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And still, the things that Gorbachev lobbied for weren't defeatist.
Connie Mack visited Crane often and lobbied for his parole.
They lobbied for government reforms and informally negotiated with employers.
Wheeler also lobbied for Celanese Corporation, a chemical industry giant.
Mr. Bernhardt has also lobbied for oil and gas companies.
The organization has lobbied for marriage equality and endorsed presidential candidates.
In recent years, Wheeler has lobbied for Energy Fuels Resources Inc.
India has lobbied for an even later date, closer to 2030.
The CFPB lobbied for the rules, which can be found here.
Last year it successfully lobbied for the cancellation of standardised tests.
Activist investor Nelson Peltz had lobbied for the company to simplify.
Not to mention Dubblya lobbied for Kavanaugh behind the scenes too.
The publishing industry, which lobbied for the directive, celebrated the decision.
The company also previously lobbied for a revenue-neutral carbon tax.
James Inhofe, an Oklahoma Republican, and has lobbied for coal interests.
Industry groups had originally lobbied for the cuts to be permanent.
But Dr. Raj, who lobbied for the strategies, is not satisfied.
Volunteers organized into local chapters, held protests and lobbied for legislation.
He wanted the job of NASA administrator and lobbied for it.
Trump publicly lobbied for the output increase ahead of the June meeting.
She and her husband have lobbied for them and other nontraditional alternatives.
In particular, fans lobbied for "Pose" stars Billy Porter or Indya Moore.
That December Russia successfully lobbied for the arms embargo to be lifted.
She later lobbied for the release of the man who shot her.
In 2005, she lobbied for more protection for individuals filing for bankruptcy.
"We, and certainly I, never lobbied for the apartheid government," he said.
But Whirlpool later successfully lobbied for tariffs to keep out foreign rivals.
The private sector has lobbied for the fee rises to be delayed.
He was freed only after the Afghan government lobbied for his release.
Indeed, Delrahim even lobbied for Google, adding more poignancy to the fight.
Activists had lobbied for months for an in-person town-hall meeting.
In recent weeks, Mr. Ramaphosa's supporters lobbied for Mr. Zuma's early exit.
The Haitian ambassador and foreign minister had also lobbied for more time.
Members have successfully lobbied for laws restricting interfaith marriage and religious conversion.
Kyle Busch, Hamlin's Joe Gibbs Racing teammate, lobbied for curbing in the corner.
Some analysts have lobbied for a breakup of the company to create value.
Instead, Shalala prefers the Ways and Means proposal, which doctors have lobbied for.
But to pupils who lobbied for computers at their school he counselled patience.
Business groups lobbied for the cut, arguing that large wage rises hurt jobs.
It's a victory for the chemical industry and farmers who lobbied for chlorpyrifos.
In other states, utilities have lobbied for changes that may suffocate rooftop solar.
Wise lobbied for an exception to be made, but the program stayed firm.
The group lobbied for rules friendly to start-ups, like low capital requirements.
Wheeler lobbied for the companies in his previous role at Faegre Baker Daniels.
"He will be making decisions on the same things he lobbied for," Sen.
Kobach lobbied for, but didn't receive, an appointment as Secretary of Homeland Security.
Woods had openly lobbied for the chance to play for the U.S. team.
"We lobbied for it for a long time," said Meredith Snow, a violist.
If only more visitors got off their loungers and lobbied for an invite.
Together, they lobbied for the passage of Jessica's Law, in Florida and beyond.
AT&T and other telecom giants had heavily lobbied for the new rule.
General Motors, Alphabet, Ford Motor and others have lobbied for the landmark legislation.
Human rights group Amnesty International, which had lobbied for his release, welcomed Thailand's move.
After Apollo's success he lobbied for America to execute it as a follow-up.
AARP has lobbied for state-led retirement initiatives, which can take several different forms.
Both had harshly criticized President Trump in the past and lobbied for Wall Street.
After ISIS killed Foley, his family lobbied for a better outcome for other families.
But France has since lobbied for the EU to focus on the Sahel instead.
Democratic leaders allowed votes on a number of key amendments lobbied for by progressives.
Chile's ministry of heritage, which has lobbied for the statue's return, declined to comment.
She lobbied for the White House to kill the Pentagon funding for medical treatments.
Her father was also an activist, and lobbied for the rights of labor workers.
And the editorial board said Sanders has always lobbied for the African-American community.
Bill Haslam after Kim Kardashian West, Rihanna, and other celebrities lobbied for her release.
He had lobbied for the technicals to be rescinded after Thursday's 2148-22015 victory.
Trump has lobbied for Congress to pass an Obamacare replacement that he can sign.
Together, they lobbied for more research funding and more dignity for women undergoing treatment.
The move was welcomed by homeless leaders who had lobbied for it for years.
Both Ullyot and Cashour denied they lobbied for assistance in getting rid of Shulkin.
Since that massacre, student protesters have successfully lobbied for tighter gun controls in Florida.
President Trump lobbied for a border wall in his nationally televised speech Tuesday night.
He was befriended by Norman Mailer, who lobbied for Mr. Abbott to go free.
Really they lobbied for the PUC in California to shut Lyft and Sidecar down.
Y. – lobbied for and eventually won passage of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965.
Taiwan has bought weapons from the US and lobbied for even greater support from Washington.
Such groups have traditionally lobbied for insurance coverage of newer HIV drugs regardless of expense.
Shahira Knight, who lobbied for Fidelity Investments, is now working on tax and retirement policy.
That's what she and UltraViolet have lobbied for, in demanding his departure and pressuring advertisers.
Mr. Yuldashev's widow lives in the United States and lobbied for years for his release.
The tech industry, which successfully lobbied for the light regulatory regime, welcomed the lawmakers' endorsement.
The organization, representing manufacturers, has lobbied for states to prohibit plastic bans across the country.
In 2014, the NFL also lobbied for the FCC to maintain its sports blackout rule.
Nonetheless, Wheeler told Bloomberg News that he'd steer clear of clients he's lobbied for before.
The Accommodation Association of Australia (AAA) has lobbied for those contractual clauses to be removed.
In 2018, Dicks lobbied for General Dynamics and Washington state companies Boeing and Kitsap Transit.
Gale McGee lobbied for a summer break while veterans wanted to push through the heat.
Former FCC Commissioner Meredith Attwell Baker subsequently lobbied for both the wireless sector and Comcast.
Inspired by Kendra's Law, the Wilcoxes lobbied for the creation of Laura's Law in California.
This was supposed to happen by 2015, but the freight railroads lobbied for more time.
Unions have also lobbied for higher minimum wages and pushed to hold down executive salaries.
Steiner and other industry executives lobbied for a state tax credit and it paid off.
What inspired the sketch in which you lobbied for the chance to play Mr. Trump?
Walsh lobbied for the most sweeping set of changes to date: the Adam Walsh Act.
Before he joined the Trump administration's EPA, Wheeler lobbied for energy, mining and coal companies.
The deputy White House counsel previously lobbied for Anthem in its attempted merger with Cigna.
General Motors Co, Alphabet Inc, Ford Motor Co and others have lobbied for the legislation.
As a Senate aide, he lobbied for the establishment of the Cape Cod National Seashore.
He reportedly lobbied for the firing of James Comey, which didn't turn out so well.
You lobbied for certain laws in order to get charters or monopolize a certain industry.
Since the Parkland massacre, student protesters have successfully lobbied for tighter gun controls in Florida.
In that role, he lobbied for the coal mining company Murray Energy Corporation on environmental regulations.
" Another lobbied for a "original" script for the talented pair, writing, "This would be a hit.
Manafort allegedly lobbied for pro-Russian interests in Ukraine, and also lobbied in the United States.
State lawmakers who lobbied for the pardon had called those old laws unjust tools of oppression.
Companies got ahold of a dangerous, addictive product, marketed it irresponsibly, and lobbied for lax rules.
Take NAFTA, which she lobbied for and her husband, former President Bill Clinton, signed in 1993.
General Motors Co, Alphabet Inc, Ford Motor Co and others have lobbied for the landmark legislation.
Workers striking in Germany lobbied for two days for living wages and bargaining power for employees.
The companies had opposed the restriction on storing data overseas and had lobbied for its removal.
So Dr. Kellermann, who was on the academy's governing board, and colleagues, lobbied for the change.
Sports leagues fiercely lobbied for PASPA and have been vocally opposed to any kind of legalization.
They lobbied for legislation to dismantle multi-disciplinary groups and advocated the "fee-for-service" model.
In the years that followed, Browder strenuously lobbied for a law that would punish those responsible.
The same Twitter that lobbied for net neutrality and to keep Twitter alive around the world.
Ed Yarbrough, a Nashville attorney on Brown's legal team, said many people lobbied for Brown's release.
That only lets our corporate hospital employers, who surely lobbied for this decision, off the hook.
South Korea, meanwhile, lobbied for an exemption to the tariffs, citing the importance of the alliance.
Ahmad had previously lobbied for Thomas Bach to secure the International Olympic Committee presidency in 2013.
Others who lobbied for the bill included former prisoners and those who have relatives behind bars.
In 2445, a new movie house, Nitehawk, in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, successfully lobbied for the law's repeal.
William Lynn, who lobbied for Raytheon, was appointed deputy secretary of defense under President Barack Obama.
Brian Kemp against President Trump and his allies, who had lobbied for a different candidate. Gov.
Exelon lobbied for the credits, which will benefit some of its nuclear plants in those states.
This, of course, is exactly what ISPs were counting on when they lobbied for this change.
He remains a heroic figure in Israel, and Mr. Netanyahu lobbied for his release from prison.
The people displaced from the Chagos Islands have lobbied for years to be able to return.
Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu unexpectedly stopped by ITB on Wednesday and lobbied for German tourists to return.
She also lobbied for no-fault divorce laws and for lawyers to be held to higher standards.
David Axelrod says that Justice Scalia personally lobbied for President Obama to appoint her to the court.
Among the fixes on the table is one corporations, including Target and Best Buy, have lobbied for.
They helped pay for better police training and lobbied for higher wages and benefits for new recruits.
The legislation was lobbied for by local, smaller online and brick-and-mortar retailers like Harvey Norman.
Concerned about the impact of three decades of rapid development, he lobbied for social and political reform.
While agriculture minister, Gordeyev periodically lobbied for the creation of a grain-based equivalent with Russia's neighbors.
The retailers then switched tactics and lobbied for legislation to get them out of their contractual obligations.
In three cases, the transition officials lobbied for the same firms in the first quarter of 2017.
John's brother, Tony, also lobbied for Ukrainian interests (reportedly in partnership with Trump associates Manafort and Gates).
Antidoping officials and some athletes had publicly lobbied for a blanket ban on the entire Russian delegation.
Local business groups in Australia had lobbied for a more welcoming approach to the bids from China.
Bill Haslam granted Brown clemency, after Kim Kardashian West, Rihanna, and other celebrities lobbied for her release.
Upon entering the private sector, Luján lobbied for a development company that owned land filled with petroglyphs.
City and state officials that lobbied for the offer to Amazon did a great job — in part.
Historically, private insurers have effectively lobbied for special subsidies for private plans that are offered within Medicare.
Take the US Chamber of Commerce, for example, which has traditionally lobbied for more liberal immigration laws.
"I had strong feelings about that," said Ms. Livingston, who lobbied for a larger kitchen pantry instead.
These companies aren't getting everything they've lobbied for, but many have made it into the final bills.
Williams, for her part, has lobbied for returning mothers to have protected seedings, not just protected rankings.
Thomas has also opposed the deal, while Acho has openly lobbied for players to ratify the agreement.
The pharmaceutical industry heavily lobbied for the bill and showered Marino and other lawmakers with campaign contributions.
The pharmaceutical industry heavily lobbied for the bill and showered Marino and other lawmakers with campaign contributions.
The move put the governor at odds with President Trump, who had lobbied for a different candidate.
The world's top energy firms have lobbied for decades for access to Mexico's oil and gas reserves.
Rather, the U.S. ended up co-opting allies, many of whom lobbied for exemptions at the gathering.
Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani — a staunch Trump ally — has publicly lobbied for the position.
Trump's decision to keep it open was immediately condemned by groups that have lobbied for its closure.
DeSantis donors in Florida also contacted the Trump campaign and lobbied for her ouster, a source said.
Cruise companies have lobbied for an expansion of facilities at Sydney Harbour for years, but to little end.
I was not paid for this assistance and any suggestion that I lobbied for Smithfield Foods is inaccurate.
Tulsi Gabbard, who has openly lobbied for his support, and former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, a billionaire.
Unions lobbied for VW to lead development of emerging-market cars, but Skoda was allowed to take charge.
He successfully lobbied for a statewide referendum on the new bridge, only to see Michigan voters support it.
Elizabeth Warren, who lobbied for Chopra to get a regulatory position in New York a couple years back.
When asked by a reporter if Britain had lobbied for his asylum to be revoked, she said: "No".
Brazil, Indonesia and Malaysia lean towards 220, and India has lobbied for a later date, closer to 2100.
Andrew Wheeler, who lobbied for the coal industry, is now at the top of the Environmental Protection Agency.
Cunningham has lobbied for reducing the costs of healthcare, battling climate change, equality for women and other issues.
Chief executives from the Business Roundtable have lobbied for more stringent regulation on "modernizing" the shareholder resolution process.
He had long sought to bring Johnson's case to Trump's attention and lobbied for the act of clemency.
And he vocally endorsed and lobbied for the prison and sentencing reform components of the First Step Act.
Exxon Mobil, for instance, has financed research into carbon capture and sequestration and lobbied for a carbon tax.
Many customers have long lobbied for Chipotle to expand its offerings, and now Niccol seems to be listening.
He currently works at the law and lobbying firm Bracewell, where he previously lobbied for numerous energy companies.
The Russian companies, along with some European governments, also lobbied for months for the sanctions to be eased.
That's why state hospital associations have aggressively lobbied for Medicaid expansion in Republican states that haven't embraced it.
Cancer hospitals and the drug makers had lobbied for some kind of enhanced payment for the new treatment.
He also runs a consulting firm that has lobbied for a company with connections to Turkey's authoritarian president.
Facebook had also lobbied for the hearing to include a Google emissary of similar rank to Ms. Sandberg.
Many tech companies lobbied for corporate tax reform for years before Mr. Trump signed the new tax bill.
Some of the proposals reflect wish lists that for-profit and career schools have lobbied for in Congress.
They lobbied for a 21-year-old minimum legal drinking age, and President Ronald Reagan supported the cause.
They lobbied for the creation of Mother's Day and in the 1920s began pushing for state pension programs.
His wife Abigail has lobbied for Altria, which recently bought a major stake in e-cigarette maker Juul.
