy Hunt, has been traveling through northern Europe, lobbying for Britain's position, warning of a chaotic no deal Brexit, and urging "a change in approach" by Brussels.
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Turkey is also against the blacklisting of Pakistan by the world financial watchdog, the Financial Action Task Force, to curb its alleged financing of terror, something India has been lobbying for hard.
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A bipartisan pair of former senators who are now lobbying for U.S. airlines is backing a House Republican proposal to separate the nation's air traffic control system from the Federal Aviation Administration.
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Warren's proposal is part of her anti-corruption plan, which would expand the legal definition of what constitutes a lobbyist and ban private lobbying for foreign governments, foreign individuals and foreign companies.
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And some of the decisions that various groups are lobbying for — like changing the design of the satellites — can potentially reduce an issue for one group but cause more problems for others.
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Bernhardt, who has devoted himself to understanding the intricate details of environmental regulations, has bounced back and forth between government service and lobbying for industry groups over the course of his career.
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It's important to the larger food industry that the GMA remains a strong voice that leverages its many resources beyond lobbying for the good of expanding domestic consumption of U.S.- manufactured food.
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Specifically, Ukraine had shut down four open investigations into former Trump campaign chair Paul Manafort's years of lobbying for the previous Russia-backed president of Ukraine, Victor Yanukovych, and his political party.
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The industry group has been lobbying for an end to the tariffs since the 25% tax was enacted in mid-2018 in retaliation for U.S. tariffs levied on imported steel and aluminum.
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Asked for comment, Mr. Mohorovic sent an email to The Times that included the ethics rules on revolving door practices, which prohibits former officials from lobbying for one year before their agency.
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Saudi Arabia: The young Saudi woman who fled from her family and spent a week lobbying for her freedom from Bangkok's international airport arrived safely in Canada, where she was granted asylum.
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Many of the agriculture groups are already lobbying for the TPP, taking their message to Capitol Hill and canvassing nearly every congressional district in a fight where every single vote will count.
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Today known for its nefarious lobbying for the weapons industry against virtually any form of gun control, the NRA began in 1871 as a shooting club by veterans of the Civil War.
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In Canada, First Nations are often at the forefront of resource extraction and pipeline projects, battling for environmental rights, fair consultation on projects, and lobbying for a piece of the anticipated windfall.
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MUMBAI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Campaigners are using social media and lobbying for special laws to annul child marriages in India, which has one of the world's highest rates of women married as children.
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While banks have an option to repay these funds at certain intervals, repayments have been small and banks are instead lobbying for the ECB to roll over the loans before they near maturity.
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It prohibits private organizations from advocating abortion either explicitly or implicitly -- through counseling, referral, direct provision, or lobbying for policy or legal reform, as a precondition for receiving US federal family planning funding.
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For another, the major platforms now are lobbying for passage of a federal privacy law in the U.S. This is not surprising after a year of privacy miscues, breaches and negative privacy news.
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Gates could be called as a prosecution witness in his Washington trial as well, as could veteran political operative Samuel Patten, who pleaded guilty to unregistered lobbying for Ukrainian politicians two weeks ago.
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Moreover, by getting out early, BlackRock makes clear to those young people lobbying for tighter gun laws – who it hopes will be customers for decades to come – that it has something for them.
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WATCH: Thomas Rhett on Why He's Channeling the Champagne Emoji at the Grammys Since September, Butterball has been lobbying for a turkey emoji, but sadly their pleas were ignored in this current update.
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What's next: The cattle industry isn't taking kindly to fake meat, pouring cash into lobbying for regulation on what can be called meat at the federal and state levels, the Washington Post reports.
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Corporations have translated their economic power into political power, lobbying for policies that give them free rein to despoil the environment; and the swamp President Donald Trump promised to drain has been overflowing.
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That means business ought to opt for less fraud, less lobbying for crony capitalism, more social conscience when it comes to pollution and climate change, and also bolder, less bureaucratic decision-making procedures.
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In the case of Manafort and Gates, those charges involve financial crimes and unregistered lobbying for Russian-allied politicians in Ukraine, but do not appear to be directly related to domestic election interference.
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Bitcoin's core developers have stuck to the old ways, holdout supporters are lobbying for integration of the Lightning Network that should speed things up, and opportunists have created spinoffs with faster transaction times.
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She also co-founded the Windquest Group, an organization that invests in technology and manufacturing and has spent millions of dollars lobbying for school voucher programs across the country, The Washington Post reported.
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He is expected to be approved by the Republican-controlled Senate over the objections of Democrats concerned that his former lobbying for industry means he will favor energy and minerals development over conservation.
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A new New York Times report indicates the former national security adviser told the team way back in January that he was under FBI investigation for secretly lobbying for Turkey during the campaign.
