Willie did not talk about it or lobby for it.
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British candidates will have no one to lobby for them.
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But why did doctors lobby for abortion to be illegal?
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These stories have further motivated groups to lobby for protective legislation.
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Bill Miller has been working in the lobby for three decades.
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Then another group followed them to lobby for keeping the guidance.
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Thank you, Hobby Lobby, for a great lesson in selective morality.
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Affected companies may prefer that to unilateral taxes, and lobby for it.
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Regular meetings with Jack Dorsey to lobby for a Twitter edit button.
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That, and he sat in the Y's lobby for hours and hours.
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Kyle Kramer will be waiting in the lobby for anyone who disagrees.
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Or would she simply lobby for changes to make it more acceptable?
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It's also an opportunity for the industry to lobby for policy changes.
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We have to envision the world we want and lobby for it.
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I'm probably going to have to lobby for a lot of things.
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We should ban Americans from getting paid to lobby for foreign governments—period.
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Gold plans to call the governor daily to lobby for the law's repeal.
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The organization organizes GOTV efforts and fundraises to lobby for stronger gun control.
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There is however a walk-in lobby for gamers open from 8 a.m.
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Northern voters are overrepresented in Congress, strengthening a powerful lobby for state spending.
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There is a small studio in the lobby for recording or broadcasting audio.
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In turn, more parents, students and teachers need to lobby for language programs.
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"There's no organized lobby for people who might have losses in the future."
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He made frequent trips to Washington, DC, with friends to lobby for bills.
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Many of these "journalists" blamed the gun lobby for what happened in Parkland.
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The current class plans to go to Washington to lobby for their bill.
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Someone always needed to be waiting in the lobby for you just in case.
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Apple has a mountain of cash they can dispose to lobby for their interests.
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"I sat in the lobby for five hours," she tells the stunned plastic surgeons.
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He blames the agencies and a shadowy "interest rate lobby" for the lira's woes.
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The document said Miller was registered to lobby for Amazon effectively on June 5.
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Energy companies lobby for lucrative write-offs on equipment and lax restrictions on pollution.
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At Wise Public Affairs, Makin was registered to lobby for the U.S. Consumer Coalition.
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But that's precisely why polluting corporations are now spending millions to lobby for it.
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One of Bytedance's own staff members registered to lobby for the company this summer.
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Here's why companies lobby for and against certain regulations, while changing positions over time.
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Even relatives who spent the day in the hospital lobby for a loved one.
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The firms retroactively registered to lobby for foreigners with the Justice Department in 2017.
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At the moment, however, they don't plan to lobby for increased public education spending.
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Use your political clout and leverage in Congress to actively lobby for gun reform.
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I was asked to leave my clients in the lobby for the time being.
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Consumers can return the products to Hobby Lobby for a full refund or store credit.
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A marble hallway is not an ideal spot in which to lobby for a cause.
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ANODE, a lobby for alternative retail energy suppliers, had taken the matter to the court.
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That could mean Beijing would soon help lobby for sanctions on Pyongyang to be eased.
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And then you lobby for, demand, or create the very roles that Hollywood wouldn't otherwise.
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Fellow female reporters barred from Speaker's lobby for wearing sleeveless dresses while doing their jobs.
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I think it's important that we stand up and lobby for what we believe in.
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Last week, Kim K. was in Washington to personally lobby for a pardon for Johnson.
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Rick Scott heads to D.C. to lobby for a national funding package to combat Zika.
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It's lucrative to make guns, to sell them, and to lobby for their unfettered possession.
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To that end, they hope to lobby for changes to statutes of limitations, Rinaldi said.
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Now, Reichel tries to connect the church communities and lobby for their new political interests.
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Huge cheers were even heard in the lobby for the first-time winner and nominee.
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For example, many openly lobby for gay rights in a way older generations did not.
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US officials said they expected Abe to lobby for an exemption during talks on Wednesday.
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Throughout the day, flavored iced tea, coffee, and snacks are in the lobby for guests.
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Nader seems to have used some potentially questionable tactics to lobby for Middle Eastern countries.
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The two companies have been in regular contact with regulators as they lobby for approval.
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These groups also can act as a lobby for Iranian interests within the Iraqi state.
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AARP, the lobby for older Americans, and advocates for cancer patients are already expressing concerns.
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Cramped with terror, I sat in the lobby for one, two, three hours, guts churning.
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Some US and UK airlines have already begun to lobby for some form of assistance.
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She sets up a table in the lobby for people to inquire about possible benefits.
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That helped me lobby for a better rate when it came time for my review.
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Economic-republican measures usually pass when local business interests band together and lobby for them.
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The suggestion that Price does not want to lobby for his own Obamacare legislation is significant.
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Europe's telecoms industry has also seized the opportunity to lobby for tougher rules for internet rivals.
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Those data have helped local people, who are often poor and black, to lobby for change.
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Most recently, BuzzFeed News employees staged a nationwide walkout last Monday to lobby for union representation.
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Inspired to act, he joined a local conservationist group, Nature Iraq, to lobby for greener practices.
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Hobby Lobby, for example, already closed on Sundays and otherwise reflected the faith of its owners.
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Freeh started using his law firm, Freeh Sporkin & Sullivan, to lobby for clients earlier this year.
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Some American industries have used this as an opportunity to lobby for profits over national security.
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The deal would require that Comcast executives return to Washington to, once again, lobby for approval.
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Others wanted better protection for fighters, several of whom came to Albany to lobby for legalization.
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It led him to lobby for the position of police chief, which he received in 215.
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Thompson also told attendees "don't be shy" when they call senators to lobby for the bill.
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Macron was urged by human rights groups to lobby for jailed activists and freedom of speech.
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Josh responded by starting the first 2120c2170 in Colorado to lobby for a medical marijuana bill.
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You've got the four food companies that have agreed to lobby for a price on carbon.
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The closed door prompted Ms. Cobb and other women to lobby for the 1962 congressional hearings.
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I was waiting in the lobby for my Uber, en route to a Bumble first date.
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Pot activists are headed to Capitol Hill next week to lobby for the legalization of marijuana.
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If it was the '70s they could either fight the I.R.A. or lobby for peace talks.
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The news outlet also reported that the firm agreed to lobby for Venezuelan oil company Citgo.
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Manafort's lawyers arrive around the same time, waiting in the lobby for the car to arrive.
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Presumably, automakers aim to lobby for rules between 2022 and 2025 that are easier to meet.
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By setting up as a limited liability company, it can lobby for legislation and influence public policy.
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Raisman will join a group of Tyndall's survivors in Sacramento on Tuesday to lobby for the bill.
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Nevertheless, despite this, her approach creates a lot more direct government investment that firms might lobby for.
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Mr Hawes says his industry will lobby for lower energy prices and business rates as Brexit looms.
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While they were pleased with Zijderveld's appointment, they continued to lobby for operational changes and board changes.
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That earned them $50 million more in funding, but teachers have continued to lobby for the cause.
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Dowell said that as a CDC official, his job was to educate Congress, not lobby for money.
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But now they're taking their fight public to lobby for a bill that would legalize their efforts.
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He called the referee Andreas Egli on court to lobby for a stoppage because of the wind.
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On Tuesday, Barr was on the Hill to lobby for his own plan for the surveillance reform.
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Bavaria's biggest hotel services lobby, for example, has 800 foreign apprentices enrolled in 20 different training programs.
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Odinga came to the airport to lobby for Miguna to be let back into Kenya, Orengo said.
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That means Mueller doesn't have to lobby for a reduced sentence for Manafort, as he'd agreed to.
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Over that period, she got arrested outside City Hall and trekked to Albany to lobby for schools.
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We're talking about taxes, we're talking about wages, we're talking about what you lobby for in Washington.
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Meanwhile, they are forming groups like Advance Energy Center to lobby for the weakest possible rules and oversight.
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The rule of thumb is industries always lobby for the regulator that would give them the least trouble.
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She suggested looking up professors' voter registration records and using that information to lobby for more conservative educators.
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Perhaps we should lobby for a six-hour workday, yielding both more jobs and more time for family.
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We can expect the big winners in the current lottery scheme to lobby for the free visa program.
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Instead of worrying about recycling plastic, McAfee wants people to lobby for carbon taxes and endorse nuclear power
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The firm has business ties to Middle Eastern countries and has appeared to lobby for the Turkish government.
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However, Google employees say they are planning to lobby for a federal ban on forced arbitration this year.
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Uber and Lyft started a political action committee called Rideshare Works for Austin to lobby for Prop 1.
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It was geared toward equipping women with tools and tactics to lobby for more pay and better benefits.
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He was the first world leader to visit Britain and lobby for the beleaguered British leader's transition plan.
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The plan's supporters have formed a group called Americans for Carbon Dividends that will lobby for the proposal.
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AARP, the lobby for older Americans, said it could have reduced out-of-pocket costs for Medicare beneficiaries.
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Until now, there has not been a coordinated effort across law firms to lobby for stricter gun control.
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Rick Scott is planning to make his second trip to Congress this year to lobby for Zika funding.
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The Herald also reported that one of Gimenez's sons, C.J. Gimenez, has previously registered to lobby for MCM.
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They've been doing this for years -- ignoring the scientific literature in order to lobby for the organic industry.
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His departure now opens up the possibility these candidates may be more inclined to lobby for the job.
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The ad also features Dan Diaz, Maynard's husband, who is in Colorado to lobby for the initiative this week.
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On Wednesday, thousands of subsistence farmers are expected to come to capital city Asuncion to lobby for agrarian reform.
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Where most candidates lobby for endorsements from prominent members of their own party, Trump has gleefully insulted Republican insiders.
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Earlier this month, Justice Action Network hired McConnell's former chief of staff, Hunter Bates, to lobby for the bill.
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Take K.-sponsored cabs back to the hotel, shower, and meet again in the lobby for a quick bite.
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As traders or investors they also lobby for India to be more open to free trade with other countries.
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They said they had also formed a group, Families for Safe Streets, to lobby for stricter traffic safety laws.
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Many Aramco executives, aghast at the prospect of losing their autonomy, certainly hope and lobby for such an outcome.
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Police crime scene technicians checked the building's lobby for fingerprints and other evidence Saturday morning, according to news footage.
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And the rule of thumb is this: industries always lobby for whichever option would give them the least trouble.
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In a separate statement, U.S. officials said they would continue to lobby for action on steel with trade partners.
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Trade Secretary Liam Fox said he would actively lobby for an exemption during a trip to washington next week.
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She does not intend to register to lobby for Hilton at this time, a company representative told The Hill.
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According to reports, Kardashian contacted Trump son-in-law and senior adviser Jared Kushner to lobby for Rocky's cause.
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Malpass has traveled to Europe and Asia in recent weeks to lobby for support from major World Bank shareholders.
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Unfortunately, Denker remembers the dirt she has on Spratt's nephew and he's forced to lobby for her job back.
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You can be a Jew and lobby for Israel and it doesn't make you any less of an American.
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Mustier has hired Lazard in the hope that Asmussen can lobby for the deal with finance minister Olaf Scholz.
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There could be, for example, the opportunity to lobby for a shorter work week, or, say, a basic income.
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After the shooting, Binkley went to the state Capitol with Parkland students and their families to lobby for change.
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We all want clean air, but we think other people should pay for groups that lobby for clean air.
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He said that he "could not stay silent" about Robinson's case and encouraged others to lobby for his freedom.
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Haye said he is going to the WBO convention in Tokyo so he can lobby for this to happen.
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He was among the few racers to speak about the prospect of death and lobby for stricter safety standards.
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Former aides to Donald Trump's 2016 presidential campaign have been hired to lobby for a Russian-owned ethane company.
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But she stayed home to lobby for an expansion of the child tax credit in the Republican tax bill.
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Herring had been the one to lobby for the family to move to Oklahoma City for her daughter's education.
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Eloesser owned paintings by both Kahlo and Rivera, which have been displayed in the hospital lobby for 50 years.
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The governor of Punjab Province, Salman Taseer, visited her in prison and promised to lobby for a presidential pardon.
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Murphy is working with the state's congressional delegation to lobby for federal aid in the form of block grants.
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With the company's promise to help lobby for a higher minimum wage, it attached itself to a progressive cause.
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"These funds are being used to lobby for control over the perceived voice of the American farmer," Swafford said.
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Should the Senate pass its ObamaCare bill, GOP senators will likely lobby for the House to pass it, unchanged.
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He met with the transportation secretary, Elaine Chao, to lobby for additional federal funding for the state's infrastructure needs.
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One by one, they pressed past the throngs of journalists assembled in the hotel lobby, for last minute pitches.
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The star will have an original piece on display in the Empire State Building lobby for the next few weeks.
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As a member of the IOC's TOP sponsorship program, Samsung is not allowed to lobby for a candidate host city.
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Hanna Hanania, 43, is the cofounder the new US Palestinian Council, the latest attempt to kickstart a lobby for Palestinians.
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But one thing drives many of them berserk: activist hedge funds, which buy stakes in companies and lobby for change.
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This is the approach favoured by many LGBT groups, who lobby for risk assessments to focus on individuals not groups.
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Wade, and "protect the Second Aamendment" — while at the same time expressing appreciation to the NRA lobby for its support.
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And all businesses and interest groups that enjoy juicy tax breaks have a strong incentive to lobby for their preservation.
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Uber is generally prepared to lobby for its cause and engage in a little saber rattling from time to time.
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Brown traveled throughout the state this week to lobby for the proposal, which also would raise money through vehicle taxes.
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But we all know scientists are bad at naming things, and we have until November to lobby for other names.
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Hotels are businesses, so I'm not suggesting they allow people to crash on the couch in the lobby for free.
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Other candidates That's provided an opening for allies of the President, and potential picks themselves, to lobby for the job.
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However, Lewandowski previously worked for Avenue Strategies, which is registered to lobby for Ohio-based payday lender Community Choice Financial.
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The parents of the disappeared and the dead, most of them working class, have maintained their relentless lobby for answers.
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The association will probably lobby, for instance, for federal subsidies for plant-based milks to be served in school lunchrooms.
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It sounds like you need to lobby for better radio up there, you have a really passionate argument against it.
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Ms. Sullivan moved to New York City last month from her home in Florida to help lobby for the measure.
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I have to guess that the lack of a coordinated lobby for small businesses caused this inequity in the bill.
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More than half of those who claim it are older than 243, according to AARP, the lobby for older Americans.
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Trump tweets the bill is a "big victory," while Democrats promise to continue to lobby for a separate immigration fix.
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Too late, he realizes that this was an opportunity to ingratiate himself with someone who could lobby for his transfer.
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Jeremy Acton, the party's leader, said it will continue to lobby for legislation that includes the public use of cannabis.
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Jordan said he had expressed his concerns to Goodlatte about the arrangement and would lobby for it to be changed.
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If doctors resisted, McKinsey recommended that Purdue employ "patient pushback," getting patients to lobby for OxyContin, according to the suit.
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In April 2018, he met with the office of Second Lady Karen Pence during a trip to lobby for arts funding.
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Krennic visits Vader's lovely volcano-dam to discuss the Galen-related security breaches and lobby for an audience with the Emperor.
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Meanwhile, how many times have you heard advocates lobby for arts funding on the grounds that it's good for economic development?
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Today, the organization has joined forces with The Lipstick Lobby for what Brown calls their most "loud and proud" effort yet.
