Sentence examples for capital lobby from inspiring English sources

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Little wonder the powerful venture capital lobby group — the National Venture Capital Association — has been trying to talk the SEC into changing its definition of what constitutes a venture capital firm.

The venture capital lobby has focused its campaign to buy political influence on key democratic leaders like Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D - CA) and Senator John Kerry (D - MA).

WASHINGTON ― On a hot D.C. summer day on Tuesday, seven refugees from Texas made their way to the office of their home state senator, Ted Cruz, to do what one does in the nation's capital: lobby.

Politicians can make chief-executive-type sums only by retiring and cashing in on their human capital;lobbying skills.

After graduating [from the University of California at Santa Barbara] in 1971, I went to work at the state capital, lobbying to turn around a very hostile legislative view of (college) students.

My group ended up spending the rest of the MLK day running up and down the capital, lobbying representative after representative to sign onto bill they ended up refusing to even give a vote to a few weeks later.

Two weeks later, Amscot paid for him to fly to the state capital and lobby for the bill.

Few council members, it appears, want to use their political capital to lobby for a retired ballplayer when there are so many other pressing issues.

The governor has not been to the nation's capital to lobby the federal government in more than four years, since a visit in 2012 to press for disaster aid in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy.

During his three-year-tenure, Cardinal George reorganized parochial school finances in Chicago, played a major role in fighting Illinois legislation that would have legalized same-sex civil unions and appeared often in Springfield, the state capital, to lobby for and against various bills, said Robert Gilligan, executive director of the Illinois Conference of Catholic Bishops.