She previously worked on Capitol Hill and advocated and lobbied for democracy reforms for more than 30 years.
Since early in Trump's term, Israel has lobbied for formal U.S. endorsement of its control of the Golan.
Some bishops at the conference lobbied for the system to include mandatory lay participation, but they were unsuccessful.
Mr. Kelly was the Trump administration's first homeland security secretary and lobbied for Ms. Nielsen to replace him.
So they've lobbied for the TPP to include rules delaying the introduction of generic drugs into the market.
Sisley reportedly spoke at several American Legion events and lobbied for the group to approve the weed resolution.
Since that fateful November day, Orfanos, her husband Marc and their youngest son have lobbied for stronger gun laws.
Throughout his decades-long career, Wheeler has reportedly lobbied for at least 20 different companies, including Sargento Foods Inc.
And I have lobbied for in-state tuition for undocumented students in Florida, an effort that earned Florida Gov.
As the largest beneficiary of Ex-Im-backed financing, the company has openly lobbied for the agency for years.
Her office then drafted and lobbied for a bill granting her that authority that became law on October 1.
Sikh Americans had lobbied for years for such documentation, arguing it was a key step in combating such crimes.
Maldonado actively lobbied for the position and had ties to a member of Trump's transition team, according to Politico.
Some critics worry it would give airlines — which have lobbied for the move — too much control over the process.
ISPs find this so threatening, they've lobbied for protectionist laws in 21 states that effectively outlaw such community engagement.
Another law firm Giuliani joined in 2005 lobbied for Citgo, a U.S. subsidiary of the Venezuelan state oil company.
Since that ruling, big Western pharmaceutical companies have criticized India's patent law and lobbied for it to be changed.
Tom Steyer, a leader of the Save Lives Campaign, which had lobbied for the bill, hailed Mr. Brown's decision.
Civil society groups lobbied for a delay of the vote on the text, which was drafted behind closed doors.
Earlier this year Trump lobbied for a Republican health-care bill that would have repealed the Affordable Care Act.
John Breaux (D-La.) and Trent Lott (R-Miss.) lobbied for Russia's banking giant, Gazprombank, owned by Putin's government.
Many of these goodies have been lobbied for over years and narrowly appeal to specific states or interest groups.
Andrew Bogut, the team's starting center, said he had no doubt that the Cavaliers had lobbied for Green's suspension.
In July 1922, the NAACP lobbied for a federal anti-lynching bill that was ultimately filibustered by the Senate.
Wheeler previously worked at the EPA in the toxic chemicals office and lobbied for several companies, including Murray Energy.
Cevian, which had lobbied for years for a move that would sharpen the group's focus, also expressed its support.
Mr. Pollan had, in a 2008 letter, lobbied for Mr. Obama to use his presidency to challenge Big Food.
While FIFA has lobbied for greater government funding of women's teams, private benefactors are often needed to bankroll them.
Even some in the Anti-Defamation League, which as an organization has lobbied for the proposal, seems to agree.
The organization, which describes the East African tariffs as "taking advantage of U.S. generosity," lobbied for the American response.
The ministry has for several years lobbied for Russia to build a modern microchip plant, but to no avail.
Since early in Donald Trump's presidency, Israel has lobbied for formal U.S. endorsement of its control of the Golan.
A group led by Ginni Thomas has targeted officials in the administration, and lobbied for its own preferred choices.
In July the Senate confirmed Defense Secretary Mark Esper, the secretary of the Army who previously lobbied for Raytheon.
Industry chambers have lobbied for a fiscal stimulus including a cut in corporate tax rates and lower interest rates.
James lobbied for the streak-shooting Smith, while Griffin believed Shumpert and Mozgov would help shore up the defense.
I've lobbied for Instagram DMs on the web, mostly because I'm a reporter who occasionally reaches sources through Instagram.
Black consistently aligned herself with Trump and lobbied for his support during her campaign, but the endorsement never came.
Oil and gas companies have lobbied for looser methane regulations, including at the sites where we measured high emissions.
Jewish organizations had long lobbied for the medal on his behalf, contending that his feats had been wrongly overlooked.
Before joining the Interior Department in 20163 as the second in command, he lobbied for oil and gas companies.
Ricketts and other state executive officials lobbied for a referendum on the death penalty with hopes of reinstating it.
Agricultural interests have lobbied for the sales after the Trump administration gave breaks on ethanol requirements to some oil refiners.
Companies have long lobbied for profit-based taxation, saying it will spur production and better reflect exploration costs and risks.
In November, he lobbied for a Starbucks Corp boycott because the coffee chain's red holiday cups lacked Christmas-related decorations.
The powerful National Rifle Association (NRA) group has long lobbied for no restrictions to the constitutional right to bear arms.
Caritas, which looks after refugees on arrival, has produced an extensive study of the caporali and lobbied for legislative change.
Richardson had lobbied for a league team since the late 1980s, and he was finally granted a franchise in 1993.
He has lobbied for the Trump Organization in Florida for many years and raised money for the president in 2016.
He actually lobbied for Elena Kagan; if he couldn't get a conservative justice, he wanted the smartest liberal justice possible.
Turkey's business institutions have also lobbied for the same in an effort to ease the strain on the country's economy.
He said BPI lobbied for years to get its LFTB added to ground beef without labels indicating it was there.
Interior Minister Wolfgang Sobotka has lobbied for the house to be torn down and replaced with an entirely new structure.
Both have long lobbied for the right to export gas by pipeline but for now are limited to LNG sales.
Trump also spoke with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who has long lobbied for the embassy to move to Jerusalem.
President Obama will sign the measure, which his Treasury secretary, Jacob J. Lew, had negotiated and lobbied for since December.
Ukraine has lobbied for the Council to visit the contested area in the east, but Russia has blocked that, too.
Icahn had lobbied for the EPA to shift the obligation to buy credits away from refiners and onto fuel blenders.
The press syndicate had lobbied for a single media law encompassing all issues but parliament decided on two separate laws.
Advocacy groups that have lobbied for restrictions on e-cigarettes applauded the announcement but said more needs to be done.
President Obama yearned to make justice reform part of his legacy and lobbied for it in public and in private.
As part of a coalition of feminist groups, Nazra lobbied for women's rights to be included in Egypt's 2014 Constitution.
" The report discussed how the disinformation campaign utilized social media: "The black-targeted pages ...  lobbied for votes for Jill Stein.
"It was nothing that David and I lobbied for," Mr. Granik said, referring to Mr. Stern, who died in January.
He was pardoned by the Emirati government last week and returned to Britain after British officials lobbied for his release.
The Newman's Own Foundation has lobbied for years for a provision to save it from a 200 percent tax bill.
He had lobbied for a budget of hundreds of millions of euros to be overseen by a European finance minister.
Gary D. Cohn, then the chairman of Mr. Trump's National Economic Council, lobbied for Mr. Mulvaney, his sometimes golf partner.
However, U.S. companies have fiercely lobbied for — and won — several rounds of countervailing duties on Canadian imports on many occasions.
When Chinese representatives lobbied for this change once again at the most recent Cites meeting, the proposal was turned down.
Rogers has lobbied for several foreign governments in addition to Saudi Arabia, including Bahrain, Azerbaijan and the Kurdish regional government.
John Shadegg and Matt Salmon, who has lobbied for Arizona State University since retiring from Congress after the 2016 election.
He hasn't increased visas in the H-2A program for seasonal farmworkers, even though the agriculture industry has lobbied for it.
Szady and fellow student-athlete Linda Laird—managers, respectively, of the field hockey and basketball squads—lobbied for a similar upgrade.
The government had lobbied for the measure helping many young foreigners born and raised in Switzerland after their grandparents moved here.
The Liberals claimed there were no records showing business associations had lobbied for the change, but later admitted that there were.
Included in the sweeping changes to the tax code is an expanded child tax credit, which Ivanka Trump had lobbied for.
Their business model is built around it and, as Ms Eisen notes, they have lobbied for policies that have helped them.
The deal does not include a mandate for a standalone broadband offering, lobbied for by a number of outside advocacy groups.
Trump's daughter Ivanka Trump and son-in-law Jared Kushner also reportedly lobbied for the president to stay in the agreement.
It's clear that fans of the Young Turks are also Sanders supporters, as many lobbied for the appearance on social media.
Many foreign leaders have lobbied for Trump to remain in the deal, saying there is no better option on the table.
Wheeler worked for nearly a decade at Faegre Baker Daniels, where he lobbied for fossil fuel groups, before joining the EPA.
Wheeler worked for nearly a decade at Faegre Baker Daniels, where he lobbied for fossil fuel groups, before joining the EPA.
So it stunned G7 members when Trump went to bat for Russia during the summit and aggressively lobbied for its readmittance.
Law enforcement has lobbied for years for such a law, an effort which resulted in part from a crackdown on backpage.
Basque independence sympathizers have lobbied for years for imprisoned ETA operatives to be moved to prisons closer to the Basque Country.
Mixed doubles players have been left behind as singles and doubles players have successfully lobbied for steep increases in prize money.
He hasn't increased visas in the H-2000A program for seasonal farmworkers, even though the agriculture industry has lobbied for it.
I.O., which has lobbied for a large infrastructure bill, said he was skeptical that the president's visit would spur any action.
He hasn't increased visas in the H-266A program for seasonal farmworkers, even though the agriculture industry has lobbied for it.
We lobbied for smog devices on cars, clean-fuel buses, all the stuff big and small to clean up the air.
In 212, the country's first abortion clinic opened, pitting opponents who lobbied for tougher restrictions against those who supported greater access.
Fintech executives lobbied for the license and applauded the OCC's decision, but they are not immediately rushing in, they told Reuters.
Since taking over in 2014, Ms. Dixon has successfully lobbied for more funding and got the headquarters put back in Dublin.
The Unesco decision, made on Friday by secret ballot, was welcomed by Palestinians, who have lobbied for the move for years.
Shanahan then openly lobbied for months to get the secretary job permanently, before Trump announced plans to nominate him May 9.
The United States lobbied for language condemning acts of "violence and terror and incitement," a reference to Palestinian attacks inside Israel.
He hasn't increased visas in the H-23A program for seasonal farmworkers, even though the agriculture industry has lobbied for it.
He successfully lobbied for the introduction of public hearings into Poland's parliamentary procedures and the liberalization of Poland's consumer bankruptcy protocol.
At it, Swedish lobbied for changes to the bill that would benefit Anthem, according to reports in Bloomberg and Modern Healthcare.
President Obama yearns to make justice reform part of his legacy and has lobbied for it in public and in private.
These laws were lobbied for by an industry that fears it cannot survive if information about how it operates becomes public.
In some states prison-officers' unions lobbied for new, bigger jails to be built, so as to provide their members with jobs.
Facebook and Google lobbied for it in the background, because they don't want comprehensive privacy rules that apply to them as well.
Sue Ellspermann resigned to become president of the Ivy Tech Community College system, and Pence lobbied for Holcomb's selection as his replacement.
The president's sons, Eric Trump and Donald Trump Jr., claimed that Cohen had repeatedly lobbied for a job in the Trump administration.
British finance minister Philip Hammond has lobbied for "enhanced" equivalence, which would mean that rules cannot be changed at the EU's whim.
Back in 1994, the Social Democrats decided they'd get more votes if they lobbied for privatizing the then-government owned telephone monopoly.
Indeed, when Founders lobbied for a Fourth Amendment to check government misconduct, they viewed suits for damages such as Hernández's as essential.
The Trump administration has now taken a hardline approach and lobbied for Pakistan's reinclusion, with the support of the UK and Germany.
But ethanol producers had lobbied for years against the proposed change, saying it would undermine biofuels policy by making it too complicated.
The women lobbied for decades for the right that was granted in 2002 and revoked in 2015, according to The Military Times.
The amendment was lobbied for by Facebook, according to a person involved in the effort who spoke on the condition of anonymity.
General Motors Co, Alphabet Inc, Tesla Inc and others have lobbied for the landmark legislation, while auto safety groups urged more safeguards.
And Andrew Olmem, a special assistant to the president for financial policy, previously lobbied for companies such as American Express and MetLife.
Stacy took the activists' message to Congress, where they lobbied for laws that would protect victims attacked because of their sexual identities.
He was released from custody on August 2 after President Donald Trump lobbied for his release, and was not ordered to return.
In the nineteen-twenties, labor activists successfully lobbied for legislation that limited the hours and conditions under which women and children worked.
He was released from custody on August 2 after President Donald Trump lobbied for his release, and was not ordered to return.
The Geo Group also hired a lobbyist, Brian Ballard, who lobbied for Mr. Trump's golf courses in Florida before he became president.
Comcast also lobbied for companies to keep writing off interest payments as a business expense and to expand expensing on capital investments.
Bella, who had earlier lobbied for a more challenging route up the mountain, across a glacier, appeared oblivious to her mother's fears.
Some of the provisions — among them ones that the United States lobbied for — could ultimately be suspended, including some on copyright protection.
Hilary Rosen, who lobbied for the Human Rights Campaign during the Bush administration, said those initiatives marked a "turnaround" in AIDS policy.
As mayor, Bartle lured the former Dallas Texans to Kansas City and lobbied for the team to be named in his honor.
The companies that run them have lobbied for "ag-gag" laws that criminalize dissemination of video and photos from within their walls.
At the federal level, Amazon lobbied for legislation — congressional staffers called it "the Amazon amendment" — designed to help it win government sales.
The Marcos family, which for years has lobbied for the reburial, applauded the decision, saying it would help the country move forward.
They also lobbied for a bill calling for more testing, which has passed the Texas House and is pending in the Senate.
NSO malware targets in Mexico have included activists who have lobbied for a soda tax and the wife of a slain journalist.
They also lobbied for the rehabilitation and care to traumatized communities, including transitional justice that holds accountable those responsible for systemic crimes.
Its campaign, "Hands Off Pants On", successfully lobbied for a city-wide ordinance that obliges all hotels to issue housekeepers with panic buttons.
Many of the prominent female activists, such as Lujain al-Hathloul, who lobbied for the right to drive, now find themselves in jail.
Rakishev said on Thursday he had lobbied for the return of Maslovskiy before the current Chief Executive Roman Deniskin was appointed in February.
Upskirting is now a criminal offense in England and Wales after campaigners lobbied for years for the UK government to outlaw the practice.
Driver said that Damon and Ben Affleck, who wrote the screenplay and acted in the film, lobbied for her to get the role.
Write-in campaign: Several prominent Republicans lobbied for Luther Strange or Jeff Sessions to mount write-in bids, which they did not do.
As Dave Jamieson reported for HuffPost in March 2018, the EPA proposed a rule change after the Farm Bureau lobbied for relaxed rules.
In addition to the standard ethics agreements, Wheeler told Bloomberg News in June that he'd avoid meeting with clients he'd lobbied for previously.
