The network matches state legislators – overwhelmingly Republican – with major US corporations, facilitating meetings behind closed doors and drafting business-friendly bills which often become law.
July 31 ― In separate interviews, Trump and Manafort both deny they were behind efforts to draft more Russia-friendly GOP platform language.
In coal friendly Queensland, coal company employees are asked to draft the state's environment policy.
A coalition of businesses interested in eco-friendly practices drafted the Climate Declaration, attracting the support of companies including Starbucks, Ben & Jerry's and the North Face.
ALEC supports conservative, business-friendly legislation, drafting model bills for lawmakers to introduce in state capitals around the country.
Reagan caught Thatcher so unawares that she had no chance to send the friendly "Dear Ron" response drafted after Reagan said he was giving "serious consideration" to an invasion.
Within a year or two, however, the better aspects of the American character were drafted in: Go in a friendly manner, Go with an open speech.
Gerald Nagel, a public relations consultant, 57, said he was spared conscription by a "friendly draft board" and relieved of the scramble for deferments.
What role did energy companies play in the closed-door sessions that drafted the administration's new industry-friendly energy plan?
But it flies in the face of the conciliatory signs the government had been making since September, and the investor-friendly draft conclusions of an official report commissioned into the whole retroactive tax affair.
