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For the future, it is not clear how much access Brussels lobbyists will enjoy.

A team chosen by the brother of one of DC's most powerful lobbyists, and a White House headed by the quintessential DC politician.

Lord Moonie said he had an "informal conversation" about advising the lobbyists, but had not signed any contract.

That will never happen because Siroky and co. will take appropriate steps, let's name it 'a preventive attack of lobbyists'.

A day later, after discussing the matter with lobbyists at Dewey Square, the coalition said it was happy with its representation.

Now, the House has already passed financial reform with many of these changes. (Applause. ) And the lobbyists are trying to kill it.

Steel industry lobbyists seem to have persuaded the House to insert a "Buy American" provision in the stimulus bill it passed last week.

Its headline-grabbing stunts have made it one of the most formidable global lobbyists against the exploitation of animals.

Some lobbyists said the move could revive debate on the tax implications of companies moving their headquarters offshore.

But the lobbyists are all ready there trying to weaken the regulations after the legislation has just passed.

Wall Street bankers should calculate the total amount spent on lobbyists to create tax exemptions and give this to the poor.

Where lobbyists used to avoid notoriety and preferred to work behind scenes, many today seek publicity as a useful tool.

These regulations would include limits on the roles of lobbyists and special interests, he said.

"Lobbyists will attempt some changes. But they'll probably be pushing to keep the Senate language instead of the House language, " she said.

And I want to take on Barack Obama for a minute, who said he doesn't take money from lobbyists.

Meanwhile, lobbyists, car salespeople and members of Congress are considered to be the least ethical.

Then the free market, not lobbyists and politicians, would decide which models work and which did not.

Lobbyists in Washington have been delighted by all this new activity.

Because Senator McCain's energy plan reads like an early Christmas list for oil and gas lobbyists.

President Barack Obama last week warned banks not to challenge the new tax with a "phalanx of lobbyists . . . or an army of lawyers" .

Now, your army of PR advisers, lawyers and lobbyists will say you are crazy to fess up to your uber-capitalism.

Of course, the lobbyists are not really representing the great poetry circle in the sky.

Harper, she alleges, is resisting an FoI request asking for details of his meetings with lobbyists to discuss lobbying transparency.

The most exercised lobbyists and legislators will have run out of energy, so to speak.

Meanwhile, those of your political leaders charged with oversight were either napping or in bed with corporate lobbyists.

Lobbyists, gathering for the legislative session that begins this week, worried about how the new power structure would affect their work.

In the United States, Better Place and its lobbyists are working on giving lawmakers information about its plan.

Backed by an army of financial industry lobbyists, they've been waging an all-out battle to delay, defund and dismantle these new rules.

When the lobbyists pushed for loopholes and exemptions just before a final vote, you did not relent -- and we fought them off.

Lawyers, lobbyists and others familiar with Cfius say early errors by Bain contributed to its failure to win approval.

Lobbyists in Washington, DC, are being paid to talk up the country, dubbing it the "Costa Rica of Africa" .

Lobbyists for the major trade groups point to other reasons they've taken a largely hands-off approach so far.

Civil-rights lobbyists have long argued that marital status should be determined independently of the religious authorities.

The president has long been committed to reducing the undue influence of special interests and their lobbyists over government.

High-level government officials who leave government service are capable of earning a livelihood only as lobbyists.

Lobbyists are not criminals deserving of punishment through the use of the pay-setting executive powers of the president.

The secrecy around the talks had attracted criticism from digital rights lobbyists .

To tackle criticisms that it is too close to lobbyists, his campaign is asking staff to either sever their ties or leave.

In recent months, they've spent millions of dollars and hired an army of lobbyists to stop reform dead in its tracks.

If there is one thing lobbyists are good at, it is scraping out exemptions in tax bills.

It's time to require lobbyists to disclose each contact they make on behalf of a client with my Administration or Congress.

Several members of his staff, including his campaign manager, Rick Davis, are lobbyists.