It appears that in every case, Bernhardt has represented and/or lobbied for oil and gas, mining, water extraction and other similar clients.
That trend was strengthened by its accession to the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), which the U.S. had actively lobbied for.
Ironically, Bird was one of the scooter companies that successfully lobbied for the California law to ease up on helmet requirements for adults.
After the governor promised to contribute only about $1 billion in state funds, legislators and transit activists from the city lobbied for more.
The announcement, which means potential jobs and prestige for Alabama, disappointed lawmakers from Texas who had lobbied for a site in their state.
New York and Pennsylvania were some of the early states to recognize Flag Day celebrations, and private citizens lobbied for a national observance.
Later, Mr. Ditlow joined another Nader spinoff, the Public Interest Research Group, which lobbied for consumer protections, environmental regulations and other progressive goals.
"There is a big struggle going on," said Ranko Krivokapic, an opposition leader who has lobbied for years for Montenegro to join NATO.
"To be honest with you, it was a surprise," said Terry McCaffrey of California People of Faith, a group that lobbied for abolition.
How about we start with you giving back the $3.7 billion J.P. Morgan made this year off the #GOPTaxScam that you lobbied for?
Like other fights over the Senate's schedule, a more junior group of lawmakers are the ones who lobbied for change to the calendar.
"We would very much like to see free competition over Siberia, and have lobbied for this on several occasions", an SAS spokesman said.
Fai, who had lobbied for the government of Pakistan without registering with the Justice Department, pleaded guilty to other conspiracy and tax offenses.
Members of the military and Congress have lobbied for years for him to receive the Medal of Honor, according to Stars and Stripes.
Before Doug negotiated his way into the chief of staff position vacated by Remy Danton, Seth, the communications chief, lobbied for the job.
Common Cause and others groups have lobbied for reform of the state's campaign finance laws, but it has never survived the annual negotiations.
He is a board member of Citizens Flag Alliance, which has lobbied for a Constitutional Amendment prohibiting the physical desecration of the flag.
Wheeler has lobbied for coal producer Murray Energy, whose CEO Bob Murray is close to Trump, since 2009, according to federal lobbying disclosures.
The big winners are the United States steel and aluminum industries, which have lobbied for years for this kind of aggressive government action.
Meadows had publicly lobbied for a number of Trump's House allies, including Gaetz, a member of the Judiciary Committee, to join the team.
Previously, Herrine was legal director of the Debt Collective, which successfully lobbied for the debt forgiveness of thousands of for-profit college students.
Cohen, who had bought apartments in some of Trump's New York buildings, lobbied for Trump in a dispute with a group of residents.
Oil producers have also lobbied for the phasing out of coal in favor of the less pollutant natural gas in the power sector.
During the tax overhaul's debate in Congress, the White House lobbied for red state Democratic senators to support the legislation, but none did.
The advocacy group Compassion and Choices, which backed and lobbied for the measure, said Ige, a Democrat, is expected to sign the bill.
During a two-year stint in the private sector, he lobbied for increasing the number of H-1B skilled worker visas available annually.
As a partner in the law firm Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck, he lobbied for the oil companies Cobalt International Energy and Samson Resources.
Advocates and lawmakers say they're proposals meant to be lobbied for, debated, and—though likely not in this legislative session—passed into law.
The site had previously attempted to ban him twice earlier in 2016, but in both cases his followers successfully lobbied for his reinstatement.
Influential lawmakers in Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's Liberal Democratic Party whose constituencies include whaling communities have long lobbied for a resumption of commercial whaling.
Air Methods and the broader air ambulance industry have lobbied for big payment increases to Medicare reimbursement, but bills in Congress have gone nowhere.
Around the same time, over the opposition of law enforcement, the gun group lobbied for laws that eased restrictions on interstate transfer of guns.
As a child, she thought it unfair that pupils were not allowed to sell fruit and milk in school and successfully lobbied for change.
He personally lobbied for the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia and spent a mind-boggling $50 billion on the games and its facilities.
We forget that companies lobbied for the car — they hadn't always dominated public spaces, and now cities around the world are steadily pushing back.
CNN has reached out to the White House for comment on whether conservatives lobbied for the change and have not yet gotten a response.
Insurers have long lobbied for the tax to be repealed, resulting in a one-year delay passed by Congress at the end of 2015.
The Netherlands has lobbied for favorable exit terms for Britain, its third-largest trading partner, but would support whatever deal the European Commission negotiates.
A win for Lockheed would mark a setback for the four Eurofighter countries - Britain, Germany, Italy and Spain - which had lobbied for the order.
This is precisely why the business community has long lobbied for a weakened GINA and ADA: What corporation wants a stable of sick horses?
But the Democrats' letter Friday points to a congressional disclosure form saying that Wheeler lobbied for Darling during the period that ended May 2016.
One of territory's legislators had lobbied for the penitentiary in hopes that it would boost the area's economy and provide employment for new settlers.
For example, Shahira Knight, a special assistant to the president for tax and retirement policy, previously lobbied for Fidelity Investments, according to the Times.
Fans -- not exactly happy with the 2011 direct-to-DVD sequel, which did not feature the original cast -- have long lobbied for another installment.
The Netherlands has lobbied for favorable exit terms for Britain, its second-largest trading partner, but would support whatever deal the European Commission negotiates.
Insurance companies and actuaries have lobbied for the ratio to be expanded from 3:1 to 5:1, which more closely mirrors actual costs.
The league initially lobbied for integrity fee legislation that would deliver a cut of less than 1% of total bets made to the NBA.
She also enlisted local male leaders as women's health advocates and personally lobbied for male parliamentary support for a bill to prevent domestic violence.
The Netherlands has lobbied for favourable exit terms for Britain, its third-largest trading partner, but would support whatever deal the European Commission negotiates.
His reasoning focuses on the fact that business groups have lobbied for years to lower the corporate rate to 25 percent from 35 percent.
Manafort's motion repeatedly references his deep religious faith, which he has never spoken publicly about or lobbied for in two decades on the Hill.
Mr. McCarthy has been responsible for rounding up support for the bill, and has aggressively lobbied for support from the other 13 California Republicans.
Mr. D'Agata had successfully lobbied for the excision of one detail in the script: the claim that he was paid $10,000 for the essay.
Meanwhile, the Seattle law has been life changing for workers like Martin Johnson, who lobbied for higher pay with the advocacy group Working Washington.
Still, the move is being lauded by U.S.-based appliance manufacturer Whirlpool, which has long lobbied for more protective measures against its Asian rivals.
It was also Bill Clinton who lobbied for China's disastrous entry into the World Trade Organization, and Hillary Clinton who backed that terrible agreement.
ACEA had lobbied for a 254 percent tail-pipe CO22 reduction between 20303 and 20250, with an intermediate target of 21 percent in 20.8462.
Crowe has lobbied for firms such as Google, which is one of the big tech companies that Warren has called to be broken up.
Muslim minorities Atajurt has publicly lobbied for the closure of the Xinjiang camps and published accounts of those who had been detained and released.
Seth Bloom, an antitrust lawyer who has lobbied for tech companies including Amazon, said Facebook will not immediately know the impact of Zuckerberg's trip.
As a partner in the law firm Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck, Mr. Bernhardt lobbied for the oil companies Cobalt International Energy and Samson Resources.
Just as the tobacco companies promoted nicotine addiction, Ms. Douglas said, the carmakers lobbied for tax breaks that made European drivers dependent on diesel.
Flynn hired new attorneys this year, led by Texas-based counsel Sidney Powell, who has on Twitter lobbied for a presidential pardon for Flynn.
The Canadian Air Force lobbied for the F-35s, while others — including some in NORAD, which manages continental defense — wanted the F/A-18s.
In the US, the banking sector lobbied for deregulation: they got what they wanted, and taxpayers had to pick up the tab for the consequences.
In June, Kardashian successfully lobbied for clemency for Alice Johnson, a former inmate who was also sentenced to life in prison for a drug crime.
The company lobbied for and helped shape legislation last year that essentially undercut the government's role in approving airplane designs, a Times investigation has revealed.
In recent years, he has lobbied for revision of the war-renouncing, U.S.-drafted constitution, a longtime cause neither he nor his successors have achieved.
The administration was not in support of a "permanent" record of OPRF's shortcomings, and lobbied for an intervention rooted in scholarship as opposed to media.
Rail firms lobbied for the 1920 law, out of fear that an excess of foreign ships from the first world war was flooding the market.
It successfully lobbied for the creation of a severance fund, into which two of Toys R Us' backers, KKR and Bain Capital, paid $10 million.
The article praised Manafort's work helping Ukraine secure better relations with the European Union and said he lobbied for pro-Western values, not Russian interests.
Oil companies had lobbied for lower royalty payments for deepwater acreage because of the projects' high cost and long lead time before production can begin.
Lofven, who is not suspected of any wrongdoing, lobbied for a Gripen deal when he was the head of the powerful trade union IF Metall.
Some analysts lobbied for such a move because they argued that two smaller and more focused companies would be worth more than one bigger one.
Joseph Sanberg, a former Wall Street investor and entrepreneur who successfully lobbied for California's earned income tax credit program, is another potential Feinstein primary challenger.
In the United States, Mr. Browder lobbied for legislation known as the Magnitsky Act that provided for sanctions against Russians accused of wrongdoing at home.
Naturally, lawyers have bridled at mandatory arbitration, which functions as a private, contractual form of dispute resolution, and have lobbied for it to be banned.
Prosecutors in Canada didn't have the option of deferring criminal prosecution until a change in the law last year, one that SNC-Lavalin lobbied for.
The utility's bondholders have lobbied for fresh blood at PREPA's helm, either in the form of an independent receiver or an injection of private capital.
But neoconservatives, ever wedded to their principles, lobbied for maintaining US troops in Iraq and for ramping up hostilities with their new chosen adversary: Iran.
Officials at Brookings said they had not lobbied for Hitachi, and they provided examples of reports that they said included conclusions challenging the company's position.
More recently, he lobbied for the coal company Murray Energy, whose chief executive, Robert E. Murray, has been a supporter and adviser of Mr. Trump's.
Pakistani officials say China dropped its objection to Islamabad's listing last week as Beijing lobbied for the vice chairmanship of the Financial Action Task Force.
Corker, a conservative on fiscal policy, lobbied for the trigger to try to ensure that the tax cuts do not blow out the national debt.
And in February, Tribune Media's general counsel, Edward Lazarus, met with Mr. Pai's chief of staff, Matthew Berry, and lobbied for the change in rules.
Britain's top broadcasters have lobbied for the introduction of cameras in courtrooms for years, calling the ban shameful and the reliance on court sketches ludicrous.
The European Automobile Manufacturers' Association (ACEA) has lobbied for far lower reduction targets for trucks of 7 percent by 2025 and 16 percent by 2030.
Richard Blumenthal's (D-CT) special guest at President Trump's speech to a joint session of Congress where Hemat says he lobbied for the SIV program.
In 22015, after George W. Bush was re-elected president, Anschutz lobbied for Gorsuch's appointment to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 22020th Circuit.
This restriction was specifically lobbied for by Comcast and Verizon, who were nervous the states might actually protect consumers in the wake of federal apathy.
Rich Leotta, whose son Noah was killed by a drunken driver, lobbied for a 2016 Maryland law requiring interlocks for everyone convicted of the crime.
Critics point out that it's big corporations, and their wealthy CEOs, that have lobbied for years against higher taxation of corporate profits and better regulation.
"We did this to level the playing field with wine," says Frank Coleman, senior vice president of the Distilled Spirits Council, which lobbied for legalized auctions.
The company announced in November it is reorganizing its operational structure, a move activist investor Nelson Peltz lobbied for before he joined the board in March.
Podemos has also lobbied for Bankia to offer services based on social, as well as market, considerations and had advocated a supplementary tax on banks' earnings.
It lobbied for full Swiss access, officials said, reflecting London's bid for preferable access for its own financial services after the country leaves the European Union.
He notes that he lobbied for, and got, barley onto one list of candidate crops for human space exploration explicitly so space settlers could brew alcohol.
She lobbied for workplace safety in New York City and the standards she helped put in place set the bar for the rest of the country.
Cheney reportedly lobbied for a full pardon for Libby — Libby did not submit a pardon request to the Office of the Pardon Attorney — but Bush refused.
Makan Delrahim is recusing himself on the basis of conflict of interest after having lobbied for Google's adtech company DoubleClick as a private consultant in 2007.
MAMMA chapters have been involved in many of these campaigns or shared resources with groups that have lobbied for the passage of these laws, Michelle says.
She successfully lobbied for Evans to portray her late husband, MGM producer Irving Thalberg, in "Man of a Thousand Faces," a 1957 film about Lon Chaney.
S. Daniel Carter, a campus safety consultant, lobbied for the legislation and said before it passed that students faced problems similar to those frustrating employees today.
He's lobbied for the First Step Act, a bipartisan bill that helps inmates transition back into society more smoothly with job training and drug treatment programs.
The invitation to Sanders to address the Vatican session raised eyebrows when it was announced and touched off allegations that the senator lobbied for the invitation.
After a scandal over misstated oil reserves in 2004 that was partly blamed on the complexity of its dual-board structure, Shell's investors lobbied for unification.
Trump has lobbied for lower tax rates for pass-through businesses, but now we have an actual bill that shows what Senate Republicans want to do.
Wednesday night: New York Times reports that the Trump team knew that Flynn was under investigation for failing to disclose that he had lobbied for Turkey.
To protect local farmers, the poultry industry lobbied for protectionist measures and in 214.6363 the government imposed an anti-dumping tariff on U.S. "bone-in" poultry.
General Motors Co, Alphabet, Ford Motor Co and others have lobbied for the landmark legislation, while auto safety groups have pledged to keep fighting for changes.
The Washington Post last year obtained the 11-page white paper, which CNN said revealed that Mark Barnes, who has lobbied for the NRA, helped draft.
Merchant power generators with nuclear plants in the area lobbied for the policy, while competitors with portfolios weighted to coal and fossil fuel facilities fought it.
According to multiple reports, Trump had soured on Bolton after the hawkish adviser lobbied for preemptive military action against regimes in Iran, North Korea, and Venezuela.
Tech companies rely on the program to bring in workers with special skills and have lobbied for an expansion of the number of H1B visas awarded.
Be smart: Nobody has provided me with any evidence that either Ayers or Mulvaney have personally lobbied for the job, or even especially desire the job.
And some of the contractors employ prominent Republican lobbyists with ties to Mr. Trump and his administration, including someone who once lobbied for his family business.
At the White House's Hanukkah party tonight, the president can expect warm words from right-wing Jewish leaders who lobbied for years for such a move.