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Most people are not really going to take a lot of effort to lobby for other people's taxes to be raised.
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So when all those companies announce that they're forming a group to lobby for sensible drone policies, it's worth taking note.
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Head back to R.'s apartment where he's waiting in the lobby for me to let him in with HIS key.
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This year, workers, who are attending the meeting to lobby for higher pay and better benefits, invited their own guest: Sen.
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The ACLU and Planned Parenthood of Delaware formed the "She Decides Delaware" campaign to lobby for legislation to keep abortion legal.
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Meanwhile, the strength of organized labor, which would normally lobby for better conditions, has declined due to the threat of outsourcing.
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Within a year he'd moved on to lobby for America's Community Bankers before getting a call from the NAFCU in 2006.
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Bill Richardson told The New York Times he met with two North Korean diplomats on Tuesday to lobby for Warmbier's release.
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Forbes-Tate and Rock Creek Counsel also lobby for H&R Block, and the company has its own in-house lobbyists.
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He was also named honorary chairman of the National Cannabis Roundtable, an organization to lobby for pro-marijuana policy, this February.
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Unions use dues to pay for lobbyists who often lobby for legislation that negatively impacts small businesses, like minimum wage laws.
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He has set up an organization of former clean-up workers to lobby for more government support, such as early retirement.
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This has some folks who lobby for gun control wondering whether military-style weapons are the best use of their time.
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More than 400 college students are spending their spring break in Washington, D.C., this week to lobby for criminal justice reform.
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Mr. Like helped lobby for the establishment of the 20,000-acre Fire Island National Seashore, protected by the National Park Service.
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In Georgia, 1,20103 people turned up Wednesday at the State Capitol to lobby for gun laws, compared with 160 last year.
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Nader seems to have used some potentially questionable tactics to lobby for Middle Eastern countries, according to the New York Times.
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Many major players in the field continue to lobby for a larger federal role, despite the new infusions of outside funding.
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Philip Cooney, also at CEQ, was busted doctoring scientific reports on climate change and left the administration to lobby for Exxon.
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She's been waiting in the Dead by Daylight lobby for what feels like ages, trying to find a group of players.
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In 2007, prior to working in government, Delrahim had a contract to lobby for Google's acquisition of the adtech company DoubleClick.
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This leads the effusively smiling leader of the emoji to lobby for Gene's deletion from the phone on which he lives.
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The Saudi government was a lucrative client of Rogers', but BGR said Monday it would no longer lobby for the kingdom.
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Former X projects like Waymo have used to Google's own extensive government affairs team to lobby for it on Capitol Hill.
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Nonetheless, Mr. Yaakov continued to lobby for an atomic demonstration to make clear the country's new status as a nuclear power.
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There are more creature comforts: lots of chairs by Jean Prouvé and sofas by Charlotte Perriand in the lobby, for example.
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Each brand has a corresponding shelf out in the lobby for orders to await their delivery drivers or customers for pickup.
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The American Medical Association and AARP, the lobby for older Americans, oppose the latest version of the Republicans' health care bill.
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Inside, a wealth of cushions and folding stools are set up on the floor of the lobby for the meditation later.
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Many use their billions to lobby for US policy that benefits them, blurring the line between philanthropy and personal-interest spending.
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The American Farm Bureau Federation is a non-profit that uses grassroots input to lobby for better agricultural legislation across the country.
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WWF's staff on the ground in Nepal leaped into action — not to demand justice, but to lobby for the charges to disappear.
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There have been a few bills introduced to do just that, and many in the industry continue to lobby for the change.
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Although respondents favored companies that helped refugees, they were less clear over whether brands should lobby for more refugees to enter Europe.
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Learn more about the history of the ERA and the strategies early advocates used to lobby for it in the video above.
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Adams says overzealous prosecutors often lobby for or pursue criminal charges, but may ultimately drop them due to a lack of evidence.
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Dr. Robbins could leave her job to lobby for better maternal healthcare or set out on an exciting research trip with DeLuca.
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Bill Richardson told The New York Times he met with North Korean diplomats Tuesday in an effort to lobby for Warmbier's freedom.
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Over the past several weeks, PUST leaders have tried to lobby for exemptions so that their work can continue, the sources said.
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Unlike in earlier years, they no longer had to lobby for changes in laws that directly discriminate against them as queer students.
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As legalization spreads and the cannabis profit grows, Big Weed could lobby for convictions to be overturned, for charges to be vacated.
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Boyd Rutherford and U.S. Rep Elijah Cummings also came to witness the destruction and start preparing to lobby for federal disaster assistance.
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Rodger Currie, Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America's (PhRMA) top lobbyist, is leaving his post at the nation's top lobby for drugmakers.
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Hotel staff asked guests, including tourists and journalists covering the quake, to evacuate their rooms and gather in the lobby for safety.
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This means that when enforcement and removals tick up, without innovating, industrial farms only have one choice: lobby for more guest-workers.
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"The higher their capability the more they can lobby for the removal of sanctions and even extract concessions of support and durability."
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During the period when Mr. Whitaker was registered as a lobbyist in Iowa, he was registered to lobby for Mr. Kirke's company.
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The lobby, for that matter, has an earnestness and utility that other analogous spaces in the city tend to forfeit for grandeur.
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Each classroom voted on the nominees and elected a representative to lobby for its selection at a schoolwide assembly on Oct. 4.
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Organizations of ride-share drivers, encouraged by their success in helping lobby for the California bill, will take on that goal next.
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I was offered a drink and sat in the lobby for about 15 minutes while they expedited the cleaning of my room.
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Protesters ended up at the Amazon building in Cambridge, where they stayed in the lobby for a little less than two hours.
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Assuming the Cavs lose the series, and LeBron somehow decides to stay, does James lobby for change for the sake of it?
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Protesters ended up at the Amazon building in Cambridge, where they stayed in the lobby for a little less than two hours.
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In 2010, Cassidy and his team agreed to a $20193 million contract to lobby for convicted Bangladesh war criminal Mir Quasem Ali.
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Marilyn B. Tavenner, the chief executive of the leading lobby for insurers, America's Health Insurance Plans, is in a particularly awkward position.
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He wielded the power of his pen to lobby for causes and candidates he pronounced deserving and to topple those he vilified.
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We were allowed to check in, effectively freed, though a guard remained in the lobby for the rest of the short night.
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That's a really healthy after-tax raise, so that CEO has a very big incentive to lobby for pay hikes like that.
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Though, if that does happen, we'll have to lobby for Dunkin' to serve the Donut Fries with some sort of icing or glaze.
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Diaz, who promised his wife he'd continue to lobby for the laws after her death, opened up to PEOPLE about her last hours.
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Partisan politics Ciaran Staunton, the head of the Irish Lobby for Immigration Reform in the US, said he strongly disagreed with O'Malley petition.
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Then, it's back to the lobby for a cool down, where local news reports that it left the same way it came in.
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On Sunday, he graduated, and now he plans to delay college for a year to lobby for gun regulations and youth voter turnout.
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Contributions to 501(c)(3) groups are tax-deductible, but those nonprofits aren't allowed to lobby for or support candidates for political office.
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Their job was to lobby for South Africa in the House of Commons and spy on anti-apartheid groups in the United Kingdom.
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Groups are flocking to the White House this week to lobby for and against an Obama-era workplace safety rule covering beryllium exposure.
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The group's website says it does not lobby for legislation, take policy positions or sponsor or endorse nominees and candidates for public service.
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American airlines will also have a powerful financial incentive to lobby for greater openness between the United States and Cuba, Mr. Williams argued.
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The ill effects extend far beyond limiting abortion rights, impacting every facet of reproductive health and constraining NGOs' ability to lobby for reform.
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And just last week, the White House issued a new report on its strategy to lobby for greater international cybersecurity standards for businesses.
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Miller's firm effectively registered to lobby for Apple in October but the disclosure report was signed by him on Thursday, the document said.
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It won't be long before residents lobby for the right to collect more, and yet, water is only becoming scarcer in the West.
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Jackson's comments raised the ire of the players' union, which pointed out that players risk being fined if they lobby for trades publicly.
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Parents in Queensland continue to lobby for an amended policy after an effort to allow girls to wear pants was rejected in May.
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The American Medical Association, the American Hospital Association and AARP, the lobby for older Americans, all urged the Senate to reject the bill.
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There's something ready-made for Americans who care about this travesty to lobby for: the Refugee Protection Act, introduced in Congress in November.
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She also continued to lobby for passage of the Equal Rights Amendment to the U.S. Constitution and remained active in the feminist movement.
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Former senators are required by ethics rules to take a two-year "cooling off" period before they are able to lobby for clients.
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"We need stability and predictability," said Marilyn B. Tavenner, the chief executive of America's Health Insurance Plans, the main lobby for the industry.
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According to prosecutors, Manafort and Gates were paid tens of millions of dollars to lobby for a pro-Russia political party in Ukraine.
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I was waiting in the hotel's lobby for my room and there were two males that started to stare at me and laughed.
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Through my years of teaching, I have paid thousands of dollars for the National Education Association to lobby for ideas directly opposite my beliefs.
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The only way to actually protect yourself is to have allies who will lobby for you, and let you know when you're in danger.
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In 2009, he questioned why Latino advocacy groups would lobby for the Affordable Care Act, since "illegal aliens" would not be eligible for coverage.
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The department's Republican critics accuse it of behaving like a liberal think-tank, wont to lobby for exciting foreign interests, instead of pursuing America's.
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"Sometimes actions speak louder than words," said Chip Davis, the chief executive of the Generic Pharmaceutical Association, the lobby for makers of generic drugs.
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Despite the funding cuts proposed by the Appropriations Committee, supporters of the arts can still lobby for boosts to the NEA and NEH's funding.
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Trump commuted Johnson's sentence, and in the months since, Kardashian West has returned to the White House to continue to lobby for prison reform.
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After Flynn joined the Trump administration, he agreed not to lobby for five years after leaving government service and never to represent foreign governments.
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Sundance screenings featured mandated counselors on call in the lobby for viewers who might need them, a luxury those watching at home won't have.
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Fewer employers are offering workplace pensions and those that do are reducing the benefits of those plans, prompting advocates to lobby for CPP reform.
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Now that he's retired from Congress, former House Speaker John Boehner has decided to channel his inner flip-flopper and lobby for legalized weed.
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Following their disappearance, a group of alumni and students at Peking University set up the "Finding Yue Movement" to lobby for the graduates' release.
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Additionally, the firm will lobby for Prime Therapeutics, which works on pharmacy benefit management, issues relating to pharmaceutical value-based contracting and rebate transparency.
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Lamp said the company will continue to lobby for change to the Renewable Fuel Standard, but CVR Refining is preparing for the program's survival.
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Reports emerged earlier this month Flynn was being paid to lobby for Turkey while attending top-level intelligence briefings during Trump's 2016 presidential campaign.
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There's a strong lobby for poultry seasoning, that savior of the harried Thanksgiving cook, but I went instead with freshly chopped sage and thyme.
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Its ostensible aim was to overturn the Russian adoption ban, but its real mission was to lobby for the repeal of the Magnitsky Act.
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So enamored by the Chelsea, after his eviction, he slept in the hotel lobby for a month, and eventually began sleeping outside of it.
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This week, Mr. García Padilla turned up in Washington, where he dutifully accompanied the Treasury secretary, Jacob J. Lew, to lobby for the bill.
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The Commerce Department also determined the project was in the "national interest," giving the United States Embassy in Uganda permission to lobby for it.
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He will receive a parade of party representatives over the next few days who will lobby for their choices for the next prime minister.
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Only when women are represented at the top in greater numbers, she argued, will they be allowed to lobby for themselves without self-consciousness.
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America's Health Insurance Plans, the chief lobby for insurers, opposes any changes that would increase their share of drug costs in the coverage gap.
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Moreover, the governor could also continue to "use the bully pulpit" to lobby for the child care facilities that are currently housing the children.
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The EU's business lobby, for example, has warned that China could use the plan to discriminate against foreign firms in favor of Chinese competitors.
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Sister Simone Campbell, SSS is the executive director of NETWORK Lobby for Catholic Social Justice and leader of the "Nuns on the Bus" campaign.
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Jennifer Granholm of Michigan on helping children stay in school and worked with former Representative Dennis Kucinich to lobby for a Department of Peace.
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That law will not apply to New Yorkers United Together, however, because its co-founders say it will not lobby for any specific policies.
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The blame the students attached to the conservative gun lobby for this catastrophe is one reason their society has 75 members and is growing.
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The actresses did lobby for one, feeling that going without would be a very odd omission, but producers nixed it, fearing an audience backlash.
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Rasky isn't a registered lobbyist, although others at his firm lobby for a handful of federal clients, including Raytheon, the Massachusetts-based defense contractor.
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Mr. Beutner and Mónica García, the president of the Los Angeles school board, traveled to Sacramento to lobby for more money for the district.
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Casey had a 212-foot par putt on the same hole when Mickelson tried to lobby for them to finish, even in the dark.
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His calendar had to show regular meetings scheduled with Wells Fargo branch managers, whom he was told to lobby for introductions to potential customers.
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I think what a lot of these folks do is these modest acts of do-gooding, and then they lobby for stuff in Washington.
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After the plant finally came online in 1985, perched on a sea cliff near San Luis Obispo, many environmentalists continued to lobby for a shutdown.
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Our sources tell us Kim and her attorney, Shawn Holley, have scheduled a meeting Wednesday with Trump to lobby for to get Johnson's sentence commuted.
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Zachary Crockett / Vox This is, in part, a result of increased efforts by the IOC and other advocacy groups to lobby for more women's sports.
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"Large companies have resources to sort of bear the brunt of the tariff for a while or lobby for exemptions," Brilliant CEO Aaron Emigh says.
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Hubbub over that policy began when CBS News recently reported that some female reporters had been barred from the Speaker's Lobby for wearing sleeveless dresses.
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A few national parks and reserves want to dehorn and there is a lobby for a regulated and closely monitored legal trade in rhino horn.
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South Africa's ANC has called a meeting of its national executive for Monday, as Ramaphosa and his allies lobby for President Zuma to step down.
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They then push you to contact your member of Congress to lobby for the bill and support the politicians who end up voting for it.
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Jordan will call for an Arab League meeting to lobby for donors to cover the $200 million shortfall needed to shore up UNRWA, Safadi said.
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The Methodist decision, like many others, is at least in part about staying in the game as the more effective way to lobby for change.
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We were there to get a sense of the atmosphere around criminal justice reform among our elected officials in Washington, and to lobby for reforms.
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Michael Flynn was being paid to lobby for Turkey while attending top-level intelligence briefings during Donald Trump's 2016 campaign, NBC News reported on Friday.
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Her father, Michael Stumo, who grew up on a farm in Iowa, made frequent trips to Washington to lobby for small manufacturers and family farmers.
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On Monday, charges were unsealed against two associates of former national security advisor Michael Flynn for an alleged plot to secretly lobby for Gulen's extradiction.
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The developer stopped using Mr. Capalino to lobby for the deed change after the Rivington deal became public, a spokesman for the lobbying company said.
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Those organizations include 501(c)(4) groups that lobby for specific policies, like the National Rifle Association and the Koch brothers-backed Americans for Prosperity.
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The trip gave Zuckerberg yet another platform to lobby for universal basic income (UBI), as he did during his commencement address to Harvard in May.
