In a private meeting yesterday with Mr. Cheney, Mr. Bloomberg spent most of his time lobbying for security money for the city, he said.
Cost cutting was so deeply ingrained that even as the government scrambled to tighten security after Sept. 11, some airlines called on their screening companies to slash costs by 15percentt, according to Kenneth P. Quinn, a former chief counsel of the Federal Aviation Administration who now lobbies for security firms.
Participants on all sides are lobbying for securities lending to be excluded from the scheme.For now, the future of securities lending looks uncertain rather than outright gloomy.
Aside from an obvious difference -- he is not looking to personally profit from his donations -- the mayor's use of campaign contributions to lobby for domestic security grants looks a lot like the practice he is crusading against in New York.
Zionist Union leader Yitzchak Herzog is planning to visit Washington in the near future to express disappointment in the deal and lobby for increased security measures for Israel as compensation.
Several internal Energy Department documents describing the plan were obtained by a nonprofit group based here, the Project on Government Oversight, which has been lobbying for better security at nuclear weapons sites.
Alexander used the speech to lobby for a cyber security bill moving through the Senate that would make it easier for companies under attack to share information with the government and each other as well as give critical infrastructure owners some reward for adhering to future security standards.
This group is lobbying for tougher securities laws and the setting-up of a regulatory body independent of the finance ministry and modelled on America's Securities and Exchange Commission.Is the government listening?
In 1992, the Air Transport Association, an airline trade group, hired him to lobby against fingerprinting and background checks for security screeners and airline employees who worked in secure areas.
Another is that collaboration between financial firms is always fraught: they jointly underwrite securities and lobby for political advantage, but they are sensitive when it comes to information and do not always play well together.