America's own tech chiefs, including the Apple chief executive Tim Cook and executives from Facebook, Google and Microsoft, have lobbied for a comprehensive federal privacy law.
She recruited volunteers from corporate law firms to represent foster children in immigration cases, and she successfully lobbied for a special juvenile section in immigration court.
Mr. Cuomo has openly lobbied for Amazon to come to New York, joking he would even change his name to "Amazon Cuomo" to land the company.
She has lobbied for failed schemes, like vouchers — which take away funding and local control from our public schools — to fund private schools at taxpayers' expense.
But when the production transferred to Broadway, Ms. Walker, who had moved up from featured dancer to assistant choreographer, lobbied for more kids to get exposure.
But it meant much more to Armenian-American activists who for years lobbied for Congress to officially recognize the mass killings as an act of genocide.
The Saint Regis Mohawk Tribe, whose riverfront territory sits near the Moses-Saunders dam, about 85 miles southwest of Montreal, also lobbied for the plan's passage.
She lobbied for the MEK, a violent fringe Iranian group, just as Giuliani has, as it sought to get off the US list of terrorist groups.
Some policymakers from the Green Party, which is growing in strength, have lobbied for radical changes, such as a total end to combustion engines by 2030.
Esper -- who most recently worked as a vice president at Raytheon and lobbied for the defense contractor -- went before lawmakers along with three other Pentagon nominees.
Esper — who most recently worked as a vice president at Raytheon and lobbied for the defense contractor  — went before lawmakers along with three other Pentagon nominees.
Catanzaro would likely need a waiver from Trump's policy prohibiting former lobbyists in his administration from working on issues on which they lobbied for two years.
Delta Air Lines, United Airlines and American Airlines have lobbied for a harder line against certain Persian Gulf airlines, including Qatar, for more than three years.
Hospitals and industry-backed groups have long lobbied for this policy, which will add an average of $50,000 to $65,000 in extra pay for each procedure.
With national elections looming in 2017, conservatives allied with Merkel have lobbied for an official cap on immigration into Germany and have demanded bans on veils.
Many of these companies have long lobbied for non-environmentally-friendly policies, but now want to influence inevitable climate policies while they still have the chance.
My server lobbied for a different one with lucuma and chocolate made from Peruvian beans specifically for the restaurant, but it never arrived after I ordered it.
Manafort also lobbied for foreign governments without disclosing that they'd hired him — which is illegal — and allegedly kept off-the-books payments from Ukraine in offshore accounts.
Turkey has repeatedly lobbied for the creation of a "buffer zone" just inside Syria to help secure its border and create a protected area for displaced civilians.
A leading Putin critic who has lobbied for tough anti-Kremlin "Magnitsky Act" sanctions around the world was briefly arrested under a Russian warrant in Spain Wednesday.
Obama is the first sitting president to speak at Rutgers University, which had lobbied for the last three years to get him to speak at the commencement.
Picotte lobbied for the prohibition of alcohol on the reservation and improving living conditions, and eventually opened a hospital on the reservation several years before her death.
Executives from the China Civil Engineering Construction Corporation, a big investor in neighbouring Vanuatu, lobbied for the change with an offer of $500,000 in loans and grants.
These laws were uniformly lobbied for by big telecom providers and help preserve the monopolies that these companies have in many cities and towns around the country.
Federal lobbying disclosures don't indicate whether an entity lobbied for or against a piece of legislation, and an ABA spokesperson declined to answer questions regarding specific bills.
The Syrian civilians repeatedly questioned Kerry about violations of the ceasefire and America's unwillingness to enforce the agreement more strongly, and lobbied for a bigger US role.
This was exactly what anti-legalization activists have warned about: Companies got a hold of a dangerous, addictive product, marketed it irresponsibly, and lobbied for lax rules.
Earlier in March, he registered with the Justice Department as a foreign agent, formally admitting that he'd lobbied for the Turkish government as recently as November 2016.
Democratic Senator Elizabeth Warren who lobbied for the creation of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau accused Trump of forsaking middle and lower-income individuals to help banks.
Eskom and SAA have both received government funds since President Cyril Ramaphosa took office in February 2018, but executives at both companies have lobbied for greater support.
In a rapidly expanding America, both uses were extremely desirable, so farmers and adventurers alike lobbied for an easy way to get their hands on the stuff.
"It's a moral victory for her, her family and tens of thousands of Amnesty International members and supporters lobbied for her release," spokesperson Alex Neve tells Broadly.
The state's move has been cheered by environmentalists, who have long lobbied for more expansive solutions to a pollutant whose toxicity was first suspected in the 1930s.
So it stunned world leaders when President Donald Trump went to bat for Russia during the G7 summit and aggressively lobbied for its readmittance to the group.
A 2017 invoice showed Bernhardt lobbied for a major client for several months after filing paperwork saying he had ended his lobbying activities, the Times reported Thursday.
Rather than providing a balanced, fact-based analysis that one would expect from a senior U.S. diplomat, Haley publicly lobbied for the winding down of the JCPOA.
Family members and other supporters of the prisoners have lobbied for years for prisoners to be moved, and for those who have fallen ill to be released.
He successfully lobbied for U.S. President Donald Trump's administration to supply lethal defensive weapons to Ukraine and for the EU and Washington to keep sanctions on Russia.
No one from the U.S.T.A. protested, not even its Davis Cup captain, Jim Courier, who played in that 1999 tie and had lobbied for clay that year.
But a coalition of health groups that have lobbied for Zika funding is satisfied with Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnellAddison (Mitch) Mitchell McConnellAre Democrats turning Trump-like?
During this year's G7 summit, Trump also aggressively lobbied for Russia to be granted re-entry into the group that expelled it over the annexation of Crimea.
Before taking the post previously occupied by Reince Priebus and John Kelly, Mulvaney had lobbied for the Northern Ireland envoy role, people familiar with the matter said.
People who knew him in Oregon, including a local mayor, lobbied for his release after a year in custody, according to the article in The Register-Guard.
He got millions of dollars in donations for the G.O.P. from right-wing Jewish megadonor Sheldon Adelson — who lobbied for the move — and warm applause from evangelicals.
For decades, in and out of government, Mr. Malinowski has fought against torture and lobbied for protections for women, L.G.B.T.Q. people and vulnerable minorities around the world.
We've successfully lobbied for a change to The New York Times style guide to make sure Indigenous and Aboriginal are capitalized when referring to Australia's First Peoples.
The terms of separation were harsher than those Harry and Meghan had publicly lobbied for when announcing their intention to "step back" from life as senior royals.
Corporate-owned prisons took the prison system private, and then lobbied for policies that result in poor African-Americans being locked up to keep the prisons full.
Renewable fuel credits are now trading at about 95 cents each, three times their lows hit this winter as Icahn lobbied for changes to the biofuel program.
Leaders of advocacy groups that lobbied for the legislation said lifting the time cap on benefits would probably prove to be one of the most significant changes.
At the same time, a Tennessee law lobbied for by the broadband industry has prevented the network from expanding its operation to underserved areas in the state.
Meghan Markle, whose parents are divorced, successfully lobbied for her mother to be part of her wedding to Prince Harry on May 19, a departure from tradition.
As chief executive of Duke Energy, one of the largest coal-powered utilities in the country, he lobbied for the passage of aggressive cap-and-trade legislation.
Manzanar is now a National Historic Site thanks to the work of Sue Kunitomi Embrey and the Manzanar Committee, which lobbied for decades to obtain the designation.
Dossia also lobbied for better standards for data-sharing, which are now enabling companies like Apple to offer up health data to consumers right on the iPhone.
A required ingredient list is being lobbied for in the European Union, but that won't stop the use of un-"natural" techniques like reverse osmosis or centrifuges.
While companies have lobbied for a law that would overrule the CCPA, state legislators have urged Congress not to nullify the consumer protections attained in the act.
Shell, which openly lobbied for the cut, has said it will likely be able to scrap its dual share structure as a result, saving significantly on costs.
This protection was thanks to the Safe Haven Law that Jaccard lobbied for, which shields parents from prosecution if they leave newborns at hospitals, police stations or firehouses.
Senate Bill 152—which was lobbied for by Big Telecom—became law in Colorado in 2005, and prohibits municipalities in the state from providing city-run broadband services.
When he heard that Saudi comedian Hassan Assiri was looking to produce a series in Turkey, he got in touch and lobbied for Antalya, touting its upscale resorts.
While big automakers say they don't support freezing the standards in place, they have lobbied for some kind of relaxation of the Obama mandates, calling them too stringent.
Dean, an ex-governor of Vermont and former chairman of the Democratic National Committee, said he lobbied for Clinton's VP pick to be under the age of 50.
Promouvoir, which claims to promote "Judeo-Christian and family values," has also successfully lobbied for more restrictive ratings on Saw 3D and Lars Von Trier's Nymphomaniac: Volume 2.
Barry Fadem, the president of the nonprofit National Popular Vote, lobbied for the move, telling The Oregonian his organization hopes to have all states pass resolutions by 2024.
But even as they cheered news of her long lobbied-for departure, the broad coalition of protesters here pledged to keep up the heat on the Democratic establishment.
General Motors Co, Alphabet Inc, Ford Motor Co and others have lobbied for the landmark legislation, while auto safety groups urged more safeguards and are fighting for changes.
Several organizations representing genetic researchers, genetic healthcare providers and patients affected with genetic diseases lobbied for years to get anti-discrimination legislation passed, finally achieving success in 85033.
Japan has lobbied for a G7 agreement to take coordinated fiscal action to spur growth, but has received a cool response from Germany, which insists on fiscal discipline.
Mark Gubrud, a nuclear weapons expert at the University of North Carolina, has lobbied for the negotiation of a global flight ban on the testing of hypersonic arms.
His trial was described as deeply unfair by the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention, and human rights lawyers, including Amal Clooney, have lobbied for his release.
In California alone, groups like the California Homeschool Network have opposed bills to require mandatory kindergarten and successfully lobbied for an exemption from the state's new vaccination law.
The muscular dystrophy community is well organized and has lobbied for years to win approval for the drug, getting members of Congress to write letters to the agency.
He also served as defense minister from 2009 to 2013 in a coalition government with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who long lobbied for scrapping the Iran nuclear deal.
Pfizer Chief Executive Ian Read had long lobbied for cutting U.S. corporate taxes and twice had large deals thwarted that would have placed Pfizer under European tax rules.
Parts of the government have lobbied for kratom to be classified as a Schedule I controlled substance, which would block the plant from being legally used by anyone.
Republican lawmakers have been assured that the bill is on track and is being reworked to include the options, which conservatives, including Republican Study Committee, have lobbied for.
Since the beginning of this year, company executives have lobbied for more support from banks, as slowing growth and a property slump have reduced China's demand for steel.
Prosecutors are pressing on with cases against HDP lawmakers for remarks they made after Erdogan successfully lobbied for them to be stripped of their parliamentary immunity in May.
Other ultra-wealthy Americans including George Soros and Abigail Disney have lobbied for a moderate wealth tax and cited Warren's proposal as an example, Business Insider previously reported.
Mr. Priebus had lobbied for her to get the job as part of an effort to keep control of the party even as he enters the West Wing.
Some environmental groups also lobbied for the measure, arguing that carbon capture technology, still in its infancy, could one day prove a crucial tool for tackling climate change.
She couldn't say, for example, why schools in Michigan, her home state, have largely gotten worse since the widespread introduction of the school choice policies she lobbied for.
Even as Mr. Trump has lobbied for the wall, he has also pressed the Pentagon and the Department of Homeland Security to immediately tighten security on the border.
That is, traders received a request, lobbied for the species to be added to the list, found the animals in the wild and exported them — then moved on.
Mr. Manafort, the campaign chairman, had lobbied for pro-Russia interests in Ukraine and worked with an associate who has been identified as having connections to Russian intelligence.
Do the gigantic sums doled out to campaigns — and later lavished on elected representatives as they are lobbied for their votes — amount to attempts to buy political power?
Grijalva's letter stated some of Bernhardt's previously released calendars did not disclose that certain meetings included lobbyists such as Brian Ballard, who previously lobbied for the Trump Organization.
Judging the Obama administration's initial proposal to overhaul regulation to be too weak, he lobbied for a new measure that would restrict risk-taking by the largest banks.
For the past decade, Mr. Yan has lobbied for the inclusion of tai chi, a centuries-old martial art that combines flowing movements with deep breathing and meditation.
By federal law, they must be destroyed, a requirement that corporations lobbied for after refugees from Hurricane Katrina were given counterfeit garments being held in a government warehouse.
In the US, Catholic bodies like the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops have actively lobbied for the abolition of the death penalty in America in recent years.
The group has also lobbied for "after-school Satan clubs" — secularist counterparts to Christian evangelical school organizations like the Good News Club, which are permitted in public schools.
Pfizer Chief Executive Ian Read had long lobbied for cutting U.S. corporate taxes and twice had large deals thwarted that would have placed Pfizer under European tax rules.
While it's unclear why some leaders at the online retailer decided to back Gardner, Amazon has lobbied for numerous pieces of legislation that the Colorado Republican has co-sponsored.
In his tribute, Astin referred to his mom as a "tireless warrior" and detailed how she worked and lobbied for mental health awareness, which he now wants to continue.
The Trump administration lobbied for the midyear production increase as it prepared to restore sanctions on Iran, a policy that has pushed up oil prices throughout much of 2018.
Preston, who also said Jett suffered from asthma, blamed household cleaners, fertilizers and pesticides for causing her son's autism disorder and lobbied for more detailed labeling on chemical products.
Beginning with the construction of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial on the Mall in the early 1980s, veterans, politicians and private citizens have lobbied for a national monument in Washington.
Delrahim previously lobbied for Google during its acquisition of the advertising technology company DoubleClick, a position that has been criticized by lawmakers and activists as a conflict of interest.
The survey asked respondents whether they had lobbied for a raise or a promotion in the past two years — and there was no significant difference between women and men.
Staudt's fellow firefighters acted swiftly and used the same defibrillator he had lobbied for just months earlier to regulate his heartbeat until he was transported to a nearby hospital.
Jailed ETA members, held in dozens of prisons throughout the country, and their supporters have lobbied for years to move them closer to their families in the Basque Country.
President Emmanuel Macron's government has already announced plans to cut payroll tax and cancel a planned extension of tax on share trading, measures that French banks had lobbied for.
The United States government has consistently lobbied for the creation of so-called backdoors in encryption schemes that would give law enforcement a way in to otherwise unreadable data.
Shapiro in turn highlighted a more than $1 million yacht loan that Buchanan received from a foreign bank which lobbied for a tax bill the congressman was helping write.
To earn recognition for its knowhow in the field, the factory lobbied for the creation of a protected landmark status in 2009—the year the factory was also remodeled.
