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About $285,000 in spending was reported by lobbyists and their employers over a nine-week stretch as they bought dinner for legislative committees, launched advertising campaigns and left gifts on lawmakers’ desks.
Adams is referring to the state and local agencies that seemingly collude with lobbyists to award licensures.
All money received by lobbyists from provincial, territorial, municipal, federal and international governments.
Anjan Luthra has claimed attempts to improve Cricket Scotland were being undermined by lobbyists after he resigned as chairman in the wake of major criticism of his and the organisation’s attempts to tackle racism.
But opponents of term limits say they have emboldened lobbyists who have more sway with inexperienced legislators.
Colleges and universities—whose students are pushing for divestment from fossil fuels—continue to employ lobbyists who also work for ExxonMobil, the Koch Companies, and other funders of climate denialism.
Georgian Dream lawmakers said the bill was based on the US’s own Foreign Agents Registration Act, which primarily covers lobbyists working directly for foreign governments.
Source: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/3/10/georgias-parliament-drops-foreign-agents-bill
He added that he does not take money from "anybody," including PACs, lobbyists, and corporations.
“I can tell you, Big Tech and these big corporations that benefit from Big Tech, they spend the money, they hire the lobbyists, they effectively control Capitol Hill and it’s time to break the logjam,” Hawley said.
In this integrated model, lobbyists and government affairs executives are replaced with a seamless intra-government transmission point between the desires of the corporate client and the operation of that government.
Source: https://www.crikey.com.au/2023/06/19/pwc-woodside-state-capture-government/
It felt a little like pre-Covid times at the Legislature Tuesday, as dozens of legislators, lobbyists and concerned citizens talked story out by the rails while bills were deliberated inside conference rooms.
Labour’s plans to ban ex-ministers from lobbying the government for five years after leaving office are “encouraging” but need to go further, lobbyists have said.
Leon pointed to a sworn FBI affidavit that surfaced last alleging lobbyists having outsized influence in Anaheim and Irvine.
Most of the personalities lobbyists are clamouring for were nowhere near his pedigree and can’t match his tactical knowledge of the game of football.
Source: https://leadership.ng/nff-reappoints-danjuma-as-falconets-head-coach/
No groups have declared opposition to the bill, but lobbyists who attended the subcommittee meeting were wary of it.
Source: https://littlevillagemag.com/state-lawmaker-accuses-some-educators-of-promoting-socialism/
PBMs’ political opponents, such as lobbyists for drugmakers and their allies like the National Community Pharmacists Association, have generated plenty of negative press for PBMs.
Source: https://spectator.org/pharmacy-benefit-managers-are-politicians-next-health-care-scapegoat/
Pfizer spent $11.58 million in lobbying in 2022 with 84 lobbyists and employed as many as 111 lobbyists in a given year going back to 1999, to OpenSecrets.
Source: https://dailycaller.com/2023/01/26/tucker-carlson-pfizer-drugs/
Pfizer spent $11.58 million in lobbying in 2022 with 84 lobbyists and employed as many as 111 lobbyists in a given year going back to 1999, to OpenSecrets.
Source: https://dailycaller.com/2023/01/26/tucker-carlson-pfizer-drugs/
Raj Patel, of the sustainability thinktank IPES-Food, said: “Just as with the influx of oil lobbyists, industrial agriculture businesses are scared.
Santos also accused members of Congress of voting drunk and having inappropriate relationships with lobbyists.