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Mr. Ubl once ran the lobby for manufacturers of knee implants, heart stents and other medical devices, one of which, Medtronic, is based in Minneapolis.
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And there's no guarantee that Netanyahu even has the political capital or strength to lobby for Trump's plan as he courts more right-wing votes.
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Mr. Broidy did not register to lobby for Mr. Razak or Mr. Low, and on Friday, he said that his activities did not constitute lobbying.
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In 2000, when the team sought a local tax break to renovate Lambeau Field, Starr's main stage, it recruited him to lobby for the legislation.
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The two towers would be erected on either side of the former Bialystoker nursing home, a landmark that will become a lobby for the towers.
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Mr. Benezra has earmarked one large lobby for new art, once the Fishers' 214-ton Richard Serra sculpture is removed in a couple of years.
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On a recent flight back from Africa, Tillerson spoke with reporters off camera, and seemed almost to lobby for his ability to continue the job.
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But critics questioned the effectiveness of those rules, noting that many former senior Obama officials went on to lobby for trade groups and major businesses.
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But since early June, Hong Kong has been crippled by widespread anti-government protests as some of its citizens lobby for greater independence from Beijing.
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Stack said that when he traveled to DC to lobby for gun reform, he still expected to find politicians who were receptive to such measures.
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Mr. Brown, in a recent Washington visit, met with Elaine Chao, the secretary of transportation, to lobby for support for a high-speed rail project.
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Schwarzman and others have been channeling vast sums to political action committees that lobby for still lower top tax rates and even less strict business regulation.
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The Star Tribune is one of five local media outlets that have formed a coalition to lobby for more press and public access to Noor's trial.
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Beale is openly bisexual and uses her position of power to lobby for equality for the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) community in the workplace.
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The union was Airbnb's most effective foil in New York, where it has worked closely with elected officials to lobby for laws aimed at crippling Airbnb.
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In the brutal throes of the Washington, D.C. summer, female reporters are reportedly getting barred from the Speaker's lobby for — wait for it — wearing sleeveless dresses.
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I spend the morning researching public health statistics because today I'm going to the Capitol building to lobby for a bill expanding needle exchange facilities statewide.
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Flynn registered as a foreign agent on March 7, three weeks after being fired and eight months after he signed on to lobby for Turkish interests.
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Nonprofit housing organizations were concerned that small developers would be at a disadvantage in Albany, saying that they lacked the resources to lobby for their projects.
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Instead it's focused on complying with local transport regulations and only offering a limited service where it can while it tries to lobby for regulatory change.
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He could aggressively lobby for the bill his economic team is negotiating with Congress, to win over reticent Republicans to unpopular provisions included to raise revenue.
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World leaders have a chance Friday to lobby for Donald Trump's support on the Paris Agreement on climate, and the president may be willing to listen.
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Both have relationships with the president, and Kardashian helped successfully lobby for the pardon of a 64-year-old nonviolent drug offender, Alice Johnson, last year.
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The AARP estimates that 15 million workers could be covered by new workplace savings options in these five states and plans to lobby for these programs.
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Flynn's suggestion to remove Gülen would be questionable because the former national security advisor was paid over $500,000 to lobby for the Turkish government in 2016.
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On July 9003st almost 40,000 people gathered at a pro-Erdogan rally in Cologne organised by an international lobby for Mr Erdogan's Justice and Development party.
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The Gin Parlour Extensive renovations have included a redone lobby for the grand InterContinental New York Barclay hotel, with a free-standing bar that features gin.
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Jenkins will not be allowed under federal law to lobby for one year after her term ends, but that prohibition does not extend to her firm.
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Why he's controversial: Bernhardt has come under fire for potential conflicts of interest, including reportedly continuing to lobby for a former client after saying he'd stopped.
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The other thing that I can do and we can do is advocate in DC and lobby for changes that make the public markets more attractive.
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Duluc said he often heard from agents — typically those representing players who were seeking new contracts — trying to lobby for their clients to receive good ratings.
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For example, if the tobacco industry wants to weaken anti-smoking laws overseas, the Chamber will lobby for it, allowing the industry to protect its reputation.
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He formed a group to lobby for a national progressive agenda, including taking a trip to the nation's capital and Iowa, but it has since disbanded.
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Arriving at House of Yes fifteen minutes early before the 8PM start time, Rita and I stopped at the bar in the lobby for a drink.
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Those vendors come together under one roof to lobby for business at wedding expos, which are like an office supply fair crossed with the Golden Globes.
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In her fight to make sure other women have real recourse, she leaves the Marines and leads the Service Women's Action Network to lobby for change.
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But instead of going to bankruptcy court, Mr. Rawlings went to Austin, the state capital, to lobby for state pension laws that would stop the bleeding.
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But he later played down any suggestion that he would lobby for Mr. Bae and disparaged him in an interview with CNN during his 2014 visit.
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At the time of his guilty plea, prosecutors said they intended to lobby for Mr. Hernandez to receive a lesser sentence if his cooperation proved successful.
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Progressive allies of Elizabeth Warren have approached the Democratic National Committee to lobby for an unusual cause: including billionaire Mike Bloomberg in upcoming presidential primary debates.
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They say the funds are also used to lobby for legislation that promotes the interests of big producers and blame lax oversight at the Agriculture Department.
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" Fuks later added that "Giuliani's company provides lobbying services," and that Giuliani "has a very positive attitude toward Ukraine, so he undertook to lobby for us.
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"I just want to let you know, I am so behind you," Mr. Trump told more than 300 employees assembled in the lobby for his remarks.
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But since early June, Hong Kong has been crippled by widespread pro-democracy protests as some of its citizens lobby for greater independence from the mainland.
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The biggest listed mining company, Australia's BHP , has come under fire for belonging to industry groups that campaigners say lobby for the continued use of coal.
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ANODE, a lobby for alternative retail energy suppliers, had taken the matter to the court arguing the scheme gave an unfair advantage to energy group Engie.
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What about the private stakeholders, groups like AECOM that are helping Texas design and lobby for its proposed triangular-shaped hyperloop between Dallas, Houston, and San Antonio?
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What this means for you: If you want to protect your genetic privacy, the best thing you can do is lobby for stronger legal protections and regulations.
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They will continue to lobby for better treatment by Iraq's central government, even though once-strong Christian communities in Baghdad and Basra have dwindled to near-extinction.
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Soros said "disaffected voters" in countries like France, Germany, Sweden, Italy and Poland could see the U.K.'s departure as a chance to lobby for EU reform.
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Some of them have gone a step further and run for office, allowing them to write industry-friendly policies themselves instead of having to lobby for them.
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The late star went to Washington, D.C. to lobby for the cause in 1986, 1990 and 1992, and would still be fighting today, according to her granddaughter.
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If and when administrators attempt to shut them down, students should document the encounter, leave peacefully and use the documentation to lobby for policy change, she said.
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The moves followed a complaint brought by the Kenya Bankers Association, an umbrella lobby for lenders, which says the transfers tax is hard for banks to enforce.
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"They're way too crowded," said Samson-French, who has been working with groups like the CHDC to lobby for the humane treatment of slaughter horses in transit.
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Portnow took the stage last year alongside Jennifer Hudson to launch the Creators Alliance, an activist group that set out to lobby for fair pay for artists.
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Today, she is the director of Terminations for Medical Reasons, a pro-choice campaign group she set up to lobby for change to Ireland's restrictive abortion laws.
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Edward Colby, a spokesman for the ACT, said it had "offered support for flexibility" in the new federal law, but did not "actively lobby" for the change.
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In between marathons, we're going to lobby for a Donna Meagle-centered spin-off and cry silently about how Parks and Rec eerily predicted the 2016 election.
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Uber, along with its competitor Lyft, would then turn to state capitals to lobby for broader legislation that benefited the rideshare industry, undercutting local regulations or proposals.
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"They're going to have to lobby for it, and they might have to get all their friends and neighbors to vote on it," Dr. Hansen-Koharcheck said.
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Pierce, a longtime Alzheimer's research advocate, has made multiple trips to the nation's capital to lobby for funding, and is a board member on the Alzheimer's Association.
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The question is complex for two reasons: First, agencies have incentives to lobby for greater fire budgets and then exhaust those budgets regardless of existing fire conditions.
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Ask the business office of your school district about this and lobby for it if you cannot get access now and the plan is a good one.
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The New York Times reported that the Trump family is charging Spicer $10,000 for use of the hotel's lobby for Spicer's exclusive invite-only event on Thursday.
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Earlier this month, female reporters spoke out about being banned from the Speaker of the House's lobby for violating an antiquated dress code that prohibits sleeveless dresses.
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Current administration appointees can't lobby for two years after leaving the executive branch, or else face up to five years in prison or a maximum $85033,000 fine.
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Their unions are "associations" that mostly, aside from one other major strike in 1990, lobby for laws to win what other unions bargain over (like work rules).
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Groups like AARP, the lobby for older Americans, warn that it would force doctors and hospitals to turn away patients because reimbursements would be cut so drastically.
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He is a stark contrast to the news anchors at Fox, like Bret Baier and Chris Wallace, who regularly lobby for interviews with Trump, but rarely succeed.
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They acknowledged working with Southern Company and the congressional delegations from South Carolina and Georgia to lobby for extending and greatly expanding the nuclear production tax credit.
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The lobby, for starters, is painted an exuberant shade of ocher — and filled with small clusters of paintings, sketches and a large Rococo-style papier-mâché mirror.
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A Commerce spokesman confirms that pollock industry representatives sought guidance from the ITA on how to lobby for a reversal of USTR's decision to grant the exclusion.
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Kennedy was typically supportive of religious liberty claims — he voted with the majority in Hobby Lobby, for example — but he also authored several landmark gay rights cases.
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The visits will give the EU's two leading national leaders an opportunity to lobby for the bloc to be exempted permanently from the steel and aluminum tariffs.
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She helped lobby for the designation of the Stonewall Inn in Greenwich Village, where riots in 1969 helped ignite the gay rights movement, as a national monument.
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Enter the US Palestinian Council, which launched in April and is aiming to lobby for the interests of Palestinian Americans and support like-minded candidates on Capitol Hill.
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The students who survived the Parkland shooting and now lobby for gun control continue to be targeted with posts that baselessly describe them as Nazi sympathizers and communists.
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They've gone on two trips to Capitol Hill with fellow players, in November and in March, to speak with members of Congress and lobby for criminal justice reform.
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The Cyborg announcement comes after a long campaign by the current Invicta featherweight champion to lobby for a spot on the card at UFC 198 on May 14.
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Jackie Speier (D- Calif.), and was meant as an act solidarity with female reporters who have been kicked out of Speaker Paul Ryan's lobby for wearing sleeveless dresses.
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Uber says it has pledged to lobby for congestion pricing in Seattle as part of its broader strategy to spend $10 million on "sustainable mobility" around the country.
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But tenant groups went to Albany on Tuesday to lobby for the repeal of the vacancy allowance, which they call the "eviction bonus," in the state's rent law.
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Australia's Foreign Minister Marise Payne -- who will be in Thailand on Thursday as part of a pre-planned visit -- said she would lobby for the release of Araibi.
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Cohen also joined Cuomo and advocates in Albany, N.Y., on Tuesday to lobby for the Child-Parent Security Act, seven days before the end of the legislative session.
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Dustin, a 30-year-old visitor from North Carolina, said he hoped to catch a crustacean-like Krabby while waiting in the museum's lobby for a scheduled tour.
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But Korkmaz, 39, is a close ally of Ekim Alptekin, the 40-year-old Turkish businessman who hired Flynn to lobby for Turkish interests shortly before the election.
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On Tuesday, Vice President Mike Pence and Seema Verma, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services administrator, joined Senate Republicans at lunch to lobby for Graham-Cassidy's passage.
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"Companies are not going to lobby for these services to be continued unless the service is in fact effective in providing something that the companies value," he says.
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Mike Walden, a retired Teamster from Ohio who drove a truck for more than 30 years, visited Washington this past week to try to lobby for pension security.
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The American Medical Association and America's Health Insurance Plans, a lobby for insurers, said they needed more information about the administration's plan before they could formulate a response.
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Starting at noon, Queens-based authors and illustrators will assemble in the theater lobby for a book fair at which they will autograph copies and answer children's questions.
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A local group, Capriamoci, has sprung up to lobby for restrictions on the boats that bring all the tourists — except those rich enough to arrive by private helicopter.
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Just as she approached the threshold of the secure elevator bank, Maddow was detained by another fan, who pulled her back into the lobby for one more selfie.
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Experts say the study, published in the International Journal of Epidemiology, could be used by lawmakers to lobby for funds for bike lanes and more cycling-friendly infrastructure.
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One of Washington's leading gun lobbyists said he didn't sense much of a new threat, however, saying people have been going after the "corporate gun lobby" for decades.
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Instead of splurging on your hotel room because you want to experience these buildings, head to the lobby for a drink or book breakfast at their restaurant instead.
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He and Mr. Hunt have linked arms to lobby for what they believe could be the most potent antidote to polarization: an overhaul of the state's redistricting process.
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He formed the Hispanic Caucus with three other congressmen in 173 to lobby for common goals and later led the group, but he distinguished himself from ethnic separatists.
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Mike Catanzaro, Trump's top energy adviser, attended one of those meetings with the Edison Electric Institute, the lobby for investor-owned utility companies, according to White House records.
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In front of a Sol LeWitt mural in the museum's lobby, for example, she explains that LeWitt did not personally paint the mural but that a drafter did.
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A recent report showed that Apple, Amazon, Facebook, Google and Microsoft spent a combined $64 million in 2018 to lobby for measures that would keep regulators at bay.
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The owners of Hobby Lobby, for instance, wanted an exemption from the mandate even though their company is a for-profit corporation, not a religious hospital or university.
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Todd Moscowitz, another 300 executive, said, "Unequivocally, nobody was hired by this company or anyone else as far as I know to lobby" for a Highly Suspect Grammy nomination.
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The energy it took Barkan to move around Capitol Hill and meet with Republican and Democratic senators alike to lobby for "no" votes for the tax bill was immense.
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I had to really lobby for every last word, and that's a new thing for me too, but we finally got it out this week and it's been good.
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He would go on to secretly lobby for Turkey and spout conspiracy theories about Hillary Clinton's health, as well as an imagined pedophilia ring in a Washington pizza parlor.
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Eager to make their materials seem recyclable and fend off bans on plastic products, industry groups have spent millions over 30 years to market and lobby for their products.
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But many of those advocates see the current proposals as a first step, and intend to continue to lobby for an extension to full euthanasia at a later date.
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In his speeches to parliament, Mr Conte vowed to lobby for new EU rules on immigration, including the "compulsory and automatic" distribution of migrants from Italy to partner states.
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"Blunt, one-size-fits-all (..) prudential backstops are unnecessary," said Simon Lewis, Chief Executive at the Association for Financial Markets in Europe (AFME), a lobby for large financial institutions.
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Meanwhile, a source told PEOPLE in October that Kardashian West doesn't agree politically with Trump, but maintains her positive relationship with the president to lobby for what she wants.
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All officials appointed to the Trump administration will be barred from registering to lobby for five years after leaving, Republican National Committee chief strategist Sean Spicer told reporters Wednesday.
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Tom Cotton of Arkansas, Mike Lee of Utah, Ben Sasse of Nebraska and James Lankford of Oklahoma at his home for a dinner to further lobby for their support.