The UN Security Council unanimously adopted new sanctions Monday on North Korea that came up a bit short of what the U.S. had originally lobbied for, the AP reports.
Japan's economy minister lobbied for more BOJ action in the wake of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's announcement of a bigger-than-expected 28 trillion yen stimulus package on Wednesday.
Last month, news surfaced that University of California system President Janet Napolitano failed to disclose $175 million of the school's reserve funds, even as she lobbied for tuition increases.
Fraidy Reiss, founder of Unchained at Last, an advocacy group that lobbied for the bill's passage, said she hopes the move would have a ripple effect across the nation.
" He was referring to the "Something Rotten!" producer Kevin McCollum, who consistently lobbied for the exclamation point even when the show had the more innocuous title "The Bottom Brothers.
They've lobbied for anti-whistleblower "ag-gag" laws to prevent consumers from witnessing the cruelty of factory farming because when citizens are informed, they don't want to support it.
Let's not forget that Facebook and other big internet companies actively lobbied for FOSTA, a law that made it considerably more difficult for a startup ever to unseat Facebook.
Tech startups lobbied for more H-1B visas, and not only because they needed skilled workers from overseas; immigrants or their children have founded 60 percent of tech startups.
And bricks-and-mortar stores, who are subject to taxes every time they ring up a charge on the register, have also lobbied for a level tax playing field.
About a year after the Max was initially certified, legislation — lobbied for by Boeing — passed granting additional self-certification privileges to plane makers, and diminishing the FAA's regulatory authority.
"We're shedding tears of joy right now," said Arturo Rodriguez, president of the United Farm Workers Union, which lobbied for years for an eight-hour day for agricultural employees.
The credit industry's chief trade group has lobbied for the bill, and it's also fighting—against the CFPB—to maintain mandatory arbitration clauses that block class-action lawsuits altogether.
The New York Times recently reported that NIH officials directly lobbied for donations from alcoholic beverage manufacturers to fund a study on the health effects of moderate alcohol consumption.
When "The Face" was canceled in its second season, and Ms. Campbell heard that her friend Mr. Daniels had a new drama for Fox, she lobbied for a part.
Finally, in 2015, she got a job in the civil service — having lobbied for, and helped secure, legislation permitting the Italian government's recruitment of witnesses living under state protection.
"Repatriations did not lead to an increase in domestic investment, employment or R&D — even for the firms that lobbied for the tax holiday stating these intentions," they write.
She also has the ardent backing of Macron, who had lobbied for her actively overseas during the last few months, and has made education one of his top priorities.
The report quotes correspondence suggesting that, after Mr. Ball was forced to step down as bishop of Gloucester, the prince lobbied for him to be returned to the ministry.
She had unaccompanied minors arriving without documents undergo medical screenings to help determine their age, and lobbied for Berlin to deport anyone whose application for asylum had been rejected.
Mazie Hirono, who lobbied for the program during the Obama administration, encouraged eligible veterans last month to apply for the program, which was set to expire in June 2021.
Gallagher, the SEAL who beat those murder and war crimes charges with Trump's help, is mentioned as one of the distinguished individuals who in turn lobbied for Kerik's pardon.
Chinese authorities announced Sunday that the trading of wild animals would be suspended nationwide, as experts lobbied for the government to put in permanent restrictions or even a ban.
Chancellor Angela Merkel has tried to distance herself from the auto industry amid criticism that her government has lobbied for lax European emissions regulations that contributed to the scandal.
Since winning Turkey's first popular presidential election in 2014, Erdogan has lobbied for replacing its parliamentary system with an executive presidency more akin to the United States or France.
Long story short, after Rocky was arrested in Sweden and charged with assault earlier in 2019, Kanye West and Kim Kardashian lobbied for Trump to free him from jail.
That dynamic could explain why Navient, one of the country's largest loan servicers, has lobbied for the government to allow private and federal loans to be discharged in bankruptcy.
"While at Cornerstone Government Affairs, John Keast lobbied for a variety of clients including Boeing on defense issues only," Wicker spokeswoman Brianna Manzelli said in a statement to CNN.
Elliott's stake in Dutch chemical company Akzo Nobel was first revealed in mid-March after which it lobbied for the company to "engage" with PPG over a possible takeover.
She memorized them and smuggled them on cigarette paper through her husband to the West, where they were published, and where human rights groups indefatigably lobbied for her release.
Donald Trump doesn't appear to understand much about how health insurance works or the details of the Republican bill to repeal and replace Obamacare, which he personally lobbied for.
Several prominent officials and businessmen had lobbied for the release of Calvey and other Baring Vostok executives detained with him, and had called their pre-trial incarceration unduly harsh.
More than 1,400 people were arrested, but not before nearly 100 members of Congress called for hearings on the campaign finance reform and voting rights measures lobbied for by protesters.
The Trump administration lobbied for the mid-year production increase as it prepared to restore sanctions on Iran, a policy that has pushed up oil prices throughout much of 2018.
Warehouse operators have even lobbied for the exchange to relax its rules to allow longer queues; a suggestion that provoked outrage when it was floated past the exchange's users committee.
A group of real estate and transit leaders who have lobbied for the streetcar sent a letter to Mr. de Blasio on Monday urging him to make it a priority.
Congress' final opioids legislation will expand Medicaid coverage for addiction treatment and will not include a Medicare provision the pharmaceutical industry has lobbied for, according to Modern Healthcare's Susannah Luthi.
In 2016, he lobbied for the semiconductor company Qualcomm , Comcast Corp and Zuffa LLC, also known as the Ultimate Fighting Championship, among others, according to the Lobbying Disclosure Act Database.
In 2008 he resigned as a minister in the Belfast Assembly, saying that months of "unfounded allegations" that he had lobbied for a local property developer had proved "a distraction".
They lobbied for and set up meetings with Ukrainian political officials in an attempt to influence the campaign based on their pro-Russian interests, specifically for former Russian President Yanukovych.
The diagnosis was included in a document dump orchestrated by the defense, which has lobbied for the release of more information about Bergdahl to educate the public about his case.
MOSCOW (Reuters) - A veteran of the Russian farm sector who once lobbied for the creation of a "grain OPEC" was appointed deputy prime minister in charge of agriculture on Friday.
It is to be co-managed by the Bears Ears Tribal Commission, a coalition of five tribes (Navajo, Hopi, Ute, Ute Mountain Ute, and Zuni) that lobbied for the protection.
The investigation commenced after the Office of Congressional Ethics, which reviews cases and refers them to the Ethics Committee, found Whitfield's wife lobbied for multiple bills sponsored by her husband.
Many foreign leaders and U.S. lawmakers on both sides of the aisle have lobbied for Trump to remain in the deal, saying there is no better option on the table.
The "urban beautification" initiative dates back to 1927, when an all-white circle of Hawaii's power wives created the Outdoor Circle Club and lobbied for the ban on outdoor ads.
Anti-addiction advocates have intensely lobbied for the drug-monitoring provision for months, though the new requirements had not been embraced by doctors groups such as the American Medical Association.
Since 2009, Andrew Wheeler -- who was announced as the acting leader of the EPA after Scott Pruitt resigned Thursday -- has lobbied for at least 17 companies, including Energy Fuels Inc.
Astin calls his mother a "tireless warrior" in his tribute on the CrowdRise page, detailing how she campaigned and lobbied for mental health awareness, which he now wants to continue.
As the piece quickly drew critical attention, a curator at MoMA lobbied for its acquisition, but the museum felt it might be too unpalatable for viewers and decided against it.
In a G7 meeting in France this summer, Trump aggressively lobbied for Russia to be granted re-entry into the group, which had expelled it over its annexation of Crimea.
One day after he received an endorsement from Mr. Trump that he had aggressively lobbied for, Secretary of State Kris Kobach was clinging to a very slim lead over Gov.
Mr. Adams, who successfully lobbied for the 2018 Giro d'Italia bicycling race to be held in Israel, is a co-owner of the Israel Cycling Academy and a cycling enthusiast.
The company's chairman, Lee Kun-hee, is a longtime member of the International Olympic Committee and lobbied for years behind the scenes to bring the Winter Games to South Korea.
The Star has contributed to the Thomas Kelly Youth Foundation, named for one of the young men killed in Kings Cross, which lobbied for the introduction of the lockout laws.
Lawmakers have long hammered the military on its predominantly male culture and have sometimes lobbied for military courts to be civilian run so due process is absent of command influence.
In the district held by Republican Brian Fitzpatrick, Scott Wallace, a wealthy investor, defeated a female primary opponent, Rachel Reddick, after national Democrats lobbied for him to join the race.
H.R. McMaster, the national security adviser, had lobbied for such a line in the president's speech last month but that the 27 words were deleted before Mr. Trump delivered it.
Native American tribes in the Southwest, which lobbied for years to get the Bears Ears region designated a national monument, are expected to fight any move to reduce its size.
Several industry groups have lobbied for a rewrite of NAFTA to eliminate or reduce Canadian tariffs on dairy, as well as the recently implemented barriers to imports of milk ingredients.
The chemical industry has lobbied for years for a more streamlined approval process, which in Brazil involves three agencies and can take up to a decade for a new chemical.
The failure to provide that data has become a sticking point for law enforcement and the FBI in particular, which has often lobbied for increased access to locally encrypted data.
Flynn has also acknowledged that he lobbied for the Turkish government during the election campaign without registering as a foreign agent, although he has not been charged in that case.
The former senator personally lobbied for a multi-million increase in funding for the National Institutes of Health that was included as part of the most recent proposal from Congress.
Many companies had originally lobbied for Congress to implement a national standard before California's goes into effect in January, but experts largely agree that timeline is likely no longer feasible.
He's a prominent coal industry lobbyist whose firm raised thousands for politicians and lobbied for Murray Energy, a coal company whose CEO recently said he wants to "bury" the EPA.
Rights groups have lobbied for the government to step up prosecutions, but it is usually very difficult for the government to identify people who have taken part in such crimes.
Where students last week sought conversations and lobbied for a variety of demands, Rally in Tally participants listed as one of its aims a permanent ban on assault-style rifles.
Tokyo had lobbied for Washington to stay in the TPP, which both Abe and Trump's predecessor Barack Obama saw as a strategy to pressure China to play by global rules.
"We've lobbied for six years for the establishment of the Kermadec Santuary so we welcome the government's decision," said Bronwyn Golder, Director of The Pew Charitable Trusts' Global Ocean Legacy.
De Haas and the works council are concerned a new owner could fire workers or undo the company's renewable energy-oriented profile, and have lobbied for a partial sale or IPO.
In response, city officials claimed to the Post that they lobbied for more money prior to the inauguration as they knew the administration would not be able to fully cover costs.
The custom-built facility in Hawaii, named after Daniel Inouye, the senator who lobbied for it, cost $19653m; previously the relics were housed in an old barracks at risk of flooding.
The opinions set off a flurry of activity in state legislatures, where industry leaders FanDuel and DraftKings have lobbied for legalization of their games along with some regulations and consumer protections.
The bill's initial passage comes after several US lawmakers visited Hong Kong, and prominent pro-democracy politicians and activists in the city, including Joshua Wong, lobbied for lawmakers to approve it.
Mylan now earns around $1.2 billion in profits, according to NBC News, thanks to strong marketing campaigns that lobbied for regulations requiring most U.S. schools to carry EpiPens in nurses' offices.
"Our aim was to remove the un-inclusive gender labels from the school uniform," Jo Dwyer, a student at the school who lobbied for the policy, told The Sydney Morning Herald.
Podesta's brother, Tony Podesta, a bundler for Clinton's presidential campaign, has lobbied for Russia's Sberbank, which has ties to Putin and his associates, according to the Organized Crime and Reporting Project.
He told Vox's Sarah Kliff several weeks ago that the reason he lobbied for the Affordable Care Act's ban on lifetime limits for health insurance was because of a particular constituent.
Beyond the consumer aspect, Bennett also notes that PC vendors are also eager for such a Founders Edition, with Falcon Northwest chief Kelt Reeves having apparently lobbied for the present change.
She started out as an intern in his office during his freshman year in Congress, a gig she had lobbied for by writing him a letter offering to work for him.
General Motors Co, Alphabet Inc, Ford Motor Co and others have lobbied for the landmark legislation, while auto safety groups urged more safeguards and have pledged to keep fighting for changes.
Elliott outlined the proposals in a letter to directors at BHP, adding the world's biggest miner to a string of firms where it has lobbied for action to boost shareholder returns.
The single market, something that Margaret Thatcher lobbied for as being to Britain's economic advantage, allows our companies to trade across the EU on the same basis as all other companies.
Mr. Papert helped found and presided over a neighborhood watchdog group, Carnegie Hill Neighbors, which successfully lobbied for a special zoning district in which new buildings were limited to 18 stories.
"The prime minister's personal problems are burdening the government," Hamacek told reporters, adding that the party had unsuccessfully lobbied for Babis's ANO party to reshuffle the cabinet with another prime minister.
He formerly lobbied for the Associated Builders and Contractors, and is in line to become the department's chief of staff once a secretary is confirmed, Bloomberg BNA first reported last month.
In the 1970s and 1980s, the environmental advocacy group Greenpeace lobbied for the end of seal hunting, introducing images of fluffy seal pups and bloodied Inuit hunters into the popular imagination.
And proceeds from excise taxes that sportsmen and -women pay on their equipment — taxes that they lobbied for themselves in the 1930s — have provided billions in dedicated funding for outdoor recreation.
The Trump nominee most recently worked as a vice president at Raytheon and lobbied for the defense contractor, with senators raising concerns about his ties to the industry during his hearing.
In the letter, McDowell suggested pushing back the originally proposed end of fossil fuel lending from the end of 2020 to end of 2021, something the European Commission has lobbied for.
Burt has served on the advisory board of a private equity firm connected to Russia's Alfa Bank and lobbied for a US company later bought by Russia's state-run energy company.
Different versions of the same story claim that either the infamous gangster, or his brother Ralph, lobbied for dating on milk after a friend/family member became sick from bad milk.
A Tennessee law that was lobbied for by the telecom industry makes it illegal for EPB to expand out into surrounding areas, which are unserved or underserved by current broadband providers.
The big picture: Trump has previously said he was not actively looking to pull out of the WTO, but has lobbied for better treatment of the United States in the past.
In 2010, pressed by Islamic organisations that lobbied for medicalisation to prevent infections, the health ministry issued guidelines telling doctors to give a light scratch to the skin covering the clitoris.
Carmakers had lobbied for a three-year delay to the rules that will reduce the fuel-saving claims they can make for their vehicles, an industry paper seen by Reuters showed.
All of the parties involved in the meeting say Veselnitskaya instead lobbied for changes to the Magnitsky Act, a U.S. law that has sanctioned some Russians for alleged human rights abuses.
