Foreign lobbying requirements are much stricter than those under the Lobbying Disclosure Act, the domestic lobbying law.
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Federal lobbying is governed by the Lobbying Disclosure Act of 2000.
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The NRA, gun makers, and gun rights issues do not even show up on the OpenSecrets website lists for top lobbying firms, top lobbying sectors, top lobbying issues, or top lobbying industries for the years 22014-2017.
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The company spent $15.43 million in lobbying in 2016, according to federal lobbying documents, making it among the top dozen firms in lobbying spending last year.
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HLOGA enhanced lobbying disclosure requirements, banned lobbying "gifts," and tightened revolving-door rules.
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The short answer is lobbying, and in particular lobbying by companies like Intuit.
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Real lobbying reform has to start with new legislation that closes lobbying loopholes.
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Agriculture still dominates the NAFTA lobbying effort with 86 arrangements with lobbying groups.
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Costello launches lobbying shop Head of Pennsylvania GOP resigns over alleged explicit texts Lobbying world MORE (R-Pa.) on Tuesday announced the launch of his own lobbying shop, Ryan Costello Strategies (RCS), ahead of his lobbying ban expiring in January.
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It contains revolving door restrictions on those leaving the Trump administration, including a five-year ban on conducting "lobbying activities" — which could be very sweeping in that lobbying activities include not just lobbying contacts, but also the strategic planning that goes into a lobbying campaign — and a lifetime ban on lobbying for foreign governments.
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It had 27 outside lobbying firms and was ranked eighth in total lobbying spending.
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Public relations work doesn't count as lobbying for the purposes of lobbying disclosure rules.
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Campaign for Accountability's complaint alleges Wheeler and his prior lobbying firm, Faegre Baker Daniels Consulting, violated the Lobbying Disclosure Act, which aims to bring transparency to federal lobbying activity.
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Fusion GPS is not a lobbying firm and engaged in no lobbying in this case.
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That was the other thing about foreign lobbying: It paid even better than corporate lobbying.
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Iran lobbying hard The Iranians are also engaged in their own high-level lobbying effort.
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Bob Menendez cited four separate lobbying reports showing Exxon Mobil lobbying on sanction bills covering both Russia and Iran — lobbying reports that companies only file if they have engaged in actual lobbying, and not just the sort of basic information gathering that Tillerson was describing.
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Checkoff funds are not to be used for lobbying, but NMPF is itself a lobbying organization.
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Corporate lobbying can seem corrupt and it favors industries with deep pockets, but laws govern lobbying.
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Neither firm registered under FARA for lobbying work but instead registered under the Lobbying Disclosure Act.
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It has 14 lobbying and public relations clients and has made $740,21625 on lobbying in 2900.
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In 2017, the company spent a total of $510,000 on lobbying, according to congressional lobbying filings.
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Often they engage in explicit lobbying, and often that lobbying is successful, both domestically and internationally.
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In a comprehensive study of lobbying, Lobbying and Policy Change, five political scientists looked at 98 issues to try to find what explained why some lobbying efforts succeed while others fail.
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The lobbying disclosure documents do not detail what specific objective the companies had in their lobbying activities.
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Lobbying is constitutionally protected speech, too, but Congress and states have made lobbying expenses non-tax deductible.
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According to lobbying disclosure records, a handful of cannabis trade groups spent $1.3 million lobbying Congress last year.
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In the background to these decisions there was some vigorous lobbying and counter-lobbying in the United States.
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Since 2012 it has spent $2.4 million lobbying the American government, according to lobbying data compiled by Opensecrets.
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Koch Industries began lobbying the White House on the issue after President Trump's election, according to lobbying filings.
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This has been both through direct lobbying (which it spent over 5 million euros on in 2016 alone), as well as indirect lobbying undertaken by the 24 lobbying organizations in Brussels it regularly funds.
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But since that reported lobbying number is at best half of the actual money spent on lobbying, let's say that corporations actually spend at least two times more on lobbying than Congress spends on staff.
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The lobbying campaign was led by Russian-American lobbyist Rinat Akhmetshin and his lobbying partner Robert Arakelian, but also involved a former Democratic congressman and a former Export-Import Bank official, lobbying disclosure forms show.
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The disclosures, required by the Lobbying Disclosure Act, revealed Google spent $4.17 million lobbying Congress this most recent quarter.
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Obama lobbying effort begins By the spring, the Obama administration had quietly mobilized a lobbying effort against the bill.
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It spent $15.1 million on lobbying in 2018 with 31 in-house lobbyists and 21625 lobbying firms on retainer.
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Earlier this year, Lyft terminated lobbying contracts with both Gephardt Government Affairs, a lobbying firm run by former Rep.
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Dellums' lobbying report disclosed he understood the lobbying work was connected to the three Russian businessmen, the records show.
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The greatest growth in lobbying came from Google, which increased its lobbying spend nearly 18 percent to $21.2 million.
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Intuit spent $20173 million lobbying Congress from 2011 to 2015, with 41 lobbying reports relating to taxes in 2015 alone.
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McDermott Will & Emery serves both law and lobbying clients and earned more than $3.4 million in lobbying fees last year.
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Intuit spent $13 million lobbying Congress from 2011 to 2015, with 41 lobbying reports relating to taxes in 2015 alone.
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Grassroots lobbying by trained volunteer advocates and the direct lobbying by paid professional consultants is not always a perfect marriage.
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Flynn also pleaded guilty to lying on his foreign lobbying registrations about his work on a lobbying project for Turkey.
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While he is not officially lobbying, the former campaign manager has worked as an advisor at lobbying firm Turnberry Solutions.
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Spend, I think, more money than any other group in the world, actually, in terms of lobbying and lobbying abilities.
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Speaking of lobbying, Q3 spending reports for big players are just starting to surface in the Lobbying Disclosure Act database.
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Bullock is the only secretary of state in the country with a taxpayer-funded lobbying firm, according to lobbying disclosures.
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The $57 million it spent on lobbying was also the most since 503, when the lobbying bill was $70 million.
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"I have four different lobbying reports totalling millions of dollars, as required by the Lobbying Disclosure Act, that list ExxonMobil's lobbying activities on four specific pieces of legislation authorizing sanctions," Robert Menendez, a Democrat from New Jersey, said.
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In addition to helping Mueller, Flynn testified before a grand jury against his former lobbying firm's work and about ex-lobbying partner, Bijan Kian, whom prosecutors took to trial for illegal foreign lobbying in Northern Virginia federal court.
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That same proposal would "end lobbying as we know it," Ms. Warren says, by eliminating foreign lobbying, ban stock trading from members of Congress, and not allow individuals to frequently rotate between public service jobs and lobbying firms.
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Major retailers are lobbying against the change, as is Koch Industries, while a number of manufacturing companies are lobbying for it.
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Ms Warren abhors lobbying—she proposes an "excessive lobbying tax", rising up to 75% for companies spending more than $5m annually.
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Groups representing drug companies heavily increased their federal lobbying in President Trump's first year, according to a review of lobbying records.
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Closing lobbying loopholes is also critical to the success of any other lobbying reforms Trump would like to sign into law.
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DROPBOX BEEFS UP LOBBYING: Dropbox is picking up a new lobbying firm to help it push its agenda on Capitol Hill.
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The NBWA spent more than $1 million on lobbying last year, putting it ninth in overall lobbying expenditures in the industry.
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Since 1998, the Chamber has spent more than $1.2 billion on lobbying, making it by far the nation's largest lobbying organization.
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Others could catch on with lobbying and law firms to serve as strategic advisers while waiting for lobbying bans to expire.
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Lobbying reports show that Dunkin' has spent nearly $1 million since 2017 lobbying on joint employment, immigration reform and other matters.
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Waxman has been lobbying the administration but took on the new clients as his ban on lobbying Congress expired last month.
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Mercury and the Podesta Group had been registered for the Centre under the Lobbying Disclosure Act, which dictates domestic lobbying disclosure.
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However, we were advised by our FARA lawyers to file (a lobbying disclosure) instead, and we filed (lobbying disclosures) nine times.
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Aipac spent $3.5 million last year on lobbying, according to the Center for Responsive Politics, which tracks lobbying and campaign expenditures.
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Well, as the current fight in Congress suggests, the short answer is lobbying, and in particular lobbying by companies like Intuit.
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Verily Life Sciences, Alphabet's biotech and health data startup, hired D.C. lobbying shop Mehlman Castagnetti Rosen & Thomas this week for various health care and data science issues, according to federal lobbying records — the first such lobbying registration for Verily.
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Also included in the plan – measures banning officials from his administration from lobbying for five years and from lobbying for foreign entities.
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The next day, the Saudi Foreign Ministry renewed a $1.5-million annual contract with longtime lobbying firm Hogan Lovells, lobbying records show.
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Lobbying Trump could enact his proposed lobbying ban on day one, part of his campaign promise to "drain the swamp" in Washington.
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Triggers include spending at least 20 percent of time in a three-month period lobbying or having two or more lobbying contacts.
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According to a recent lobbying disclosure filing first reported by CNBC Amazon has hired Jeff Miller, CEO of lobbying firm Miller Strategies.
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AIRBNB BEEFS UP LOBBYING: Airbnb is ramping up its lobbying efforts as its battle with the hotel lobby intensifies on Capitol Hill.
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Figures from the federal lobbying registration rolls indicate that special interests spend a little more than $3 billion a year on lobbying.
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This is different than the Lobbying Disclosure Act, the law governing lobbying for domestic entities overseen largely by the House and Senate.
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Those firms had filed domestic lobbying disclosures, but also filed retroactive foreign lobbying registration forms with the Justice Department earlier this year.
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Lobbying crimes Manafort's admitted crimes span a decade of lobbying activity but do not touch on his work as Trump's campaign chairman.
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Lobbying efforts The report also found that advocacy groups have been involved in lobbying efforts to defeat legislative measures to limit prescribing.
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The mission of the industry partnership includes advocacy, advertising, lobbying and public education, but it has not registered under federal lobbying laws.
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Facebook, Google, Amazon and Apple now hold the biggest corporate lobbying budgets in Washington and spent a combined $49.7 million in 2017 on direct lobbying, which does not include their outside lobbying trade groups, up 24 percent from the previous year.
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Under the federal Lobbying Disclosure Act, for example, a CEO wouldn't be required to register as a lobbyist unless he or she spends 85033 percent of his or her time engaged in federal lobbying activities and makes two lobbying contacts.
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While Trump has signed an executive order for the foreign lobbying ban, he has also weakened other legislation that restricted certain lobbying activity.
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I've written a book on the rise of corporate lobbying in Washington, and I'm deeply concerned about the disproportionate power of business lobbying.
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The Podesta Group filed new, detailed lobbying disclosures in April to augment lobbying reports from 21 to 22012 that had given little detail.
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Akhmetshin is a registered lobbyist for Veselnitskaya's organization, which has focused on lobbying Washington to overturn the Magnitsky sanctions, according to lobbying records.
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He is a registered lobbyist for Veselnitskaya's organization, which has focused on lobbying Washington to overturn the Magnitsky sanctions, according to lobbying records.
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And unlike FARA, the Lobbying Disclosure Act allows those with lobbying income below $2,500 or expenses below $10,000 to forgo registering at all.
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Currently, these companies are able to register under the domestic lobbying law, the Lobbying Disclosure Act (LDA), if they are a private entity.
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Finally, several states prohibit lobbying any agency or legislative body during the cooling off period, so no lobbying on behalf of paying clients.
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Among drug companies, Mylan ranks below the top spenders on lobbying, though it still devotes more than $1 million per year to lobbying.
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The union employed four outside lobbying firms this year, state records show, and has paid at least $600,000 in lobbying fees since 2015.
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On the lobbying side, costs related to direct and grassroots lobbying activities are generally non-deductible as business expenses by for-profit concerns.
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Dellums reported less than $5,000 in lobbying income, while Schweitzer's firm reported about $85033,000 in lobbying income from the campaign, the reports state.