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The valuable public health advance was quickly overshadowed by the news that its maker Merck & Co. was lobbying for states to make the brand-new vaccine compulsory for all girls in public school.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A jury on Tuesday convicted Bijan Rafiekian, who was the business partner of U.S. President Donald Trump's disgraced former national security adviser Michael Flynn, on charges of secretly lobbying for Turkey.
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" And in the complaint filed with the DOJ by a Magnitsky ally about his alleged undisclosed lobbying for the Kremlin, he was called "a former member of the Russian military intelligence services (GRU).
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The Pulse shooting was a direct attack on Orlando's LGBTQ community, which is consistently targeted by some politicians of faith who claim religious freedom when writing, lobbying for, and passing anti-LGBTQ laws.
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That same year, business leaders, governors and LDP lawmakers in western Japan stepped up lobbying for a "national project" to finish the line to Osaka at the same time as that to Nagoya.
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The indictment last week included new counts against Manafort and Manafort aide Konstantin Kilimnika, a political operative with alleged ties to Russian intelligence, for allegedly tampering with witnesses regarding their lobbying for Ukraine.
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A former campaign official who was close to the president-elect during the transition said he witnessed Cohen's lobbying for a White House job and his later complaints of having been passed over.
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Banks have been lobbying for a loosening of the regulatory noose and called for a break to new rules due to the rising costs involved and the impact it has on their profitability.
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The brand is known for its "Never List," more than 1,500 ingredients it has sworn not to include in its products, as well as its political lobbying for greater oversight of beauty products.
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Manafort was charged with bank fraud and money laundering last year, alongside a business associate, for his alleged efforts to cover up money made by lobbying for pro-Russia political parties in Ukraine.
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Many Thais believe generous donations to temples can bring good karma - the principle that good deeds will lead to a good future - something temples and monks have exploited, groups lobbying for reform say.
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For erstwhile EPA administrator Scott Pruitt, scourge of Obama-era environmental regulations, it could mean sitting down at a downtown Washington tea shop without a woman and her daughter lobbying for clean air.
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Giuliani is publicly lobbying for the role, and, at least initially, top Trump allies expected him to be given whatever role he wanted due to his staunch loyalty to Trump through the campaign.
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In 2012, she founded Sister Supporter, a pro-choice group which has spent the last three years running an escort service for clinic visitors, holding counter-demonstrations, and lobbying for a buffer zone.
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Mr. Sechin, who has worked alongside Mr. Putin since the 1990s, when they served together as midlevel officials in St. Petersburg, has been lobbying for years against production cuts proposed by the Saudis.
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The charges against Mr. Manafort and Mr. Gates center on a series of criminal allegations related to their lobbying for a pro-Russia government of Ukraine, not to Mr. Trump or the campaign.
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Ivanka Trump, too, is being enlisted in the tax overhaul campaign, these officials said, after she surprised officials by proving effective at lobbying for her pet issue, an expanded tax credit for children.
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Another challenge has been Mr. Trump's implementation of ethics rules that bar White House officials from lobbying for five years after they leave the government, prompting senior congressional officials and lobbyists to demur.
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Moreover, by getting out early, BlackRock makes clear to those young people lobbying for tighter gun laws — who it hopes will be customers for decades to come — that it has something for them.
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It called for a five-year ban on White House and congressional officials becoming lobbyists after they leave public office, and a lifetime ban on White House officials lobbying for a foreign government.
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The strikers are lobbying for the full closure of the semi-autonomous territory's border with mainland China, where the National Health Commission has reported 24,300-plus cases of coronavirus and nearly 500 deaths.
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Ahead of climate week, 200 major investors managing a combined $6.5 trillion in assets also demanded that companies stop lobbying for policies that harm the climate, both directly and through their trade groups.
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Activists have spent years lobbying for such a constitutional change, but it is unclear whether conservatives will allow it, said Volker Beck, a Green Party lawmaker and a longtime champion of gay rights.
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"I think this could be a point of inflection," said Paul Martino, vice president and senior policy counsel at the National Retail Federation, which has spent years lobbying for a data breach bill.
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Elizabeth Warren is proposing anti-corruption legislation that would prohibit former government officials from owning individual stocks -- and impose a lifetime ban on lobbying for many officials after their public service is done.
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Abizaid also addressed the human rights abuses, including Khashoggi's killing, the torture and detention of women lobbying for the right to drive and the alleged torture of Dr. Walid Fitaihi, a US citizen.
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Gates had pleaded guilty last year to conspiracy and lying to the FBI, and had admitted to helping Manafort conceal $75 million in foreign bank accounts from their years of lobbying for Ukraine.
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Plus, there will be a repeat of 85033 when dozens of steel-using manufacturers spent an exorbitant amount time and resources lobbying for relief from the higher tariffs just to stay in business.
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Konstantin Kilimnik, a Manafort aide and political operative with alleged ties to Russian intelligence, was charged on June 8 with tampering with witnesses about their past lobbying for Ukraine's former pro-Russian government.