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Why it matters: While Mueller doesn't seem as interested in his foreign work, Flynn did not legally lobby for a foreign country, which doesn't seem to help his case.
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Trump was so keen on this project that, unusually even for him, he called four governors and a state comptroller to lobby for it, according to former state officials.
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So, given that vegan interests have so little influence on Capitol Hill, why has Congressman King been blaming the "vegan lobby" for egg regulations for the last five years?
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The twin visits would give the European Union's two leading national leaders the opportunity to lobby for the bloc to be exempted permanently from the steel and aluminium tariffs.
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He told an annual media briefing he would therefore continue to lobby for higher output of the A320 family despite caution expressed by the company's operations chief on Monday.
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President Donald Trump commuted the sentence of a nonviolent drug offender on Wednesday, a week after Kim Kardashian West went to the White House to lobby for the move.
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Every Senate Republican who wanted to provide their opinion or lobby for a candidate has had an opportunity to do so (and most have taken that opportunity, aides say).
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Government Counsel will also lobby for the Healthcare Distribution Alliance, which is a national trade association comprised of primary health care distributors, on issues relating to affordable pharmaceutical pricing.
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The Women's March and other progressive organizations are planning to lobby for "Medicare for All" legislation on the eve of the annual Women's March in Washington, D.C., this weekend.
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Though Manafort registered to lobby for Saudi Arabia, they say he didn't disclose to the government lobbying and public relations work he did for the Bahamas and Saint Lucia.
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" The company also said it will no longer lobby for a seat on the game publisher's board of directors "in view of the opposition expressed by Ubisoft's executive management.
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ExxonMobil, the largest investor-owned oil company in the world, announced last week that it will spend $2206 million over two years to lobby for a US carbon tax.
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The twin visits would give the European Union's two leading national leaders the opportunity to lobby for the bloc to be exempted permanently from the steel and aluminum tariffs.
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He is calmly hilarious about how the historian Barbara W. Tuchman — never the most felicitous writer — urged him to lobby for her to win the Nobel Prize in Literature.
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They will lobby for higher hospital payments from the government and insurers and for other preferential treatment, often arguing that we need to retain the "good" jobs hospitals offer.
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Kristine Coratti Kelly, a spokeswoman for the Post, confirmed that the newspaper told Rogers he'd no longer be able to contribute if he continued to lobby for Saudi Arabia.
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"Women in Washington built this sphere where you could lobby for legislation, where you could bring people of two parties together without them killing each other," Dr. Allgor said.
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Lobbying forms filed last week show that Jot Carpenter will lobby for CTIA, the trade group, as well as AT&T and Verizon, the nation's top two wireless providers.
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The Federalist Society, which does not lobby for legislation, take policy positions or sponsor or endorse nominees and candidates for public service, is funded through grants, membership and donations.
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Competitive in every election to this day, the Bloc promotes Quebec's separation from Canada; exists primarily to lobby for the province's causes; and has no aspiration of actually governing.
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The opposition leader, Bharrat Jagdeo, said the P.P.P. would boycott Parliament and lobby for international sanctions against the government if the electoral board refused to conduct a full recount.
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"This is a slippery slope to government-run health care for every American," said David Merritt, an executive vice president of America's Health Insurance Plans, a lobby for insurers.
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" That text also linked to a Business Insider story with the headline: "Former European leaders struggle to explain themselves after Mueller claims Paul Manafort paid them to lobby for Ukraine.
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Kardashian West played a small role, including returning to the White House in September to lobby for the legislation despite the president's reluctance that it could be a political liability.
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Mr Banfi said his first moves would be to lobby for UNESCO to give World Heritage status to grandfathers like himself and to his home town of Canosa di Puglia.
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And giant tech and car companies are taking advantage of the current regulation-averse environment to lobby for laws that wouldn't even mandate a minimum level of safety and security.
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This year, the brand and 100 of its sales consultants (there are more than 30,000 across the country) descended on Washington to lobby for the Personal Care Products Safety Act.
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Changes to Dodd-Frank with no domestic constituency to lobby for them, such as to rules on foreign banks which their executives consider deeply unfair, have fallen by the wayside.
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The Lipstick Lobby, for example, has donated a portion of all proceeds to organizations including Planned Parenthood, the American Civil Liberties Union, and the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence.
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After his firm's work on behalf of a Turkish company was done, Flynn agreed not to lobby for five years after leaving government service and never to represent foreign governments.
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The tie-up was aimed at reducing costs as both companies separately fund legal defenses and lobby for legislation to authorize fantasy sports in states that have declared it illegal.
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"SOLD" is backed by a campaign called TaughtNotTrafficked which aims to raise awareness of trafficking, support survivors and lobby for government and policy changes in partnership with advocacy groups worldwide.
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Still, with an expectation that OPEC would lobby for an extension of the production cuts to cover all of 2017, analysts said there was support for prices around current levels.
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If farmers were the first special interests to successfully lobby for an exemption, popular cafes serving brunch and bars broadcasting soccer from abroad on Sunday mornings are merely the latest.
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Former House Speaker John Boehner this morning will announce the National Cannabis Roundtable, an industry-funded group to lobby for cannabis reform, including changes affecting medical research, banking and taxes.
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Days before his second trial in a DC federal court was set to begin, Manafort flipped — admitting he masterminded an illegal scheme to lobby for Ukrainians and launder the revenue.
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And they can use this power for the good of America and the world, not to feather their own nests or satisfy their egos or lobby for their special interests.
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Nineteen Christian leaders from various groups, including the Network Lobby for Catholic Social Justice, the Franciscan Action Network, the Episcopal Church, and Evangelical Lutheran Church of America, endorsed the letter.
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CEOs who are all about immigration (they need programmers like they need air) might lobby for low capital gains taxes (gotta make sure those stock options are a good investment).
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Emily Goodin, the managing editor of RealClearPolitics, tweeted that she was asked to leave the Speaker's Lobby for wearing a sleeveless dress while a female lawmaker received no such pushback.
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A larger entity could lobby for a higher percentage of the ad dollars that Facebook and Google share with publishers when their content, videos in particular, run on the platforms.
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As a result, the State Department will now stipulate in assistance agreements that the diplomatic body must promise no American funds will be used to lobby for or against abortion.
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United States backstroke specialist Jacob Pebley on Thursday called on USA Swimming to postpone June's Olympic trials and lobby for the Tokyo Games to be postponed due to the pandemic.
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United States backstroke specialist Jacob Pebley on Thursday called on USA Swimming to postpone June's Olympic trials and lobby for the Tokyo Games to be postponed due to the pandemic.
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The growth of company-specific tax subsidies (like those offered by places in competition for Amazon's HQ2) has shoveled resources toward large businesses that can effectively lobby for government largess.
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Some hawkish U.S. lawmakers and foreign policy commentators are raising questions about aspects of the deal, especially reports that it limits Israel's ability to lobby for more aid from Congress.
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In many courtrooms, several legal questions still loom regarding the bail money and how hospitals lobby for what is owed: Go deeper: At hospital nonprofits, lawsuits frequently target former patients
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She and her husband opened a charter school of their own and spent millions of dollars over the years to lobby for big changes to Michigan schools, among other issues.
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The network, citing documents it obtained, reported that Pebble Limited Partnership ghostwrote letters for Dunleavy and gave his office strategies on how to lobby for action sought by the firm.
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He had been briefed about it in the days leading up to Mr. Sisi's visit, and he instructed his aides to meet with Egyptian officials to lobby for her release.
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In the US, the Catholic hierarchy continues to lobby for special treatment under the Affordable Care Act, which would leave perhaps hundreds of thousands of women without access to contraception.
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She and her husband opened a charter school of their own and spent millions of dollars over the years to lobby for big changes to Michigan schools, among other issues.
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Hacker, who has taught at Queens College for almost forty-five years, considered some of the arguments put forward by the math lobby—for example, that math sharpens the mind.
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The network, citing documents it obtained, reported that Pebble Limited Partnership ghostwrote letters for Dunleavy and gave his office strategies on how to lobby for action sought by the firm.
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"So the bonds would not give even the Treasury, let alone the Fed, a very strong incentive to lobby for keeping the price of gold low and stable," Selgin added.
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Tony Podesta and Vin Weber are lobbyists whose firms, Podesta Group and Mercury Public Affairs, previously worked at Manafort's direction to lobby for the European Centre for a Modern Ukraine.
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Linden Blue, CEO of privately held General Atomics, the U.S. leader in military drones, visited the White House recently to lobby for his industry, a person familiar with the discussions said.
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Because Trump is less concerned about diplomatic niceties, and doesn't appear to have an underlying strict foreign policy ideology, he can and should lobby for an end to protectionism in China.
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The U.S. Agriculture Coalition for Cuba, which was launched in 2014 to lobby for an end to the U.S.-Cuba trade embargo, includes more than 100 agricultural companies and trade groups.
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She didn&apost know that you couldn&apost tell a mistruth when you didn&apost -- WATTERS: I would like to preemptively lobby for a pardon from the president, just in case.
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If you're going to lobby for the things you care about — Earned Allowance Tax Credits, a two-hour homework day, a dog mayor — you need to be storing those nickels. Alas.
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"These decentralized networks don't fit neatly within the existing regulatory structure," said Kristin Smith, head of the Blockchain Association, the first group in Washington to lobby for the technology behind bitcoin.
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While the G-MAFIA usually lobby for huge tax incentives and breaks to do business, they also must agree to the arcane, outdated procurement requirement policies of the military and government.
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The internal group was able to lobby for the standards far more actively than the standard corporate policy channels, according to UN human rights officer Fabrice Houdart, who led the project.
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A dissident leader who came to Socialist headquarters Thursday to take charge of the party was kept waiting in the lobby for two hours before being turned away by Sanchez's loyalists.
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In 1996, Hyman was a young entrepreneur who thought he landed a great deal when he secured a kiosk inside the Trump Tower lobby for his costume jewelry company, Landau Jewelry.
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At Home The Outdoor Alliance and The Nature Conservancy work in the public and private sector to increase access to protected lands, lobby for protective legislation, and support land education opportunities.
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"The case shows that sport and politics cannot be separated," said Reporters Without Borders director Christian Mihr, urging FIFA, soccer's world governing body to lobby for the ban to be overturned.
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Now a small group of developers, including one who recently made a feature-length film about the App Store and app culture, are forming a union to lobby for just that.
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A source close to DeStefano said he is in talks to take on an advisory role at Juul, an e-cigarette company, although he is not expected to lobby for them.
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One of Brownstein's newest lobbyists is Mimi Burke, who spent 813 years working in Saudi Arabia's embassy in Washington and registered on May 11 to lobby for the Saudi Foreign Ministry.
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They've met with state attorneys general and members of Congress in Washington from both sides of the aisle to lobby for criminal justice reform -- and the list goes on and on.
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I don't know if-- if-- if they would lobby for an algorithmic task force that allows somebody to actually get inside privately and look at them, then I would say fantastic.
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" The post by reddit user SLthrOwaway11 reads, "This is my Senator, Ron Johnson, He sold me, my fellow Wisconsinites, and this nation to the telecom lobby for the prices of $123,652.
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Of the 25 people registered to lobby for the four companies in the first three months of this year, about 216 percent formerly served in the government or on political campaigns.
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Some dissident Russians believe that exposing such corruption is one of the few ways in Mr. Putin's autocratic country to fire up citizens and encourage them to lobby for political change.
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They should lobby for human rights investigations, for other governments to deny entry visas to those involved in the abuses, or even for the initiation of torture prosecutions in foreign courts.
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Jesús Seade Kuri, the under secretary for North America at the Mexican foreign ministry, was in Washington this month to meet with legislators and lobby for passage of the Nafta replacement.
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But both Ms. Book and the district said the accusation was not true; the district said it retained the firm for exactly the opposite purpose: to lobby for the fund's creation.
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When activists can't persuade lawmakers to abolish statutes of limitations, they often lobby for exceptions to the law when DNA evidence, which wasn't accessible when many statutes were written, is present.
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In a statement, he said he is "prepared to put a hold on this bill" to lobby for tighter restrictions on companies receiving aid from a taxpayer pool of $500 billion.
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Protesters said they would not disobey the ban by offering rides on Saturday, and hoped that customers would lobby for the ban to be lifted once they were left without rides.
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In the Senate, Biden supported setting aside broadband spectrum for the network both before and after Green registered to lobby for the police group, but the initiative encountered years of delays.
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Protesters said they would not disobey the ban by offering rides on Saturday, and hoped that customers would lobby for the ban to be lifted once they were left without rides.
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Pilma, which opposes transparency bills, contending they expose proprietary information, hired the former political director of the regional chapter of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers to lobby for the group.
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In order to continue as normal, the cannabis industry would need to lobby for the same "explicit exemption" enjoyed by alcohol and tobacco—and "it's not in the bag," Caulkins said.
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But Dr. Catherine Alicia Georges, the national volunteer president of AARP, the lobby for older Americans, told the House panel on Tuesday that Medicare beneficiaries were once again desperate for relief.
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He co-founded the Bronx Zoo, saved American bison from extinction, and used his money and connections to lobby for the creation of America's national parks — despite never holding public office.
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A spokeswoman for Westpac said the bank supported government measures to improve competition, while a spokeswoman for ANZ referred Reuters to the banking lobby for comment, which said all banks welcomed competition.
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Some resources include a map showing where unpermitted lemonade stands are legal, how to contact state representatives to lobby for the laws to be appealed, and downloadable Legal-Ade support yard signs.
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It means Congress is unlikely to wade deeply into yet another hairy political issue until Trump does decide he's willing to use the megaphone of the presidency to lobby for specific reforms.
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Furthermore, the month before the convention, news of the "Billygate" scandal, in which it was revealed that Carter's brother Billy had been paid hefty fees to lobby for the Libyan government, broke.
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The very next day Le Canard Enchaîné, an investigative weekly, reported that Mr Fillon had been paid $50,000 to lobby for a Lebanese billionaire, Fouad Makhzoumi, who owns a pipeline-making business.
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They worried too about the kinds of cronyism it might encourage if American industries worked out that they could lobby for other governments to be pushed into buying more of their stuff.
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The draft is subject to a 60-day consultation period during which industry participants will lobby for changes, with a final version, which is likely to be substantially revised, expected around January.
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For three decades Mrs DeVos has used her family foundation and her leadership of conservative groups to lobby for "school choice", a broad term that can divide Republicans even from moderate Democrats.
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A spokesperson for CoreCivic — one of the largest for-profit prison companies — told Axios one of the few areas they lobby for is re-entry programs at the state and federal level.
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Trudeau is going to meet with Pelosi and Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell after he sees Trump to lobby for a rapid USMCA ratification, two congressional aides and sources in Ottawa said.
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Actor and outspoken conservative James Woods –- he also has a star –- said he thinks liberal members of the City Council will regret their decision to lobby for the removal of Trump's star.
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Mitchell told me via email such neglect is routine for companies that don't want to upgrade aging DSL lines, yet simultaneously lobby for laws banning towns and cities from building better networks.
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LONDON (Reuters) - The decision to revoke the asylum of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange was taken by Ecuador, and Britain did not lobby for it, Prime Minister Theresa May's spokesman said on Thursday.
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Kawlo has just entered Tsai's newly-elected parliament to lobby for the implementation of the basic law, even though she said that the government still mainly represents the ethnically Han Chinese majority.
