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Posts Tagged ‘lobbyists’
Lobbyists Steamrolling Biden Effort To Nix Billions In ‘Junk Fees’
November 21st, 2023 
Awake Goy Last fall, the Biden administration – scant on accomplishments, embarked on a campaign to pressure airlines to ditch billions in so-called “junk fees” charged to travelers who want to check bags or change flights. “You should know the full cost of your ticket right when you’re comparison shopping to begin with,” said Biden last September, […]
New York’s Right to Repair Law Watered Down by Big Tech Lobbyists
January 4th, 2023 Awake Goy In spring of last year, the New York state legislature passed the nation’s first electronics right to repair bill. That bill then sat in purgatory for more than six months, before finally being signed into law by governor Kathy Hochul at the very end of the year. The bill Hochul signed, however, has been watered […]
Swamp Lobbyists Launch Last Ditch Effort to Add Media Cartel Bill JCPA to Omnibus
December 17th, 2022 Awake Goy Despite triggering huge opposition from across the political spectrum, lobbyists for the world’s largest and wealthiest media companies are still trying to attach the controversial Journalism Competition and Preservation Act (JCPA), a massive act of corporate welfare for the media, to an end-of-year omnibus spending bill. Source
Lobbyists want media-Big Tech cartel bill attached to defense spending
December 5th, 2022 Awake Goy Desperate to pass the Journalism Competition and Preservation Act (JCPA), media lobbyists are attempting to attach it to the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), a bill to fund the military. Source
Lobbyists call on the US government to develop digital ID infrastructure for “security” reasons
November 28th, 2022 Awake Goy A group of 10 advocacy organizations, including the Identity Theft Resource Center and the Better Identity Coalition, have called on Congress to pass the Improving Digital Identity Act of 2022, mandating the government to develop federal digital ID infrastructure. Source
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No Comments »Meet the industry lobbyists fighting efforts to solve the biodiversity crisis
October 25th, 2022 Awake Goy “This research sheds new light on an area of lobbying that has largely been able to slip under the radar and should act as a wake-up call to policymakers ahead of the U.N.’s upcoming biodiversity conference,” said InfluenceMap’s program manager. Source
Posted in Jewish News Tags: biodiversity, crisis, efforts, fighting, industry, lobbyists, solve No Comments »Human rights org says lobbyists misrepresented relationship between NSO Group and Israel
July 27th, 2022 Awake Goy Democracy for the Arab World Now is calling on the U.S. government to investigate four lobbyists connected to the NSO Group for violating the Foreign Agents Registration Act. Source
Posted in News Tags: between, group, human, lobbyists, misrepresented, Relationship, rights No Comments »Pharma mobilizes army of lobbyists to tank Democrats’ Medicare drug pricing plan
July 21st, 2022 Awake Goy “Big Pharma is fighting hard to keep their price-setting monopoly intact,” said one advocacy coalition. Source
GOP lobbyists say corporate America is coming back into the tent
November 8th, 2021 Awake Goy Campaign money flows to those holding power or those positioned to do so, and those in the lobbying business are incentivized to play up their role in facilitating it. But corporate America’s potential embrace of the congressional GOP is notable for what preceded it. Following the Capitol riot on Jan. 6, many top corporations vowed […]
Did McConnell Give Into Lobbyists on CREATES?