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From lobbying for global kimchi superiority to attempts at wowing Western tourists with bland, lavish banquets, Kim Jong-un's totalitarian regime does not hesitate to make bold claims about its food and liquor.
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John Bel Edwards argued in lobbying for the All-Star Game, the state hasn't taken up the widespread legislative efforts to pass the anti-LGBTQ laws that other Southern states, like North Carolina, have.
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Buoyed by their acceptance at the Championships last year, male synchronized swimmers such as May are now lobbying for an Olympic shake-up of the currently all-female discipline at the Tokyo 2020 Games.
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The Kochs have instead spent hundreds of millions backing conservative political causes (though Charles Koch has no love for Donald Trump), lobbying for lower taxes and attacking the idea of man-made global warming.
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There was absolutely no quit in him, and even as the referee finally stepped in and cradled his head to protect him after the third brutal knockdown, Pazienza could be seen lobbying for more.
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The U.S. semiconductor industry has been lobbying for broader relief, arguing that U.S. security goals should be advanced in a way that does not undermine the ability to compete globally and retain technological leadership.
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In 2018, the EU voted to mandate the outlawing of exchange rate mark-ups on international payments through its Cross-Border Payments Regulations, something that the London fintech company has long been lobbying for.
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"His government went to the extent of threatening NGOs lobbying for girls to be allowed to go back to school," Odhiambo said, citing the home affairs minister's intention to deregister organizations challenging the ban.
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The industry is lobbying for more support, from tax breaks to teaching school children about social enterprises, following last month's release of a strategy which could see ethical firms win more public sector contracts.
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Business interests and their allies in the Trump White House are undoubtedly lobbying for Trump to pick someone who would rubber-stamp mergers — going with their recommendations would be the path of least resistance.
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Today's lobbying laws are like a sieve, and the problem boils down to a provision limiting disclosure requirements to lobbyists who spend 20 percent or more of their time lobbying for a single client.
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Kengeter has spoken of building bridges to London but his lobbying for having it as the headquarters has angered some in the regional German government in Hesse, said one person familiar with its thinking.
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But Hammond, who has been criticised by supporters of Brexit for being too conciliatory towards Brussels and lobbying for a "softer" exit, said Britain would take a tough stance about how much it owes.
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Patten, an American business partner of a Russian national accused by Mueller's office of ties to Russian intelligence, pleaded guilty in August 2018 to unregistered lobbying for a pro-Kremlin political party in Ukraine.
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The move wouldn't be unusual for Holmstead, who for nearly two decades has moved seamlessly between lobbying for the fossil fuel industry during Democratic administrations and working in the public sector during Republican one.
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Creditors began lobbying for the board after Rossello's predecessor, the left-of-center Alejandro Garcia Padilla, called Puerto Rico's debt "unpayable" in 2015, and later pushed a plan to slash repayments by about half.
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Manafort is accused of using bank accounts based in Cyprus to launder around $30 million he and a business associate made lobbying for pro-Russia political groups in Ukraine prior to the 2016 election.
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Prosecutors have sought to cast Manafort as a prolific spender who used money illegally hidden from U.S. authorities and made from lobbying for pro-Russia political groups in Ukraine to fund his sumptuous habits.
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The Washington Post has directed a second opinion writer to stop publishing for the newspaper's opinion blog until his firm ceased lobbying for the government of Saudi Arabia amid the disappearance of Jamal Khashoggi.
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The effort is meant in part to prevent another situation like that of Michael Flynn, a former Defense Intelligence Agency director who in 2017 retroactively registered as a foreign agent lobbying for Turkish interests.
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The effort is meant in part to prevent another situation like that of Michael Flynn, a former Defense Intelligence Agency director who in 6900 retroactively registered as a foreign agent lobbying for Turkish interests.
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The charges come amid a sweep of prosecutions of individuals illegally lobbying for foreign governments -- previously a rarely charged crime -- and amid special counsel Robert Mueller's inquiry into influence in the 2016 presidential campaign.
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"The same insurers who are lobbying for bailout money this year will be back again when funding expires, threatening to withdraw from the exchanges or raise premiums if bailouts aren't extended," the groups write.
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The charges stemmed from Manafort's lobbying for a pro-Russia political party in Ukraine and not from Mueller's core focus on whether the Trump campaign colluded with Russia to interfere in the 2016 election.
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For protectionists it's proof that "a global supply chain is vulnerable to geopolitical risk," to quote Jesse Gary, general counsel for Century Aluminum, the U.S. producer that has led the lobbying for import tariffs.
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Debbie Sease, who heads lobbying for the Sierra Club, presided over a gut-punched office of employees who took silent Metro rides into work last week and hung "free hugs" signs on their desks.
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He did ban appointees of any executive agency from lobbying for five years after leaving government employment and permanently banned future former appointees from activity on behalf of any government or political party abroad.