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She called for firms to map and audit their suppliers and for consumers to research whether slave labor is likely to have gone into the products they buy and lobby for change.
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It also means that advocates working in countries with restrictive laws cannot lobby for or testify about abortion—even a doctor who has witnessed firsthand the damage that unsafe abortion can cause.
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Venezuela's Oil Minister Eulogio Del Pino, who is on a tour of oil producers to lobby for action to prop up prices, said his meeting with Naimi was "productive", his ministry reported.
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The competition was for DREAMers only, and Mora led a squad that designed an app called Push4Reform, which allows users to easily contact their representatives in Congress and lobby for immigration reform.
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Be it concern over causing offence, opting to lobby for change behind the scenes, or a chance to attend the world's biggest showcase, big stars among 2016 nominees have been largely silent.
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An advocate for women pilots in civilian life After leaving the Navy, Mariner became a professor at the University of Tennessee, where she continued to lobby for women's rights in the military.
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Protectionist policies are linked to increased corruption and are more likely to bolster the disproportionate influence of the wealthiest in society, who will be best posed to lobby for benefits and protection.
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"When I first attempted to lobby for a national archive over 50 years ago, soon after I completed 'Rekava,' I was mocked by many," he told The Island, a Sri Lankan newspaper.
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The Times - BHP Group Plc is facing a shareholder revolt after influential investors urged the giant miner to suspend membership of contentious trade groups that lobby for the fossil fuels industry. bit.
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We were able to reserve the large lower-level lecture hall beneath the lobby for the memorial and related activities stemming from the students' work for Professor Blier's course on the museum.
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But Representative Steve Scalise of Louisiana, the Republican whip, and other members of his vote-counting team were set to lobby for votes against the resolution during a session on Monday night.
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But now, with the theater in poor financial straits two years after master puppeteer Bob Baker's death, the famed theater could soon be converted into a lobby for a seven-story apartment building.
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"People want to know how much that mine or oil and gas operation is paying their government, so they can lobby for more social services, more health care, and more education," she said.
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He is aligned with groups that lobby for cutting the number of legal immigrants allowed into country each year, as well as programs to ensure that employers aren't able to hire illegal workers.
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Nassar is scheduled to be sentenced on 7 first-degree sexual assault charges -- but first, his victims are getting the opportunity to address the court and lobby for whatever punishment they see fit.
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" According to CityRealty, the building "offers almost door-to-door access with its drive-in, drive-out underground parking garage with valet and a second lobby for residents wishing to take private elevators.
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"I have not seen Exxon or any other oil company lobby for a carbon price with the same vehemence that I've seen them lobby against other issues in the past," Grumet told me.
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AMSTERDAM, March 24 (Reuters) - The chief executive of PPG Industries has left the Netherlands after meeting with Akzo Nobel "stakeholders" to lobby for a merger of the two companies, a spokesman said Friday.
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"You're welcome to lobby for support for Trump as much as possible," Mr. Cruz told the host, Chuck Todd, who tried more than a half-dozen times to extract an answer, in vain.
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The memo, which was obtained by CNBC, says AT&T hired Cohen as a political consultant and advisor on matters about the president but did not permit him to lobby for the company.
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We'll start with the lobbying news... PhRMA's top lobbyist is leaving Rodger Currie, Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America's (PhRMA) top lobbyist, is leaving his post at the nation's top lobby for drugmakers.
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" The message was accompanied by a link to a Business Insider story with the headline: "Former European leaders struggle to explain themselves after Mueller claims Paul Manafort paid them to lobby for Ukraine.
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Prince Charles — who has long supported environmentalist causes — went on to lobby for changes to climate change rules that would have benefitted the Bermuda company, according to the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists.
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Around midnight, an officer from the security service called their hotel room from the reception desk and asked Alaradi to come down to the lobby for a few minutes to answer some questions.
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He went on to lobby for Amazon, including in connection with its purchase in 2017 of the grocery chain Whole Foods, which required a review of competition concerns by the Federal Trade Commission.
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Prosecutors accused Menendez of accepting campaign donations and gifts, including a stay at a Caribbean villa and private jet flights, from Melgen in exchange for using his office to lobby for the doctor.
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Anti-abortion campaigners went on to lobby for two further referendums to exclude a suicide risk as a reason to allow abortion, but — in a sign of changing attitudes — were defeated both times.
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In 2015, his second year in office, he started a new group to lobby for a progressive agenda across the country and planned to hold a presidential forum on inequality in the state.
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Here's another solution: Use your money to lobby for higher personal income taxes solely on the rich that would be funneled into housing homeless populations, or providing infrastructure and services in poor neighborhoods.
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New charges accused Paul Manafort, the former Trump campaign chairman, of paying off a group of European politicians, nicknamed the Hapsburg Group, to lobby for the pro-Russian government that then controlled Ukraine.
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The proposal "will increase prescription drug costs for older Americans while providing a windfall of billions of dollars to the drug industry," said AARP, the lobby for 38 million Americans 50 and older.
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Cole Lyle, a Marine veteran who recently moved here to lobby for funding to provide wounded veterans with service dogs, is using Craigslist and word-of-mouth among his friends to find roommates.
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Dr. Feldman say it will cost Israel $6 billion more a year to catch up to the developed world, but Israelis are too willing to count their blessings rather than lobby for change.
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" The AMA also intends to lobby for the reversal of the "legislation that for 20 years [the AMA claims] has prohibited the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) from researching gun violence.
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The logging industry and its allies have spent millions of dollars to lobby for this amendment, which will benefit timber interests, destroy forests, and wreak havoc on our efforts to fight climate change.
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He said his organization would lobby for streamlining cross-border tax arrangements with Europe and for amending or abolishing a regulation that grants artists a royalty payment each time their work is resold.
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The new regulations from the secretive Politburo highlight in rare detail the illicit mechanisms it says are used to obtain power and lobby for high-ranking positions in the Communist Party and government.
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There is additional pressure on Republicans from groups like AARP, the lobby for older Americans that is fighting provisions of the House bill that could significantly increase health insurance premiums for older Americans.
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It stood next to a cart loaded with suitcases and was so lifelike, it almost appeared as if a dancer from a nearby Broadway show had chosen the lobby for an odd nap.
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Trump surrogate Carl Higbie, a spokesman for the Great America PAC, appeared on "The Kelly File" Wednesday night to not only defend but lobby for the deeply controversial and constitutionally questionable Muslim registry.
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Efficiencies spurred by the battle with OPEC - including faster drilling, better well designs and more fracking - helped U.S. firms produce enough oil to successfully lobby for the repeal of a ban on oil exports.
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Sticking point: The Pentagon was one of the few agencies in Trump's plan that got an increase in the first place, so it would be politically difficult to lobby for more at this point.
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So, of course, it did this week with an ingenious angle: by giving Smollett a chance to lobby for a crisis-management lawyer to deal with his impending disorderly conduct charges, Shark Tank-style.
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Azar has served on the board of directors of the Biotechnology Innovation Organization, a drug industry lobby, for several years, and his nomination would raise questions about the administration's seriousness about lowering drug prices.
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That will push a lot of the action to the states, where insurers will lobby for reinsurance funding, regulatory waivers (on which the Trump administration would have to agree) and state-level coverage requirements.
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Why go all the way to the campus cafeteria or dorm lobby for a cold drink when you can easily just get it out of this mini fridge in the corner of your room?
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That is a compelling reason for any manager or executive to lobby for automation, and it's why people dread picking up the phone to do just about any business at all with a corporation.
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Adversaries look at what the United States expects to spend on the nuclear revitalization program — estimated at up to $1 trillion over three decades — and use it to lobby for their own sophisticated weaponry.
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Hundreds of Americans will converge on Capitol Hill Wednesday (March 22019) to lobby for legislation that would make it easier to identify, develop and approve drugs for life-threatening rare diseases and pediatric cancers.
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Public documents under the Foreign Agents Registration Act show the Taiwanese government paid Alston & Bird LLP, a law firm that lists Dole as special counsel, thousands of dollars to lobby for the government's interests.
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Rather than walk through a hotel lobby for a tourist buffet, we ordered the vegetarian patty and scrambled-egg sandwich at Miss Sonia's, a roadside cafe under a canopy, full of white plastic tables.
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When the next serious drought hits and difficult tradeoffs have to be made, politically driven solutions encourage urban users to lobby for a greater share of costs to fall on agriculture and vice versa.
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FTI Government Affairs registered to lobby for the airline, focusing on legislation and regulations pertaining to airlines and air travel, aviation policy and the FAA reauthorization, according to lobbying disclosure forms filed this week.
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The actions had been in connection with a scheme to lobby for easing sanctions on Iraq and "to corruptly influence the award and conditions of Oil for Food contracts," according to the Justice Department.
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The complexity of approval and funding processes causes local politicians to either delay projects as they lobby for federal funding or to "overpromise and underdeliver" on costs and benefits to push a project through.
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Just like at Skywalker Ranch to the north, access to the Presidio's Lucasfilm headquarters is limited — the public can only venture into the lobby for a glimpse at memorabilia from the studio's beloved franchise.
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David M. Certner, the legislative policy director of AARP, the lobby for older Americans, said his group supports the idea of allowing greater coverage for supplemental benefits, including nonmedical services that can improve care.
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The internal watchdog at the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has agreed to lawmakers' request to investigate whether grants from the agency funded efforts to lobby for reduced protections for Alaska's Tongass National Forest.
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Mr. Deripaska has courted powerful political figures in Britain, played host to lavish parties in Davos, Switzerland, and once hired a former Republican presidential nominee, Senator Bob Dole of Kansas, to lobby for him.
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ZURICH, June 16 (Reuters) - The Swiss government appears to have heeded a recommendation from the country's banking lobby for assurances that dozens of countries receiving bank data from Switzerland will use the information properly.
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Further bolstering Facebook's lobbying muscle on Libra are the Cypress Group and the Sternhell Group, which had not previously registered to lobby for the social media company but were well established in financial services.
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Don't bet on it (Forbes) FDA may bristle at Trump's latest dig (Stat News) State by state Bill seeks to rein in Arkansas Medicaid program (Arkansas Online) Ohioans lobby for Planned Parenthood funding (Cleveland.
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This kind of regulation inevitably creates winners and losers, and the winners are generally the people who are inside the system and have the wherewithal to lobby for a particular outcome that they want.
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As a senator, Sessions called business interests that lobby for more liberal immigration laws "masters of the universe" and questioned why the DOJ hadn't pressed charges against the companies that contributed to the financial crisis.
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A Reuters reporter who visited one of Moscow's most expensive private clinics in November saw several bodyguards equipped with earpieces waiting in the lobby for their bosses, and a line of luxury limousines parked outside.
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Cagie Peardon, who came here from Crystal River, Florida to lobby for a hometown Starbucks, says she respects the opinions but doesn't feel like they have a place at a meeting for a public company.
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Since the outrageous program announcement, Waking the Feminists has sprung up to lobby for equality for women in the arts, raising awareness of the issue by holding events across the country around Nollaig na mBan.
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Nike and Google, for instance, criticized Trump for pulling out of the Paris Climate Agreement, and firms ranging from Mozilla to Pornhub all slowed down their websites in December 2017 to lobby for net neutrality.
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Clare Cady, a director and co-founder of the College and University Food Bank Alliance, which helps launch and lobby for food banks at hundreds of campuses nationwide, was adamant that more intervention is necessary.
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Crucially, Global Fishing Watch makes its data open to anyone—so now the National Geographic Society is using it to lobby for new marine preserves, and governments and nonprofits use it to target illicit fishing.
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Most internet experts support the internet governance transition, because it would undermine an argument used by repressive regimes to lobby for greater power over internet governance, or even break off from the global internet altogether.
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Director John Madden's upcoming Miss Sloane asks that question in reverse, by presenting the titular protagonist on a determined mission: To lobby for stricter gun control no matter who or what gets in her way.
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Even as the country's emissions continue to soar, it's been hard to reach a political consensus on energy and climate change policy because of Australia's mining history and a powerful lobby for one product: coal.
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David French, the National Retail Federation's top lobbyist, said it was harder to lobby for the provision because he couldn't meet with senators or their staffers in person, with the Hill mostly closed to visitors.
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On Thursday, he announced that he's launching an activist organization called Humanity Forward, which will attempt to build on the momentum and internet enthusiasm for the Yang campaign to lobby for "a human-centered America".
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Lobbying filings suggest that, just before the April announcement, David Vitter, a former Republican senator who is being paid to lobby for EN+, reached out to give Mr. McConnell "a heads-up" about the announcement.
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Five days before the event, Mr. Ballard registered to lobby for a United States-based Syrian opposition group called Citizens for a Secure and Safe America, which paid his firm $350,000 in 2018 and 2019.
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Segun Idowu, a community organizer in Boston who formed a group to lobby for the Boston Police Department to adopt body-worn cameras, worried that departments would publicize positive videos to distract from negative ones.
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"When you fire a stone to hit someone from Mexico, you're hitting someone from Mayo," said Ciaran Staunton, the co-founder of the Irish Lobby for Immigration Reform, referring to a county in western Ireland.
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"In the end, they said the meeting would be impossible unless I hired a company that would lobby for such a meeting," Mr. Lutsenko told the news outlet, adding that he declined to do that.
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MARY M. LILLY Her very first act as a legislator, she told a woman's suffrage magazine in 1919, was to submit a resolution asking the state's United States senators to lobby for the 19th Amendment.
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Nichols said that the ABA would continue to lobby for lawmakers to do away with "arbitrary" asset thresholds altogether and to focus instead on banks' activities when assessing if they should be designated as SIFIs.
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EFF's Danny O'Brien writes: We can expect media and rightsholders to lobby for the most draconian possible national laws, then promptly march to the courts to extract fines whenever anyone online wanders over its fuzzy lines.
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But Legacy 1995 says it will lobby for those responsible for the destruction to be brought to justice, and hopes that its detailed drawings will allow a copy to be built on the now-barren site.
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But unions teach workers about politics; help them to volunteer, register, and turn out to vote; fund political efforts and candidates; and lobby for policies that can help workers at the local, state, and federal levels.
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Leaving Neverland was met with intense emotion at Sundance, where there were mandated counsellors on call in the lobby for viewers who needed them after hearing the harrowing, graphically detailed, firsthand accounts showcased in the film.
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The good people of microblogging platform Tumblr have been a key part of the fight to keep net neutrality since the beginning, posting calls to action and Congressional phone numbers to lobby for their internet rights.
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All of which raises the question: In the grand scheme of solving climate change, is it better for the U.S. to remain in the Paris climate agreement if it will aggressively lobby for weak accountability rules?
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Dench's journey, which will end in Gloucestershire in the south west of England after she delivers a petition to Downing Street to lobby for swan conservation, has seen her travel some 7,000 km over 11 countries.
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Other groups who signed the letter included Greenpeace USA, Democracy 21, Franciscan Action Network, New American Leaders Action Fund, Secure Elections Network, CREDO, Clean Elections Texas, Business for America, and NETWORK Lobby for Catholic Social Justice.
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Other groups who signed the letter included Greenpeace USA, Democracy 21, Franciscan Action Network, New American Leaders Action Fund, Secure Elections Network, CREDO, Clean Elections Texas, Business for America, and NETWORK Lobby for Catholic Social Justice.