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Huawei has spent more than $3 million this year on advertising and lobbying, according to its disclosures in the European Union lobbying registry.
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Tillerson himself presided over Exxon's lobbying operation, which in 2016 alone spent $203 million on lobbying, more any other oil and gas company.
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Tillerson himself presided over Exxon's lobbying operation, which in 2016 alone spent $8.8 million on lobbying, more any other oil and gas company.
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Paul Miller, president of the National Institute for Lobbying and Ethics, said that this has led to the growth of a shadow lobbying industry, where former government staff members take consulting and advisory jobs that are essentially lobbying under a different name.
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Rani Molla has some data: The greatest growth in lobbying came from Google, which increased its lobbying spend nearly 18 percent to $21.2 million.
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The company spent roughly $11.5 million on federal lobbying last year, according to the Center for Responsive Politics, and employed 11 outside lobbying firms.
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Google, Facebook Set 22008 Lobbying Records as Techlash Grows Scrutiny of the big tech platforms is increasing, and (naturally) so is their lobbying spending.
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While Seifert was overseeing Ecolab's lobbying office, the company's government relations office hit records in lobbying expenses, according to the Center for Responsive Politics.
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The Public Citizen complaint questions whether Cohen has violated the Lobbying Disclosure Act, which covers domestic lobbying, or the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA).
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The lobbying registration filing, which is a formal announcement describing the agreement between a lobbying firm and a separate company, was signed in May.
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The Flynn Intel Group had registered in August to represent Inovo BV under the domestic lobbying law, known as the Lobbying Disclosure Act (LDA).
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Americans for Responsible Solutions has an in-house lobbying team, but Capitol Counsel is the only K Street firm lobbying for the group. HEALTHCARE.
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As part of his plea, he also admitted to submitting a lobbying disclosure to the US that omitted his lobbying firm's work for Turkey.
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A lobbyist must register with the Lobbying Disclosure Act (LDA) if they spend 20 percent or more for a particular client on lobbying activities.
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In May 2017, Mr. Lewandowski left the lobbying firm he helped start, Avenue Strategies, amid questions about whether he was lobbying without having registered.
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Unlike domestic lobbying, requirements for FARA registration are broad, covering anyone who engages in lobbying or public relations for a foreign government-connected client.
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Another person Politico that food industry lobbyists are complaining about having to spend more time lobbying GMA than they are lobbying on Capitol Hill.
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The five-year lobbying ban could actually weaken an Obama-era rule that prohibited federal employees from lobbying until the end of the administration.
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"Today is another unnecessary black eye for the lobbying profession," said Paul Miller, a lobbyist who heads the National Institute for Lobbying and Ethics (NILE).
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They are also weighing possible foreign lobbying violations for those efforts, but they are cautious about bringing such lobbying charges, especially without other accompanying charges.
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Google, Amazon, and Facebook all spent record amounts last year lobbying the US government Dinner party conversation starter: has this lobbying been effective or not?
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Google reported $2.9 million in lobbying spend for the quarter, according to newly released lobbying disclosures, continuing a trend of reduced spending on such activity.
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Apple is lobbying against pro-consumer right to repair legislation at a state level and often hides behind trade groups to do its lobbying work.
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S. companies can register through the Lobbying Disclosure Act, which is the domestic lobbying law, if they are representing foreign entities that are not governments.
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According to The Center for Responsive Politics, the pharmaceutical industry spends $280 million per year on political lobbying, more on lobbying than any other industry.
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He focused largely on lobbying the agency related to Medicare billing rules, as well as rules for health care supplier accreditations, lobbying disclosure reports show.
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While traditional influence campaigns directed as swaying legislation or regulations count as lobbying, some jurisdictions regulate any attempt to obtain an official's "goodwill" as lobbying.
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The report indicated the Russian businessmen, however, did not contribute money to the lobbying effort or own a piece of the lobbying group Akhmetshin registered.
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While lobbying revenue has increased exponentially, Schnittger also emphasized the growth in earnings from Squire Patton Boggs's non-lobbying work, which is not publicly disclosed.
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The next-largest group lobbying on Israel, J Street, which advocates a pro-Israel, pro-peace agenda, spent less than 10 percent of AIPAC's lobbying budget.
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Last year, $25 million of the firm's annual revenue came from its lobbying practice, a 20 percent drop from its 2014 lobbying earnings of $32 million.
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The top five lobbying clients -- ExxonMobil, Koch Industries, Chevron, Royal Dutch Shell and the American Petroleum Institute -- had a combined lobbying spend of over $22050 million.
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According to lobbying records, the company has hired three lobbying firms and spent $28503,22019 so far in 2018, compared to $120,000 on two firms in 2017.
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On top of its campaign contributions, Facebook spent $11.5 million lobbying Congress last year, and its total spending on lobbying since 2009 is nearly $52 million.
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Here are the four companies lobbying most aggressively on tax issues right now (based on lobbying disclosure reports submitted to Congress between January and September 30).
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Porterfield is the third D.C. lobbying firm Square has hired this year after Franklin Square Group, a major tech lobbying shop, and the Smith-Free Group.
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The law and lobbying firm is one of the highest-earning firms on K Street, taking in more than $16.5 million in lobbying revenues in 2017.
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"That's an idea we've been lobbying for, and by 'lobbying for,' I mean complaining about," said Owen Terexia, a freshman political science major at John Brown.
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Lobbying disclosure documents filed in September revealed that even as Flynn was received classified intelligence briefings during the campaign, he was lobbying on behalf of overseas clients.
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The law does not require the disclosure of lobbying done in foreign countries; it applies only to lobbying and public relations work done in the United States.
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Turnberry Solutions, a lobbying group run by former Trump campaign advisor Jason Osborne, has signed American Ethane as a client, according to a new lobbying disclosure form.
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In January, federal filings showed that the lobbying group for the pharmaceutical industry spent about $27.5 million on lobbying in 2018 amid pressure to lower drug prices.
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LOBBYING NUMBERS RELEASED: Uber and AT&T were two of the tech and telecom companies to spend big in the last three months of 2016 on lobbying.
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Apple is fighting this legislation; public records show that Apple is lobbying against the bill in New York, where lobbying records must be disclosed to the public.
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CHAMBER WAGES LOBBYING BATTLE OVER RETIREMENT RULE: The U.S. Chamber of Commerce is waging a fierce lobbying battle over the Obama administration's new rules for retirement advisers.
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Well, it may have something to do with strong lobbying from multibillion-dollar corporations lobbying hard to keep getting ill-gotten gains from Durbin Amendment price controls.
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To expand these lobbying laws to cover even more activities that are attenuated from direct lobbying would merely broaden the regulatory burdens without achieving any public benefit.
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Lobbying to Trump on trade: "What will he see?" is a question Washington's lobbyists are asking about the president while lobbying in opposition to his tariffs plans.
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Law and lobbying shop Holland & Knight also saw a 21625 percent increase in advocacy cash during the same period, ending June with $2900 million in lobbying fees.
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Tri-Source Pharma has hired its first lobbying firm, Mercury Strategies, to influence federal "drug pricing law and regulation," according to a lobbying disclosure from this month.
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The industry's top lobbying group, the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA), increased its lobbying expenditures from $22019 million in 2016 to $25.4 million in 2017.
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The numbers are depressing: Private interests (predominantly large business) spend about $3.4 billion a year on reported lobbying, and probably twice that much on lobbying-related activities.
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Here's a list of the top 25 spenders and how much they budgeted for health care lobbying, based on an Axios review of the Senate lobbying database.
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Green made $20093,000 a year in lobbying fees from the drug education program from 1999 to 2010, the years for which his lobbying disclosures are available online.
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Powell's team suggests Covington on Tuesday made mistakes in Flynn's lobbying filing, and maintain that Flynn had been truthful with them when they prepared that lobbying filing.
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Once one of the top five K Street firms by revenue — earning upwards of $26 million on lobbying annually — Cassidy saw lobbying fees decrease and then plateau.
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During his failed effort, the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America spent nearly $20 million lobbying Congress, while pharmaceutical manufacturers spent more than $130 million on lobbying.
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Lobbying firms say that demand continues to grow from many types of advocacy that are not disclosed in official lobbying figures, such as public relations and grassroots advocacy.
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DeBaggis allegedly signed a lobbying agreement with immigration lawyer Mohamed Noure Alo, who had no lobbying experience, understanding he would share part of his $160,000 fee with Ahmad.
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Mark BegichMark Peter BegichAlaska political mess has legislators divided over meeting place Former GOP chairman Royce joins lobbying shop Lobbying world MORE (D) in Alaska's primary in 2014.
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"Lobbying is nothing new but this is lobbying on steroids," said Miya Saika Chen, an attorney who has studied rideshare laws at the nonprofit Partnership for Working Families.
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And in 2000, the New York State lobbying commission imposed a $250,000 fine for Mr. Trump's failing to disclose the full extent of his lobbying of state legislators.
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Mark BegichMark Peter BegichAlaska political mess has legislators divided over meeting place Former GOP chairman Royce joins lobbying shop Lobbying world MORE (D-Alaska) and former state Sen.
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Apple CEO Tim Cook told ABC News that he didn&apost believe in lobbying, even though Apple shells out millions of dollars a year lobbying the US government.
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The LDA requires a coalition or association disclose entities that contribute at least $5,000 a quarter to its lobbying activities and that actively participate in its lobbying activities.
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AT&T paid a total of $4.1 million in lobbying fees to nearly 30 firms through the first three months of this year, according to congressional lobbying filings.
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Lobbying is a big proxy issue itself, with measures in the past year targeting Ford and GM to make lobbying disclosures, as well as energy and utility companies.
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A persistent argument against tougher restrictions on lobbying is that they would lead to more so-called shadow lobbyists, those who do lobbying work but do not register.
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Executives said that meant spending more on traditional lobbying, but also things like publishing position papers and coordinating efforts with other tech companies by joining industry lobbying groups.
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Delrahim's zig-zag between Republican administrations and a lobbying firm illustrates the convoluted relationship between the government in D.C. and its lobbying industry, said Sheila Krumholz, executive director of the Center for Responsive Politics, a nonprofit group that tracks the impact of money and lobbying on elections and public policy.
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The Serb Republic traditionally pays much more; another current lobbying contract, with the DC lobbying firm of Picard Kentz & Rowe, calls for payments of $210,243 a month through Dec.
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Farragut Partners, a small lobbying firm formed at the beginning of this year, has already earned more than $85033 million in lobbying revenue through the first half of 2016.
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A new lobbying nonprofit is riding the populist wave of the 6900 election cycle, aiming to crowdfund lobbying campaigns in order to give people a voice on K Street.
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While the business community did "just-in-time lobbying," pushing for trade during the months before a vote, the labor community spent 25 years lobbying against trade, year-round.
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Mark BegichMark Peter BegichAlaska political mess has legislators divided over meeting place Former GOP chairman Royce joins lobbying shop Lobbying world MORE (D) and Republican Mike Dunleavy (The Hill).
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In 2005, AccuWeather spent $40,000 lobbying the House, Senate and Commerce Department through Blank Rome Government Relations on "commercial weather industry issues," according to its year-end lobbying disclosure.
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It "has relevance to the utility of disclosure" that's currently required under the Lobbying Disclosure Act, which sets the legal definition of what lobbying and lobbyists are, Holman said.
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Mark BegichMark Peter BegichAlaska political mess has legislators divided over meeting place Former GOP chairman Royce joins lobbying shop Lobbying world MORE (D-Alaska) and Republican former state Sen.
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Ballard Partners, which he established in Washington two years ago, reported $18.3 million in domestic lobbying income, catapulting it into the top 10 lobbying firms in the nation's capital.
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Silicon Valley continues to pour money into DC lobbying efforts, particularly Google, which spent $4.24 million on federal lobbying in the second quarter of 2016, according to disclosure filings.
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New York revised its lobbying guidelines this year to explicitly include grass-roots campaigns as well as meetings with officials, and to define when social media counts as lobbying.
