Archive for January, 2012
Posted on January 25, 2012. Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: highway and transit reauthorization, highway trust fund, Senator Barbara Boxer, surface transportation, Turner Government and Public Affairs, Turner GPA, war savings |
By: TurnerGPA Staff “Take the money we’re no longer spending at war, use half of it to pay down our debt, and use the rest to do some nation-building right here at home,” Obama said last night in his SOTU. A senior administration official has confirmed the White House wants roughly $200 billion of the [...]
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Posted on January 20, 2012. Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: gas prices, Keystone Pipeline, TransCanada, Turner Government and Public Affairs, Turner GPA |
At the recommendation of the State Department, the Obama administration rejected the application of TransCanada Corp to build the Keystone XL on Wednesday. In November, the State Department had tried to postpone the deadline for a decision until after the 2012 elections, citing the need for further study. However, In December, the GOP won passage of [...]
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Posted on January 18, 2012. Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: blackout protest, Caren Z. Turner, Online Protection and Enforcement of Digital Trade, PIPA, SOPA, Turner Government and Public Affairs |
By Caren Z. Turner Ahh, democracy in action. We never worry about lobbyists’ undue influence of Congress or the Administration. We’ve been through too many legislative battles on Capitol Hill to fear “special interests”. In fact, as any of us inside the Beltway know, for every special interest in favor of a measure, like Sir [...]
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Posted on January 17, 2012. Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: Bank Bailout, Bank of America, Caren Z. Turner, Iceland, Morgan Stanley Smith Barney, Occupy Wall Street, Tea Party, Turner Government and Public Affairs |
By Caren Z. Turner To some extent, the “Occupy” and “Tea Party” movements stem from the same route cause – a systemic diseased relationship with money. Our economic institutions and governmental systems have different strains of the disease, but disease nonetheless. The Occupy Movement seems to have developed as a response to Wall Street and [...]
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Posted on January 10, 2012. Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: lobbying, Caren Z. Turner, Turner GPA, Turner Government and Public Affairs, defense aerospace, earmarks, federal grants, government affairs firm, policy advocacy |
By Caren Z. Turner Welcome to a New Year! Who says Congress is gridlocked? We are very proud of our own Ginny Ainslie for securing an increase in one critical, internationally important platform from $300 million to $924 million. KUDOS to Ginny, Laura, Renu and the team! To achieve success despite the gridlock, please call me, [...]
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Posted on January 10, 2012. Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: congressional dysfunction, Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, job increase, lobbying, payroll tax cut, Turner Government and Public Affairs, Turner GPA |
By Scott Orr Last month’s stronger than expected economic news did more than buoy investors’ spirits and brighten President Obama’s reelection chances, it also improved the chances Congress will act on a longer term extension of the middle class payroll tax cut. Obama, cautious about sounding too optimistic about the state of the economy, focused [...]
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Posted on January 10, 2012. Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: iowa caucuses, lobbying, Mitt Romney, New Hampshire, republican nomination, Rick Santorum, Ron Paul, Turner Government and Public Affairs, Turner GPA |
By Carl Chancellor As expected, voters in New Hampshire gave Mitt Romney his second win in as many contests Tuesday in the first-in-the-nation presidential primary. He pulled in more than 39 percent of the vote outdistancing his nearest opponent in the GOP presidential sweepstakes, Rep. Ron Paul of Texas who got almost 24 percent of [...]
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