| He is a utility lobbyist who has represented the worst air polluters in America. |
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| Daley, a lobbyist for the fossil fuel industry, has been drafting policies for the taskforce. |
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| Earlier this month the White House renominated the former mining and cattle industry lobbyist to the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals. |
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| It's worth noting that one of the co-chairs of the commission is the nation's leading gambling lobbyist. |
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| One day, a lobbyist will get enough money and pump enough money into somebody's campaign, and that will be that. |
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| I'd argue that once a company pays a lobbyist to affect legislation they become politicians. |
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| I pounded my beat in the halls of Congress in my role as a trade union lobbyist, trying to win votes to hold back the antilabor tide. |
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| Will we see you in your role as a pro-Atlantic lobbyist and cosmopolite after the expiry of your term as director general? |
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| Garfield dabbled in politics for three years as a lobbyist for the auto industry. |
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| You can tell his character is gonna be a straight arrow when he refuses to let an unctuous lobbyist buy him breakfast. |
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| And who knows, I might need a job as a lobbyist with them one of these days. |
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| And the company has hired a top-shelf lobbyist to press its point. |
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| Figuring she's the kind of gal who's turned on by a high roller, he uses the home of the Korean lobbyist he's working for to throw a loud, lurid party in her honor. |
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| The 2012 campaign will probably mean he can command even higher fees as a lobbyist and speechifier than before. |
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| The minister smiles routinely to the lobbyist, who recognizes the minister and realizes this is the chance to make a pitch. |
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| In all cases, the lobbyist must indicate his name and address and whether the lobbyist is a former public office holder. |
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| This enables Reclassering Nederland also to call forth political pressure when necessary, e.g. by using a lobbyist. |
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| It continues to seek out every lobbyist, every insider and every go-getter in the city of Ottawa and across the country. |
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| Why were these unregistered lobbyists not reported to the lobbyist commissioner? |
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| Being a lobbyist is not a selling point, but Weber has another credential, one that Romney sorely needs. |
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| This is the age of the lobbyist, of the spin doctor and of the skillfully crafted and too often manipulative press line. |
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| His influence came as a writer, journalist, and political lobbyist. |
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| In spite of all the rules that were set up, he was an unregistered lobbyist. |
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| It is just one common room where one can act as a member of Parliament and a lobbyist at the same time. |
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| This is not required when a lobbyist is communicating with a public office holder. |
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| How many times has he met his former roommate, turned super lobbyist, since the act passed? |
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| Kutler, the mercury lobbyist, accompanied Klyuyev in meetings he held in Washington last year, according to the piece. |
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| Many in Ms Rousseff's inner circle wouldn't touch a lobbyist with a bargepole. |
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| People say it all the time, and sadly, it seems to be true: the number one lobbyist for the Canadian oil cartel is the Conservative caucus. |
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| An anti-union senator has hired an anti-union lobbyist to help him write anti-union legislation. |
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| An oilman in Houston or a lobbyist in northern Virginia lives a life of abundance and choice. |
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| Rather than being a means to hold the powerful to account and fairly report issues, the media is the ultimate political lobbyist for our elite. |
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| Some believe that it could act as the national lobbyist for arts and culture and that it should seek to free itself from all public support. |
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| Is your organization's representative or the third party acting on your behalf registered as a lobbyist with the Lobbyists Registration Branch? |
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| Finally, I would like to say that not one lobbyist from the chemical industry has come up to me. |
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| Companies must certify that they have not hired a lobbyist whose payment depends on the client winning the contract. |
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| Lobbyists must also refrain from acting in any manner that may discredit the occupation of lobbyist. |
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| In this section, indicate if you have used a lobbyist to assist you in preparing your proposal. |
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| In this section, declare whether the requirements concerning lobbyist registration and contingency fees have been met. |
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| It has also been suggested that the EU institutions should be willing to impose formal sanctions on any lobbyist breaking the code of conduct. |
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| The CBA adheres to federal and provincial lobbyist registration rules and requirements. |
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| Prior political commitments and promises to constituents and lobbyist groups also interfered with the ability to change policy direction. |
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| I saw myself as an advocate and agitator and behind-the-scenes lobbyist on some very minor aspects of it. |
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| The Internet is too protean and easy to penetrate to be corralled by either the power of money or lobbyist influence-peddling. |
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| If you are a banker or a management consultant or a lobbyist, you will regularly throw all-nighters to produce the victorious presentation or bid or whatever it happens to be. |
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| I moved to Washington in 1988 with the folk etymology of lobbyist firmly in mind. |
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| In Casino Jack, Kevin Spacey plays the dirtied lobbyist with a gutsy flair that renders him hopelessly charming. |
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| He was a lobbyist for the American Beverage Institute from 1999 through 2005, according to federal records. |
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| Today, the onetime railroad lobbyist is blazing a trail to the solar system with a low-cost plan to launch manned expeditions to the moon and Mars. |
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| Less promisingly, he has said he prefers North Carolina to Indiana, is registered to vote in Virginia and was a lobbyist for a bailed-out bank. Now Mr Bayh's retirement gives Republicans an opening. |