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It seemed like a small concession for the promotion, especially considering how long Cyborg had been lobbying for the creation of the division and how many pay-per-view sales Cyborg's presence can motivate.
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Even when cities step in to regulate e-hailing, Uber in particular has sometimes circumvented the power of local municipalities by lobbying for concessions at the state level that render local efforts relatively moot.
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The discussion of General Flynn's Turkish connections has occurred in the context of President-elect Donald J. Trump's promise to prevent officials in his administration from lobbying for foreign governments once they leave office.
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The movement was so popular, people began lobbying for a more formal observance, and in 1980, President Jimmy Carter designated the first official National Women's History Week, beginning on March 8 of that year.
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This year few Republican candidates, for example, were as aggressive in lobbying for Mr. Trump's endorsement as Representative Diane Black of Tennessee, who came in third in her state's primary for governor this month.
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The laws would also typically allow for private lobbying for the use of federal emergency authority, the agencies said, as long as they are used to solicit government action around passing and enforcing laws.
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NBC News reported this month that Mr. Mueller's investigators are looking at a 2016 meeting between Mr. Rohrabacher and Mr. Flynn, whose lobbying for foreign powers has come under scrutiny by the special counsel.
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Her goal for this year, Linton says, is lobbying for increased funding to help with greater enforcement of the Animal Welfare Act, signed in 1966 by President Lyndon Johnson to provide protections for animals.
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The December meeting with Giuliani was organized as part of Livingston Group's lobbying for ITBC LLC, a Maryland-registered company set up just six weeks earlier and whose registered agent is a Ukrainian American.
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"The mining chamber ... is making its argument and asking for support," he said, adding he is also lobbying for the tax change to help miners as they grapple with multiyear lows in metals prices.
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Manafort and Gates are specifically accused of making millions of dollars lobbying for a pro-Russia political party in Ukraine before hiding the earnings from the U.S. government through various bank accounts and companies.
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It was inevitable that a Republican president would reinstate this policy, first enacted by Ronald Reagan, prohibiting foreign aid organizations receiving family planning funding from making abortion referrals or lobbying for abortion law reform.
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Manafort and an associate, Rick Gates, were indicted after extensive foreign lobbying work and accused of filing false statements in their claims about lobbying for foreign countries, including a pro-Russian party in Ukraine.
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It does lots of different things, from lobbying for more progressive housing laws to organizing protests to canvassing democratic socialist candidates; in 2018, more than a dozen DSA-backed candidates won their Democratic primaries.
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Charges against him include conspiring to launder money, failing to register as a foreign agent in connection with his lobbying for the previously pro-Russia Ukrainian government, bank fraud and filing false tax returns.
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An American business partner of a Russian national accused by Mueller's office of ties to Russian intelligence, Patten pleaded guilty in August 2018 to unregistered lobbying for a pro-Kremlin political party in Ukraine.
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A Manafort aide in Ukraine and a political operative with alleged ties to Russian intelligence, Kilimnik was charged in June with tampering with witnesses about their past lobbying for Ukraine's former pro-Russian government.
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He had helped for almost two years with both the Mueller investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election and the President's attempts to obstruct justice, as well as the investigation into lobbying for Turkey.
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Flynn pleaded guilty in December 2017 to lying to the FBI in the first days of the Trump White House about his interactions with then-Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak and about his lobbying for Turkey.
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ExxonMobil and other big energy companies are even lobbying for a tax on carbon emissions, largely because their businesses — such as natural gas and nuclear power —are poised to benefit in a carbon-constrained world.
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Lawmakers and victims of bank mistreatment have been lobbying for better access to justice following a string of scandals involving past mistreatment of struggling firms by lenders, including RBS and HBOS, now part of Lloyds.
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Glassman, the founder, began meeting with lawmakers, holding rallies about the dangers of soda, and pouring money into lobbying for laws that would require federal agencies and researchers to more clearly disclose their financial conflicts.
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Human right violations dismissed Australia is now lobbying for a seat on the U.N. Human Rights Council from 2018 to 2020, although it received criticism under the second Universal Periodic Review for its refugee policies.
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Investor groups in Europe have been lobbying for stock exchanges to cut the price of stock transactions data so that a "consolidated" feed of prices from different platforms can be created at a reasonable cost.
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Washington (CNN)An interest group lobbying for the legalization of medical marijuana is suing one of Florida's largest counties after reports emerged that their favored constitutional amendment was nowhere to be found on some ballots.
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After reports on Tuesday that Twitter was considering increasing its character limit to 10,000 from the traditional 140, large numbers of longtime users again began lobbying for the ability to revise their tweets after posting.
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The acting interior secretary, David Bernhardt, risks so many potential conflicts of interest from his previous life lobbying for energy and natural-resources firms that he carries around a card listing all 22 of them.
