Sentence examples for lobbying team from inspiring English sources

It is a position that the lobbying team pushing for the change considers good news.

The News Corporation's outside lobbying team has been a veritable political Noah's ark.

"Find out how many people they have in their lobbying team," she says.

The association has hired three Democrats this year, so its lobbying team is split evenly between Republicans and Democrats.

Another Obama bundler is William A. Von Hoene Jr., who oversees Exelon's legal and lobbying team out of Chicago, despite Mr. Obama's rule against accepting contributions from lobbyists.

Sequoia, a California company, has also hired a Republican lobbying team, led by Jeff Buley, who was general counsel to Governor Pataki's re-election campaign last year.

Google and Facebook recently bolstered their lobbying teams.

Clear messaging from the top should start to address the huge dissonance between a company's publicly-stated views on climate change and the actions of its lobbying teams, which are often seeking to repress new legislation.

"The core image of John McCain is as a reformer in Washington — and the more dominant the story is about the lobbying teams around him, the more you put that into question," said Terry Nelson, who was Mr. McCain's campaign manager until he left in a shake-up last fall.

(See "Fisker Automotive Gets Crucial Funding").. "The well-connected guys with the lobbying teams got the loan guarantees," Bernsten said.

The company has hired high-powered public relations and lobbying teams to steer Unocal shareholders, regulatory bodies, legislators and the media away from the notion that the proposed deal is an attempt by the Chinese government to deprive the U.S. of vital energy resources.