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Many Puerto Rican officials, including Meléndez, have made a habit of visiting senators and representatives with large Puerto Rican constituencies to lobby for support for the island's reconstruction after the devastation of the hurricanes last summer.
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Josh Morrison, a lawyer and former college debater who now runs an organ transplant advocacy organization, initiated the weekly course as a way to help inmates learn to lobby for their rights once they are released.
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In a world in which kids get participation trophies; test scores can be enhanced and special interest groups lobby for set asides there is one area in which the merit system is supreme – getting in shape.
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The lobby for non-German banks in Germany said at an event in Frankfurt that while institutes were working hard to prepare for Brexit, not everything would be completely set up and functioning right after Brexit.
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In South Korea, where there is a powerful lobby for the country to become a nuclear power, there is about a 50 percent chance of going nuclear, said Andray Abrahamian, associate research director of Choson Exchange.
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MELBOURNE (Reuters) - Mining giant BHP Group Ltd urged shareholders on Thursday to vote against a resolution that would require the company to quit industry groups that lobby for policies inconsistent with the Paris climate change agreement.
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Interior Department nominee: David Bernhardt, President Trump's choice to lead the department, continued to lobby for a client several months after he filed papers saying that he had ended such activities, a previously unreleased invoice shows.
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"Geothermal energy and onsens will never co-exist because geothermals would take these resources, " said Masao Oyama, chairman of the Japan Spa Association, a powerful collective of spa owners who lobby for the $26 billion industry.
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His latest campaign gaffes came at a gun control forum in Des Moines, Iowa, when he described meeting survivors of the shooting that left 17 dead when they visited Washington to lobby for stricter gun laws.
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She has also traveled to Washington to lobby for the END ALL Hazing Act, which was introduced to a House of Representatives committee in June and would require higher education institutions to disclose hazing-related misconduct.
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Over the years, he frequently visited China to meet local officials and members of the decision-making Politburo to lobby for subsidies, cheap land, workers and infrastructure for facilities that churned out iPods, iPads and iPhones.
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For breakfast my mom gets her and my sister fruit cups from the cafe in the lobby for and I eat the rest of the garden breakfast wrap that we got from Publix two days earlier.
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For more click U.S. President Donald Trump's former personal attorney Michael Cohen testified that Novartis AG initially wanted him to lobby for the company when it retained him with a $20800 million contract, but that Cohen refused.
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Some big oil and natural gas companies are slowly beginning to lobby for a carbon tax in Washington, but last week's midterm elections show that when the industry faces an imminent threat, they bury it with money.
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But although we may safely assume that those who lobby for a certain form of licensing do so because they stand to gain from it, it does not automatically follow that the rest of society will lose.
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In July 2016, Germany's Doping Opfer Hilfe Verein (Doping Victim Help Society), which was formed in 1999 to lobby for and provide assistance to the GDR's doping victims, conducted a survey of 2500 of its female members.
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What really matters, says Jessica Stark, who leads SUP46, a lobby for Swedish tech firms, is the broader signal to many other start-ups as they grow—who voice the same complaints as the music-streaming company.
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SANDERS STAFF ACCUSED OF SHADY TACTICS: Operatives working on behalf of Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders have been accused of donning pins implying they are culinary union workers to lobby for votes in several Las Vegas hotels.
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SYDNEY (Reuters) - Bosses of Australia's media companies, including an arm of Rupert Murdoch's News Corp, have formed an unprecedented front to lobby for changes they say will allow more consolidation and help them compete with internet giants.
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Others landed at larger organizations, with Moran going to the law firm McDermott Will & Emery and Camp joining -PricewaterhouseCoopers Waxman, McKeon, Terry and Moran each told The Hill that they plan to register to lobby for clients.
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Trump has asked key members of his administration -- including daughter Ivanka Trump and Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin -- to forgo tagging along on his upcoming trip to Asia to instead remain in Washington to lobby for the plan.
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A deal could reduce legal costs for the two companies, which have had to defend themselves against legal challenges as well as lobby for legislation to make the games legal in states that have declared them illegal.
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Students described as looking 'dull and glassy' Following Yue's disappearance, a group of alumni and students at Peking University -- where Yue was a recent graduate -- set up the "Finding Yue Movement" to lobby for the her release.
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Analysts said increased tensions could prompt settlers who have a strong voice in Israel's right-wing government to lobby for tougher travel and employment restrictions on Palestinians, a step that could in turn further inflame the atmosphere.
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U. politicians and groups have been fighting on a number of fronts to try and prevent Brexit outright, or lobby for May to shift tack towards a "soft Brexit" that would retain some ties with the bloc.
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Timothy D. Cook, Apple's chief executive, has, for instance, met with a string of European politicians, including France's prime minister, Manuel Valls, and Britain's home secretary, Theresa May, in recent months to lobby for tough encryption technology.
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" In it, he urges readers to "adopt every possible measure that will reduce unnecessary energy use," to lobby for better laws, and to embrace nuclear power, which, he writes, "will keep the lights on without carbon emission.
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" He added that "under longstanding policy, CoreCivic does not draft, lobby for, promote or in any way take a position on proposals, policies or legislation that determine the basis or duration of an individual's incarceration or detention.
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But Mr. Byford was suddenly unavailable for interviews with reporters and did not appear at hearings with state lawmakers to lobby for congestion pricing, which will allow the state to raise $15 billion for the transit system.
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Kathleen Wright, a spokeswoman for the company's handwriting division, said that it does not lobby for legislation, but that it does provide lawmakers with research "because we're recognized as the gold standard of handwriting instruction," she said.
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But as other automakers hesitate to share their low-speed noise plans, or in some cases even lobby for delays in the regulations, Ayax president Alejandro Curcio sees an opportunity for both his company and his country.
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In part, that's due to the lack of detail in the indictment beyond Correia's alleged involvement in an effort to lobby for a marijuana business that, according to the indictment, was secretly backed by a Russian businessman.
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On Friday night at MoMA, he'll give a "freeform multimedia performance" to close out a series devoted to Sundance's New Frontier program, after which he and some friends will take over the museum's lobby for a PopRally.
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But in the interest of fairness, it's worth casting an unjaundiced eye on the motives of the Schnoll Corridor, and the painkiller industry as a whole, as it ramps up its efforts to develop and lobby for ADFs.
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Painter herself was listed as a lobbyist in a 2007 filing that showed that a lobbying firm then known as Dutko Worldwide and now as Dutko Grayling had received $120,000 to lobby for the Latvian–American Financial Forum.
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In this presidential cycle, Mckesson has met with both Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders as part of a broader effort to lobby for the end of "broken windows" policing and an increase in local oversight of police departments.
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Still, in order to successfully lobby for and make those changes, we need a better understanding of what is happening inside America's more than 5,100 jails and prisons, starting with a deeper look at the lengths of stay.
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Mueller's team said Manafort and a longtime associate linked to Russian intelligence attempted to contact via phone call, text and encrypted messages two people from The Hapsburg Group, which Manafort had worked with to lobby for Ukrainian interests.
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After getting a six-episode order from Starz based on their pilot presentation -- the 15 minute teaser for Starz executives used to lobby for a greenlight -- she vowed to disrupt the Boyle Heights ecosystem as little as possible.
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Nine in 10 health facilities in Liberia do not meet the health ministry's standards for water supplies, said WaterAid, which is launching a campaign asking health workers to lobby for better water, sanitation and hygiene around the world.
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The ransom of a hostage profit is what allows unions to get to the negotiation table and lobby for higher wages for their members which in turn leads to a rising prosperity for all – laborers and shareholders both.
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Hutchinson Biehl is justified in looking into people's views on prostitution, the official said, because the law that funds the human trafficking grants bans recipients from using the money to lobby for or promote the legalization of prostitution.
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Burger King does not lobby for the open internet on Capitol Hill, according to its federal ethics forms, and it similarly did not answer questions this week about its support for a congressional effort to restore the rules.
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The individual mandate and the employer mandate are "inextricably entwined," said James A. Klein, the president of the American Benefits Council, an influential lobby for large companies like Dow Chemical, Microsoft and BP, the oil and gas producer.
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The group's agenda is predictable: It will lobby for universal background checks and an extreme risk protection law, which would allow the temporary confiscation of guns from people believed to pose an imminent threat to themselves or others.
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That group received $200,85033 of the grant, according to a report from Alaska Public Media, contributing to state efforts to lobby for changes to the "roadless rule" that blocks logging development in forests by limiting access to vehicles.
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That group received $200,000 of the grant, according to a report from Alaska Public Media, contributing to state efforts to lobby for changes to the "roadless rule" that blocks logging development in forests by limiting access to vehicles.
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Just hours later, Mr. Trump urged uniformed sailors aboard the aircraft carrier Gerald R. Ford to call their members of Congress to lobby for his military spending plan and his proposed repeal of Mr. Obama's health care program.
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In the lobby, for instance, a shimmering wall of mirror and iridescent mosaic tile will play off an exposed concrete ceiling, while the floor will consist of four different types of natural stone set in a geometric pattern.
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About a dozen University of Idaho students who are part of Generation Action, a group linked with a local Planned Parenthood, traveled about 300 miles to Boise to lobby for the health measures, The Associated Press reported Tuesday.
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Eliminating the penalties used to enforce the mandate that most Americans have insurance "would add to short-term instability in the market," said Marilyn B. Tavenner, the chief executive of America's Health Insurance Plans, a lobby for insurers.
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The bus tour, organized by Network lobby for Catholic Social Justice, is scheduled to make stops in a number of states and districts across the country with competitive House and Senate races — including the districts of GOP Reps.
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That bid is due at FIFA, world soccer's governing body, in the middle of March, after which the volunteer president must crisscross the globe to lobby for support ahead of the June vote to award the hosting rights.
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Powerful drone and satellite images are bringing to life the urgent needs of more than 800,000 Rohingya refugees who fled to Bangladesh from Myanmar, while also providing strong evidence of abuses, which could be used to lobby for justice.
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Acting as US shadow delegation at COP 22.7, coalition members are in Katowice, Poland, to meet with national governments, and lobby for a strong set of rules to operationalize the Paris Agreement, Leonard told me in a phone interview.
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A new group called "Enough Silence", made up of young people from six districts in southern Libya, has said it will peacefully blockade supply roads to Sharara to lobby for oil revenues to be spent on the neglected south.
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A deal could reduce legal costs for the two companies, which have had to defend themselves against the legal challenges as well as lobby for legislation to make the games legal in states that have declared them illegal gambling.
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Most excitingly, he wants to expand the debilitatingly meagre scope of the city's mayoralty, pledging to lobby for new tax-raising abilities and local health powers to rival those which Manchester will acquire, ahead of the capital, in April.
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It's easier to vote for that bill after you've had a few months to take in the policies, lobby for a few tweaks to the language, and have your arm seriously twisted by the White House and Senate leadership.
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"He didn't do this," her mother, Nancy Martin, said Monday after a court hearing where Martin took the stand — along with West's father, William Gerald West — to unsuccessfully lobby for a reduction in West's jail bond, according to AL.com.
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The Navajo Nation, which has also complained about the state taxation of tribal energy production in New Mexico, Utah and Arizona, said it will partner with the MHA Nation to lobby for changes to policy in Washington this year.
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Abigail Blunt, The Kraft Heinz Co. Blunt drew upon her Washington know-how to lobby for an exclusion of steel tariffs for canned food; she's also been active on trade deals, sugar reform and labeling rules for unfiltered milk.
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WASHINGTON — A previously undisclosed invoice indicates that David Bernhardt, President Trump's choice to lead the Interior Department, continued to lobby for a major client several months after he filed official papers saying that he had ended his lobbying activities.
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"There are cooperation between units and private contractor that lobby for deals," Apirat said "I know about this and I want to assure that in the next three months some generals and colonels will lose their jobs," he said.
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On the Palestinian issue: Bolton was not directly involved in the drafting of the White House peace plan, but Netanyahu saw him as someone who could help lobby for his positions on the plan from inside the White House.
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Kim Kardashian West met Donald Trump in the White House Wednesday to lobby for prison reform and to ask him to pardon Johnson, who went to jail more than 20 years ago after getting involved in a cocaine ring.
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At the time of the young man's death, Liang was conducting a controversial procedure known as a vertical patrol, where police officers stringently check each floor of high-crime projects, from the roof to the lobby, for shady behavior.
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And while the company did lobby for net neutrality protections in 2010, it worked covertly with AT&T and Verizon to ensure those initial rules were so flimsy as to be largely useless (Google helped ensure they didn't cover wireless whatsoever).
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Representatives of the Human Rights Campaign, the largest U.S. gay advocacy group, plan to lobby for gun safety laws in visits with members of Congress during their recess this month and with state lawmakers when they return to session next year.
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Over the last year, Alston & Bird has been paid $200,000 to lobby for the Taipei Economic and Cultural Representative Office in the United States, and is on retainer for at least $20,000 per month this year, according to the disclosure forms.
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But in June of this year, Michael Holmes, director of the MOB's Scholar's Initiative, announced that Obbink presented himself as the owner of the Mark fragment and sold it, together with other fragments, to Hobby Lobby for an undisclosed amount.
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CEO Jack Dorsey has said he'll continue to run both Square and Twitter, which if the company's business continues to decline may cause some frustration on Wall Street and spur investors to lobby for some change at the upper level.
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The most damaging email leaks came in March when someone went after Elliott Broidy, a 60-year-old American hired to lobby for the UAE, and whose company, Circinus, has received more than $200 billion in defense contracts from the country.
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"This matter was limited to one organization and 4,392 names, phone numbers, and email addresses of Americans containing the same four-paragraph text sent to lawmakers to lobby for Medicare reform as part of that organization's education campaign," the statement said.
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Yet another arena for American-Russian cooperation in the cause of old-time religion is the World Congress of Families, an American-based association that convenes international gatherings to lobby for conservative social polices, most recently in Budapest and Tbilisi.
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" Pressed to comment on Spacey directly, McKellen, who came out as gay in 1988 to lobby for gay rights in the U.K., said he couldn't because "there have been many accusations that have not really been gone into" or been "understood.
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" In addition, the company also pledges its public policy team will lobby for an increase to the federal minimum wage from $7.25 — it doesn't identify a specific wage that it's targeting, but instead says, "We believe $7.25 is too low.
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In letters to the head of the division, Assistant Attorney General Makan Delrahim, as well as to Justice Department ethics officials, Warren says Google paid Delrahim about $100,000 in 2007 to lobby for the company's acquisition of digital ad service DoubleClick.
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PARIS (Reuters) - French retail power prices could jump at least 8 percent next year, a lobby for industrial consumers warned on Friday, after demand by alternative power suppliers for nuclear power produced by state utility EDF outstripped the available limit.
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The Sunday Telegraph reported over the weekend that senior members of the ruling Conservative Party are supporting a new group to lobby for a so-called 'hard Brexit' and persuade Prime Minister Theresa May to leave the EU's lucrative single market.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump's former personal attorney Michael Cohen testified on Wednesday that Swiss drugmaker Novartis AG initially wanted him to lobby for the company when it retained him with a $1.2 million contract, but that Cohen refused.
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The one-time favorite to become prime minister has never previously held a position in government, preferring instead to lobby for his purist vision of Brexit: no customs union, no single market, no EU role in making or applying British laws.