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Michael Flynn told the transition team back in January that he was under FBI investigation for undisclosed lobbying for Turkey — and he still got hired to be the gatekeeper for the Trumpland's national security decisions!
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One company source, who asked not to be named, said more changes at the top would send a negative signal and Petropavlovsk's board was seeking details on the two investors lobbying for the AGM vote.
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New York was the last state of the union to welcome the sport, and the UFC had spent years lobbying for legislation so that they, and other MMA events, could one day hold events there.
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Hun Sen said last year that there would never be a foreign military base in Cambodia after a news report that China was lobbying for a naval base in Koh Kong province - northwest of Sihanoukville.
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Rotterdam chief resilience officer Arnoud Molenaar, who led colleagues in lobbying for extra funding from the Rockefeller Foundation, said resilience work had garnered more support and created more value in cities than was often appreciated.
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What eBay and Etsy are lobbying for is a small seller sales tax exemption for marketplace small sellers who could easily, and relatively cost-free, collect sales taxes through the eBay, Etsy and Amazon marketplaces.
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That indictment charged him with offenses including conspiring to launder money and failing to register as a foreign agent in connection with his lobbying for the Ukrainian government under pro-Russian former President Viktor Yanukovych.
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The Association of power producers, an industry group that represents private companies such as Reliance Power and Adani Power as well as state-run NTPC, had been lobbying for incentives for the past two years.
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A June 8 indictment charged Manafort and Konstantin Kilimnik, a Manafort aide and political operative with alleged ties to Russian intelligence, with tampering with witnesses about their past lobbying for Ukraine's former pro-Russian government.
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The Chamber has regularly been an ally to Republican presidents, lobbying for lawmakers to back the GOP tax law last year and set to tout the tax cuts in ads leading into the 2018 midterms.
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Klobuchar's first foray into politics was successfully lobbying for the enactment of a Minnesota law that required insurance plans to cover new mothers being able to stay in the hospital 48 hours after giving birth.
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After months of increasingly frantic lobbying for Doughty to win the Norris (which he likely will), it was hard not to notice that the Kings' superstar had a tough time of things against the Sharks.
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As General Atomics was lobbying for a change in export rules governing its unmanned aerial vehicles, it helped fund a report at the Center for Strategic and International Studies that also pushed for the change.
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That said, they're still the Celtics, which means that Opinionated Toilet Brush Dan Shaughnessy is passive-aggressively lobbying for Stevens' dismissal, and that fans want more from the team's hyperspeed rebuild than they've already gotten.
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Konstantin Kilimnik, a Manafort aide in Ukraine and political operative with alleged ties to Russian intelligence, was charged on June 8 with tampering with witnesses about their past lobbying for Ukraine's former pro-Russian government.
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The issues the debates revolved around — Medicare-for-all, a Green New Deal, immigration law reform — are important, and there is certainly some role to be played by the president in lobbying for their passage.
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It isn't about lobbying for yourself with unself-consciousness; it is about the greater good, about the people in the corporation who depend upon the integrity of your decisions, whether you are male or female.
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Some lawmakers are reportedly lobbying for a $148,500 salary — matching the salary of the New York City Council, but about $24,000 more than required to compensate for inflation since their last raise 20 years ago.
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On Monday, prosecutors said in court filings that they intended to prove Manafort earned more than $60 million lobbying for the former pro-Russia Ukrainian government and failed to report "a significant percentage" of that.
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Local campaigners, with the backing of the Rainforest Foundation UK, an Indigenous-rights nonprofit, spent years lobbying for its creation and were spurred on by the proliferation of logging companies, encroaching farmland and wildlife reserves.
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It's also something that none of the adults involved—from the prosecutor, Linda Fairstein, to Donald Trump, who took out a newspaper ad lobbying for the accused to get the death penalty—has ever done.
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She was lobbying for Alkermes when she founded the Addiction Policy Forum in 250, and most of the nonprofit's $250,2000 in revenues the following year came from Alkermes and Indivior, another opioid addiction treatment maker.
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High-profile foundations and nonprofit organizations, constrained by donor desires and restrictive grant conditions, often oppose the initiatives most likely to actually mitigate inequality, such as raising taxes or lobbying for a higher minimum wage.
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The allegations in his criminal indictments, brought by Mueller's office this fall and winter, describe a scheme of shell companies and offshore bank accounts Manafort used to hide his earnings from lobbying for Ukrainian politicians.
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Now she was asserting that yes, she really is going to try and win this thing on a detailed platform of reforming politics in D.C. That means banning members of Congress from lobbying for life.
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Until then, Araceli Torres will keep working at the nail salon in the Bronx, a job she says she loves because it brings her customers joy, and keep lobbying for the city's paid vacation bill.
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Manafort is also known for admitting to illegal foreign lobbying for Ukraine and several financial crimes during the Mueller investigation, then flaming out as a Mueller cooperator after lying to investigators and a grand jury.