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Warren said that with the revenue from the lobbying tax, she would create a "lobbying defense trust fund" to help congressional agencies in the effort to curb corporate influence.
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Warren's latest proposal is calling for an "excessive lobbying tax," which would require lobbying shops to pay a tax if they spend over $500,000 per year on influence campaigns.
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Sberbank and VTB, Russia's two largest banks, spent hundreds of thousand of dollars last year lobbying Congress and the Obama administration to address "sanctions relief," according to lobbying disclosures.
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"The real key here, though, is in the loopholes," Ocasio-Cortez said Thursday, arguing that some former members of Congress get around lobbying registration requirements by consulting lobbying firms externally.
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Specifically, former appointees may be allowed to engage in activities that the existing law -- the Lobbying Disclosure Act -- does define as lobbying when dealing with members of their former agencies.
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The proposal would tax groups and companies that spend between $22018,4.4 and $2217 million per year on lobbying at a 210 percent rate, increasing the rate for bigger lobbying budgets.
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The S.E.C. said Mr. DeBaggis also arranged a lobbying agreement with Mohammed Noure Alo, an immigration lawyer with no lobbying experience but connections to the Ohio deputy treasurer, Amer Ahmad.
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Is he going to actually investigate effectively the fact that John Podesta&aposs brother Tony Podesta was -- had a lobbying firm, that he was actually lobbying against sanctions against Russia?
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Koch Industries spent almost $10 million on lobbying last year, according to disclosures, but the network is not currently lobbying Democrats on the border tax, despite their more protectionist impulses.
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"It's not unusual with campaign finance, government ethics or lobbying regulations for there not to be any comments," Kelner, the political lawyer that specializes in lobbying regulation and government ethics.
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John Sweeney has made more than $200,000 lobbying on behalf of a European pipeline venture owned by Gazprom, the state-controlled Russian natural gas company, according to federal lobbying disclosures.
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The company spent $750,000 on lobbying during the last three months of 2018, according to lobbying disclosure forms filed with Congress on Tuesday, about $21625,2900 more than the previous quarter.
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The Center for Media Democracy and Common Cause say ALEC is engaging in corporate lobbying for organizations like Exxon, while working under an IRS nonprofit designation that prohibits such lobbying.
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Mark BegichMark Peter BegichAlaska political mess has legislators divided over meeting place Former GOP chairman Royce joins lobbying shop Lobbying world MORE represented Alaska in the Senate from 2009-2015.
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Mark BegichMark Peter BegichAlaska political mess has legislators divided over meeting place Former GOP chairman Royce joins lobbying shop Lobbying world MORE (Alaska) blamed their losses on President Obama's unpopularity.
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Turk's proposals align with lobbying positions taken by the two most powerful gun lobbying groups: the National Shooting Sports Foundation—the gun industry's trade group—and the National Rifle Association.
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Lobbying successes for constitutional carry legislation have empowered pro-gun rights to such an extent that their lobbying efforts have even begun to eclipse those of the National Rifle Association.
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The Lobbying Disclosure Act, enacted in 1995, states that a person must register to lobby if lobbying activities constitute at least 85033 percent of their time working for a client.
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Congressional lobbying disclosure firms show that the firm Robertson, Monagle & Eastaugh, representing the Garden State Seafood Association and the Southeastern Fisheries Association, is also lobbying against the shark-finning bill.
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Between 2016 and 2018, CoreCivic spent $1.763 million in lobbying and over $700,000 on campaign contributions while GEO Group spent $4.4 million in lobbying and $2.5 million on campaign contributions.
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Hogan Lovells spearheaded the congressional lobbying and also handled legal aspects, including negotiations with the Commerce Department's Bureau of Industry and Security, according to people familiar with the lobbying push.
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Two days later, Ms. Warren outlined a new tax on "excessive lobbying," which would apply to corporations and trade organizations that spend more than $500,000 a year lobbying the government.
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Lobbying firms have seen an uptick since Trump took office in 2017 and the latest Lobbying Disclosure Act (LDA) reports show that trend keeping pace through the end of 2019.
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Three key improvements of extending the cooling off period to two years or longer, banning lobbying activity as well as lobbying contacts, and prohibiting senior officials from lobbying any agency or branch of government would transform a system ridden with loopholes into an ethics policy quite capable of slowing the revolving door.
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And as for the five-year ban on lobbying after serving in the Trump administration, there are serious enforcement problems, especially given the ways in which lobbying regulations are easily shirked.
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Lee Drutman, a lobbying expert, has already noted that the Trump presidency promises to be a boon to the lobbying industry, given the uncertainty and chaos likely to permeate his administration.
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The Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday, citing unnamed sources, that Google has fired six U.S. lobbying firms, which together accounted for about half of its $20 million domestic lobbying budget.
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It spent $16.7 million in lobbying in 2015, according to the Center for Responsive Politics, and has been at or near the top of public companies in lobbying expenses since 2012.
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The case, a foreign lobbying trial for Flynn's ex-partner Bijan Kian, is also a major early test for a new Justice Department initiative to crack down on foreign lobbying crimes.
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To the political class, lobbying is no big deal and neither is lobbying on behalf of a foreign country that may or may not be so friendly to the United States.
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How did the White House reconcile Trump's executive order on lobbying with the fact that his new adviser on tax and retirement policy had recently been lobbying on those very issues?
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Goldman lobbying chief joins new firm: Amy Overton Hunt, Vice President of Federal Government Affairs at Goldman Sachs, has joined The Sternhell Group, a lobbying firm whose clients include Citigroup Inc.
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Duffy to join lobbying firm BGR Trump's defenders are running out of options MORE (R-Wis.) will be a senior counsel at the lobbying firm BGR Group, the firm announced Tuesday.
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Founded more than three decades ago to raise the image of the lobbying profession, the American League of Lobbyists offered networking, courses — including on industry ethics — through its Lobbying Certificate Program.
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Importantly, more than a dozen states have expanded the scope of prohibited activity during the cooling off period to include strategic consulting for lobbying campaigns on top of making lobbying contacts.
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Lobbying & Influence: A new cache of emails obtained by The Associated Press reveals an ambitious, secretive lobbying effort to isolate Qatar and undermine the Pentagon's long relationship with the Gulf country.
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Mueller has reportedly referred to prosecutors in Manhattan related foreign lobbying investigations that involve the Podesta Group and Mercury Public Affairs, two D.C.-based lobbying firms that were hired by Manafort.
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The National Association of Realtors, a perennial lobbying force in Washington, was the second-highest spender on federal lobbying last year, driving nearly $73 million into those efforts, the center found.
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U.S. companies have massively expanded their lobbying operations to counter the tariffs in recent months, although those lobbying dollars don't seem to be translating into a less heated set of policies.
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FARA requirements are much more strict than domestic lobbying disclosure laws, and include having to register for any services used to influence public policy, including lobbying, public relations and consulting work.
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The airline industry, which spent more than $24 million lobbying Congress in 85033, has mounted a furious lobbying campaign to expand federal assistance for their member companies in the stimulus package.
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We're going to drain the swamp in Washington, D.C. I've already imposed a five year lobbying ban on the executive branch officials and lifetime ban on lobbying for a foreign government.
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"We have procedures for handling potential unregistered lobbying and treat all people and entities allegedly involved in that unregistered lobbying the same way," the spokesman, Walter McClure, said in a statement.
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The Russian lobbying effort that pierced President Donald Trump's inner circle and touched Democratic and Republican lawmakers was directly connected to three Moscow businessmen, according to lobbying registration records and interviews.
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Manafort lobbying questions An inquiry formerly led by Mueller into Manafort's lobbying efforts for Ukrainian politicians has also been farmed out -- parts of it more than once -- to other prosecutors' offices.
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ETHANOL GROUPS PREPARE FOR LOBBYING FIGHT: Two major players in the ethanol industry have tapped a new lobbying firm amid a growing fight over the future of the Renewable Fuel Standard.
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Byron Tau, a Wall Street Journal reporter who has covered lobbying extensively, notes 14 separate instances of Exxon lobbying against sanctions between 2006 (when Tillerson took over the company) and 2014.
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The problem is that while many former members of Congress are, in fact, registered lobbyists who work for lobbying firms, there is so much more to the influence game than lobbying.
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Third big change — end lobbying as we know it.
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Gerard also led his own lobbying firm, Gerard & Neuenschwander.
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A lobbying group that represents Alphabet Inc's Google , Amazon.
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On Monday she was lobbying again — but for herself.
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To drain the swamp of corruption in Washington D.C., I've started by imposing a five-year lobbying ban on White House officials, and a lifetime ban on lobbying for a foreign government.
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The questions surrounding the Serb Republic's US lobbying were only deepened over the summer when the details of its most recent lobbying contract with a company called Twin Rocks Global became public.
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His firm, Ballard Partners, which he established in Washington two years ago, reported $20183 million in 22018 domestic lobbying income, catapulting it into the top 22018 lobbying firms in the nation's capital.
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EU lawmakers declined to talk about lobbying by the palm oil industry but environmental group Greenpeace said the lobbying by Malaysia had resulted in the EU law relating to biodiesel being diluted.
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In the case scheduled to be tried next month in Virginia federal court, Flynn's former lobbying business partners Bijan Rafiekian and Kamil Alptekin are accused of unlawfully lobbying on behalf of Turkey.
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Moreover, registering under the law would have required Gates, Manafort or the lobbying firms to disclose the specifics of their lobbying work and their efforts to sway public opinion through media outreach.
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They've also cranked up the spending: According to lobbying records, the company has hired three lobbying firms and spent $330,000 so far in 2018, compared to $120,000 on two firms in 85033.
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Mark BegichMark Peter BegichAlaska political mess has legislators divided over meeting place Former GOP chairman Royce joins lobbying shop Lobbying world MORE (D) is running to be the state's governor, KTVA reports.
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The bill, titled the Intelligence Directors Lobbying Prevention Act, would bar members of the U.S. intelligence community (IC) who are charged with protecting the nation from then lobbying for a foreign government.
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The bill, titled the Intelligence Directors Lobbying Prevention Act, would bar members of the U.S. intelligence community (IC) who are charged with protecting the nation from then lobbying for a foreign government.
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The on-demand economy is growing up in Washington, according to end-of-year lobbying numbers: Uber spent $1.36 million, cracking a million dollars in federal lobbying spending for the first time.
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To drain the swamp of corruption in Washington, C.C., I've started by imposing a five year lobbying ban on White House officials and a lifetime ban on lobbying for a foreign government.
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The domestic lobbying disclosure forms, filed to the Senate, say both firms would "advise client on U.S. domestic and foreign policy," including lobbying on funding bills for the Pentagon and State Department.
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Over the past two decades (when groups were required to start disclosing their lobbying activity), more businesses have entered the game, and they are lobbying a lot harder than they used to.
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Lobbying disclosures do not show that she did any lobbying at the EPA, but Hart's husband, J. Steven Hart, has lobbied the EPA on behalf of glass bottle manufacturer, Owens-Illinois, Inc.
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"Under my lobbying tax proposal, companies that spend between $500,000 and $1 million per year on lobbying, calculated on a quarterly basis, will pay a 35% tax on those expenditures," Warren said.
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Lobbying disclosures show that of the 57 entities that listed lobbying on DACA in 2017, 36 are in the education sector, including colleges and universities, teachers and even one local school district.
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In other words, lobbying pays a whole lot better, and Warren, who is arguing for more independence between Congress and the lobbying world, sees that as a problem that can be addressed.
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According to the Center for Responsive Politics, a nonprofit organization that tracks lobbying efforts, Dow Chemical, a plastics manufacturer, spent close to $14 million in 2016 on lobbying Congress and federal agencies.
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The indictment alleges Manafort and Gates had weekly scheduled calls with representatives from Mercury and Podesta to provide them "directions as to specific lobbying steps that should be taken, sought and received detailed oral and written reports from these firms on the lobbying work they had performed" and also congratulated and reprimanded the lobbying firms on their work.
