The search giant already runs an established lobbying office in town with low double-digit numbers of hired hands.
Since 1996 a new corporate alliance called the China Normalisation Initiative has worked out of Boeing's lobbying office in Washington.
"Mickey Mouse is not a Republican or a Democrat, " said Joe Shapiro, who oversaw Disney's Washington lobbying office in the early 1990s.
Lobbying politicians to support your position is fine, but spending to get friendly politicians in office could lower lobbying costs and raise profits.
No lobbyists as family members, and no transitioning into a lobbying career after leaving office.
In response to local lobbying, the Northern Ireland Office has repeatedly shied away from making local party donations transparent.
It is an example of how weak the U.S. has become that our military officials have been reduced to functioning as a lobbying arm of the Washington office of the U.N.
"It is better to get it right and do it well, " he told MPs, accusing Labour of making "no progress at all" on the regulation of lobbying during its time in office.
He was working out of the offices of The Raben Group, a Washington lobbying firm where he keeps an office.
The registered lobbyists in its Washington policy office complement a battery of outside lobbying and PR firms.
Archer's office said he was planning to continue lobbying for more flexibility for states to privatize their welfare services.
C. office of Brownstein Hyatt, a law and lobbying group that co-hosted the event.
Dozens of companies have banded together in various coalitions, hired lawyers and launched lobbying campaigns to get the U.S. Patent Office to take another look at Katz's portfolio.
On my first day in office, we closed the revolving door between lobbying firms and the government so that no one in my administration would make decisions based on the interests of former or future employers.
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It accused "securicrats" inside the Northern Ireland Office and the Royal Ulster Constabulary, of successfully lobbying to "remove the substance" of the Patten recommendations from the legislation.
As it continues to grow, Facebook has been steadily beefing up its DC office with Washington insiders, though the money it spends on lobbying is still miniscule in comparison to its fellow tech giants.
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The city has been lobbying the federal government for revitalization funding for three years, Nagin's office said, and has received less than half of Federal Emergency Management Agency funding needed to repair or rebuild public facilities.
The foundation is allowed to partake in lobbying, but any lobbying activities done by the foundation must be disclosed in their annual fillings with the office of the attorney general.
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According to the Center for Responsive Politics, the CFTC, the Fed, the FDIC, and the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) have seen more lobbying activity in the first quarter of 2011 than at any other moment since Obama became president.
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And rare now is the law office or accounting firm which does not make some claim for its skills in lobbying the European institutions on clients' behalf.
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