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Agriculture Minister Julia Kloecker wrote last month to her counterpart in the environment ministry, Svenja Schulze, to lobby for a change in the rules to allow more wolves to be shot as part of a moderate regulation of the wolf population.
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Pence claimed in a March interview with Fox News that it was the "first I'd heard of" Flynn earning hundreds of thousands of dollars to lobby for a Turkish businessman, which ultimately prompted Flynn to register as a foreign agent.
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The last time a coalition this diverse with fossil-fuel backing pushed Congress on climate policy was in 2007, when a group called the U.S. Climate Action Partnership formed between corporations and environmental groups to lobby for legislation cutting carbon emissions.
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So I was confused, when, just before travelling to New York, a few days after waiting hours in a Toronto hotel lobby for another soon-to-be cancelled interview, I was greeted with a seemingly fair-skinned Spice on Instagram.
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While the illicit market will never disappear completely, increasing regulations and the growing political power of cannabis power players who will lobby for stricter laws against illegal operators may start to make a dent, according to experts and industry folk.
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Signs of their efforts can be seen in the Women's March, which drew hundreds of thousands of female protesters to cities around the country the past two years to lobby for women's rights and rebuke vulgar comments by President Trump.
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Farm-state politicians and subsidy supporters routinely leverage romanticized notions of farmers and their role in history and society to lobby for extensive subsidies and programs that, in most cases, tend to disproportionately benefit the largest agribusinesses, rather than small farms.
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Clinton and other Democrats have run explicitly against the N.R.A. in this election, attacking the gun lobby for opposing laws intended to restrict gun sales to people with mental illnesses or whose names are on the federal terrorism watch list.
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" An organizer tells ITK that the hotel is also partnering with Wolf Trap Animal Rescue to feature five pooches up for adoption in the hotel's lobby "for some much-needed puppy love to offset the stress of the election season.
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Putting on our activist hats, the members of my support group decided that we should lobby for more hires by writing a letter to the Simon Cancer Center, to be sent to the various administrators in charge of the medical school.
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The Flynn Intel Group, a consulting firm he founded after he was fired by President Obama as head of the Defense Intelligence Agency, has hazy business ties to Middle Eastern countries and has appeared to lobby for the Turkish government.
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David Bouhadana, who runs a branch of Sushi by Bou, his fast-track sushi omakase, in the Sanctuary Hotel in the theater district, will serve fresh hand rolls at an eight-seat counter in the lobby for lunch and dinner.
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It's designed to encourage locally and publicly operated broadband networks while reducing the power of big internet service providers like Comcast and Verizon, which have little incentive to expand into many smaller communities but still lobby for legally protected near-monopolies.
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Al Sharpton and James Brown visit the White House to lobby for a national holiday in honor of Martin Luther King Jr. February 221, 22851: "Late Night With David Letterman" debuts on NBC with Bill Murray as the first guest.
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While House delegates do not have the same voting privileges as representatives, Ms. Teehee will use her platform to lobby for equitable funding in education and health care — and she will push the federal government to fulfill all other treaty obligations.
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Trump has also revived the so-called Mexico City Policy, a Reagan-era restriction on the flow of U.S. aid to foreign abortion providers, and expanded it to include nongovernmental organizations that provide abortion-related services or lobby for abortion rights.
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LONDON, Oct 9 (Reuters) - The Church of England Pensions Board urged shareholder advisors on Wednesday to support a resolution asking the world's biggest listed miner BHP to leave groups which lobby for policies inconsistent with global climate change limitation goals.
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Buck McKeon (R-Calif.), who was the chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, has registered to lobby for aerospace company Orbital ATK on issues including "Support for Defense Systems, Space Systems, and Flight Systems Groups," lobbying disclosure forms say.
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A few years later when she was back in Washington and chief of staff to the director of operations for counterterrorism, Jose Rodriquez, the man who had sent her to Thailand, she continued to lobby for destruction of the tapes.
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The American Association of University Women is partnering with the New York City Economic Development Corporation to begin salary negotiation bootcamps across the city geared toward equipping women with tools and tactics to lobby for more pay and better benefits.
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Though UCF tried to lobby for him, the NCAA only granted a waver that allowed De La Haye to post athletic-related videos on a non-monetized channel or make money off videos that didn't use his sports image and likeness.
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Ethel Paley, a social worker who for 35 years was at the forefront of helping nursing home patients and their families navigate the labyrinthine health care system, redress hidden abuses in treatment and lobby for systemic solutions, died on Nov.
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The letter asked execs to end political contributions to candidates who take money from the NRA and vote against gun reform, actively lobby for gun reform and make contributions to groups that support survivors and aim to reduce gun violence.
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BEIJING (Reuters) - With stealth jets entering service, leaked pictures of new high-tech naval artillery and proud reports of maneuvers that "dare to shine the sword," China's armed forces are putting on a show of power as they lobby for greater defense spending.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Unions and groups advocating for retirees, teachers, housing, and workers' benefits are among those visiting the ornate conference rooms of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York to lobby for a less conventional candidate to serve as its next president.
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In the meantime, the Democrats will probably use their leverage to get concessions out of the Trump administration on labor or environmental protections — or possibly even try to help lobby for the removal of steel and aluminum tariffs on Canada and Mexico.
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It also parked its UberPop p2p ride-hailing service in Norway, leaving only licensed driver services operating there — saying it wanted to engage in a "constructive dialogue with policymakers" to lobby for rule changes that would enable it to restart its engines.
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Why it matters: USCIS is expected to end the H-4 work eligibility program, which allows the spouses of H-1B holders with pending green cards to legally work in the U.S. Who they lobby for: Google, Facebook, Apple, Amazon and others.
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I've read a good number of both pro and con pieces, including an essay written last year on Refinery29 that convincingly argues against spending the entire ceremony holed up in the church lobby for fear your 1-year-old will become disruptive.
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It contributed to the election of a Democratic governor in 2013, Terry McAuliffe, who now finds himself under federal scrutiny for possible violations of a little-enforced law requiring American citizens who lobby for foreign governments to register with the Department of Justice.
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Liberal think tanks, meanwhile, have surrendered to corporate influence that is less nakedly partisan but equally compromising: The Brookings Institution recently made a real estate developer a senior fellow, while accepting $400,000 to lobby for his company's redevelopment plans in San Francisco.
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In a Monday court filing, Mueller's team said Manafort and a longtime associate linked to Russian intelligence attempted to contact via phone call, text and encrypted messages two people from "The Hapsburg Group," which Manafort had worked with to lobby for Ukrainian interests.
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The fact that it finds itself in the company of countries like Mexico, Guatemala, and Venezuela in terms of gun deaths indicates that the United States government has effectively ceded its monopoly on violence under pressure of a powerful lobby for gun manufacturers.
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In a series of tweets between late March and early April, he accused the company of paying "little or no taxes to state and local governments" and setting up The Washington Post, also owned by Bezos, as a de facto lobby for Amazon.
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LONDON (Reuters) - British Prime Minister Theresa May will lobby for the release of detained British-Iranian aid worker Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe during a meeting with Iranian President Hassan Rouhani when both attend the United Nations General Assembly in New York on Tuesday.
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By Sister Simone Campbell, Sisters of Social Service, executive director of NETWORK Lobby for Catholic Social Justice and leader of Nuns on the Bus As I look around at our nation and world, I notice a lot of situations to worry about.
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If more companies were to report their political spending — including donations to the Chamber and other trade associations — then the Chamber would no longer be able to provide "deniability" to companies that want to lobby for unpopular policies without harming their public reputations.
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For that reason, the state's two teachers' unions, the West Virginia Education Association and the state branch of the American Federation of Teachers, do not function as those in other states might, although they do lobby for teachers and help with grievances.
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Consider the societal costs of inaccurate information about opioid addiction, delays in grounding the Boeing 737 Max, small businesses burdened by the paperwork to apply for tariff exemptions, or unique advantages to firms that can afford to lobby for tax carve-outs.
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Scott Reed of Chesapeake Enterprises, who is also a senior strategist for the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, Ryan Canfield of GuidePostStrategy and a former special assistant to President Trump, and Robert Wasinger of McGuirewoods Consulting LLC, are registering to lobby for the group.
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In 2007, Mr. Delrahim, who was in private law practice at the time, had a contract to lobby for Google's acquisition of the ad-technology company DoubleClick, according to the people, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because the details are confidential.
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Many of the roughly 9m Americans based abroad—including "accidental Americans" who have spent most of their lives elsewhere but face tax liabilities in America because they were born there, making them citizens—have formed groups to lobby for less brutal treatment.
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In August, the Business Roundtable, a lobby for big companies, replaced its old mission statement, an unapologetic declaration that corporations are in the business of making money, with a softer statement acknowledging "a fundamental commitment to all our stakeholders," including workers and communities.
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Specifically, the letter calls on the studio to end political contributions to candidates who take money from the NRA and vote against gun reform, actively lobby for gun reform and make contributions to groups that support survivors and aim to reduce gun violence.
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LOS ANGELES, Sept 24 (Reuters) - Families involved in a 2012 movie theater mass shooting in Colorado have asked the studio behind "Joker" to help lobby for gun reform, expressing concern about the film's portrait of a mental breakdown that leads to violence.
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The Limelight lounge off the lobby, for example, has a children's area with foosball, floor pillows, board books and old-school video games like Pacman, allowing parents to keep an eye on the kids while also listening to live music in the lounge.
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Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos announced Tuesday that, after fielding much criticism, the company would increase the baseline of its workers' wages — affecting about 133,000 employees, including people who work at Whole Foods — and lobby for an increase in the minimum wage nationwide.
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Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos announced Tuesday that, after fielding much criticism, the company would increase the baseline of its workers' wages — affecting about 350,000 employees, including people who work at Whole Foods — and lobby for an increase in the minimum wage nationwide.
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A superseding indictment returned on Friday against Manafort from a Washington, D.C., grand jury contained additional details about their political work in Ukraine, including allegations that Manafort secretly retained a group of former European politicians known as the "Hapsburg group" to lobby for the government.
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But after members of the media waited in the lobby for around an hour, an official from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced "the program has changed" and the journalists were driven back to their hotel, where they stayed for the remainder of the day.
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Indians abroad have special interests such as in urging India's government to lobby for preferential treatment for visas to America or Britain, or in encouraging easier remittances (these reached some $69bn to India in 2017, says the World Bank) and investment policies in India.
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The same month Akhmetshin registered to lobby for the foundation, Katsyv and two of his business partners, plus a Russian bank executive and a company registered in the British Virgin Islands, sent a series of wire transfers totaling nearly $500,000 to the nonprofit's account.
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J Prince was on Van Lathan's 'Red Pill Podcast' talking about his new book, 'The Art & Science of Respect,' when he said he'd accept an invitation to the White House ... promising to lobby for the black community if he goes to 1600 Pennsylvania Ave.
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Under the new policy for example, Sierra Club or gun rights advocates could still promote their causes, but they would not be able to single out politicians they support or target those they would like to see defeated in elections, or lobby for political outcomes.
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For the top emerging markets news, double click on - - - - Some of the main stories out in the South African press: - SAA strike starts today, says unions - Cement producers lobby for protection - Sappi to halt dividend as profits slump 34.68% (Compiled by Olivia Kumwenda-Mtambo)
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For Norske Skog, GSO pooled its firepower with rival hedge fund Cyrus to buy a substantial equity stake and then lobby for changes to its board, before getting management to formally adopt a proposal tailored to maximise the profits on the funds' CDS positions.
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While I waited at a table in the lobby for my packet—and my black-and-gold lanyard that said I was part of the "posse"—a group of pink pussy-hatted women passed by, on their way to the Women's March in Washington.
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Companies have also been limited in how they can lobby for changes to the law because no comprehensive reform bill has been introduced yet in Congress, said Alex Abdo, a privacy advocate and staff attorney at the Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University.
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It's one that may have repercussions throughout the industry as peers lobby for his job, the media speculates feverishly on what he will do next, and whether Burberry — and to a certain extent, British fashion — can maintain its place in a post-"Brexit" world.
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The aide, Mark E. Lopes, a former senior policy adviser to Mr. Menendez, said in federal court here that he helped lobby for the visa applications for a woman from Brazil and two sisters from the Dominican Republic after their applications had been initially denied.
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Stephen J. Ubl, the president and chief executive of Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America, the main lobby for brand-name drug makers, denounced this change, saying it "provides a massive bailout for insurance companies" and undermined their incentives to control Medicare drug spending.
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Trucks have become bogged down on an unpaved section of the BR-163 highway in southern Pará state, running up loses of $400,000 a day for grain traders moving soy from Mato Grosso to northern ports, the main lobby for Brazil's soy business said.
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Similarly, the Taxpayers Protection Alliance argued alongside the Competitive Enterprise Institute and other free market organizations last year that the measure is nothing more than a backdoor price control, on the table only because rent-seeking rail shippers continue to lobby for government intervention.
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The letter asks the studio to end political contributions to candidates who support the NRA and encourage Congress to lobby for gun reform, but it does not ask for the "Joker" release to be halted or canceled, nor does it call for a boycott.
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Constellation said it had no plans to market cannabis or lobby for its legalization in the United States in the near future and analysts said the relatively small stake would allow it to take advantage of any future boom - or to exit if one does not materialize.
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In the end I spoke with someone from the National Opera and Ballet company (which resides in the same building), and she wanted to lobby for me, but in return she asked me to make a picture where the building of the City Hall was also erased.
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"San Diego has asked us to go forward with their section of the wall in California and rather than not doing that and letting them lobby for us with Governor Brown we decided to do it," Trump told reporters as his cabinet met at the White house.
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At the event at the US Capitol next month, the so-called cluster headache sufferers will meet with members of Congress to lobby for more research and funding through the National Institutes of Health, which they believe has long overlooked cluster headaches as a serious nerve condition.
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In fact, Mr. Trump expressed the same views in October: In a debate on CNBC, he contradicted a moderator, Becky Quick, who noted that Mr. Trump had been critical of Mark Zuckerberg, the Facebook founder, who created an organization to lobby for more high-skilled visas.
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Tired of the FDA application rigmarole and frustrated by the wait for federal action, desperately ill patients and their families took to the halls of state legislative chambers to lobby for passage of right-to-try laws, a model first championed by the libertarian-leaning Goldwater Institute.
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But Mr. Schaller's hefty fees have been criticized by drivers and passengers who say they are being unfairly targeted, and from transportation experts — including supporters of congestion pricing — who view them as unrealistic and an unhelpful distraction as they lobby for a congestion pricing plan in Albany.
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"Since the referendum, I feel much less British — but the world sees me as much less European," Even those switching passports see little hope — certainly not in senior positions, where national governments are unlikely to lobby for what one Irish official described as "re-badged Brits".
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When I came down from our room to the lobby for a morning coffee, I ran across an older man in a baggy tank top, Jordans and gym shorts, toting flaming red shopping bags packed with TWA swag he had bought at the new TWA store.
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It is widely believed in the region that in order for a leader of a small Central European country to get an invitation to visit the White House, he should either buy a lot of American military equipment or Mr. Netanyahu should lobby for the visit.
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The intention to spend the prize money is in line with the work the group has done to lobby for the U.N. Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, which was adopted by 122 nations but not any of the nuclear weapons states or North Korea.
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The lobby for generic drug companies, the Association for Accessible Medicines, filed suit to block the law, and the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, in Richmond, Va., struck down the law, saying it interfered with interstate commerce in violation of the Constitution.