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PURPOSE: The purpose of this Request for Proposal (RFP) is to enter into a fixed-price, all-inclusive, retainer type of contract (monthly billing) with a qualified contractor to provide federal legislative consulting and lobbying services in compliance with applicable lobbying restrictions of 85003 U.S.C. 1352 and the Lobbying Disclosure Act of 1995, as amended from time to time.
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The National Fisheries Institute — which represents importers, U.S.-based processors and farmers, in addition to seafood restaurants — recently brought on two high-powered lobbying firms to push House lawmakers to take up the resolution sending oversight back to the FDA: Subject Matter, a Democratic lobbying and PR firm, and the Republican lobbying firm Fierce Government Relations.
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Two separate laws require lobbying disclosure: The LDA, which covers domestic interests, and the Foreign Agents Registration Act, under which Manafort was charged and requires disclosure for lobbying on behalf of foreign entities.
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The 24 companies represented at the White House spent a total of $250 million lobbying Congress and federal agencies in 2015 and 53, according to a CNN review of federal lobbying-disclosure reports.
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Other changes include reviewing ties with lobbying groups bent on undermining action on climate change (the oil-and-gas industry spent $126m lobbying in America last year; only four other industries spent more).
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Chamber of Commerce overhauls lobbying operation: The U.S. Chamber of Commerce is overhauling its lobbying team in preparation for the departure of its top lobbyist, Bruce Josten, at the end of the year.
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Potential winners such as Boeing Corporation and General Electric are reportedly lobbying in favor of border tax adjustment, while potential losers such as Walmart, Home Depot and Target are reportedly lobbying against it.
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Tax reform push sparks lobbying frenzy: Republicans' push for moving tax reform legislation in 2017 has set off a lobbying frenzy, with groups angling to get in front of lawmakers and their staffs.
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Mark BegichMark Peter BegichAlaska political mess has legislators divided over meeting place Former GOP chairman Royce joins lobbying shop Lobbying world MORE, but his name will still appear on the ballot on Tuesday.
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Mark BegichMark Peter BegichAlaska political mess has legislators divided over meeting place Former GOP chairman Royce joins lobbying shop Lobbying world MORE (D-Alaska) is returning to work at Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck.
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And he reiterated his crackdown on former administration officials becoming lobbyists, saying he would institute a five-year ban on domestic lobbying and a lifetime ban on lobbying on behalf of foreign governments.
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The U.S. Chamber of Commerce posted the highest lobbying bill in 2018, spending nearly $95 million, according to an analysis of newly filed lobbying reports by the non-partisan Center for Responsive Politics.
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It requires the disclosure of much more information than the domestic lobbying law, the Lobbying Disclosure Act (LDA), and "foreign agents" must itemize each specific contact made on behalf of a foreign client.
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"The trick now is that you're not lobbying Defence, you're lobbying the various members of the NSC," he said, referring to the National Security Committee of Cabinet, which will make the final decision.
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S. companies, to disclose their activities through the domestic lobbying law — known as the Lobbying Disclosure Act (LDA) — rather than register as a foreign agent, which comes with a much stricter disclosure regiment.
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As recently as the fourth quarter of last year, Ms. Burnison was involved in lobbying the department on behalf of the Nuclear Energy Institute, which represents the nuclear industry, according to lobbying disclosures.
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According to lobbying disclosure records, Mr. Hart's firm reported lobbying the E.P.A. on behalf of OGE Energy, an energy company based in Oklahoma, on greenhouse gas regulations and other rules affecting electric utilities.
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What the lobbying efforts of Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google look like: • A combined $55 million was spent on lobbying last year by the four companies, according to the Center for Responsive Politics.
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In recent years, Fisher's congressional lobbying expenditures jumped significantly -- from $5,000 in 2017 to $75,000 in 2018, according to data compiled by the Center for Responsive Politics, a nonprofit that tracks lobbying expenditures.
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Why has it spent "millions" lobbying against EU privacy rules?
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In 2018 alone, the search giant spent $22m on lobbying.
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Former governor and senator Bob Graham is lobbying against it.
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Facebook itself spent nearly $8 million on lobbying in 2015.
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But the order does not ban lobbying across the board.
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And thanks to ISP lobbying pressure, excluded mentioning pricing whatsoever.
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The biggest question is whether American business lobbying changes anything.
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Their effort follows other actions by various tech lobbying groups.
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The obvious answer is incumbent groups that possess lobbying clout.
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The two firms involved in the lobbying campaign in Washington?
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Go deeper: NRA's lobbying efforts has weakened this past year.
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They employed millions of people and had enormous lobbying power.
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In 2310, a book came out on lobbying in Washington.
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They also have become a big player in Washington lobbying.
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Overseas adherents have also been adept at lobbying Western politicians.
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America's steel industry has been lobbying for protection for decades.
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Will lobbying be necessary to get them on the road?
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It's an enlightening snapshot that shows how tech lobbying works.
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He has had large law and lobbying firms on retainer.
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But to treat "lobbying" itself as the problem is silly.
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The NRA's lobbying has been a longtime presence in Washington.
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They need to do more than invest heavily in lobbying.
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Both firms were also lobbying the government on policy matters.
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Boutique lobbying shops have mushroomed, as under every new president.
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Now they are stepping away from a plastics lobbying group.
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The Plastics Industry Association is not only a lobbying group.
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Police organizations also don't have a long history of lobbying.
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They are lobbying the USFS hard to reinstate the loophole.
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Consequently, he began lobbying for better regulation of sperm banks.
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Persistent lobbying at the FCC appears to be paying off.
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The Guptas have also denied any wrongdoing or backroom lobbying.
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Retail lobbying groups will descend on Capitol Hill this morning.
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That's a question lawmakers should ask merchant lobbying groups today.
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It's in different countries, all over, she's lobbying for them.
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Lobbying groups for big internet companies have slammed the measure.
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Other groups have questioned the timeline of Bernhardt's lobbying activities.
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He expressed uncertainty that lobbying efforts could help the nation.
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Livingston Group, a prominent lobbying firm founded by former Rep.
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After the lobbying, the banks' attitude to Mechel changed dramatically.
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Go deeper: Senate Republicans lobbying Trump to stay in NAFTA.
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Cartels, monopolies and lobbying are common ways to extract rents.
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It earned nearly $29.3 million in lobbying fees in 85033.
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Target, for one, thinks the industry's lobbying efforts are succeeding.
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The lobbying disclosure forms specifically mention the House GOP bill.
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Lewandowski has also denied lobbying on behalf of the AISD.
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It will specialize in management consulting and lobbying for nonprofits.
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These activities include lobbying Congress, attending conventions, and filing grievances.
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Obama administration officials have been vigorously lobbying against the Sept.
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Roskam joins lobbying firm MORE (Fla.) to retirement and Rep.
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The success of such lobbying depends on the government's susceptibility.
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The other is the number of registered state lobbying groups.
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"Whatever lobbying was done didn't reach the president," he added.
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For Intuit, it was the culmination of years of lobbying.
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A reimagined corporation would take a different approach to lobbying.
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Roskam joins lobbying firm MORE (D-Mass.) joined Foley & Lardner.
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Lawmakers in general are skeptical of lobbying and ethics reforms.
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In 2015, the firm earned $5.43 million in lobbying fees.
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The company is one of Allon Advocacy's first lobbying clients.
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And the influence of former Pelosi aides extends beyond lobbying.
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Healthcare lobbying is about to shift into overdrive in Washington.
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And Facebook itself, has become a lobbying powerhouse in Washington.
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Even though Brussels is where the EU lobbying takes place.
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It's a little like lobbying Washington, D.C. out of Toronto.
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Roskam joins lobbying firm MORE (Fla.), whose son is transgender.
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We know the result of this lobbying effort as well.
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The powerful lobbying group for seniors is targeting GOP Sens.
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Houston and Cincinnati are openly lobbying to be those teams.
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That makes lobbying Trump to change course even more important.
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Naturopaths around the world are lobbying to be more official.
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That proposal was defeated last year after intense industry lobbying.
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Amazon increased its federal lobbying efforts and staffing last year.
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Hospital lobbying groups predictably put out statements condemning CMS' proposal.
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Why this matters: The AARP is a powerful lobbying force.
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Trump's comments were followed by dueling statements from lobbying groups.
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Let him lead the lobbying effort with the obdurate politicians.
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Google and Facebook are both big spenders on federal lobbying.
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The firm's lobbying revenue did not stay as constant, however.
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Both firms reported that they did not receive lobbying fees.
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Lobbying and legal costs, however, have damaged their bottom lines.
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Some foundations have effectively become lobbying arms of drug makers.
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Wynne most recently worked at lobbying firm Thorn Run Partners.
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He specifically cited lobbying efforts to derail Pennsylvania state Rep.
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These firms' services had previously been deemed unallowable lobbying costs.
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Saudi Arabia is reportedly still lobbying for support from Russia.
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Until then, Ms. Jesseman expects heavy lobbying by the industry.
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Some of these hosts, however, have done past lobbying work.
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Other governments plan to do less lobbying and more threatening.
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Mr. Falih has been traveling the world, lobbying for cuts.
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Uber has also poured money into lobbying in New York.
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After a blitz of corporate lobbying, Nafta renegotiation drags on.
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Last year, the company spent about $15 million on lobbying.
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We all know earmarks and lobbying influence policymakers and policy.
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Businesses are still lobbying for exemptions from Chinese tariffs, too.
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"The lobbying strategy is different," said Mr. Martin of CHIP.
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This is not lobbying, staffers said, just people having drinks.
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This is where parental lobbying of legislatures yielded real dividends.
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Not all the lobbying has been done behind closed doors.
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Since 2009, Facebook has increased its spending on lobbying fiftyfold.
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He told Murkowski how he would vote, without lobbying her.
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Public records also showed that he spent millions on lobbying.
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Consider the American Medical Association, a powerful physicians' lobbying group.
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I consider the F.A.A. a lobbying group for airport operators.
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They were the gold standard of lobbying, Capitol Hill access.
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Not conservative backlash, not big money's lobbying, not even Gov.
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But the lobbying campaign wasn't enough to keep Michigan Gov.
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At press time, they had not disclosed lobbying for Facebook.
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Politico first reported the group's lobbying efforts at the DNC.
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The lawyer, Natalia Veselnitskaya, was then lobbying against those sanctions.
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The sector spends nearly $500 million per year on lobbying.
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Trump was also personally lobbying Cramer to run for Senate.
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Heather Podesta's powerhouse lobbying firm is being rebranded as Invariant.
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Roskam joins lobbying firm MORE (D) in the Democratic primary.
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No one thinks it is too early to start lobbying.
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Generally, Manafort's guilty plea centers around his foreign lobbying crimes.
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He remained governor until 2002, when he transitioned into lobbying.
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Their combined lobbying power would be too much to overcome.
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Obviously, any discussions would not involve lobbying the federal government.
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It requires disclosure of lobbying on behalf of foreign interests.
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The association has also scaled back its spending on lobbying.
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There's calling, petitioning, and writing to politicians, or lobbying them.
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The outside lobbying efforts over Pruitt picked up last week.
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He was asked, repeatedly, about Exxon's lobbying activities against sanctions.
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"I know you weren't lobbying for the sanctions," Menendez replied.
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But lobbying and advocacy determine what happens in between elections.
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In fact, MANAFORT and GATES had: selected Company A and Company B; engaged in weekly scheduled calls and frequent emails with Company A and Company B to provide them directions as to specific lobbying steps that should be taken; sought and received detailed oral and written reports from these firms on the lobbying work they had performed; communicated With Yanukovych to brief him on their lobbying efforts; both congratulated and reprimanded Company A and Company B on their lobbying work; communicated directly with United States officials in connection with this work; and paid the lobbying firms over $2 million from offshore accounts they controlled, among other things.
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Google recently fired one long-time lobbying firm in Europe and has threatened to drop as many as 20 of its U.S. lobbying firms from the 26 it worked with last year, sources said.