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Livingston made far more money lobbying for another Ukrainian client, Innovative Technology and Business Consulting LLC, which hired his firm last year shortly before he stopped working for the steel trade group in early July.
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They're being charged with conspiracy against the United States, money laundering, tax evasion, and failure to tell the U.S. government they'd been lobbying for a pro-Russian Ukrainian political party for more than a decade.
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There is "no evidence" that Trump's former National Security Advisor Michael Flynn "complied with the law" regarding his payments from foreign lobbying for Russia and Turkey, the bipartisan heads of the House Oversight Committee said today.
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Mr Flynn said they didn't discuss sanctions, but they did; since he was forced to resign as national security adviser, more details have emerged about his paid speechmaking for Russian companies (and lobbying for Turkish interests).
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According to experts on the Foreign Agents Registration Act, the law that compels people lobbying for foreign entities to disclose that work, Tymoshenko's meeting with Giuliani may not have needed to be reported under the law.
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Hunter Walk Non-profit organizations like Why Tuesday have spent nearly a decade lobbying for an election holiday, and Congress has made several attempts to change Election Day to make it more accessible for all voters.
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The philanthropist's support for the Best for Britain campaign, which is lobbying for a revote on Brexit, has been a hot topic since his £252,248 ($22015,000) donation to the group was revealed by The Telegraph Wednesday.
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The philanthropist's support for the Best for Britain campaign, which is lobbying for a revote on Brexit, has been a hot topic since his £400,000 ($483,000) donation to the group was revealed by The Telegraph Wednesday.
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U.S. officials assessed that she was lobbying for a $100 million Chinese garden at the National Arboretum in D.C., which was ultimately deemed a security risk because its 70-foot tower could be used for surveillance.
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But while Clinton's role in pushing foreign countries to adopt the tough UN sanctions is clear, it's also evident U.S. lawmakers pushed for tough sanctions as well -- indeed, tougher sanctions than Clinton was lobbying for abroad.
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Foreign card companies have been lobbying for more than a decade for direct access to China, which is set to become the world's No.1 bank card market by 2020, according to GlobalData, a research company.
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Publishers, artistes and actors had also originally been vocal critics of the Commission's proposal to rewrite the copyright rules but reversed their position after successfully lobbying for Google to pay them for using their work online.
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Iconic American companies like AT&T, Wells Fargo, American Airlines, and General Motors are among those that have most egregiously reneged on the promises they made to the American public while lobbying for the tax bill.
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Patten, a GOP consultant linked to Manafort, pleaded guilty in August to failing to register as a foreign agent while lobbying for a Russia-linked political party in Ukraine and agreed to cooperate with Mueller's investigation.
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Later, the judge walked that comment back, acknowledging that Flynn's unregistered lobbying for the Turkish government ended in November 2016, while Flynn worked on the Trump campaign and transition and before they took the White House.
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Manafort is accused in federal court in Virginia of amassing a fortune from lobbying for pro-Russia interests in Ukraine prior to the 2016 U.S. presidential election, then hiding that money in Cyprus-based bank accounts.
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After rallying the troops with a speech that would do Mel Gibson proud, Jamie is surprised by a joke attack led by his shirtless uncle, who is lobbying for a leadership role close to Prince Charles.
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The point: While the NRA values making its costume extremely difficult to obtain, the organization — by lobbying for laxer gun laws — seems okay with letting people get a gun without much, if any, of a hassle.
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In response to growing lobbying for right to repair bills, Apple has insisted that it is motivated by controlling the quality of repairs and safety concerns (particularly relevant in situations like swollen batteries) rather than money.
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Banks had been lobbying for a broader guarantee on the loans subject to the moratorium because they were concerned about potential future losses, a person involved in the measures told Reuters, asking not to be named.
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The government saw Mr. Lee as so pivotal to its Olympic dreams that after he was convicted of tax evasion in 2008, the country's president then pardoned him expressly so he could resume lobbying for Pyeongchang.
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Gottlieb is walking a tightrope between satisfying the interests of tobacco control advocates, who like the idea of lowering nicotine levels in cigarettes, and e-cigarette companies that have been lobbying for a lighter regulatory hand.
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None of the pro-ERA organizations or members of Congress have stopped lobbying for their "three-state strategy," which began after an article appeared in a 28500 William and Mary Journal of Women and the Law.
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Andrew Cuomo on Wednesday after months of lobbying for the chance, in an animated debate colored by tense exchanges that seemed to get under the incumbent's skin and mirror the often-tempestuous tenor of the campaign.
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"The entire point of tax reform was to get rid of ridiculous carve outs and subsidies that only benefit the industry that's lobbying for them," said Freedom Partners Executive Vice President Nathan Nascimento in a statement.