Asked if he had ever gone with prostitutes, he quipped: "Only the lobbyists. "

The idea is to finance good candidates to keep them out of the pockets of lobbyists.

Like everything else about these lobbyists, the true, unacceptable meaning of the freedom they espouse is hidden behind an acceptable front.

Now Congresswoman Emerson goes back to a trade association, directing a team of lobbyists.

Lobbyists from the services sector said last week that they were encouraged by progress in talks on services at the WTO.

The Obama campaign responded with an attack on Senator McCain and his ties to lobbyists.

Export growth still correlates with the trade-weighted exchange rate and Japan's business lobbyists are a noisy bunch.

Lobbyists for hedge funds want the threshold raised to a half and foreign and public pension-plan money removed from the cap.

First, it has hired new advisers and lobbyists to convince Congress that worries about the security of U. S. technology are baseless.

But the court disappointed business lobbyists by declining to lay down clear numerical limits to such awards.

Yet, whatever the lobbyists say, European regulators are unlikely to go after every technology firm with a big market share.

Lobbyists from affected sectors have been exercising their political clout and making their voices heard.

Manufacturers and their lobbyists in Washington have frequently pushed hard for the US to take a tougher stance on China's currency policy.

The resolution passed without discussion, despite opposition from beverage industry lobbyists .

The President who promised accountability in Government has filled his staff with lobbyists, banksters and warmongers .

But with a viable new biofuel yet to emerge, lobbyists are still pushing to support the old one.

In an hour-long philippic, the legislator denounced the lobbyists opposing his bill.

The lobbyists for tariff protection are continually putting forward arguments that are not factually correct.

CORRUPTION conjures up images of shadowy deals among lobbyists, corporations and crooked government officials.

Congress, the political press and lobbyists for the entertainment industries like to frame this fight as one between giants.

The only ones working hard are the lobbyists.

With Congress plowing toward legislation on energy and climate, lobbyists and their clients are swarming House and Senate offices.

Take John McCain, your Republican presidential nominee, whose senior staff includes half a dozen prominent former lobbyists.

For their part, revolutionaries sent agents and lobbyists to the US try to drum up support in different sectors of American society.

As lobbyists, sports officials, sponsors and governments vied for advantage, the politics became duplicitous.

The second way in which the permanent bureaucracy could be emboldened is by a mooted clampdown on lobbyists.

Largely thanks to the entertainment industry's lawyers and lobbyists, copyright's scope and duration have vastly increased.

a plethora lobbyists , lawyers , political consultants , public relations specialists and information brokers set up shop.

They also point out that several of the congressmen supporting the bill have personal ties to food industry lobbyists.

In the past six months, Huawei has hired lobbyists, consultants and a public relations firm in Washington.

Despite the changes taking place, antismoking lobbyists continue to press for stricter limitations on smoking in the workplace.

Why press those GM food on people when they don't want? those so called proponents are the lobbyists of interests group, aren't they?

Lobbyists close to the effort privately admit they've got a lot of work to do, which is one reason they're getting started now.

Still, the companyhas struggled to win business in the United States, despite having hiredinfluential lobbyists and public relations firms.

That might make sense to the Washington lobbyists who run Senator McCain's campaign, but it won't help our nation compete.

Last week, the FCC abruptly called off closed-door talks with industry lobbyists that were aimed at reaching a compromise on net neutrality.

I know these steps will not sit well with the special interests and lobbyists who are invested in the old way of doing business, . . .

Many states have outpaced Washington in enacting laws to curb the cozy relationships between lobbyists and politicians.

The bankers even claimed a " disconnect " between their intentions and their lobbyists ' actions .

Life, he was surrounded by lobbyists lobby, take the business private jet travel is commonplace.

Obviously the republicans are in the pockets of lobbyists and don't care about destroying the social safety net - but where's the response?