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Gates also directed the firms to gather information in the U.S. on a rival lobbying operation, including a review of its public lobbying disclosures, to determine who was behind that effort, the emails show.
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Today's lobbying laws are like a sieve, and the problem boils down to a provision limiting disclosure requirements to lobbyists who spend 20 percent or more of their time lobbying for a single client.
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Informative guides on lobbying Congress like the "We're His Problem Now" Calling Sheet or Jezebel's piece on effective congressional lobbying (please look at these) have led to a surge of individual calls to representatives.
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He has repeatedly denied that his work constitutes lobbying, but T-Mobile acknowledged in 2018 that he served as a consultant on their lobbying effort to get antitrust approval for their acquisition of Sprint.
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Paul Miller, a former president of the lobbying group, said that he has created a new organization called the National Institute for Lobbying and Ethics in the wake of AGRP discontinuing its certificate program.
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When members of Congress and other elected officials leave federal office, they usually move into highly lucrative jobs, either joining a lobbying firm or working as "strategic consultants" on behalf of business lobbying campaigns.
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Clinton also highlighted Alaska's Mark BegichMark Peter BegichAlaska political mess has legislators divided over meeting place Former GOP chairman Royce joins lobbying shop Lobbying world MORE (D), who is running against Republican Mike Dunleavy.
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In fact, Google's cadre of lobbyists grew from four lobbying firms with an annual spend of $6900,2628 in 28503, to 22019 lobbyists, 30 lobbying firms and an annual spend of $21.7 million in 2018.
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Mr. Dole's firm, Alston & Bird, reported receiving an upfront lobbying fee of $5003,2500 from Mr. Deripaska, followed by at least $24,277 in additional payments over the next few years, according to congressional lobbying reports.
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Manafort and an associate, Rick Gates, were indicted after extensive foreign lobbying work and accused of filing false statements in their claims about lobbying for foreign countries, including a pro-Russian party in Ukraine.
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The real growth of lucrative Washington lobbying has been since the 1990s, trends that I document in my book The Business of America Is Lobbying: How Corporations Became Politicized and Politics Became More Corporate.
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Between April and June of this year, Google spent $5.4 million lobbying the federal government, more than double the lobbying budget for Apple, a comparable global behemoth that also has to fend off regulatory scrutiny.
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The industry spent $556 million on lobbying last year, which is a huge number but not far out of line with the $516 million per year in lobbying it has averaged over the past decade.
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Compounding their desperation, traditional lobbying firms are becoming increasingly threatened by the effectiveness of independent third party organizations and their ability to influence public policy debates in a much more efficient way than traditional lobbying.
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Trump tax plan to trigger lobbying frenzy: The Trump administration's release of a tax reform plan is setting off a lobbying frenzy that could be unlike anything seen in Washington since the passage of ObamaCare.
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The covert lobbying effort, branded the "Truth Campaign" and later "Operation Confidence," involved Kian and others lobbying an unnamed member of Congress, a congressional staffer and a state government in fall 2016, according to prosecutors.
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Recently, the regime in Ethiopia signed a "Memorandum of Understanding" to pay the Washington, D.C.,-based firm SGR Government Relations and Lobbying $150,000 per month for lobbying services for an annual total of $1.8 million.
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To wit, a CNBC review of the lobbying fees that AT&T and Novartis reported paying in 2017 revealed that both firms paid Trump's attorney more than they paid any of their outside lobbying firms.
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The developments show that while the US continues to exert enormous lobbying power over policy in Europe, solidarity across the continent in the face of those lobbying efforts is acting as an increasingly powerful corrective.
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The Center for Responsive Politics number includes state and local lobbyists, lobbying firm's political action committees (PACs) as well as people who work at lobbying firms who are not registered – including support staff and lawyers.
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The defense lawyers for a former lobbying partner of Flynn's want access to all the special counsel's office memos from Flynn's cooperation so they can prepare to question Flynn at the trial over Turkish lobbying.
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Dominant player Juul recently promised to suspend lobbying efforts on the looming federal regulations, an abrupt pivot from millions it had poured into lobbying, advertising, high-profile hires and both the state and federal level.
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And as I described in my book on corporate lobbying, The Business of America Is Lobbying, corporations have come to overwhelm Washington over the past four decades, investing ever-greater sums into shaping public policy.
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Apple's lobbying budget in Washington is far smaller than its competitors'.
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Local officials have been lobbying the government to reopen the facility.
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"These problems really exist because certain doctors' lobbying groups are powerful."
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Sometimes the relationships needed for lobbying are only now being established.
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But he insists he's doing no lobbying for his clients, whatsoever.
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The term "lobbying" has been around for nearly two hundred years.
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Over time, however, the industry's lobbying has slowed the treaty's progress.
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Absent that information, the NRA's lobbying becomes that much more potent.
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The influential lobbying group's head urged the administration to reverse course.
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But they're not throwing all they've got into lobbying against it.
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Tillerson also faced tough questioning on Exxon's lobbying against Iran sanctions.
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Since then he's traveled around the country lobbying for the law.
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" It ranked 47th overall and 49th in transparency of "lobbying disclosure.
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Nixon never liked that kind of close contact or personal lobbying.
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In 2007, the organization started lobbying for laws to protect fashion.
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Comcast responded to our article about lobbying with more PR spin.
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The pharmaceutical industry is a huge lobbying presence on Capitol Hill.
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This is what makes Trump's lobbying push almost irrelevant to scrutinize.
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For many, that means lobbying Congress to change the tax code.
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Such worries have driven fierce U.S. lobbying against the Russian project.
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Canadian filings do not contain any record of Marshall's lobbying contacts.
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But there's reason to believe lobbying might catch on with legislators.
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Reality check: Magerman's funding pales in comparison to Facebook's lobbying operation.
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Google still spent $9.8 million on lobbying so far this year.
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Instead, the main lever of influence is lobbying of party elites.
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The charges involve money-laundering, tax evasion, illegal lobbying and lying.
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Of course the music industry and publishers have been lobbying too.
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Attempts had failed mainly due to strong lobbying from producing countries.
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It seems you've always focused on direct action rather than lobbying.
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Google's dramatic rise as a lobbying force has not gone unnoticed.
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Elsevier's efforts weren't limited to lobbying for more-restrictive laws, either.
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The API's other efforts include lobbying against incentives for electric cars.
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Both those bodies maintain active lobbying operations around the EU's institutions.
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The lobbying occurred while Flynn was a top Trump campaign adviser.
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Behind the scenes lobbying of lawmakers is one part of that.
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The state's largest employer group is lobbying hard against the effort.
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On Wednesday, despite weeks of lobbying by Uber, rival Lyft Inc.
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The American Trucking Association has been lobbying to ease those rules.
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Energy Institute, the industry's lobbying group, put out a statement welcoming
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Kian hadn't even signed the lobbying forms -- Flynn did, Trout said.
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It's unclear whether the White House knew about his lobbying work.
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The alcohol industry has been lobbying for such cuts for years.
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He also traveled to Japan for a lobbying trip this month.
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Some of the charitable giving looks a lot like corporate lobbying.
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The White House claims Trump was unaware of his lobbying work.
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He started lobbying Congress to block Trump from rolling back sanctions.
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Dillashaw immediately began lobbying for a title fight with Demetrious Johnson.
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In January, Ballard opened a Washington outpost of his lobbying operation.
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Intel, Qualcomm, IBM and Apple are also spending heavily on lobbying.
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McCain held out despite intense lobbying from Vice President Mike Pence.
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A U.S. railroad lobbying group, Rail Security Alliance, commissioned the report.
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The Saudi government financed an extensive lobbying campaign against the legislation.
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Appointees would also be permanently barred from lobbying for foreign governments.
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He claims he will not receive more than $5,000 for lobbying.
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The shredding of his own lobbying ban is just further proof.
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Lobbying efforts against Pruitt will start as soon as Congress returns.
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Its existence owes to the lobbying of the ranching industry itself.
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Last year, CVS only included federal lobbying in its advocacy total.
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Lobbying, specifically, is to promote a view, a position or whatnot.
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Facebook, Google and Microsoft declined to comment on their lobbying activity.
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But he said GOP leaders have been unrelenting in lobbying him.
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Giuliani denies he's done any lobbying on behalf of such clients.
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The lobbying directly related to energy matters, according to regulatory filings.
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Their lobbying may not sway Congress, even with Ms Swift's help.
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Lobbying and grassroots advocacy are different approaches to a common goal.
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"Around the margins, [lobbying] could really impact the mood," he said.
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He previously led the lobbying shop at the Financial Services Institute.
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It also sent lobbying and public relations firms into crisis mode.
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They have spent around $50m on lobbying so far in 2017.
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Roskam joins lobbying firm MORE (R-Fla.), a fellow Cuban American.
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Moreover, from Congress, we see ExxonMobil's relentless lobbying against climate action.
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Washington (CNN)The lobbying bonanza has officially kicked into high gear.
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Gottlieb's comments come after the foundation ratcheted up its lobbying efforts.
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Apple spent less on lobbying than Microsoft, Facebook, Amazon, and Alphabet.
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At one point, the pharmaceutical industry's main lobbying group disavowed them.
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Of the class, 15 former members are already lobbying at firms.
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The National Rifle Association's lobbying arm praised the elephant trophy decision.
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When it comes to lobbying the Pentagon and Congress, size matters.
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Podesta hasn't been charged but stepped down from his lobbying firm.
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The complaints have emerged as Springleaf presses its statehouse lobbying campaign.
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Roskam joins lobbying firm MORE (R) in the Miami-based district.
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He has done lobbying work for nearly two decades in Washington.
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The "L" is meant to parody the perceived stigma against lobbying.
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In 2015, the firm earned about $23.2 million in lobbying fees.
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Crowley joined law and lobbying firm Squire Patton Boggs in February.
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Local lobbying efforts on the issue are also being stepped up.
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Flynn also lied about his lobbying work for Turkey throughout 2016.
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Clients of Manafort's lobbying firm have included dictators and controversial businessmen.
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Mr. Sanders says he will continue lobbying superdelegates to abandon Mrs.
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Manafort has pleaded not guilty to the foreign lobbying criminal charges.
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It is the Wisconsin-based company's first lobbying hire in Washington.
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Still, the push to regulate these broader activities as lobbying continues.
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The timber company Weyerhaeuser added another lobbying firm to its roster.
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He was indefatigable in reaching out to reporters, lobbying for coverage.
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In 2015, Google spent more than $16 million on federal lobbying .
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As it turned out, Woods knew what he was lobbying about.
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Cohen would also receive a monthly fee for his lobbying efforts.
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I was never lobbying to avoid questions from a tough questioner.
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Holmstead is a partner at the law and lobbying firm Bracewell.
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The drug companies spent over $230 million lobbying last year alone.
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Lobbying and campaign finance rules rarely change without a major scandal.
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He was done lobbying, and back to being 6 years old.
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That group has not reported any lobbying expenses in two years.
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Officials at Ameren and DTE declined to comment on the lobbying.
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This, too, is at least partially the result of telecom lobbying.
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The lobbying group did not provide a copy of the analysis.
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He spent the next ten years lobbying for a safer harbor.
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However, these companies usually stay out of lobbying when they can.
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Roskam joins lobbying firm MORE (D-Mass.) be the next Rep.
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The lobbying effort by Trump and GOP leaders is in overdrive.
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But lobbying for what you want is nothing new in Washington.
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He is the author of "Lobbying the New President" (Routledge, 2012).
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Amid the regulatory crackdown, Juul has significantly increased its lobbying spending.
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Financial and business sectors have begun lobbying May over the divorce.
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Strenuous lobbying by a coalition of civic leaders, including former Gov.
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Facebook remains mostly blocked in China despite the company's lobbying efforts.
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The councils are lobbying the central government to change the law.
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That has exacerbated the "shadow lobbying" industry for former administration officials.
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They're engaging in lobbying activities, they're just calling themselves consultants instead.
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And it's about relentless, individual lobbying at every level of government.
