OLAF also cleared Pablo Zalba Bidegain, because while he had talked to journalists posing as lobbyists about tabling amendments in exchange for money, he had not accepted any payments.
Mandate partial public financing for House and Senate campaigns to lessen the impact of lobbyists and fundraisers.
In response to the entry on September 15 of Harvard Law Professor Elizabeth Warren into the Senate campaign, Khazei issued a direct challenge to the other Democratic candidates — and specifically to Warren — to forego campaign funds from corporate lobbyists and all Political Action Committees.
On the year of every gubernatorial election, would-be candidates, lobbyists, campaign workers, and reporters gather in the town of Wakefield, Virginia for Shad Planking.
He was considered one of the most influential legislators - and, after he left the chamber, lobbyists - in modern Texas history.
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Procter & Gamble and the Cosmetic, Toiletry, and Fragrance Association (CTFA) reportedly spent over $690,000 in combined funds on lobbyists in the months before the vote on the bill to prevent the legislation from passing.
He had a close relationship with a number of Washington lobbyists connected to Ahmed Chalabi.
According to the New York Times, in 2010 three of the most notable lobbyists Tony Podesta, Robert L. Livingston and Toby Moffett scored a large success on behalf of the government of Egypt by persuading American Senators to stop passage of a bill in the United States Senate calling on Egypt to "curtail human rights abuses." Their success is credited with condoning the abuses that brought about the 2011 Egyptian revolution.
The US Congress lobbying efforts were helped by one of Capitol Hill's top lobbyists, William C. Chasey.
Federal Regulation of Lobbying Act of 1946, a statute enacted by the United States Congress to reduce the influence of lobbyists
The management of early Indian Rights Association's programs fell almost entirely to five men, all of whom had lengthy careers with the IRA: Herbert Welsh, Matthew Sniffen, and Lawrence E. Lindley, active in Philadelphia; and Charles C. Painter and Samuel M. Brosius, agents and lobbyists in Washington D.C.
The Jack Abramoff CNMI scandal involves the efforts of Jack Abramoff, other lobbyists, and government officials to change or prevent, or both, Congressional action regarding the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI) and businesses on Saipan, its capital, commercial center, and one of its three principal islands.
On October 18, 2007, freshman Senator Claire McCaskill from Missouri proposed that linestanding for registered lobbyists be made illegal.
Hamersley ran on a campaign of reform, seeking to tie Rep. Doolittle to disgraced politicians and lobbyists such as Duke Cunningham and Jack Abramoff, and generally accusing Doolittle of participating in "pay-to-play politics".
Ruth Sullivan was one of the chief lobbyists for Public Law 94-142 (the Education of All Handicapped Children Act, now known as the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, or IDEA), which guaranteed a public education to all children in the United States.
On the year of every gubernatorial election, would-be candidates, lobbyists, campaign workers, and reporters gather in the town of Wakefield, Virginia for shad planking.
The lobbyists, identified as Lobbyist D and Lobbyist E in the plea agreement, are Team Abramoff associates Todd Boulanger and James Hirni.
In 2008, former Senate staffer Trevor Blackann pleaded guilty and United Rentals lobbyists James Hirni and Todd Boulanger were named for defrauding the government on behalf of United Rentals in 2003.
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At the time, Hirni and Boulanger were lobbyists in Jack Abramoff's group at Greenberg Traurig.
This institution elected Cijevschi as Commissar for Bessarabia, but, despite the efforts of Bessarabian lobbyists, his appointment was never sanctioned by the Russian Army Command in Mogilev.