"When we started talking with folks about doing this, they basically laughed it off," said Stephen Miles, the director of Win Without War, an advocacy coalition that lobbied for the resolution.
Beginning in 212, as Maryland's first secretary of transportation, he transformed modest Friendship Airport into Baltimore-Washington International and successfully lobbied for the Metro SubwayLink in Baltimore, which opened in 21964.
Kevin Breslin, Quinn's father and a son of Jimmy's, said his family had not lobbied for the sign but had embraced the idea after City Hall officials brought it to them.
Trump has pardoned an American soldier convicted of murdering an Iraqi detainee, and lobbied for the acquittal of a Navy SEAL accused of fatally stabbing a teen-age P.O.W. in Mosul.
An obituary last Thursday about John Mace, an advocate for same-sex marriage, misstated part of the name of an organization that lobbied for changes in state laws forbidding such marriages.
Apple encouraged and lobbied for the Federal Trade Commission to launch a case against Qualcomm, which it did, literally hours before the Obama FTC was on its way out the door.
Even as neighboring countries turned away those fleeing war and strife in the Middle East, she has welcomed more than a million since 2015, and lobbied for a collective European solution.
Rural Americans were increasingly unhappy with Trump's handling of healthcare in March and April after he lobbied for a Republican plan to overhaul Obamacare and cut coverage for millions of Americans.
He has good rapport with French far-right leader Marine Le Pen and British politician Nigel Farage, who lobbied for the referendum that resulted in Britain voting to leave the European Union.
The signing went ahead after a South African court dismissed a last-minute legal challenge by a metalworkers' union and group which has lobbied for ousted president Jacob Zuma in the past.
Former Swiss Energy Minister Doris Leuthard has lobbied for a deal that would create an electricity union with the EU, fostering cross-border flows and ensuring power supplies to Switzerland in emergencies.
Not too long ago, as Davis documents, race markers were standard on many birth certificates and driver's licenses in the US, until civil rights organizations lobbied for their removal in the 1960s.
The egg industry, which lobbied for help, is struggling after the avian influenza outbreak last year that killed an estimated 40 million birds and resulted in a brief spike in egg prices.
Marking a significant shift, Li's pledge at the annual EU-China leaders meeting follows similar offers to the United States and potentially signals an opening that European companies have long lobbied for.
Ryan also told the audience that while Trump has lobbied for a 15% corporate tax rate, he sees a more likely rate to be set at about 22% or just below that.
Trump and other members of his administration had lobbied for the games, with the president tweeting in April that "it would be a shame" if other nations opposed the North American bid.
The meeting — lobbied for by a group representing Delta, American Airlines, and United — was to discuss the "big three" US airlines' accusations that Middle Eastern carriers, including Qatar Airways, are competing unfairly.
The LBMA has lobbied for precious metals to be exempt, arguing the regulation is unnecessary and would disrupt London's bullion clearing system, which settles gold transactions worth around $25 billion a day.
When party leaders, including Mr. Lee, the Utah senator, lobbied for a so-called "unity ticket" that would make Mr. Rubio the presumptive running mate for Mr. Cruz, the Cruz campaign demurred.
Lebanon's President Michel Aoun had lobbied for Iran to grant him an amnesty, and officials in Tehran said his release was partly due to the country's close ties with Lebanon's Hezbollah movement.
The BJP's parent organization and a source of conservative activism and ideology, the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), lobbied for an upper house seat this April for a firebrand politician named Subramanian Swamy.
Many nurse advocates say working with too many patients is the root of the issue, and groups like Nurses Take DC and SEIU121RN have lobbied for safer nurse-to-patient staffing ratios.
And they supplied many answers to that question: some inmates got revenge on guards; some — like Taystee (Danielle Brooks) — lobbied for reforms; many others kept their heads down and tried to survive.
Tim Appleton, state director of Compassion and Choices Connecticut, which lobbied for the bill, was reached by a reporter by phone but said he did not wish to comment on the episode.
Within the last two months, some in the senior ranks lobbied for Scott Pelley to return to the anchor chair of "CBS Evening News," according to two people familiar with internal conversations.
She required unaccompanied minors arriving without documents to undergo medical screenings to help determine their ages, and lobbied for officials in Berlin to deport anyone whose application for asylum had been rejected.
The company has successfully lobbied for changes to criminal law that would allow it to pay a large fine, as companies can do in "remediation agreements" in Britain and the United States.
At least 23 states have these laws, which are largely identical and were uniformly lobbied for by big telecom to prevent cities and towns from building the aforementioned municipally owned fiber networks.
It's true of Andrew McCabe (the former deputy F.B.I. director whose firing Trump successfully lobbied for), Andrew Weissmann (the only official working for Robert Mueller whom Trump singles out publicly) and others.
Ms. Delgadillo, who graduated with a bachelor's degree in biomedical engineering, had lobbied for the event for three years, as a member of a group called the First-Generation Low-Income Partnership.
After having an award revoked and being banned from the show, Lora DiCarlo successfully lobbied for sexual health devices to be allowed this year (and had its award reinstated in the process).
Local Syrian authorities initially lobbied for ISIS prisoners to be tried by an international tribunal but the move was rejected due to a lack of approval from the United Nations Security Council.
OBITUARIES An obituary last Thursday about John Mace, an advocate for same-sex marriage, misstated part of the name of an organization that lobbied for changes in state laws forbidding such marriages.
At one point, even the American ambassador in Ecuador lobbied for their prompt return, accusing the men of financing a $2 million bribe to get Ecuador's attorney general to drop the case.
For this we can thank a 1998 rule known as the Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act, famously lobbied for by the Walt Disney Company as a means to extend copyright protections.
Although five Chechen men were jailed for the crime, Mr. Nemtsov's family and friends, some of whom lobbied for the street name, believe that the real mastermind has never been publicly identified.
The opposition had lobbied for the elections to be delayed until later in the year to give it more time to choose a candidate, since its top two leaders are barred from running.
CZI-funded groups have donated money to successful ballot initiatives in the Bay Area and lobbied for California's recent housing package — the biggest in a decade with 15 separate bills, which Democratic Gov.
Considering how William Barr has acted like President Trump's personal protector in the job he lobbied for, the attorney general has chosen a strange and ultimately inconsequential hill to die on: Trump's tweets.
Meanwhile, the fossil fuel industry, which has lobbied for inaction on the climate threat, has denied the existence of the problem for decades and twisted information in the favor of their bottom lines.
The organization has lobbied for laws that help families caring for children with autism, worked with the United Nations to establish World Autism Awareness Day and raised money to invest in new research.
While the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services has lobbied for the power to force genetic testing in cases of suspected fraud, it still can't compel immigrants who don't want to be tested.
BC hit up Ace of Diamonds in WeHo Monday night for her hosting gig ... y'know, the one she lobbied for in the aftermath of her social media war with baby daddy Rob Kardashian.
Activist investor Elliot Advisors, which owns 4.8 percent of Bezeq and which has lobbied for changes to the board, has opposed BCom's proposals for new board members, saying it had no legal basis.
AIDAN MCQUADE, DIRECTOR, ANTI-SLAVERY INTERNATIONAL: Anti-Slavery International has lobbied for a law like the Modern Slavery Act for nearly two decades, so it's a strange feeling now to feel rather unsatisfied.
With fellow 185-pounders Chris Weidman and Yoel Romero tied up at UFC 205, Bisping lobbied for a fight with the now-unsuspended sometime-middleweight-but-usually-welterweight Nick Diaz at UFC 206.
The Nasdaq stock exchange has lobbied for stricter disclosure requirements, saying in a 2015 letter to the SEC that the lack of short position disclosure rules was harming market efficiency and shareholder engagement.
Industry groups, including the National Electrical Manufacturers Association (NEMA), had lobbied for the Trump administration to repeal the 2017 rule, arguing that while lightbulbs are getting more efficiency, the rule itself was illegal.
Prosecutors also claim that Joyce received free dry cleaning from a local dry cleaner and that he bought thousands of shares in a company that he actively lobbied for in the state senate.
A senior State Department official left the Trump administration after helping develop a plan that steered billions of dollars to the defense firm he once lobbied for, according to The Wall Street Journal.
Pai, who lobbied for Verizon before Barack Obama appointed him to the Federal Communications Commission, has prioritized the repeal of Obama-era net neutrality rules since becoming its chairman under President Donald Trump.
The backdrop: China lobbied for a compromise on ZTE after the Commerce Department issued a 7-year ban on American companies selling parts to the Chinese company, which led to its effective shutdown.
Transit advocate Ted Kheel, who lobbied for free transit in New York City for over 40 years, proposed a plan that included congestion pricing, taxi surcharges, and higher parking fees to cover fares.
Lebanese President Michel Aoun had lobbied for Iran to grant him amnesty, and officials in Tehran said his release was partly due to the country's close ties with Lebanon's Iran-backed Hezbollah movement.
The real estate industry lobbied for a fare increase because property owners were seeking relief from a municipal tax used to help pay for the subway, though they did not find much support.
Medicare will continue to make "add-on" payments for CAR-T therapy, but decided against creating a new diagnosis code for the cancer treatment — something hospitals and drug companies have vigorously lobbied for.
Stone legally has the ability to raise challenges about his trial after his sentencing, and his team has made clear they may seek appeals while his friends have lobbied for a presidential pardon.
On the House side, on Monday the Rules Committee will hold a conference report on the 2018 National Defense Authorization Act, which includes controversial provisions for government procurement that Amazon has lobbied for.
He said Boeing — which was widely reported to have lobbied for the tax breaks to be extended to include the new 777X program in 2013 — had now asked for them to be removed.
Warren has lobbied for Amazon, and other big tech companies, to be broken up, and in Europe the company is being investigated to determine if its use of merchant data breaches competition rules.
Many of the freshman Democrats who flipped Republican districts in 2018 have lobbied for a vote on the deal before Christmas, particularly as the House grows closer to voting on articles of impeachment.
The romantic comedy about a group of friends who come together for a wedding was so popular that fans lobbied for years before a sequel, "The Best Man Holiday," was released in 2013.
In Port Augusta, Australia, for example, a community with workers and their unions at a dying coal-fired power station successfully lobbied for a solar thermal plant to be built in its stead.
At Coronado Bridge, a perch for roughly 103 suicides since 1969, a person made a fatal leap just a few days ago, said Rhonda Haiston, a Coronado activist who has lobbied for barriers.
One US casino company Trump essentially lobbied for — Las Vegas Sands — is owned by Sheldon Adelson, the powerful casino mogul and conservative megadonor who contributed at least $20 million to Trump's presidential campaign.
Andrew Weissmann, the lead prosecutor, said Mr. Manafort and others, at his behest, secretly lobbied for the government of Viktor F. Yanukovych, the pro-Russian president who led Ukraine from 2010 to 2014.
Technology firms such as Cisco, HP, Google, and Intel are all present in Palestine, with the US State Department even having lobbied for IT firms to enter the region in a 2010 initiative.
None of the new roles have descriptions, however, and the show does not yet have an official title (author and co-creator of the series George R.R. Martin has lobbied for The Long Night).
Wheeler, a former coal lobbyist, did not disclose that he previously lobbied for Darling Ingredients while working at Faegre Baker Daniels Consulting on his financial disclosure forms, according to documents obtained by the committee.
The island has lobbied for access to a bankruptcy-like mechanism to reduce debt, a view supported by the Obama administration and Congressional Democrats but resisted by Republicans who want to protect creditors' interests.
Miller's decision represents a reversal of sorts after years in which the U.S. military sought to slow or halt troop drawdowns under Trump's predecessor, Barack Obama, and previously lobbied for more troops under Trump.
The two Labour politicians had lobbied for over a year to gain entry to the secretive detention center, which had previously denied access to even the United Nations special rapporteur on violence against women.
She insists her father is innocent, has lobbied for his release and believes he will eventually be cleared in the courts, but she has vowed not to pardon him if she is elected president.
Ryan, President Donald Trump and other Republican leaders over a nearly three-week period had lobbied for a bill, the American Health Care Act, which would have repealed and replaced key parts of Obamacare.
Rutte survived a no-confidence vote in April over the tax after memos emerged showing Shell and Unilever had both lobbied for the tax cut as he was forming his new government in 2017.
Doctor off, who once started the group that lobbied for NYC to win the Olympic games, is a fan of big development projects, such as convention centers — projects that (theoretically) spur real estate development.
As Insider previously reported, Kim successfully lobbied for the release of Read more:Kim Kardashian was willing to face backlash over her meeting with Trump at the White House: 'It's my reputation over someone's life?
As Wheeler prepares to take charge of EPA, the company he once lobbied for is trying to win contracts to clean up abandoned uranium mines, according to EFI's website and its CEO, Mark Chalmers.
According to data compiled by the Center for Responsive Politics, Akin Gump, the highest paid outside firm that lobbied for AT&T last year earned $400,000, or $200,000 less than the company paid Cohen.
Manafort faces charges in two federal courts that include conspiracy to launder money, failure to register as a foreign agent when he lobbied for the pro-Russia Ukraine government, bank fraud and tax fraud.
He's appeared on conservative media, got to meet Donald Trump and lobbied for the STOP School Violence Act, which would create an annual $50 million grant to schools for training programs and reporting systems.
On Sunday night, her match with Wozniacki was stopped because of darkness at 3-3 in the second set after both players had lobbied for a stoppage earlier in the set at 1-1.
This month, Mr. Trump pardoned the imprisoned ranchers, Dwight L. and Steven D. Hammond, and they flew home on a private jet owned by an oil products executive who had lobbied for their release.
Also absent is Guardians' Dave Bautista, who lobbied for a role in the film and heavily supported Gunn during his ouster from Disney over old tweets, and some thought he might show up here.
Richard Nixon first rose to prominence amid the McCarthy-era witch hunts; he was a member of HUAC and lobbied for the indictment of Alger Hiss, who was accused of spying for the Soviets.
Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin has little expertise in congressional stage management, but he understands the gravity of the situation and has lobbied for a clean debt ceiling bill — one without conditions or unnecessary amendments.
Unlike Quakers, who have never lobbied for a "law" to forbid all war, many Catholics and Evangelicals are lobbying hard for laws to end all access to abortion, at any stage, under any circumstances.
Seeking to be the United Kingdom's second flag carrier alongside British Airways, Virgin Atlantic has lobbied for London's Heathrow Airport to be more liberal in its slot system so it can launch more routes.
In Turkey, President Tayyip Erdogan has put repeated pressure on the central bank to cut rates despite double-digit inflation, and leading political figures in Moscow also lobbied for an easing of monetary policy.