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While traveling for her son's cannabis treatment, Ms. Carter began lobbying.
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Neither can I. She's still lobbying for a ticket to "Frozen."
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Amazon hired the influential lobbying firm Greenberg Traurig to represent it.
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He also denied lobbying Kislyak on the UN Security Council vote.
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There will be no church convention, no lobbying and no election.
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There were executives whose companies are right now lobbying the state.
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Its lobbying efforts in states and cities tell a different story.
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By consolidating policies, the industry also consolidates targets for political lobbying.
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Half of Washington seems to be lobbying for Ukraine or Turkey.
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The powerful Democratic lobbyist Tony Podesta quit his lobbying firm Monday.
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But about the revolving door between Congress and the lobbying industry.
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If nothing else, the lobbying effort is notable for its scale.
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The firm ultimately settled a lobbying case with the Justice Department.
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And he's lobbying for more funding for community behavioral health clinics.
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Business also dramatically increased its lobbying presence on Washington's K Street.
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No industry in America spends more on lobbying than health care.
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"It didn't foreclose the possibility of lobbying all together," he said.
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Mr. Cuomo's spokesman acknowledged Canadian lobbying had played a major role.
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Lobbying is at once Washington's most maligned, enduring and essential industry.
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Perhaps that's why the traditional lobbying shops were doing just fine.
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Toyota and the automakers are not alone in this lobbying effort.
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Members of Congress are lobbying to keep you from getting fired.
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Gun lobbying groups did claim some wins last year, Anderman said.
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Washington, D.C., technology lobbying groups also expressed concern to Trump's ban.
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The New York Times: Mueller inquiry exposes culture of foreign lobbying.
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He will lead state lobbying efforts for the Connecticut-based company.
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TrumpWorld soon followed suit with a lobbying campaign in his favor.
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Roskam joins lobbying firm MORE (R-Fla.) in Florida's 2628th District.
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The firm earned $12.4 million for its lobbying work last year.
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Roskam joins lobbying firm MORE (Fla.) and immigration hard-liner Rep.
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Membership fees do not go toward lobbying efforts, according to CNN.
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Pharmaceutical Care Management Association, the industry's lobbying group, praised the changes.
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Pharmaceutical Care Management Association, the industry's lobbying group, supports the legislation.
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The ESA is first and foremost a lobbying and advocacy organization.
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J Street, a liberal Jewish-American lobbying group, criticized the order.
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Technology companies and their trade organizations are lobbying fiercely against it.
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The professional lobbying community certainly can learn from these youthful teachers.
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Tax regulations applicable to private foundations provide exceptions to forbidden lobbying.
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" Airlines for America, the sector's lobbying group, argued Tuesday that "U.
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"Michael was lobbying EVERYONE to be 'Chief of Staff,'" he wrote.
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Retailers and importers generally are already furiously lobbying against the idea.
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He fired his longtime lawyers, from the large law firm Covington & Burling, earlier this month, as the focus of his lobbying partners' case turned toward Covington's work for Flynn and his lobbying firm Flynn Intel Group.
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A 2009 study, "Lobbying and Policy Change," conducted by five political scientists, found that a consistent predictor of a lobbying firm's success was if it hired more lobbyists who had been government officials in the past.
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Internet giant Comcast is lobbying U.S. lawmakers against plans to encrypt web traffic that would make it harder for internet service providers (ISPs) to determine your browsing history, according to a lobbying presentation obtained by Motherboard.
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In 2017, the top hospital, doctor and insurer trade groups reported spending a total of more than $13 million on lobbying the federal government through the first quarter of 2017, according to a congressional lobbying database.
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The report, which examined soda lobbying on legislation from 2628 to 28503, found that Coca-Cola Company and PepsiCo gave to 22019 national health groups while simultaneously lobbying against 29 different bills considered public health legislation.
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Joseph Sandler, a Washington attorney who advises Democratic and Republican lobbyists, said it's a narrow distinction between public-relations work and lobbying, and that giving the State Department information about a foreign election would constitute lobbying.
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PRIVATE EQUITY LOBBYING GROUP CHANGES NAME: The leading lobbying group for the private equity industry announced Tuesday that it is changing its name from the Private Equity Growth Capital Council to the American Investment Council (AIC).
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A 2009 study, "Lobbying and Policy Change," conducted by five political scientists, found that a consistent predictor of a lobbying firm's success was if it hired more people who had been government officials in the past.
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Mark BegichMark Peter BegichAlaska political mess has legislators divided over meeting place Former GOP chairman Royce joins lobbying shop Lobbying world MORE (D-Alaska), who left office in early 2015, has the nomination virtually stitched up.
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"This is the easiest playbook in the world for former members who want the dollars from lobbying firms but not the scarlet letter that comes with lobbying jobs," a former senior Senate staffer told The Hill.
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Mr. Wheeler's critics point in particular to his lobbying disclosure filings, which describe his lobbying activities only in general terms that they say fail to adequately reveal what he actually worked on the past eight years.
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TRANSUNION BEEFS UP LOBBYING PRESENCE: The credit-reporting bureau TransUnion is fortifying its lobbying presence with a spate of new hires as lawmakers are scrutinizing the industry in the wake of the massive Equifax data breach.
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Mark BegichMark Peter BegichAlaska political mess has legislators divided over meeting place Former GOP chairman Royce joins lobbying shop Lobbying world MORE (D-Alaska) is throwing his name into the race for the Alaska governor's mansion.
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It spent nearly $2600 million lobbying Congress and federal regulators in the first half of this year, up from roughly $2500 million for all of 123 and $212,212 the year before, according to federal lobbying records.
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In addition to its small shop of in-house lobbyists, Pebble Limited Partnership has three lobbying firms on retainer: the powerhouse Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld, Van Ness Feldman and a lobbying firm with former Rep.
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Disparity in lobbying efforts as well When it comes to lobbying lawmakers and regulators, broader special interests like the defense industry, finance and health care, by contrast, spent considerably more than the NRA and its allies.
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And while Warren wants a lifetime lobbying ban not just for presidents and vice presidents, but also for members of Congress, federal judges, and Cabinet secretaries, Biden is less prescriptive, simply suggesting beefing up lobbying transparency laws.
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Tony Podesta, the big Democratic power lobbying guy, who we found out about 211 weeks ago was being spoken to by the investigators on Mueller&aposs team, he stepped down from his very prestigious lobbying firm today.
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Mark BegichMark Peter BegichAlaska political mess has legislators divided over meeting place Former GOP chairman Royce joins lobbying shop Lobbying world MORE (D) has conceded the Alaska governor's race to Republican Mike Dunleavy, the Associated Press reported.
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GAO audited compliance with the Lobbying Disclosure Act, which was enacted in 28500 and requires a person to register as a lobbyist if lobbying activities constitute at least 6900 percent of their time working for a client.
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A jury found Manafort guilty of tax and bank fraud related to his Ukrainian lobbying proceeds, then Manafort flipped and agreed to help prosecutors in September to avoid a second trial related to his foreign lobbying operation.
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Mark BegichMark Peter BegichAlaska political mess has legislators divided over meeting place Former GOP chairman Royce joins lobbying shop Lobbying world MORE returned to Brownstein earlier this month, after leaving last year to run unsuccessfully for governor.
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On Wednesday, his transition team announced that anyone interested in a White House job would need to sign a pledge renouncing any lobbying ties and agree not to enter lobbying for five years after leaving his administration.
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Prior to their election victory on April 21, Zelensky's campaign hired Signal Group Consulting, a lobbying firm that was initially paid at least $60,000 to set up meetings with government officials, according to a lobbying disclosure report.
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While at lobbying firm Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck, Bernhardt represented Freeport LNG, oil and natural gas producers Cobalt International Energy and Samson Energy, and California water distributor Westlands Water District, among other companies, according to lobbying filings.
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Requirements include: a minimum of two years of lobbying experience with a trade association, public transit agency, corporation or consulting lobbying firm, or an equivalent level of experience in a legislative staff position in a congressional office.
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The Chicago Tribune recently uncovered alleged lobbying communications by a dozen executives who did not register as lobbyist, spurring a flurry of investigations by the Chicago Board of Ethics into possible violations of the city's lobbying ordinance.
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The president appeared not to understand the bill he was lobbying for.
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Others say the prohibitions on lobbying are too insignificant to be effective.
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Advanced Medical Technology Association, or AdvaMed, the industry's lobbying group, pushed back.
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One imagines the company is already lobbying for a change in legislation.
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But Hara doesn't want that—with Staples, he's lobbying for heightened appreciation.
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Rafiekian was indicted on allegations of unregistered lobbying on behalf of Turkey.
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The American Hospital Association had a lobbying price tag of $4.56 million.
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The probe follows a lobbying push by online travel agencies last year.
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Those also are some of the biggest spenders on lobbying, records show.
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That's 4% of all money spent on Washington lobbying in those years.
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From inside the industry, what do you think about its lobbying approach?
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It's lobbying allies to exclude Huawei from next-generation 5G wireless networks.
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His announcement makes the Hamilton electors' lobbying campaign that much more interesting.
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Cohen was not ultimately charged with illegal foreign lobbying or money laundering.
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But doing so is likely to trigger opposition from powerful lobbying groups.
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They'd also spent $163,000 on services from the lobbying firm State & Broadway.
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And there has been quite clear lobbying from the industry for this.
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In 2015 alone, the kingdom hired five lobbying and public relations firms.
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But those in the lobbying world say the numbers should be higher.
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Hispanic advocacy groups are lobbying Clinton to choose a Hispanic running mate.
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But the companies are not actively lobbying Congress to embrace the policy.
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Netflix, in particular, spent millions in lobbying dollars to pass the regulations.
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He pledged that he wouldn't be swayed by the Washington lobbying class.
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It has since become the industry's preeminent lobbying channel for the issue.
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AI now counts among some of those tech companies' regular lobbying expenses.
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Google, which has spent the past few years aggressively lobbying for RCS.
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Her lobbying efforts led to the repeal of the previous court decision.
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The number of unregistered foreign lobbying schemes currently in effect is unknown.
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For instance, Exxon reported $7.16 million in lobbying in Q3 of 2009.
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The three-year extension granted by Congress followed lobbying by major railroads.
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Hersman stressed during the conference that PAVE is not a lobbying group.
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Much of this is the result of aggressive lobbying from pharmaceutical companies.
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He formed a lobbying firm with an old associate of his dad's.
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There is a reason Exxon has been lobbying for a carbon tax.
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Prominent lobbying firms and leading companies are reconsidering or withdrawing their business.
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But there's very few people that are lobbying for fairness in general.
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Amazon and Facebook also reached record levels of lobbying expenditures in 1.73.
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Some think-tanks host sister lobbying organisations, which present their own risks.
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The Wikimedia Foundation has been lobbying to restore access in the country.
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The filing was posted to the Senate lobbying disclosure database on Wednesday.
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He has appeared at congressional hearings lobbying for the boy&aposs return.
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There is some precedent for brands lobbying for Unicode approval via Change.
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SO I AM LOOKING FORWARD TO SITTING DOWN – SULLIVAN: BECAUSE THE LOBBYING.
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The smaller NAFTA partners made Herculean lobbying efforts to defend the agreement.
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Go deeper: AOC and Ted Cruz may team up for lobbying ban
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So ... focus on research and lobbying, and pay attention to the states.
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These aren't narrow transactional deals designed to advance a specific lobbying agenda.
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FARA returns show that 15 countries have contracts with American lobbying firms.
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Lobbying to maintain the status quo may be the most effective kind.
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Go deeper: Top business lobbying group mulls legal action over Mexico tariffs
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Wheeler's lobbying client echoes a similar industry-first vision for the EPA.
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The filing was posted on the Senate lobbying disclosure website on Tuesday.
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There's also a lot of special interests, a lot of lobbying involved.
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Consumer lobbying group BEUC said EU countries should stop dragging their feet.
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The three-year extension granted by Congress followed lobbying by major railroads.
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There is also currently a grand jury investigation into Flynn's foreign lobbying.