Telecoms, net neutrality lobbyists, tech companies and regular citizens are tripping over themselves to weigh in.

The ministerial code published in 2007 dropped the requirement that meetings between ministers and lobbyists should be recorded.

Some companies that have hired lobbyists are looking for research and development help.

With mining industry lobbyists pushing for strategic stocks, the US defence department has discussed creating a similar list.

Added Carlson, "We believe these were in fact code names for powerful Washington lobbyists. "

Conservatives worry regulators will throttle the industry. Liberals worry they'll be co-opted by banking lobbyists.

Companies that had received more favorable ratings on the report downplayed their roles as lobbyists.

Energy lobbyists think the Administration could begin by spring to outline its big energy and environmental plans.

The BRCA patents have long frustrated medical researchers, cancer lobbyists and legal activists.

Under the new policy, no official may work on matters for which they served as lobbyists during the previous two years.

Even before he became president, Mr Obama vowed to cut the lobbyists down to size.

Members of Congress should be constitutionally barred for life from working as paid lobbyists.

Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif. ) has an iPad, as do some lobbyists, consultants and heads of associations in Washington.

Lobbyists hope to water down some of the more contentious provisions, such as a requirement for banks to spin off their derivatives units.

It's a consumption tax through the back door, which would clean out loopholes and weaken lobbyists.

Some tribes have reinforced that impression by naively giving money to politicians and lobbyists including, notoriously, Jack Abramoff.

And it's time to put strict limits on the contributions that lobbyists give to candidates for federal office.

Mr McCain sells himself as a scourge of special interests and hammer of lobbyists .

Across the street from the Capitol, the offices of unions and lobbyists are arguably the real locus of power in Sacramento.

Their concerns start and end with fishermen, who in most rich countries are few in number but well organised as lobbyists.

It's not something senators and congresspeople fret about while nursing martinis with lobbyists.

These commemorations can take hours, during which some aldermen wander off to mingle with reporters, lobbyists and other aldermen.

Change means a tax code that doesn't reward the lobbyists who wrote it, but the American workers and small businesses who deserve it.

Legislators often respond to the quiet and professional pressure of lobbyists.

But it may still be too early for anti-nuclear lobbyists to claim victory.

Now, the special interests want to take Congress back, and return to the days when lobbyists wrote the laws.

That makes it difficult for companies and their lobbyists to handle any misperceptions.

The lobbyists had every reason to feel proud of their work.

His nominees for deputy secretaries of defence and health have both recently worked as lobbyists.

But ministers believe the Fox saga is unlikely to highlight any systemic problems with lobbyists.

It also rebuffed MPs' demands for a register of lobbyists.

The Kochs and their company have given additional millions to political campaigns, advocacy groups, and lobbyists.

Lobbyists for the industry retort that there has been no big leak from an offshore well since.

The Chinese company has held talks with consultants, lawyers and lobbyists from the U. S. on the issue.

They're flooding Capitol Hill with lobbyists and campaign contributions.

In the short term, finance, health care and housing provide jobs, as their lobbyists are quick to point out.

When the check comes, the lobbyists almost always pick up the tab.

The US tobacco lobbyists were grump, as they had had to swallow a thick cloud of concessions.

Already, Detroit's lobbyists have won the Presidential candidates over.

(Applause. ) Our tax code should not give an advantage tocompanies that can afford the best-connected lobbyists.

Car salespeople, lobbyists, and members of Congress have the lowest honesty and ethics.

rigorous The House approved and sent to the Senate for its expected approval a stringent ban on gifts from lobbyists.

Since January, 185 companies hired lobbyists to work on energy issues, MoneyLine records show.

As recently as 1993, the Legislature had outlawed the title-loan business, despite the influence of well-monied lobbyists.

Obama claimed this showed McCain relied on lobbyists from the big oil companies and other corporations.

even accusing lobbyists for the pact of "economic treason. "

Industry lobbyists are still preparing the industry's case for submission.