Depending on the circumstances, Mr. Tillerson has shown toughness or flexibility, whether in international negotiations, or on climate change policy and with gay rights — when he quietly lobbied for reform in the Boy Scouts.
Several sources who have worked with Lam say she's intelligent, hard-working and able to push controversial government policies, earning her the trust of Beijing factions who strongly lobbied for votes on her behalf.
It has lobbied for other representatives to be at the talks, including those that the Saudi bloc considers to be too close to the Assad government — and Kurdish groups that Turkey considers to be terrorists.
The association was part of the Coalition for Safe and Affordable Food, which lobbied for what labeling supporters termed the Deny Americans the Right to Know, or DARK Act, that would have made labeling voluntary.
Wheeler had also lobbied for utility Xcel Energy Inc and consulted for biofuels industry group Growth Energy, agricultural merchant and biofuels producer Archer Daniels Midland Co and International Paper Co, according to his public disclosures.
Fans like Patton Oswalt lobbied for a sequel, and last year, they unexpectedly got in one in Split, the hit thriller featuring James McAvoy as a monstrous creature who lives in the same Unbreakable universe.
Another central player in the saga is Bill Browder, a critic of Russian President Vladimir Putin who has successfully lobbied for U.S. sanctions against Moscow over the killing of his lawyer Sergei Magnitsky in 2009.
Since his appointment as HHS secretary by Trump, Price has lobbied for passage in Congress of the American Health Care Act, the Republican-crafted bill that seeks to repeal and replace key parts of Obamacare.
The country's multitrillion-dollar financial industry has lobbied for certain data exchanges to be suspended if there is evidence that countries could misuse bank data which could then expose clients to crimes such as blackmail.
Following their meeting, Trump commuted the sentence of the woman she lobbied for, Alice Marie Johnson, a 63-year-old great-grandmother who was serving a life sentence on nonviolent drug and money laundering charges.
Already Sanders has thrown away ammunition against Secretary Clinton, including those "damned emails" even though investigation into them has shown that she lobbied for the same trade deal which she recently came out as against.
The 67-year-old leader, who lobbied for international recognition of Yoga Day in 2014, landed in Dehradun, Uttarakhand late Wednesday, but was up early to take his position on a bright orange yoga mat.
According to the report by Politico, Kushner and Ivanka Trump, who are married, have been past supporters of gay rights and lobbied for President Trump to issue a statement promising to uphold Obama's 2014 order.
In 2011, the DeVos' education advocacy group -- the Great Lakes Education Project -- successfully lobbied for legislation that removed the cap on the number of charter schools and the number of organization that could operate them.
It's part of a process that is necessary because Colorado is one of 23 states that have laws restricting the development of municipally owned broadband (all of which have been lobbied for by telecom companies).
After the flight, she was convinced by feminist activist Anat Hoffman, the founder of the group Women of the Wall which has long lobbied for mixed prayer at the Western Wall, to sue the airline.
The Chinese government has long lobbied for inclusion because it could help establish Shanghai and Shenzhen as global financial centers and could push money managers to pay more attention to corporate governance in the country.
Kenneth F. McKenzie Jr., who is in charge of American troops in the Middle East, has often lobbied for more forces in the region to deter and confront Iran, including overhead surveillance aircraft and troops.
Lily Molesky, 16, of Glen Cove, who is part of the social media team, came to the internship with experience at advocacy summits where she lobbied for accessibility for disabled persons (she has rheumatoid arthritis).
"The public school options are not working for those families," regardless of income, said John Schilling, chief operating officer of the American Federation for Children, a national advocacy group that lobbied for the Arizona expansion.
While often misconstrued as a bid for the millions of dollars stars like LeBron James and Stephen Curry take home each season, the women&aposs players simply lobbied for a greater percentage of the pie.
If the TPS holders were sent back or returned, it would place a huge strain on the country, which is why the government of El Salvador had lobbied for the TPS designation to be extended.
The American Farm Bureau has lobbied for a rewrite of NAFTA to eliminate or reduce Canadian tariffs on dairy, poultry eggs and wine, as well as recently implemented barriers to imports of ultra-filtered milk.
Equifax, the Consumer Bankers Association and the Credit Union National Association all contributed to Mulvaney between 2010 and 43, and each company also lobbied for Mulvaney's bill, H.R. 5491, according to the Public Citizen report.
More than 27% of investors across the Britain- and Australian-listed entities voted for BHP Group to suspend its membership of associations that lobbied for policies that clashed with the goals of the Paris pact.
The Obama administration has for years lobbied for a change to how NSLs can be used, after a 2008 legal memo from the Justice Department said the law limits them largely to phone billing records.
"Mark's ability to understand both a company's culture and their needs in Washington will be invaluable to Google," said Josh Ackil, a Democratic lobbyist and partner at Franklin Square Group, which previously lobbied for Google.
Cornwell comes to the Discovery secretly to inform Pike that a fellow admiral, a Vulcan who happens to be a logic extremist, has lobbied for all Starfleet decision-making to be turned over to Control.
"Thank God the film was banned, and we pledge to work on banning any similar films," said Samah Idriss, a founder of the Campaign to Boycott Supporters of Israel-Lebanon that lobbied for barring the movie.
It was big business itself that lobbied for the programmes, says Daniel Wright, vice dean of Villanova University's business school in Pennsylvania, because firms found that traditional MBAs were falling short in areas such as statistics.
The Romanesque Revival West Park Presbyterian Church, at 86th Street and Amsterdam Avenue, was designated a landmark in 2010, she said, after activists lobbied for that status to block a proposed residential tower at the site.
Mueller's investigation previously has been reported to include a probe of Flynn's activities after he was ousted from the DIA in 2014 and traveled to Russia, lobbied for the Turkish government, and joined Trump's presidential campaign.
As for Gronk ... he immediately (and insanely) lobbied for his buddy to DO IT AGAIN ... saying their goal was to beat Chad Ochocinco's time when he rode a bull last year ... but the bull brass refused.
Although some defense ministry officials and lawmakers have lobbied for a domestically made aircraft to help sustain Japan defense companies hurt by increased spending on U.S. gear, finance officials have questioned whether that is cost effective.
The oil industry successfully lobbied for an end to a decades-old crude oil export ban in December 2015 following a slump in prices, a move meant to help American companies weather lower prices at home.
Environmental groups have called software updates insufficient and have lobbied for cars with Euro-6 and Euro-5 emissions standards to receive hardware updates of their exhaust treatment systems, costing at least 1,500 euros per vehicle.
Now, the 37-year-old Syrian has finally landed in Vancouver, Canada, thanks to two organizations: the British Columbia Muslim Association and Canada Caring Society, who lobbied for months and eventually managed to sponsor his release.
McGahn, who is a witness in Mueller's ongoing investigation and therefore has not been involved in the White House response, has privately lobbied for Flood to be added to the team for months, the AP reported.
At the recent World Humanitarian Summit, the administration joined the condemnations against attacks on hospitals and health workers and successfully lobbied for expanded World Health Organization actions to prevent attacks and monitor those that do occur.
It also notes that the language was lobbied for by the state's meat industry, and State Senator Sandy Crawford, who supported the bill, has made clear the intention was not alleviating consumer confusion, but limiting competition.
Kim Kardashian West did it: President Donald Trump has commuted the life sentence of Alice Johnson, the 63-year-old great grandmother in prison for drug trafficking, whose cause Kardashian lobbied for in the Oval Office.
FACE, which has lobbied for many years against the duty, is renewing its efforts with a piece of research from the LUISS University of Rome, spelling out the negative impact on Europe's downstream aluminium value chain.
The one-way roads that permeate downtown Renton are, said Ms. Stewart, a relic of World War II-era Boeing, which lobbied for the street grid so it could get workers in and out more quickly.
Zina Bencheikh, general manager of Intrepid Travel's Morocco office, successfully lobbied for the country to license more female tour guides and this week the business launched women-only tours to Pakistan, Israel and the Palestinian Territories.
We incorporated as a 501(c)4 nonprofit organization, established chapters in nearly every state, lobbied for the marginalized in Washington and state capitals, organized rallies at the southern border and helped register over 20,000 voters.
Among those who are listed as having lobbied for the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America in recent years are former Senator Jon Kyl of Arizona and former Representative Bill Paxon of New York, both Republicans.
"The show on a larger level has a diversity, not only in the writer's room -- which we really lobbied for -- but in terms of our cast, that's more reflective of what this country is," says Smits.
"Of all the individual measures, it is the one that would be the most impactful — and it costs nothing," said Dorothee Saar, of Deutsche Umwelthilfe, a nonprofit environmental organization that has lobbied for a speed limit.
The company has publicly lobbied for its products to be exempt from the tariffs, arguing the funds it was spending on duties were being diverted from investments in American jobs in research and development and domestic manufacturing.
The hill, installed during the off-season, is the pet project of Matt Krause, the Yankees' strength and conditioning coach, who lobbied for it when he was hired away from the Cincinnati Reds after the 2013 season.
With the Cardinals leading 6-21 after 25 21/23 innings, Wainwright lobbied for another inning, mindful that their bullpen was taxed heavily during 251-262 and 20113-22011 wins the last two nights against Kansas City.
A sporting activity for the mind, the World Chess Federation has continuously lobbied for the IOC recognized sport to be included in various Olympic Games, even introducing drug testing for its competitors to comply with IOC rules.
But he is charged with bank fraud, filing false tax returns, conspiring against the United States by plotting to launder money and failing to register as a foreign agent when he lobbied for the former Ukraine government.
Noah Wintroub, a San Francisco-based vice chairman of investment banking at JPMorgan who focuses on tech and media companies, said he lobbied for the open-desk layout, though it may be a culture shock for some.
FLORHAM PARK, N.J. — For now, Geno Smith is the starting quarterback of a team that has been candid about wanting to displace him, and he dresses among prominent veterans who have lobbied for his successor to return.
McCain has long lobbied for a pardon for Johnson, who was convicted by an all-white jury in 1913 for transporting a woman across state lines for "immoral purposes," which was then illegal under the Mann Act.
Apple, which makes virtually all of its devices in China, lobbied for months for the loosening, and Timothy D. Cook, the company's chief executive, discussed it with government officials during his first visit to India last month.
"I think we can attribute the government meeting its goal directly to that being put in place," said Ann Sullivan, the head of government relations for Women Impacting Public Policy, a group that lobbied for the change.
Plus, the group had already successfully lobbied for bills to ban abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy and in the case of another common method of abortion for pregnancies in the second trimester, called dilation and evacuation.
Driving the news: The CEO of America's largest nuclear operator, Exelon, said in an interview with Utility Dive Tuesday he doesn't support aggressive proposals laid out in a recent internal administration memo and hasn't lobbied for it.
The league is pushing aggressively to lower the barriers for players, having opened its own Washington office in January led by Josh Alkin, who had previously lobbied for the league for 15 years at the firm BakerHostetler.
SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australia's industrial relations umpire has raised the national minimum wage by 3.5 percent from July 1, it said on Friday, an increase almost double the current industry rate but half what unions had lobbied for.
Besides Johnson's commutation, Trump has also pardoned political allies, like former Maricopa County, Arizona, Sheriff Joe Arpaio and conservative commentator Dinesh D'Souza, and posthumously pardoned heavyweight boxer Jack Johnson after actor Sylvester Stallone personally lobbied for it.
"New Jersey took the wind out of the sails in New York," said Jeremy Unruh, the director of public and regulatory affairs at PharmaCann, a medical marijuana company in New York that had lobbied for recreational use.
For nearly two years, President Trump has pursued an aggressive, far-reaching effort, lobbied for and cheered on by industry, to free American business from what he and many of his supporters view as excessive environmental regulation.
The Singapore research also details how China National Offshore Oil Corp (CNOOC) lobbied for funding and greater Chinese involvement in the South China a decade ago after facing criticism from scholars concerned at activities by rival claimants.
Mr. Manafort is accused of violating federal lobbying, tax and money laundering laws as part of a complicated scheme in which he lobbied for a pro-Russia party in Ukraine and hid proceeds in foreign bank accounts.
And the companies have lobbied for years to stop the federal government from allowing California to set cleaner tailpipe regulations than the rest of the nation, arguing that the double standard necessitates building two types of cars.
Democratic and Republican lawmakers from New York had lobbied for Malachy McAllister to be allowed to stay in the United States despite a 2017 immigration policy change that raised the legal bar for temporary relief for deportation.
In 2010, the team achieved a major victory when it successfully lobbied for the first "benefit corporation" legislation, in the state of Maryland, that allowed companies to embed the values of a B Corp in their charter.
How should we evaluate billionaires who haven't broken any laws or pushed their products with fraud, but who've done more diffuse, complicated harms — lobbied for special advantages from the government, been careless with customer data or privacy?
Game of Thrones' female fanbase have long lobbied for a peen-count to match our many breasts, but we at least get some Kingslayer buttocks in our face as Jaime Lannister (Nikolaj Coster-Waldau) beds his sister.
Elliott outlined the proposals in a letter to directors at BHP, adding the world's biggest miner to a string of firms where it has lobbied for action to boost shareholder returns, including Samsung Electronics, Akzo Nobel and SABMiller.
Zinke also recommended that tribes be allowed to co-manage "cultural areas" within the resized monument - a nod to Native Americans who had lobbied for protections for the territory - and that Congress review conservation policies in the area.
In Thailand, about 1.5 million babies were born to teenage mothers between 2000 and 2014, with a 54% increase over this period, according to UNFPA, which lobbied for a 2016 law promising better sexual and reproductive health education.
It lists such major players as White House domestic policy chief Joe Grogan, who lobbied for Gilead Sciences, and Alex Azar, who left a career at Eli Lilly to serve as HHS secretary, but also lower-level staffers.
That work has ensnared two K Street firms, the Podesta Group and Mercury, which both previously lobbied for a Brussels-based non-profit called the European Centre for a Modern Ukraine that had ties to Yanukovych's political party.
Brown's decision to sign the bill was welcomed by the animal rights group People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA), which had long lobbied for a ban on breeding orcas in captivity, and opposed the SeaWorld shows.
This act—for which anti-immigration and eugenics proponents such as the Immigration Restriction League (IRL) had lobbied for decades—barred "idiots, imbeciles, epileptics, alcoholics, poor, criminals, beggars, any person suffering attacks of insanity" from entering the country.
But in reality, it is a loaded term, one that has been fought over in court—lobbied for and against, legislated at great expense in the state capital, and historically debated among distillers for more than a century.
Turkey has long lobbied for a "buffer zone" in northern Syria controlled by what it regards as moderate rebels, potentially in border territory currently held by Islamic State and stretching about 80 km (50 miles) west of Jarablus.
But J. R. Smith remains an enigmatic ex-Knick, Channing Frye can't guard the pick-and-roll and Kevin Love attests to James's principal flaw as a de facto front office executive who lobbied for a misguided trade.