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In the same period, it has already spent $1.4 million on lobbying.
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Policymakers didn't need private prison companies lobbying them to pursue mass incarceration.
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The move comes despite intense lobbying by Walmart-owned Flipkart and Amazon.
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To achieve that, the three industries — normally rivals — combined their lobbying forces.
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That's a game plan Airbnb has refined through its U.S. lobbying efforts.
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And that figure doesn't include the industry lobbying at the state level.
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IFPI is now lobbying European and US regulators to amend the legislation.
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"The intensity and the lobbying around various provisions will increase," he predicted.
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Some lobbying came through the American Beverage Association and Grocery Manufacturers Association.
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At the same time, many groups have been lobbying for special interests.
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The sum is a relatively small amount for a foreign lobbying contract.
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Next, merchant lobbying groups will claim that Durbin corrected a market failure.
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Milano also described the Creative Coalition's day of lobbying as a success.
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Israel denied lobbying then Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on the issue.
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Ligado has been extremely active in lobbying the FCC, disclosure filings show.
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Some investors also are lobbying for a change in Chipotle's board leadership.
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Jablon is restricted from lobbying Neal's office, including staff, for one year.
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The statement also said State Street will monitor the companies' lobbying activities.
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Last year, tech industry lobbying killed a similar bill in New York.
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Is it about lobbying on K Street in DC or something else?
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But it is also likely to infuriate conservative lawmakers and lobbying groups.
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What was the cable industry like when I was lobbying for them?
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Headlines City of London lobbying group drops demand for EU 'passport' on.ft.
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Transport startups, led by Uber, have run their own energetic lobbying efforts.
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These donations don't include how much corporations also spend on lobbying Congress.
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Mnuchin has reportedly been particularly responsive to lobbying from the film industry.
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Intelligence officials have been lobbying for the Prez to withhold the release.
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Yes they should be retreating, but not to do more internal lobbying.
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We know that liberal legislation gets killed because of Wall Street lobbying.
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A lot of vaping and lobbying can be done in three years.
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Getting this can take years of lobbying and, in some cases, bribes.
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The amendments were approved but only narrowly after intense last minute lobbying.
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Power was finally restored after days of lobbying by the U.S. government.
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Roskam joins lobbying firm MORE (R-Fla.) departs Congress 28500 months hence.
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Citigroup is lobbying its shareholders to ignore criticisms of its pay policies.
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Federal investigators are also reportedly looking into Flynn's paid lobbying for Turkey.
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U.S. airlines and A4A all reported lobbying on that bill last year.
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Lawmakers said the administration had spent weeks lobbying for a weaker bill.
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His lobbying life ended when he copped a plea to a crime.
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Gates and Manafort worked with Kilimnik for years on their Ukraine lobbying.
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He joined the law and lobbying firm Squire Patton Boggs on Tuesday.
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The sources did not identify the U.S. firms involved in the lobbying.
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Lane is lobbying for the Shark Fin Trade Elimination Act of 85033.
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The company started lobbying the Pentagon on cloud computing policy in 2016.
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His lobbying today for an FTC-centered approach is disingenuous at best.
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However, our co-op's lobbying efforts have never been focused on MPP.
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"I'm always lobbying for the irrepressible strength of love," Mr. Porter said.
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It's not just that Apple and Google are lobbying against this bill.
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In fact, hospitals represent one of the most powerful lobbying coalitions nationwide.
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During the same period in 2016, Google spent $4.2 million on lobbying.
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Expect plenty of lobbying around those decisions, if it comes to that.
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Roskam joins lobbying firm MORE (Pa.), who is at Squire Patton Boggs.
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Juul has been ramping up its lobbying efforts recently amid federal pressure.
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Originally written to combat propaganda, FARA also covers lobbying and public relations.
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Big media companies have been lobbying Congress to roll back the regulations.
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The law and lobbying firm K&L Gates has hired former Rep.
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That is exactly what the Anti-Lobbying Act is meant to prevent.
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This secrecy is perhaps the most troubling part of Trump's lobbying policy.
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Deutsche Telekom paid the lobbying firm $30,000 in 2017, OpenSecrets' records show.
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The firm is the first lobbying shop to represent the OSS Society.
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She also oversees the Generic Pharmaceutical Association — the generic industry's lobbying group.
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The cigar industry lobbying pitch has gained the most traction in Congress.
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The fallout Trump's ethics rules could drive the lobbying industry further underground.
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The former New York City mayor is publicly lobbying for the position.
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The Government Accountability Office (GAO) provides legal opinions on anti-lobbying questions.
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"They made our lives living hell," Natanine said of Greenpeace's sealskin lobbying.
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" Lobbying man No. 2: "You know who has a cottage in Leland?
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Mercury Public Affairs, a lobbying firm caught up in Manafort's secret effort
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Yet the terms have gradually increased with the lobbying of corporate owners.
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S. dollars for abortion-related services or lobbying, from receiving taxpayer funding.
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Despite Amazon&aposs lobbying and large political donation, Sawant won re-election.
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It spent $6.7 million lobbying through the third quarter of last year.
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Roskam joins lobbying firm MORE (R-Fla.) echoed his call shortly after.
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Uber's expanding lobbying operation still pales in comparison to other tech giants.
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Delta spent about $2.5 million on lobbying the federal government last year.
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In 2016, the online retailer spent $11 million on lobbying in Washington.
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Uber continues to dwarf its ride-hail competitor Lyft in lobbying heft.
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Already, lobbying firms alluded to in the indictment are facing renewed scrutiny.
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Flynn's lobbying work for Turkey has come under scrutiny in recent weeks.
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The Washington-based business lobbying group represents about 185 chief executive officers.
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The breach has also prompted media scrutiny of the company's lobbying activities.
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Set aside the lobbying you're inevitably facing on who should become speaker.
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The group is also lobbying for educational programs for those already here.
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Manafort has pleaded not guilty to the foreign lobbying and financial charges.
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ET. The lobbying disclosures for the third quarter are due at midnight.
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Barbara Simons of Verified Voting has been lobbying for them for years.
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Officials from those law firms involved in the lobbying declined to comment.
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Miller and other lobbying advocates also agree registration should be more expansive.
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There's no denying that lobbying and 'gentle' activism are required for change.
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Despite the Boulderites' convictions, the Soviet government remained impervious to lobbying attempts.
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We are tired of lobbying and we are tired of letter-writing.
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This collective, cross-industry lobbying firepower has proven immensely difficult to overcome.
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Is it everything but coal, like this Washington lobbying coalition described it?
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The Israeli lobbying efforts seem to have borne fruit in recent months.
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But AT&T's lobbying influence on the state level is similarly monumental.
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I'll go back to Boston, I know they're lobbying for New York.
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Labor leaders have been lobbying to make the disclosure of outsourcing mandatory.
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Put new taxes on "excessive lobbying" of more than $500,000 a year.
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The Internet Association, a lobbying group for the industry, will also attend.
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These protections from both parties aren't about partisanship, but lobbying and cronyism.
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Koch officials say they are lobbying behind the scenes to change it.
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Despite the last-minute lobbying, the Paris deal announcement was hardly unexpected.
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He became a partner at a law and lobbying firm in 2001.
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Think tanks and lobbying shops are directing employees to work from home.
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Mr. Dellums returned to Washington and resumed lobbying there after his mayoralty.
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Lobbying the S.E.C. to change its regulations would be "infeasible," he acknowledged.
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The firm has been among Washington's highest grossing lobbying shops for years.
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Democrats have ramped up calls for lobbying bans, and presidential candidate Sen.
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Similar proposals on lobbying were floated during the 2008 financial crisis: Sen.
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The lobbying firms are privately discussing how to proceed, these people said.
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The banks are lobbying to loosen many of the post-crisis rules.
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Big retailers like Walmart and Target had been lobbying hard against it.
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America's largest corporations have been lobbying Congress on tax issue for years.
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But the lobbying frenzy risked undermining the ground rules of world trade.
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Because of budget cuts and lobbying, this elite force never came together.
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But after lobbying from the industry, the proposal has remained in limbo.
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And despite an aggressive lobbying campaign, Uber and Lyft were not exempted.
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Juul has also been ramping up its lobbying operation and political contributions.
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"I can confirm that David was not doing federal lobbying," she said.
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And the bank's independent directors separately spent $450,000 on lobbying from Oct.
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It was passed in 2011, partially because of Mr. Stewart's relentless lobbying.
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Frelinghuysen joins law and lobby firm Lobbying world MORE, during those elections.
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Before that she was executive vice president of lobbying firm Morgan Meguire.
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He is now a vice president at the lobbying firm Duberstein Group.
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And cruise lines spend more than $3 million a year on lobbying.
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He became a partner at a law and lobbying firm in 220173.
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America has choked on the lobbying that funnels corporate cash into politics.
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Charles Kushner's attorney said he understood Dershowitz's lobbying is what deserves credit.
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Huawei had been cutting back its lobbying efforts even before the ban.
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Republicans undid the law earlier this year despite intense lobbying from labor.
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She had become a one-woman lobbying operation: lawyer, wife, investigator, advocate.
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Hollywood spends more than $100 million on awards-season lobbying each year.
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It's important to distinguish between the lobbying groups and their members, though.
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The outside game — of public protest and grass-roots lobbying — matters, too.
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Taxing companies that spend more than $500,000 on lobbying is 48-24.
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A typical boutique lobbying firm might charge $215,22017 to $22016,210 a month.
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Mark Zuckerberg is going on a lobbying mission to Brussels in February.
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Several legislators in Puerto Rico also are actively lobbying against the bill.
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The lobbying campaign comes as the Democratic race between Clinton and Sen.
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The internet company has increased its lobbying spending every year since 2013.
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They also spent more than $27,000 in direct lobbying of Mr. Schmidt.
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And when companies move overseas, they stop lobbying for immigration at home.
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Both camps have since been lobbying to win over the other's supporters.
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Qatar has more than 20 lobbying and public affairs firms on retainer.
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I would tell him to fire his entire communications and lobbying staff.
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"Michael was lobbying EVERYONE to be 'Chief of Staff,'" tweeted Eric Trump.
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The industry was lobbying Mexican lawmakers to press for changes, Armendariz said.
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Lobbying is just one way drugmakers and their employees can exert influence.
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OL: Every Israeli party -- left and right -- would continue lobbying against Iran.
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Today, the technology industry is already lobbying the government extensively for influence.
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That makes sense: the impact of negative lobbying is significant, and detrimental.
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This week seems to signal a Hail Mary for US lobbying efforts.
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Roskam joins lobbying firm MORE (R-Fla.), will work on the account.
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Lobbying groups say the investment is desperately needed, and private foresters agree.
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The lobbying took place in Washington the month after the Spain meeting.
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Roskam joins lobbying firm MORE (R-Fla.) is also expected to appear.
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In Maryland, another mother led parents in lobbying against strict residency restrictions.
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Juul's lobbying against government efforts to curb teen vaping should stop immediately.
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The Russian lobbying effort comes as the clock ticks down toward Feb.
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The shadow-lobbying trend seems likely to continue under the current administration.
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The vaping industry's lobbying efforts have also been strenuous, if less successful.
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Saudi Arabia employs eight different lobbying, legal and consulting firms in Washington.
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The lobbying effort also included an anti-Magnitsky movie at the Newseum.
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The NRA historically has more money than any other gun lobbying group.
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Food companies are also frustrated that GMA's lobbying is creating needless confusion.
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And despite an aggressive lobbying campaign, Uber and Lyft are not exempt.
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It will take months to find out how effective the lobbying was.
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Last year, Boeing's spending on lobbying topped $28 million, federal records show.
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The financial sector spent half a billion dollars on lobbying in 2017.
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Historically, in times of political uncertainty the lobbying industry has done well.
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Winners included Apple, which was spared after lobbying to remove some items.
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Previous attempts have failed, mainly due to strong lobbying from producing countries.
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Lobbying group and C-V2X supporter 5GAA said that is not enough.