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But the president's lengthy dinner discussion with Putin on the sidelines of the Group of 20 summit on July 7 — with no U.S. interpreter present — has led some to speculate that the Russian president may have used the opportunity to lobby for the return of the compounds.
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MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - A delegation of Brazilian rice producers is on a mission to Mexico this week to lobby for a cut in the 20% tariff their exports face in the lucrative Mexican market, a reduction they say could enable them to compete with U.S. rivals.
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"Since the referendum, I feel much less British — but the world sees me as much less European," Even those switching passports see little hope — certainly not in senior positions, where national governments are unlikely to lobby for what one Irish official described as "re-badged Brits".
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Since there's no powerful industry to lobby for such an educational campaign (Big Heat Pump isn't exactly rolling in profits), it's up to states and utilities that understand the need, to nonprofit climate and decarbonization groups, and to you, readers, through discussion with your homeowner friends.
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So on Sunday, in a kind of replay of that event, members of the hotel's staff set up a section of General Patton's Tavern, off the hotel's lobby, for Mr. Cooke and relatives of three other former hostages — two of them deceased, and one who was on vacation.
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Sullivan cited news reports that the governor of Maine and his staff paid thousands of dollars to patronize the hotel and its restaurant during visits to Washington last year, including for meetings with administration officials to lobby for policy changes to allow more commercial logging in the state.
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To correct gender inequality in Hollywood and blue-collar industries, around 300 women have pledged money, time, and leadership to create a legal defense fund, lobby for legislation to penalize delinquent companies, secure promises for wage parity — all crucial, intersectional actions to take to fight gender-based discrimination.
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They added in a conference call with reporters that those who begin working on the teams would have to sign an agreement not to lobby for five years after they leave the administration, keeping with a Trump campaign promise to institute a ban on lobbying for executive branch employees.
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"I was on fire," she told JW. The pamphlet had been published by the National Coalition for Cancer Survivorship, founded in 1986 to address the problems that cancer patients faced in living with their disease, and beyond, and to lobby for high-quality cancer care for all Americans.
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In May, the group met with lawmakers in Albany to lobby for two bills: one that would repeal a state penal code that criminalizes "loitering for the purpose of engaging in prostitution," and another that would provide criminal record relief for those convicted of sex work-related crimes.
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" And here is what Carolyn Fairbairn, head of the UK's most powerful lobby for the business, the CBI said in response: "The next government's intentions on executive pay would be best served by developing the existing regime to focus stricter votes on those cases that warrant greater attention.
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McAfee argues that instead of worrying about plastic recycling, people should lobby for carbon dividends that would drive money from heavily polluting companies (like oil and gas giants) back into tax revenue, in addition to getting governments more focused on investing in environmentally friendly energy sources, like nuclear power.
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The Premier League and other sports associations, as well as broadcasters and others with a vested interest in British sports, might also lobby for exemptions so that the current visa-free passage between Britain and the European Union — which supporters of Britain's exit opposed — could continue for athletes.
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A fresh chapter of the crypto wars looks to be opening up in Europe, after the French and German interior ministers took to a podium yesterday to lobby for a law change that would enable courts to demand that Internet companies decrypt data to help further criminal investigations.
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Last September Facebook also released a white paper laying out its thinking on data portability, which seeks to frame it as a challenge to privacy — in what looks like an attempt to lobby for a regulatory moat to limit portability of the personal data mountain it's amassed on users.
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The proposal had been a top legislative priority for the Justice Department since then, and Deputy Attorney General Jeffrey Rosen was dispatched to Capitol Hill to lobby for it alongside DEA Acting Administrator Uttam Dhillon, as well as HHS and DEA scientists, according to a Justice Department official.
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Go deeper: The normalization of impeachment Freshman House Democrat explains why she'll vote to impeach Trump Freshman House Democrats lobby for Justin Amash as impeachment manager Editor's note: This post has been corrected to reflect the fact that Antonio Delgado represents New York's 19th district (not the 17th).
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Flynn's General Counsel and Principal, Robert Kelley, confirmed that they were hired by a foreign company to lobby for Turkish interests, stating: 'They want to keep posted on what we all want to be informed of: the present situation, the transition between President Obama and President-Elect Trump.
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"It puts her in a very difficult position to lobby for something when she can't tell me the President supports what she's lobbying for," McCaskill said, adding that Nielsen told her the secretary "clearly supported the DACA protections," but the senator reiterated her concern about where the President stood.
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Reports confirm Kardashian will visit the White House on Wednesday to meet with Jared Kushner and President Donald Trump to lobby for the pardon of Alice Johnson, a 63-year-old woman who received a life sentence in prison more than two decades ago over a first-time, nonviolent drug offense.
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"They take the expertise they have working for the ICE and use that to lobby for even greater increases in their share of this system of mass detention," said Bethany Carson, an immigration policy researcher at Grassroots Leadership, an organization working to abolish for-profit private prisons, jails, and detention centers.
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Yet as Americans struggle to make sense of a public health emergency that can only be likened to the AIDS crisis of the 80s—and lobby for something better than President Trump's toothless declaration, offered without any new funding or programs—we're also trying to figure out how we got here.
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Asked about how startups can get their users to lobby for regulators on their behalf, as indeed Uber does, another panelist — Bradley Tusk, who has worked as a strategist for Uber and now FanDuel — said scale obviously helps but providing users with an easy way to do it is also key.
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While committee hearings in general provide witnesses with time to lobby for their priorities, they are also designed for members of Congress from both sides of the aisle to ask the pointed, direct, tough and uncomfortable questions that would ordinarily be glossed over in the day-to-day beehive of Washington.
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SAO PAULO, April 19 (Reuters) - Senators and lower house lawmakers representing Brazil's state of Minas Gerais have joined forces to help Cia Energética de Minas Gerais SA lobby for the renewal of four hydropower dams whose licensing rights expired recently, two people with direct knowledge of the situation said on Wednesday.
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But lest you think Kemp is motivated by a desire for freer and fairer elections, there is, in fact, a Trumpian catch: The likely recipient of Georgia's largesse will be a company that one of Kemp's closest aides used to lobby for, while another served on its board of advisers.
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The two are major Republican donors -- they've contributed a total of $19943,000 dollars to the campaigns of senators whose votes she'll need to be approved as a nominee -- and in Michigan, they've spent millions of dollars over the years to lobby for big changes to Michigan schools, among other issues.
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Trump has been reluctant to ease tariffs on China in the wake of the global coronavirus outbreak, despite efforts by his top advisers, including Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and economic adviser Larry Kudlow, to lobby for the move for the sake of American farmers, two people familiar with the discussions said.
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They have also sought an investigation based on a separate Times report detailing previously undisclosed emails indicating that, in the months before he was nominated to office, Mr. Bernhardt continued to lobby for the Westlands Water District even after he filed official papers saying that he had ended his lobbying activities.
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The big fossil fuel firms knew the realities of human-caused climate change but chose to ignore them and to lobby for the right to damage the environment; the Republican Party had factions that were in league with Big Energy, overlapping with other factions in denial about the scientific realities.
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While Ms. Pelosi is seeking their support, they can lobby for rule changes to empower the rank-and-file, to reform how chairmanships are assigned, to put in place programs aimed at nurturing young talent — or maybe even to extract a promise that she will step gracefully aside in 2020.
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Government-run prisons aren't blameless here—prison-guard unions lobby for longer sentences and tougher laws—but the private companies know how to throw their weight around, and they benefit from strong local support, as they are often in rural towns without many other sources of jobs or tax revenue.
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On Capitol Hill, aides said, Mr. Kushner had positioned himself as the person who could sell the president on a compromise, casting himself as a facilitator who did not lobby for details of any proposal but simply wanted to find a solution that both sides could claim as a victory.
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They lobby for tax benefits for higher education and home ownership, which disproportionately benefit the upper middle class; Mr Reeves cites figures from the Congressional Budget Office, which show that the top 20% of American households receive tax benefits worth nearly $450bn; benefits for the bottom 40% are roughly a third of that.
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The question has become even more vital after a disappointing recent court decision that gave the thumbs up to a tactic of big communications companies who, for business reasons, refuse to extend service to rural communities: they can continue to lobby for laws that prevent those communities from setting up their own networks.
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While President Donald Trump traveled to the U.S.-Mexico border on Thursday to lobby for support of his border wall plan, the internet was buzzing about a 60-year-old clip from an old TV Western that features a villain named Trump pitching an idea for a wall to protect the townspeople.
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Though the Fed had proposed a cap no higher than 12 cents, the NRF said banks were able to successfully lobby for 21 cents plus 0.05 percent of the transaction for fraud recovery and another 1 cent for fraud prevention in most cases, which works out to about 24 cents per transaction.
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Qualcomm and NXP did not lobby for the Trump administration to bring up the abandoned deal in its meeting with Xi and other Chinese officials on the sidelines of the G20 summit in Buenos Aires on Saturday, which was dominated by negotiations over trade tariffs, according to sources close to the companies.
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Because this is the only top Fed job where the candidate is not selected by U.S. President Donald Trump and confirmed by the Senate, Democratic lawmakers and community activists saw it as an opportunity to lobby for someone who breaks from a long tradition of white men with ties to Wall Street.
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Of the 238 people registered to lobby for the four companies in the first three months of this year — both in-house employees and those on contract from lobbying and law firms — about 75 percent formerly served in the government or on political campaigns, according to an analysis of lobbying and employment records.
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The ruling came three days after Mr. de Blasio, in his State of the City speech, predicted a court victory on the issue, and criticized what he called the "landlord lobby" for being behind the legal action and a separate court challenge to a rent freeze approved by the Rent Guidelines Board.
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In the Grand Floridian—Disney's luxury, on-property resort just one monorail stop away from the Magic Kingdom—the pastry team has built their life-size gingerbread house inside the lobby for the 20th year in a row, and is giving a behind-the scenes look at how the whole thing comes together (video above).
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But to spend so much time and effort worrying about Thiel (who donated more to a super PAC supporting Carly Fiorina during the primaries), or to suggest that people not work with him, or to lobby for the resignation of Altman because Altman hasn't cut Thiel out of Y Combinator, is beyond the pale.
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They've gone as far as to have sent leaders to the statehouse to lobby for Medicaid to cover the procedure and done outreach to other communities throughout the state on both the benefits of the procedure for patients and the specifics of the procedure for providers who might be seeking additional information and training.
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Like most physicians, I was hit by a wave of emotion- anger at the opportunistic anti-vaccine lobby for causing so much unneeded suffering, fear for the long term effects including brain damage and death that this girl might suffer and above all else, sadness that so many innocent children will continue to be hurt.
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Ex-Speaker of the House John BoehnerJohn Andrew BoehnerLobbyists race to cash in on cannabis boom Rising star Ratcliffe faces battle to become Trump's intel chief This little engine delivers results for DC children MORE (R-Ohio) has been named honorary chairman of the National Cannabis Roundtable, an organization to lobby for pro-marijuana policy.
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"One might plausibly argue that those with much less access to sex suffer to a similar degree as those with low income, and might similarly hope to gain from organizing around this identity, to lobby for redistribution along this axis and to at least implicitly threaten violence if their demands are not met," he wrote.
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Condé Nast has put a new code of conduct in place to protect models on magazine shoots, but Sara Ziff of the Model Alliance is skeptical about the efficacy of single-player action, and has corralled a host of industry insiders to lobby for a third-party watchdog and enforcer to truly change the culture.
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After a brush with Watergate, Mr. Stone pokes around here and there; works for both of Ronald Reagan's presidential campaigns; and helps establish a firm that grew into Black, Manafort, Stone and Kelly, one of a number of companies that earned the nickname "the torturers' lobby" for repping countries condemned as human-rights abusers.
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Spending by the main lobby for the industry, the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America, surged in the first quarter of this year, to $20033 million, up from $22003 million in the first quarter of last year and $22017 million in the first quarter of 22013, the trade association said in reports filed with Congress.
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There's no reason why we should limit access to safe and effective medicine, but the Justice Department is right to ask Congress for a full set of tools to investigate and prosecute an industry that would deceive its users, sell contaminated products, and then use its profits to lobby for the full legalization of marijuana.
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And the president's "war room" Twitter account blasted out yet another story, from 2008, about another confluence of interests between Joe Biden and Hunter Biden, when the father was a senator carrying legislation sought by the credit card industry and the son had been hired to lobby for the bill by the firm MBNA.
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Mr. Feit, a 33-year-old graduate of the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, went to Washington several times to lobby for a new law that allowed small-time investors to buy stock in start-ups — and then set up one of the first websites that list companies trying to raise money.
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"Removal from Schedule 1 can only occur if a medicinal product containing a Schedule 1 substance is approved for therapeutic use as a drug by the FDA," the study explained—meaning that a third party needs to manufacture psilocybin for a medical use, submit that product to the FDA, and lobby for its reclassification.
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This is why she speaks out so boldly against groups like AIPAC, who lobby for pro-Israel policies as the nation continues to act with impunity, causing more Palestinian suffering and stifling the hope and dream that the Palestinians will one day be able to live in freedom and dignity in their own land.
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After being welcomed into the spa, our shoes were swiftly swapped for cute Japanese sandals ("We ask our clients to take off their shoes as a sign of letting go of their daily routine and unwinding," says Tomoko) and we were ushered into the gorgeous, minimalist lobby for some pre-massage tea and a piece of chocolate.
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Prizes of up to £1,000 are up for grabs at Great British Hack-Off summer festival hackathon, an event designed to supercharge the campaign to lobby for a 'people's vote' on Brexit with the option to remain in the EU. The event is aimed at engineers, designers, UX experts, data scientists, social media influencers and experts.
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The Florida International University chapter has a petition for 100 percent renewable energy by 2030 (just like VICE Impact) while the Case Western Reserve University chapter is organizing a petition to lobby for clean energy, by writing the mayor of Cleveland, Frank G. Jackson to fit the downtown area with 100 percent clean energy by 2035.
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Melody Vaccaro, vice president of Nebraskans Against Gun Violence, told the Post that Cox was a hypocrite for trying to prosecute and demand a protective order against Hill while continuing to lobby for open carry laws in the U.S. "We think this is the NRA using the criminal justice system to rain terror on regular people," Vaccaro said.
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India gathered officials and industry representatives at its embassy in Beijing to lobby for China to resume purchases of rapeseed meal, a key ingredient in animal feed, and to drum up interest in the country's other major agricultural products, according to an Indian government officials familiar with the meeting and an executive who attended the meeting.
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Tibbetts's immediate family released a statement as well, requesting that the public give them "the time to process our devastating loss and share our grief in private," which is unlikely considering President Trump has been all too eager to use the tragic death of a 20-year-old white woman to lobby for his harsh immigration policies.
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Katie HillKatherine (Katie) Lauren HillAnti-Trump vets join Steyer group in pressing Democrats to impeach Trump House Dems, Senate GOP build money edge to protect majorities Live coverage: House Oversight examines Trump family separation policy MORE (D-Calif.) blamed the "corporate tax lobby" for pushing to prevent the IRS from creating its own online tax filing system.
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Aside from having the resources to develop and lobby for its tool, MindGeek also has the advantage of being able to roll it out instantly on the most popular porn sites in the world, creating the impression of a single sign-on for porn in Britain, akin to signing into third-party apps with your Facebook or Google account.
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