Companies hire lobbyists to push their legislative agendas.

come April, when the cherry blossoms peak, tourists get thicker underfoot than lobbyists.

Lobbyists from the commercial, public and charity sectors have filled the gap.

There are many types of pursuader individuals, from paid lobbyists to nonprofit employees to passionate volunteers.

Today, lobbyists who contact members of Congress for their clients must register and publicly disclose their activities.

If Washington ran out of problems, think how many lobbyists would be out of a job, and how many special interest groups would just disband?

But the halls of Congress are infested with financial industry lobbyists.

The offshore consortium has retained legions of lobbyists and public-relations people to make its case.

Except that if Congress is festering with lobbyists and special interests, wouldn't they just rip apart a carbon tax, too?

And grateful insurance company executives and their lobbyists who benefit from the tax scheme, gave McCain $50, 000.

A 7 or 8, even if its lobbyists can ease the pain, is not an outlook for a multiple of earnings above 10 times.

People are sick of lobbyists greasing the palms of politicians.

There already is a long line of lobbyists bidding for federal money.

I am bad at giving bland answers to unwelcome or stupid questions, or listening to the repetitive beatings of lobbyists.

The cynics, and the lobbyists, and the special interests who've turned our government into a game only they can afford to play.

Mostly poor kids, who are notoriously short on lobbyists and political clout.

European diplomats who know the directive backwards complain about British lobbyists treating them as "idiots" .

Detroit's lobbyists want the funding approved before Congress adjourns on Sept.

Employment growth, thanks to boom-times for lobbyists and their ilk, has reduced metro Washington, DC's, unemployment rate from 6. 2% to 6%.

Mr Bush's energy bill was so influenced by lobbyists that John McCain dubbed it the "No Lobbyist Left Behind" act.

We have to communicate with them more by sending lobbyists, producing more movies, publishing more books, and so on.

Mr McCain is no stranger to the world of lobbyists.

She was booed for saying that she will continue to accept donations from lobbyists, for example.

Yet moves to change the current system are blocked by the drug companies and their armies of lobbyists.

And nowhere is that harder than in Washington, amongst the grasping armies of politicians, lobbyists and bureaucrats.

In 1975, lobbyists reported spending $100 million to make their cases in Washington.

Industry lobbyists expect the final bill to easily pass the House.

This is the argument of central bankers whose function is reduced to financial centre lobbyists.

The problem is the role that lobbyists have come to play.

That's what Clinton, defender of the lobbyists, didn't get.

And it is also convenient for religious lobbyists who believe that premarital sex is a sin.

There are now more than 15 000 professional lobbyists in Washington, representing a variety of economic and other special-interest groups.

Professional lobbyists willing to plough through the process therefore often have a big advantage.

Both of whom who are now registered lobbyists.

What's more, these lobbyists spent more than $565 million in 2000 alone.

In the first ten months of this year it lavished $300m on 2, 225 lobbyists in Washington, DC.

For example, over the years, a parade of lobbyists has rigged the tax code to benefit particular companies and industries.

There is also no indication that any PACs or lobbyists support him.

He enthusiastically told lobbyists at one lunch that if they didn't get on the bus that "we'll run over you" .

Lobbyists say this is good for working women - but bad for business.

Sunlight also takes pictures of people attending public hearings so that it can identify lobbyists.

Corporate lobbyists go all out to win a legislative approval to open the China markets.

If all of us were honest, we know that 95% of elected politicians spend more one on one time with lobbyists, that they do with voters.

In 2000 there were 16, 342 registered lobbyists.

This is why I have a strong dislike of government and our system of lobbyists.

Congress's response to recent bribery scandals has been to impose footling restrictions on lobbyists.

instead they protect illegal operators ( like drug traders and corporate criminals ) who in fact spy on law enforcers , lobbyists etc

To close that credibility gap we must take action on both ends of Pennsylvania Avenue to end the outsized influence of lobbyists;