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Schelling told reporters on the sidelines of a European finance minister meeting in Bratislava that he was lobbying for a special meeting of European finance and economy ministers - or Ecofin - on Brexit without his British counterpart.
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Taylor says the City's local government finds millions of pounds each year to fund lobbying for financial services and hosting sumptuous banquets for financiers and foreign heads of state, but neglects people living in his district.
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There's the top Trump campaign official Paul Manafort, who is serving time for lying about his history of lobbying for Russian interests and sharing Trump campaign polling data with a Russian intelligence asset during the campaign.
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Congress is now considering a bill that would exempt lenders with under $10 billion in assets from the rule, but larger banks are lobbying for changes in how the rule is interpreted and applied to them.
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"I have never heard in any conversation that the NRA was lobbying for or against it," said Michael Collins, a deputy director of the Drug Policy Alliance, who worked to cultivate Republican support for Lee's bill.
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The tech industry's public stance on H-13B has been far milder than its pushback on other immigration issues, but behind the scenes, it's been pumping money into lobbying for the defense and expansion of this program.
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The indictment, filed by Mueller in District of Columbia federal court, included new counts against Trump's former campaign chair Paul Manafort and the operative, Manafort aide Konstantin Kilimnik, for tampering with witnesses about their lobbying for Ukraine.
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Flynn admitted in December 2017 to lying to the FBI while they interviewed him in the White House in January 2017 about discussing foreign policy with then-Russian ambassador Sergey Kislyak and about his lobbying for Turkey.
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Visa and MasterCard, the world's two largest credit and debit card companies, have been lobbying for more than a decade for direct access to China's cards market, which is projected to become the world's biggest by 2020.
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"The Link Tax"Article 11 is primarily the result of pressure from large press publishers lobbying for legislation to force major platforms like Google and Facebook to pay for the privilege of linking to a news organization.
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Daimler, Ford, PSA Group, Deutsche Telekom, Ericsson, Huawei, Intel, Qualcomm and Samsung are lobbying for the 5G standard which hooks up to both cars and devices in the surrounding environment, and has a bigger range of applications.
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Sprint, currently lobbying for government approval of its $26 billion merger with T-Mobile, proclaimed at the time that the arguably-modest FCC backup power rules would have resulted in "staggering and irreparable harm" to the company.
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His career spanned a bizarre range of work, including being a top staffer in Pat Buchanan's presidential campaign, coproducing the anti-communist action movie Red Scorpion with disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff, and lobbying for an African dictator.
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These students helped inspire thousands of young people to become outspoken and politically engaged by lobbying for tighter gun safety legislation, leading nationwide marches, and holding political leaders accountable for being beholden to the National Rifle Association.
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One focus is renewed lobbying for state-level protections in the absence of a federal law: 27 states already have anti-FGM laws, and some of them, including Michigan's, were adopted after the Detroit case made headlines.
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MUCH OF THE time and money spent trying to ignite a shale-gas boom in Britain over the past decade or so has gone not on drilling boreholes for hydraulic fracturing ("fracking") but on lobbying for permission.
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LOBBYING for human rights, in a universalist spirit that holds all countries to the same standards and avoids singling out any particular group or country for attention, is not something that comes naturally to the Trump administration.
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His K Street shop is called Sextons Creek, and disclosure forms show he is lobbying for Aflac, General Dynamics, Microsoft, Verizon and AT&T, for whom he is advocating on their proposed deal with Time Warner. •IMMIGRATION.
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This joins Apple with other tech heavyweights — including Google, Facebook, Netflix and Amazon — in lobbying for strong rules, including a ban no fast lanes, just as the legislative negotiations on this front also start to heat up.
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Farmers and biofuel producers have been lobbying for an end to the E15 ban to bolster demand, but the oil industry has expressed opposition to any policy that would further raise ethanol's share of the fuel market.
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Bernhardt is chairman of the natural resources law practice at Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck and earned at least $1.1 million last year lobbying for more than a dozen energy and mining firms, including oil and gas companies.
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And while the mayor does not run the City of London financial district, the post has outsized influence over government in lobbying for the capital and the ruling Conservatives are keen to keep hold on to it.
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However, organizations like the Consumer Technology Association, which HLAA has received minor sponsorships from in the past, are lobbying for the bill in hopes that it will provide more affordable choices for consumers suffering from hearing loss.
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The Republican-backed overhaul of the tax code, which passed and was signed into law in December, was found to be the most-lobbied issue of 2017, with nearly 1,400 groups lobbying for or against the legislation.
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As the Indian nationalist movement began lobbying for freedom from the British, the All-India Muslim League began clamoring for a portion of the newly independent India to be partitioned as a separate Muslim-majority country, Pakistan.
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And despite Trump putting a particular focus on cracking down on lobbying for foreign interests during the early days of his administration, seven of the 10 highest-dollar contracts belong to those with foreign governments and interests.