But he added that GM is alleging that FCA&aposs actions were an attempt to influence a failed 2015 merger with GM, infamously lobbied for my Marchionne but rejected by GM CEO Mary Barra and GM&aposs board.
The papers also revealed that Smotkin, who previously lobbied for Comcast, was later hired by the Moroccan government on a $40,000 a month lobbying contract, according to his registration as a foreign agent with the Department of Justice.
Zinke also recommended Native American tribes be allowed to co-manage "cultural areas" within the resized monument - a nod to tribes that had lobbied for protections for the territory - and that Congress review conservation policies in the area.
And in 2014, Mayor Duggan successfully lobbied for reduced interest on tax payment plans and more time for homeowners to pay off their debts (about one-quarter of those who sign up for plans now get these concessions).
Google and other internet companies have lobbied for a federal privacy law through their trade groups and have hastened to support a national law that would nullify state privacy laws, such as the one California passed this year.
The announcement on Wednesday, at a House Energy and Commerce subcommittee hearing, pleased newspaper groups and broadcast stations, which have lobbied for changes that they say are necessary to compete with online media giants like YouTube and Facebook.
Now, at the latest installment of Africa's oldest and biggest biennale art exhibition, the curator who lobbied for this space wants African artists to seize the moment as the continent finally starts to enjoy the attention it deserves.
A coterie of other national security conservatives, including a top aide to Senator John McCain of Arizona, also lobbied for him, and Defense Secretary Jim Mattis, who has worked with General McMaster, encouraged him to take the job.
Wolf has ties to ousted DHS Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen, an unpopular figure to immigration hard-liners, and once lobbied for an organization that aimed to maintain a foreign worker visa program that immigration hawks have fought to change.
Despite saying that he had not lobbied for the hospital network while leading the M.T.A., disclosure records show Mr. Lhota in recent months has lobbied city officials for better traffic access and talked with state officials about regulations.
But at the time, Mr. Chaika was trying to push back against an American sanctions law, the Magnitsky Act, in part by trying to discredit an American-born businessman, William J. Browder, who had lobbied for its passage.
"They wanted him to come quietly and leave quietly," said Muna Jondy, the policy chairwoman of Americans for a Free Syria, a nonprofit advocacy group that helped bring Caesar to the United States and lobbied for the sanctions.
Those close to him say he had lobbied for the release of a cousin who had been detained as part of what Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman described as an anti-corruption purge that began in November 2017.
May, who addressed the forum earlier in the day, had lobbied for a meeting with Trump after their relationship deteriorated over a series of sticking points, including Trump's retweeting anti-Muslim videos produced by a British nationalist group.
Mr. Dole, who said he first took an interest in Taiwan as a senator when Congress was considering the 1979 Taiwan Relations Act that established the current policy, has lobbied for the Taiwanese government for nearly two decades.
Throughout Nadal's remarkable career, as he has won 20143 Grand Slam singles titles and two Olympic gold medals, he has often lobbied for more tournaments to be played on natural surfaces like grass and clay — his best surface.
Already, experts say, there's a clear next target in sight: former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn, who lobbied for a foreign power without proper paperwork, as Manafort reportedly did, and allegedly lied the FBI, as Papadopoulos reportedly did.
They have not only lobbied for lower tax rates and less government scrutiny for companies like Koch Industries but have also built an apparatus that finds young free market conservatives, educates them, and helps elevate them into office.
Brown, who has most forcefully publicly lobbied for the job, has been criticized for his lack of experience running a large organization akin to the VA. Hegseth, meanwhile, would be the incarnation of the President-elect's anti-establishment rhetoric.
Though Rosie O'Donnell lobbied for an opportunity to follow that humiliation up with another — volunteering to be the first to play Steve Bannon on Saturday Night Live — the show left that chance to troll the president on the floor.
When Nafta was being negotiated in the 1990s, American labor unions, worried about losing jobs to Mexico, lobbied for provisions that would raise Mexican wages—whether by strengthening labor unions in Mexico or by raising wages there more directly.
The premium industry has lobbied for several years for an exemption from the rules, and some of its leaders, including Newman, say they will meet with members of Congress or take legal action to fight the new FDA regulation.
Kardashian West, who has lobbied for criminal justice reform, worked with Trump last year to secure clemency for Alice Marie Johnson, a 64-year-old who was serving a life sentence on charges of money laundering and drug offenses.
City officials say cable and telecom companies that have lobbied for state restrictions will be encouraged to fight for even more draconian laws, potentially squashing competition that could lead to lower prices and better speeds to access the web.
"Jayma was pumping her old system every few days because it was filling up so quickly," said Laura Tooman, president of the Concerned Citizens of Montauk, an environmental group that had lobbied for the lodge to fix the situation.
Elise Higgins, who lobbied for Planned Parenthood in Kansas from 2014 until earlier this year, said that she endured frequent hugs from male lawmakers — "a hello hug, a thank-you hug, a goodbye hug" — and comments about her body.
Three years ago, during another heat wave at the U.S. Open, Stan Wawrinka lobbied for such a rule change: Why, he asked, did the women get a break after two sets while the men had none over five sets?
Nicholas Verdini, 24, a first-year medical student who lobbied for the change, ran outside on Thursday to look at the sign as soon as he received an email from Tufts informing him that the names were being removed.
The sources say Iran lobbied for Iranian-backed Popular Mobilization fighters to be sent to the western front to seal off the link between Mosul and Raqqa, the two main cities of Islamic State's self-declared cross-border caliphate.
Susan Shin, the legal director of the New Economy Project, which has long lobbied for stricter rules to rein in payroll card fees, said the New York State Labor Department's regulations would have helped thousands of low-wage workers.
Bloomberg has been a vocal critic of Republican President Donald Trump and has publicly lobbied for an end to his trade war with China, saying it costs jobs, slows innovation and sours ties between the world's top two economies.
He also told POLITICO he lobbied for an evacuation during a Wednesday night call with health officials that included Arnold Hopland, a longtime friend of Roe's who is stranded aboard the ship, where over 193 passengers have been infected.
Former Secretaries of State Condoleezza Rice and James Baker, along with Stephen Hadley, a former national security adviser to Bush -- all of whom lobbied for Tillerson -- have misgivings about Bolton, according to a source familiar with the deliberations over Bolton's candidacy.
Mr. Schiff, who has a large community of Armenian-Americans in his district, lobbied for 19 years to put the legislation to a vote on the House floor, alongside Representatives Anna G. Eshoo and Jackie Speier, fellow Democrats of California.
"I am proud that this common sense reform closes this egregious loophole once and for all, and I urge other states to follow suit," New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, who lobbied for the bill's passage, told BuzzFeed News on Saturday.
Sleeping Giants, the online activist group that has lobbied for tech platforms to cut all ties with Jones, roundly condemned Apple last week for being slow to join Spotify and Stitcher, suggesting Jones' content routinely breaks the company's terms of service.
The new law took the form of one of several amendments to the country's Electronic Governance Act — amendments lobbied for by developer and government adviser Bozhidar Bozhanov, who announced the changes on his blog with the air of a proud father.
It's especially difficult to talk about climate science in the US where wealthy interest groups, from the coal mining conglomerate Murray Energy to oil colossus ExxonMobil, have lobbied for decades to suggest climate modeling is inaccurate, and humans aren't to blame.
In the Washington, D.C. case, which has a September trial date, he is accused of conspiring against the United States, conspiring to launder money and failing to register as a foreign agent when he lobbied for the pro-Russia Ukrainian government.
Several sources who have worked with Lam say she's intelligent, hard-working and able to push controversial government policies, earning her the trust of Beijing factions who strongly lobbied for votes on her behalf when she was chosen in March.
She said she shared information about a U.S.-born fund manager who lobbied for passage of the Magnitsky Act with the Russian prosecutor general's office, including with Prosecutor General Yuri Chaika, a top official appointed by the Kremlin, the Journal said.
Data: Energy Information Administration; Chart: Axios Visuals The oil-and-gas industry strongly supports — and has consistently lobbied for — having the option to explore for what could be very large hydrocarbon deposits in coastal regions outside what's already been made available.
Rafiekian, a former U.S. Export-Import Bank director and co-founder of the consultancy firm Flynn Intel Group, was facing charges that he covertly lobbied for Turkey to discredit and extradite Muslim cleric Fethullah Gulen from the United States to Turkey.
Part of the reason for this is an annual budget amendment passed by Congress, called the Dickey Amendment, that effectively prevents the Centers for Disease Control from funding research into guns (the National Rifle Association, unsurprisingly, originally lobbied for this amendment).
The island has lobbied for access to a bankruptcy-like mechanism to reduce debt, a view supported by the Obama administration and Congressional Democrats but one that has met with some pushback from Republicans who want to protect creditors' interests.
Biden, who suffered the untimely death of his son Beau to brain cancer, personally lobbied for the biggest increase in cancer research funding in a decade in the budget deal struck in December — $264 million for the national Cancer Institute.
Still, such non-milled poi, however traditional, could not be legally sold under Department of Health regulations — a legacy of a 1911 ban put into effect during a cholera outbreak — until native advocates lobbied for a legal exception in 22002.
It successfully lobbied for a resolution overturning an Obama-era Interior Department rule restricting sport hunting on national wildlife refuges in Alaska, including banning hunting from planes and killing predators like bears and wolves while near their dens or their cubs.
Kathleen Rice and Anthony Brindisi, both House Democrats from New York who had been critical of Pelosi during the 2018 campaign and voted against her for speaker, were denied committee assignments they had lobbied for, moves seen as retribution by Pelosi.
"The rules bring prepaid cards out of the shadows, with protections that in many ways are stronger than those for traditional bank accounts," said Lauren Saunders, the associate director of the National Consumer Law Center, which lobbied for the new rules.
The Iranians, meanwhile, asked Mechanic - who was among six of the men with dual nationality - to consider taking a trip home as a show of gratitude to the government that had lobbied for his release, according to Mechanic's lawyer Joel Androphy.
Allies of Senator Ted Cruz of Texas have aggressively lobbied for a presidential ticket that would make Senator Marco Rubio of Florida his running mate, but Mr. Rubio has rebuffed them, according to two people briefed on the closely guarded efforts.
Last year, the newer groups wrote and successfully lobbied for aspects of The People's Cultural Plan—an effort that countered the city's own cultural plan and that was likely instrumental in increasing New York City's local arts funding by $40 million.
As a campaigning body who've lobbied for changes to the Grand National in Parliament, it seemed odd that they would expend so much time and effort on having the race modified, when their essential aim is to have it abolished.
At the summit, Trump aggressively lobbied for Russia to be readmitted into the G7, refused to hold it accountable for violating international law, blamed former President Barack Obama for Russia's annexation of Crimea, and expressed sympathy for Russian President Vladimir Putin.
But Dale Ho, a lawyer for the A.C.L.U., said that the law Mr. Kobach lobbied for has made it difficult or impossible for some state residents who do not have a birth certificate, passport or other proof of citizenship to vote.
While the card would quicken the pulses of racing devotees, scrutiny would intensify from elected officials and animal-welfare watchdogs who have lobbied for drastic measures over the death count of 23 horses in a mere three and a half months.
And the criticism by activist investors who lobbied for change, helping nudge Mr. Immelt into retirement earlier than expected, was that G.E. should have cut costs more aggressively and spent less on new initiatives, like a building up G.E. software business.
Anti-abortion groups have lobbied for fetal homicide laws as part of a broader campaign for "personhood," hoping to persuade the public to regard prenatal life at any stage of development as a human being deserving of legal rights and protection.
More from Raymond Zhong and Park Jeong-eun of the NYT: The company's chairman, Lee Kun-hee, is a longtime member of the International Olympic Committee and lobbied for years behind the scenes to bring the Winter Games to South Korea.
The legions of African-Americans who lobbied for more punitive measures to fight gun violence and drug dealing in their own neighborhoods didn't know that their real-time responses to crises would result in the inhuman outcome of mass incarceration.
In other words, Big Tech lobbied for a bill that would make it harder for new entrants to compete with it, and when that bill passed, it immediately set about growing into the gaps vacated by its would-be competitors.
But safety advocates familiar with the situation maintain that the provision would go one step further by allowing truckers to spend 2202 hours driving or on duty per week – a provision they say was heavily lobbied for by the trucking industry.
Several major environmental groups, including the Nature Conservancy, lobbied for the 2014 version, arguing that allowing the natural rhythms of nature would help heal tens of thousands of acres of damaged wetlands, including vulnerable bird, fish and small mammal habitats.
Wheeler held or attended more than 50 meetings with representatives of companies or industry groups regulated by the EPA between April and August of last year, including a company he previously lobbied for, a CNN review of his internal schedules found.
For 28 months, as director of the federal Office of Science and Technology under President Richard M. Nixon, Dr. David successfully lobbied for the first budget increases for grants for nongovernment applied research and development in more than a decade.
Republicans have long accused Joe Biden of misconduct during his time as vice president when he lobbied for Kiev to dismiss prosecutor who was investigating a natural gas company owned by a Ukrainian oligarch, whose board members included Hunter Biden.
"There have been cases where a girl is pregnant and the pregnancy happened as a result of sexual assault," said Sonia Ossorio, president of the National Organization for Women New York, a group that has lobbied for the change in law.
Gordeyev has periodically lobbied for a "grain OPEC", which would aim to ensure stability in the grain market, coordinate price policy and solve world hunger problems and might include Russia, the European Union, the United States, Canada, and Argentina, among others.
" In addition, the executive summary on Saudi Arabia does not mention the jailing and reported torture of women activists who had lobbied for the right of all women to drive, though it notes that "new women's rights initiatives were implemented.
One source interviewed by federal agents, who asked not to be named for fear of retribution, said agents asked about several Madigan allies who lobbied for ComEd and about the relationships between the suburban cities and the Speaker's political operation.
Several Republicans had lobbied for the removal of certain language singling out Mr. Trump for his role in forcing the government shutdown, Ms. Wexton said, and members of the hard-line Freedom Caucus took to the floor to protest the resolution.
Over the past three years, Carlson has also lobbied for the passage of the "Ending Forced Arbitration of Sexual Harassment Act" on Capitol Hill, a bipartisan-supported bill that would prohibit companies from requiring employees to confidentially arbitrate sex discrimination disputes.
Sherry Leiwant, co-president of A Better Balance, a family leave organization that has lobbied for paid family leave on the state level, says the president's proposal to provide working parents with six weeks of leave is an "admirable" idea.
He also lobbied for the removal of far right outlet Breitbart News from the list of publications that receive preferential treatment on the company's News Feed, and opposed partnering with the Daily Caller, founded by Fox News's Tucker Carlson, for fact-checking.

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