By Scott DeFife , executive vice president, policy and government affairs, the National Restaurant Association.
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And a companion bill cleared the Senate Government Affairs Committee 15 to 1, in June.
ID-card system is not difficult, says Richard Barrington, head of government affairs at Sun Microsystems.
The House Government Affairs Committee passed the change by a vote of 39 to 0, in April.
Robert Callahan, director of state government affairs at TechAmerica, said Web companies already seek to protect users' privacy.
Gregory Wetstone has overseen government affairs for the American Wind Energy Association, a Washington trade group, for a year.
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"In the states things can happen very quickly, " said Marilyn Musgrave, vice president of government affairs at the Susan B.
Dodd "really upped the ante at today's hearing, " says Kurt Pfotenhauer, the Mortgage Bankers Association's senior vice president for government affairs.
Former U.S. Representative Jon Porter is CEO of Porter Gordon Silver, a strategic consulting and government affairs firm in Washington, D.
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It has also developed an internal, voluntary "government affairs network" that invites employees to contact elected officials about issues important to HP.
By 1989, she was working in government affairs for the Sands Hotel.
To his credit, Pierre authorized an eBay Government Affairs group (now a worldwide network of e-commerce advocates known as eBay Main Street).
Longtime Alamoudi lieutenant Khaled Saffuri, former "director for Government Affairs for the American Muslim Council, " runs the group from Norquist's suite of offices.
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In May, GeoEye brought on Uyen Dinh, formerly counsel to the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, as a senior director for government affairs.
Wireless technology company Qualcomm pursued a two-pronged strategy in the auction, said Dean Brenner, Qualcomm's vice president of government affairs in an interview with Forbes.com.
Internet taxation laws are an attempt to make marketers "unpaid tax collectors for the state, " says Jerry Cerasale, DMA's senior vice president of government affairs.
"There's an ironclad commitment on the part of industry to meet this date, " says Dennis Griesing, the Soap and Detergent Association's vice president for government affairs.
Shadow Secretary for Local and Devolved Government Affairs, Caroline Spelman, said the report reinforced the need for economic growth to be spread more evenly across the country.
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Georgia is one of 18 states that do not require insurers to pay for autism treatment, according to Judith Ursitti, director of state government affairs for Autism Speaks.
Earlier this month the company announced it had hired its long-time outside counsel, David Heleniak , to be its vice chairman in charge of policy, external and government affairs.
Indeed, both Tom Davis, head of government affairs for consulting firm Deloitte, and Scott Charney, head of Microsoft's Trustworthy Computing division were offered the position and turned it down.
"Now that we are clearly a consumer company, our executives are far more engaged on government affairs and the political process than they were 20 years ago, " says Fazzino.
Gill had also worked in 2001 as director of government affairs for the Islamic Free Market Institute (also known as the Islamic Institute), whose founding president was Grover Norquist.
In 2005 she was the Policy Director and Head of Government Affairs for the International Swaps and Derivatives Association, where she worked on a number of over-the-counter derivatives issues.
Prior to that, Commissioner Sommers worked in the Government Affairs Office of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, where she was instrumental in overseeing regulatory and legislative affairs for the exchange.
While the powers enjoyed by Speaker of the State Duma are considerably less than those of the President of theRussian Federation, this transition would keep Putin involved in government affairs.
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Jessica Waltman, senior vice president of government affairs for the National Association of Health Underwriters, said she favored insurance plans offering narrow annual windows in which people could buy policies.
"We were worried as we are always worried because it meant uncertainty, " said Martha Duggan, the vice president of regulatory and government affairs for the solar unit of Energy Conversion Devices.
Bill Plummer, vice president of government affairs for Huawei USA, said that the company continued its dialogue with the U.S. government even after it made its initial decision not to withdraw the 3Leaf application.
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