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Forfeiture of the assets identified as part of Manafort's scheme to hide millions of dollars made lobbying for pro-Russia parties in Ukraine was agreed upon in a plea agreement Manafort signed with Mueller's team last month.
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In the first quarter of 2019 alone, Uber, Lyft, TaskRabbit, TechNet, and Alticor have spent $1.2 million on lobbying for a federal carve-out bill, according to information provided to TNR by the National Employment Law Project.
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Mercury is lobbying for Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights, while the immigration reform group America's Voice has hired both the large law and lobby firm Squire Patton Boggs and the boutique K Street firm Chamber Hill Strategies.
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Paris is lobbying for an international peace conference before May that would outline incentives and give guarantees for Israelis and Palestinians to resume face-to-face talks before August and try to end the decades-long conflict.
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On Wednesday, his transition team announced that anyone interested in a White House job would need to sign a pledge renouncing any lobbying ties and agree not to enter lobbying for five years after leaving his administration.
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Having achieved that at Avis, he was subsequently hired for the top job at Equitant, an outsourcing company, and, in 2009, after a brief retirement, at AARP, which is known for its vigorous lobbying for older Americans.
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The authors favor Engelbart, but the Minskians, they point out, are still with us, in the form of self-driving car manufacturers, for example, who have recently begun lobbying for the abolition of steering wheels and pedals.
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Mr. Harward's withdrawal from consideration prompted David H. Petraeus, the former general and director of the Central Intelligence Agency, to step up his lobbying for the national security adviser post, according to officials familiar with the process.
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Despite being synonymous with horse racing in the United States, Churchill Downs is not really a horse racing company, said Shawn Smeallie, executive director of the Coalition for Horse Racing Integrity, which is lobbying for the bill.
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A small handful of very loud, very aggressive environmental groups and tribal interests had long been lobbying for just this designation, and they were thrilled at the breathtaking scope of the designation — more than 1.3 million acres.
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He specifically cited Bill Browder, a former high-level investor in Russia who has become one of Putin's most oft-cited enemies for his role in lobbying for the U.S. sanctions bill known as the Magnitsky Act.
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Kengeter has spoken of building bridges to London but his lobbying for having the British city as the main headquarters has angered some in the regional German government in Hesse, said one person familiar with its thinking.
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It sits tight collecting investment returns on the still unpaid tax, all the while lobbying for a "one-time-only" tax holiday — such as occurred in 2004 and such as is again planned in the Senate bill.
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In remarks to New York City Police Department (NYPD) brass, Bloomberg blasts the NYCLU for lobbying for legislation that would make it easier for people targeted under the stop-and-frisk policy to sue the police department.
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It tells the story, beginning in the 1970s, of how prominent African-Americans played a role in lobbying for more punitive measures to fight gun violence and drug dealing, in the quest to keep their neighborhoods safe.
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A Manafort aide in Ukraine and a political operative described by prosecutors as linked to Russian intelligence, Kilimnik was charged in June 2018 with tampering with witnesses about their past lobbying for Ukraine's former pro-Russian government.
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Flynn admitted in December 2017 to lying to the FBI while they had interviewed him in the White House in January 2017 about discussing foreign policy with then-Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak and about his lobbying for Turkey.
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But at some point, the interest groups lobbying for repeal of the Obamacare taxes — like medical device makers — will have to shift their focus to tax reform if it becomes clear that the health care revival isn't happening.
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The recent spread of the hashtag #MeToo has highlighted the ubiquity of sexual harassment and has given rise to Time's Up, a group lobbying for anti-harassment legislation and providing legal support for victims of harassment and assault.
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"If there is a clear idea about what a social enterprise actually is, because they have adopted a legal form, it makes it easier," said Stefan Panhuijsen, policy director of Social Enterprise Netherlands, which is lobbying for reform.
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Ryan worked out a deal with House Freedom Caucus Chairman Jim Jordan, who has been the point person lobbying for a House vote, to hold a special meeting next Thursday with all House Republicans to discuss the issue.
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News companies that have been lobbying for legislation that makes it easier to negotiate with companies like Google and Facebook will testify before Congress on Tuesday, in the first of several hearings probing the power of Big Tech.
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Towards the end of his life he was dismissed from the Cobden Club, a free-market group, for supporting the Land Tenure Reform Association, lobbying for radical reforms of the property market, including heavy taxation of landed estates.
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But households, they reckon, are rarely animated enough about trade fights to mount serious opposition to producers, who are assumed to favour protection and who are highly motivated and organised in their lobbying for tariffs and other barriers.
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BERLIN, June 23 (Reuters) - Berlin is lobbying for German firms to win business revamping India's creaking railway network, one of several countries attracted by the scale of India's transport needs and which are campaigning to export their technology.
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For all the European diplomatic lobbying for President Donald Trump to stay in the Paris climate pact, the notion that the deal and the planet are better off with the U.S. in the accord is not universally held.
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