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| He calls an aide to ting-a-ling-a-ling his rat pack, Senators Saxby Chambliss and Richard Burr and Congressman Tom Latham, and maybe a lobbyist or three, for an early dinner at Trattoria Alberto on Barracks Row. |
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| Flavous Lambert, a lobbyist and former politician with a questionable reputation. |
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| Veteran Georgia Representative Ben Harbin resigned his seat in July after 20 years in the Legislature to take a job as a lobbyist. |
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| The energy company trade body, Energy UK, hired high-powered lobbyist and former Conservative minister Angela Knight in 2012 to represent the industry and Knight has done dozens of interviews since the Miliband announcement. |
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| Furthermore, two businessmen claim that Rahim Jaffer introduced himself to them as a lobbyist who could give them access to substantial federal grants. |
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| We need someone in the community to be a lobbyist, to be a facilitator. |
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| In and around the government lobbyist areas the streets are paved with gold! |
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| Eric told me about a case with which a fellow lobbyist had to cope. |
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| After holding public office, I could make a killing as a lobbyist. |
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| The NRA then would be uncloaked as just another palm-greasing lobbyist group without a membership. |
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| No contribution may be offered to an applicant that has retained a lobbyist for a commission, contingency fee or any other consideration that is dependent upon the execution of the Agreement. |
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| Similarly, there are good chances that the lobbyist past of Mr. Timmons will be used by the team of the Senator from Illinois to attack his counterpart from Arizona. |
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| The trade association has hired a professional lobbyist, and hopes to commission academic research to back its push for consistent, evenhanded regulation and tougher enforcement. |
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| Why did the Minister of the Environment wait so long to disclose more evidence that Mr. Jaffer did indeed act as a lobbyist and why did the minister do so on the sly on a Friday afternoon? |
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| He allowed a lobbyist chum to masquerade as an official. |
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| I am also active as a lobbyist for companies in the Federal Parliament. |
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| Crosby is also the chief lobbyist in the U.K. for Philip Morris. |
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| When I started at Finance, we had the usual thing where every lobbyist in the country would want to come and see the departmental people and the minister and tell them what they wanted from the government. |
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| There is recognition of the fact that the CCA is limited by its current status as a government-supported charity and that, as such, it cannot act as a full-time lobbyist, even if it had the means to do so. |
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| It had also become clear that Peter MANDELSON had holidayed with lobbyist Peter Brown and been invited onto the yacht of Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen. |
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| No lobbyist can buy our support and we will never be in power. |
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| Nevertheless, when you have suits as expensive and lobbyist friends as numerous as Boehner, it's no longer really appropriate to start weeping on TV about your humble roots. |
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| We realized that it was no oversight, given the appearance of conflict of interest that everyone is aware of, involving the committee chair and a lobbyist, a very important person who works for the big beer company, Labatt. |
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| It is also the place where we can find all the main actors in charge of the important files: representatives of the Commission, the council and lobbyist groups. |
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| Nowadays, a Harvard MBA student is likelier than ever to have had a previous career as, say, an actress, salesperson or lobbyist. Can you really teach geeks how to lead? |
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| But the key feature of a lobbyist is that he has a vested interest. |
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| Let us recap the Ding-gate affair: ex-Liberal cabinet minister, illegal lobbyist, architect of the sponsorship program, expense account abuser, quit a patronage appointment at the Mint in disgrace. |
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| An article yesterday about Senator John Kerry's listing of meetings with lobbyists gave a wrong spelling in some editions for the middle name of the lobbyist who heads the Washington firm of Patton Boggs. |
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| Now, David Cameron's Australian tobacco lobbyist spinmeister Lynton Crosby knows an opportunity to smear when he sees one. |
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| The problem is that the courtier-like features required to be an effective lobbyist are usually better suited to causes which undermine the public good than to those which support it. |
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| The key difference is that when a lobbyist is communicating with a designated public office holder they must report those contacts to the Lobbying Commissioner on a monthly basis and within a stipulated time frame. |
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| As an informal adviser, lobbyist, testifier, writer of op-ed articles and, yes, signer of tracts, Warnke on the outside was pretty much the same as Warnke on the inside. |
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| In this case Mr. Jaffer, the former Conservative caucus chair, did not register as a lobbyist because he was technically not being paid upfront to lobby on behalf of his client. |
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| After her arrest, lobbyist Karen Golding said that they were intimately involved and that she had the e-mails to prove it. |
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| Most noticeably, it is the ability to avoid registering as a lobbyist to avoid reporting those meetings, something the Conservatives have become masters of through their self-regulated legal buffer and loophole. |
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| But first I went to Washington to talk to a lobbyist friend. |
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| He removed the two ministers whose actions had caused a public outcry and announced new ethical guidelines for the remainder, along with changes to the laws governing lobbyist regulation and political party financing. |
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| The antitax lobbyist Grover Norquist didn't think so. |
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| A Warwickshire-based equine lawyer has won the backing of MPs after taking on a temporary role as a lobbyist to win support for people who drive horseboxes. |
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| When we had term limits on the ballot in Colorado, I was the leader of the Colorado Term Limit Coalition and often found myself on the other side of a debate with a lobbyist. |
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| Lobbyist Lloyd Hand, a former aide to Lyndon Johnson, flitted from conversation to conversation. |
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| Lobbyist Alice can transfer digital cash to Congresscritter Bob so that newspaper reporter Eve does not know Alice's identity. |
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