February 13th, 2018 Awake Goy Did McConnell Give Into Lobbyists on CREATES? By ns_adminhttp://www.campaignforliberty.org/mcconnell-give-lobbyists-creates During negotiations over last weeks budget deal, there was an effort to add The CREATES Act to the bill as a pay-for. CREATES aims to bring generics drugs to market and could reduce Medicare and Medicaid spending by as much as $3.8 billion over ten years. […]
Israel lobbyists caught in Presidents Club sexual harassment scandal
January 27th, 2018 Awake Goy Hilary Aked Lobby Watch 26 January 2018 Disgraced Presidents Club chairman David Meller has also been a leading Conservative Friends of Israel figure. (The Edge Foundation) Current and former trustees of a “men only” club at the heart of a sexual harassment scandal unfolding in the UK have deep ties to the Israel lobby, The […]
Posted in World News Tags: caught, harassment, israel, lobbyists, presidents, scandal, sexual No Comments »Pro-Israel lobbyists really must question their own morality
December 5th, 2017 Awake Goy It became a ‘natural fact’ that any organisation or person does not support Israeli crimes to be classified as anti-Semite or even anti-human rights. A new report from the British Israel Communications and Research Centre (BICOM) presents itself as an “independent” critique of Jeremy Corbyn’s foreign policy in the Middle East. The eleven-page memo ends […]
Adelson’s AstroTurf Lobbyists Working to Restrict Your Freedom
November 18th, 2017 Awake Goy Adelsons AstroTurf Lobbyists Working to Restrict Your Freedom By ns_adminhttp://www.campaignforliberty.org/adelsons-astroturf-lobbyists-working-restrict-freedom Mathew Boyer of the Washington Examiner explores Sheldon Adelsons efforts to ban online gaming, with an emphasis on the recent legalization of online gaming in Pennsylvania: Internet gambling regulations are one of the many issue areas that fall under the states rights category, and a […]
Posted in World News, World Politics Tags: adelson, astroturf, Freedom, lobbyists, restrict, working No Comments »Bring in legislation to make pro-Israel lobbyists in the UK register as ‘foreign agents’
November 9th, 2017 Awake Goy In 2013, Peter Oborne, the Daily Telegraph‘s chief political commentator called the Conservative Friends of Israel (CFI), “by far Britain’s most powerful pro-Israel lobbying group”. It was estimated then that more than 80% of Conservative MPs were CFI members. The same applies today. CFI’s sister lobby in the US is AIPAC, aka the American […]
Posted in World News Tags: agents, bring, foreign, israel, legislation, lobbyists, register No Comments »UK Should Bring in Legislation to Make Pro-israel Lobbyists Register as ‘Foreign Agents’
November 9th, 2017 Awake Goy Bring in Legislation to Make Pro-Israel Lobbyists Register as ‘Foreign Agents’ By Hans Stehling, In 2013, Peter Oborne, the Daily Telegraph’s chief political commentator called the Conservative Friends of Israel (CFI), “by far Britain’s most powerful pro-Israel lobbying group”. It was estimated then that more than 80% of Conservative MPs were CFI members. The same applies […]
Posted in World News Tags: bring, foreign, israel, legislation, lobbyists, register, should No Comments »After Snubbing EU Parliament, Monsanto Lobbyists Find Themselves Banned
October 1st, 2017 Awake Goy Agrochemical giant Monsanto’s fight to renew the chemical license for its most popular herbicide, glyphosate (aka “Roundup”), was dealt a major blow this past Thursday when the European Parliament officially banned lobbyists representing the interests of the corporation. The move came after the controversial corporation and its lobbyists refused to attend a parliamentary hearing regarding […]
Posted in World News, World Order, World Politics Tags: after, banned, lobbyists, Monsanto, parliament, snubbing, themselves No Comments »As Sanders Prepared Medicare Bill, Health Care Lobbyists Bankrolled Senate Democrats
September 15th, 2017 Awake Goy Above Photo: Illustration by Cathryn Virginia Sen. Chris Van Hollen, the DSCC’s chairman, was a proponent of the law that requires lobbyists to disclose the contributions they bundle together from donors. With Sanders and a majority of House Democrats supporting single-payer — and with polls showing rising support for a Medicare-for-all system — lobbyists for major health care industry clients were among […]
Posted in World News Tags: bankrolled, Health, lobbyists, Medicare, prepared, sanders, Senate No Comments »WH Grants Ethics Waivers to 17 Cabinet Members Who Are Still Paid Lobbyists
June 2nd, 2017 Awake Goy Susanne Posel ,Chief Editor Occupy Corporatism | Host of Hardline Radio Show When it came to lobbyists and industry insiders working for the current administration, publicly Donald Trump declared strict limitations , but privately he decided to throw out his self-imposed rules and let them all in. In a backward draining of the swamp, Trump […]
Posted in World News Tags: cabinet, Ethics, Grants, lobbyists, members, still, waivers No Comments »