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The firm took in nearly $550,85033 in federal lobbying revenue last year.
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It's unclear how much the lobbying firms knew about Manafort's other clients.
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Google (GOOGL) and other tech giants have been lobbying against the law.
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More and more white shoe lobbying firms are taking on hemp clients.
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They are charged with illegal foreign lobbying, bank fraud and tax evasion.
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Berman Jackson also spoke on the rarity of a foreign lobbying prosecution.
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My dad got involved in lobbying for rent stabilization for small businesses.
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How did the N.R.A. become the powerful lobbying group it is today?
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Here is a look back at 10 notable lobbying victories from 2016.
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Mr. Regan has been lobbying the state on real estate tax credits.
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Pay legal and lobbying fees, something much less sexy than TV commercials.
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At the same time, religious conservatives had been lobbying for the law.
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The frenzied lobbying to kill this provision will go beyond taxpayers themselves.
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At the federal level, corporate lobbying has stymied sunshine legislation for decades.
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But it's also an opportunity for more subtle lobbying in unprecedented ways.
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The poultry industry, for its part, has responded by lobbying U.S. officials.
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The offenses involve false statements or misrepresentations of financial and lobbying activity.
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Lobbying is so important I wrote a whole book on the topic.
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Kilimnik had earlier aided Manafort's lobbying work for Ukraine's Russia-aligned government.
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The AHLA is the main lobbying group for hotels in the U.S. Though the hotel industry has opposed Airbnb for years, this appears to be its first large-scale organized effort to thwart short-term rentals via lobbying.
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Gates and Manafort worked very closely on foreign lobbying jobs, and Gates could hold crucial evidence about the allegations against Manafort, who left the Trump campaign in August 2016 after increased public scrutiny of his foreign lobbying history.
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Alexandria, Virginia (CNN)Michael Flynn's ex-lobbying partner, Bijan Kian, will soon learn his fate from a jury in a case related to pro-Turkish government lobbying work their firm did in 2016 just before the presidential election.
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It's one of the things I'm doing, is not just lobbying the British government but lobbying businesses to impress upon their governments the fact that a hard Brexit would be bad for London and bad for Europe too.
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And Rohrabacher worked closely with the Russian team lobbying last year to repeal Russia sanctions; members of that lobbying team met with Donald Trump Jr. last June on the premise of providing dirt on Clinton from the Kremlin.
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As PolluterWatch reports: Jeff Holmstead began his political career as the Associate Counsel to former President George H.W. Bush, moving from his government office to a lobbying firm to the Environmental Protection Agency to his current lobbying firm.
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He introduced a new lobbying proposal that most notably reinstates a ban on executive branch officials from lobbying the government five years after leaving office and asks Congress to pass a similar ban on former lawmakers and staff.
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Throughout the Turkish lobbying case made public Monday, Flynn is referred to as "Person A." The indictment describes Kian discussing with Flynn meeting with Turkish leaders and accepting payments through Flynn's company throughout 2016 for the lobbying work.
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As part of the contract, $28503 was paid to the lobbying firms between 22019 and 2014, with the money routed through a lobbying contract with a Dutch-based non-profit called the European Centre for a Modern Ukraine.
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" (NYT) Amazon Turns On The Charm Amid Criticism From Right and Left: "This year, Amazon has increased its lobbying staff [in Washington] to 33 members from 60, making it one of the biggest corporate lobbying shops in town.
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David VitterDavid Bruce VitterGrocery group hires new top lobbyist Lobbying World Senate confirms Trump judge who faced scrutiny over abortion views MORE, a former Republican senator from Louisiana, joined the public affairs and lobbying firm Mercury in February.
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The reports indicated at least $28503,22019 was spent on the group's lobbying effort and that three Russian businessmen — Denis Katsyv, Mikhail Ponomarev and Albert Nasibulin of Moscow — had a direct interest in the outcome of the lobbying results.
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Altria, which bought a 35 percent stake in Juul last year, first disclosed it was lobbying on e-cigarette issues in 2014 and this year specified it was lobbying on FDA guidelines on e-vapors and flavored cigars.
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In the past two years, for example, the company's congressional lobbying expenditures jumped significantly -- from $0003,000 in 2017 to $75,000 in 2018, according to data compiled by the Center for Responsive Politics, a non-profit that tracks lobbying expenditures.
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A year-old coalition of large oil and power companies working on carbon capture and storage is now under the umbrella of the National Association of Manufacturers, a powerful lobbying association, Axios has learned from lobbying disclosures and interviews.
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This isn't a new lobbying issue for these companies, and they told health officials the procedure "is a well-studied and practiced solution that should receive payment outside of the bundle," according to a copy of their lobbying presentation.
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President Trump began work on one of his signature campaign promises on Saturday by signing an executive order that banned administration officials from lobbying for five years after they leave office, and prohibits them from lobbying for foreign entities.
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From 22019 to 2014, Podesta Group and Mercury earned $2.2 million from the European Centre for a Modern Ukraine, a non-profit organization based in Brussels, according to domestic lobbying disclosure records required under the Lobbying Disclosure Act (LDA).
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Its spending on political lobbying in Brussels tripled to as much as $13 million in 2014, according to the latest figures available in the E.U.'s voluntary transparency register, which may not include all of the company's lobbying efforts.
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An internal EPA email shows that the same month Wheeler was lobbying the Interior Department to shrink Bears Ears, his lobbying colleagues at Faegre-Baker-Daniels were over at the EPA discussing abandoned uranium mines and their cleanup contracts.
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A.J. Gallagher, along with utility firms Ameren Corp and DTE Energy, also had been lobbying on the issue of refined coal, according to lobbying disclosure filings, though it is unclear if they lobbied specifically on the market-value clause.
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Trump also will say he plans to ask Congress to impose its own five-year ban on former lawmakers and their staff lobbying as well as set a lifetime ban on senior executive branch officials lobbying for foreign governments.
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"You don't want to build your lobbying relationship when you actually need something, you want to build your lobbying relationship well before you need something," Mark Fagan, a lecturer in public policy at Harvard Kennedy School, told The Hill.
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Because the case in DC deals with lobbying violations themselves -- and not just financial decisions related to the lobbying work -- prosecutors have told the defense team they may call several lobbyists to testify, the defense team said in court.
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The Justice Department urged Sullivan to take into account Flynn's recent change in attitude as well as his participation in the lobbying operation on behalf of Iran, that prosecutors say went undisclosed in violation of foreign lobbying registration laws.
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Roskam joins lobbying firm MORE (Fla.) and Dave ReichertDavid (Dave) George ReichertLymphedema Treatment Act would provide a commonsense solution to a fixable problem Yoder, Messer land on K Street Ex-GOP lawmaker from Washington joins lobbying firm MORE (Wash.).
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While the Podesta Group had registered lobbyists for the group under domestic lobbying laws — which are less strict than ones governing foreign advocacy — they retroactively filed paperwork with the Justice Department earlier this year to report the foreign lobbying.
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The lobbying forms did not provide more detail about the other two Russian businessmen, but they do list a handful of American officials who also registered to support The Human Rights Accountability Global Initiative Foundation in its lobbying effort.
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The company, reportedly valued at $75 billion, has increased its lobbying prowess in the U.S., bringing on outside experts and even a former member of Congress to help with its lobbying efforts and with crafting its content moderation policies.
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"The more obviously they're arguing for their vested financial interests versus something people care about, the harder that lobbying becomes," Nathan Proctor, director of the US PIRG's right to repair campaign told me, referring to individual company lobbying tactics.
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In the meantime, aid contractors have responded to bad publicity by lobbying harder.
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The digital push will be complemented by a lobbying effort to pressure lawmakers.
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In addition, its documented expenditures on lobbying have shown a significant influence operation.
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She began lobbying the Trump officials on Russian adoption and the Magnitsky Act.
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Studios also are lobbying for a share of revenue higher than 25 percent.
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Any ban on lobbying, however, depends on how it is written and enforced.
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In the third quarter, Juul spent $560,000, according to a lobbying disclosure form.
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Murkowski, on the other hand, endured one final lobbying campaign from her peers.
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Bird was a big lobbying force behind the new helmet law in California.
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Still, a liberal lobbying effort roared into action within minutes of Trump's announcement.
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We sincerely hope Miranda's lobbying convinced lawmakers to preserve arts and humanities funding.
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And they have established their own lobbying group, the Coalition for Affordable Products.
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Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA), the drug company lobbying group, agrees.
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The Grocery Manufacturers Association, the industry's lobbying group, said it welcomed the news.
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Dow manufactures chlorpyrifos and it also spent $13.6 million on lobbying in 2016.
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The Democratic Governors Association already is targeting Pawlenty for his past lobbying ties.
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It looked like this: Britain's Future has been lobbying for a hard Brexit.
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The pharmaceutical industry has spent enormously on lobbying in the age of Trump.
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It focuses most of its efforts on lobbying, thought leadership and tentpole conferences.
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In fact, Big Tech spent almost $50 million dollars in lobbying last year.
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Tax software giants have been long lobbying for control of the bill's language.
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That lack of prosecution resulted in a proliferation of under-the-radar lobbying.
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A group of pushy investors have joined forces to create a lobbying group.
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Foreign casino-operators have already begun lobbying for a slice of this pie.
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T-Mobile is stepping up it's lobbying efforts to get this deal approved.
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These days, Yang works on the ground with churches, as well as lobbying.
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Alphabet, the parent company for Google, is the 11th highest spender on lobbying.
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Today, Invariant is the largest independent, woman-owned lobbying firm in the country.
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The pharmaceutical industry didn't get the Medicare "fix" it had been lobbying for.
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For those five people, the airlines' intense lobbying campaign may have paid off.
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Saudi Arabia is doing a full court press of lobbying to stop it.
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Right now, this lobbying effort is aimed squarely at the Trump transition team.
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If you can spend a few million dollars on think tanks, lobbying, etc.
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And the sheer growth of finance means it is has incredible lobbying power.
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ExxonMobil listed $1.94 million in Q3 lobbying, down from $2.45 million in Q2.
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The question of corporate lobbying is shaping up to be an important exception.
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Corporate power: Seeks to strengthen antitrust laws and curtail the influence of lobbying.
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Another factor in the post-referendum announcements is intensive lobbying by the government.
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In fact, key officials in Beijing are lobbying to cancel many of them.
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They are lobbying to make SMA screening standard for newborns in every market.
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And, meanwhile, banks are spending increasing amounts of money lobbying for greater liberalization.
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In 2011, zero Washington lobbying shops publicly admitted to holding such a contract.
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Thanks in part to their lobbying, Parliament passed the Gin Act in 1751.
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Big food companies and farm groups spent millions lobbying to prevent the labeling.
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The usual explanation for this delusion is brilliantly effective lobbying by gun clubs.
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Nothing related to campaign reform, lobbying, or related issues could happen without him.
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There's Treasury and [National Economic Council Chair] Gary Cohn and Goldman Sachs lobbying.
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Google's spent $18.04 million on lobbying in 2017, according to the center's data.
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But they have also got to work, lobbying the government and the firm.
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She is at ease in political circles, lobbying for candidates such as Sen.
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She said the four companies had confirmed their participation in the lobbying effort.
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Advocates for the lobbying group the Travel Technology Association support the new law.
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British financial firms launched a frenzy of political lobbying after last year's vote.
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Pharmaceutical companies, in particular, continue to wield some of the largest lobbying budgets.
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It's unclear how much the big companies are spending on lobbying these bills.
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Recent members of the Electoral College have been subjected to intense lobbying campaigns.
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They respond by upping their lobbying and putting more pressure on the policymakers.
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Go deeper: Drug industry lobbying for a big Medicare break in opioids bill
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It does, though, benefit the lobbying ecosystem's endemic species, which thrive on chaos.
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Yes, but: Some hospital constituencies aren't part of the anti-single-payer lobbying.
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Lobbying Congress and government helps tech companies like Google win large government contracts.
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It's unclear how much American Ethane is paying Turnberry for their lobbying services.
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