Sentences with phrase «conservative critics say»

Conservative critics say New Jersey's solar success is driven by government programs, including a renewable portfolio standard that requires utilities to derive more than 20 percent of their electricity from clean sources.

White House officials tout the appointment of US Attorney John Huber as basically a second special counsel on the FBI investigation but some conservative critics say his appointment is nothing more than window - dressing, the Hill reports.

Conservative critics say the decision, which split between three Democrats and two Republicans, was imbalanced and overturned decades of legal precedent about joint ownership.

Not exact matches

The Fed has been a target of some conservative critics in the U.S. Congress, who say the bank risked sparking inflation with its easy monetary policies in response to the global financial crisis.

Critics of the Conservative government's SOE policy say it was implemented without grounds or sufficient explanation to China, damaging relations.

Liberal transport critic David McGuinty said the government's ambitious timeline for replacing the unsafe cars is unachievable, and they know it, but it punts «a dangerous issue for the Conservatives» past the 2015 election.

«RRSPs are a terrible tool for small business people, and that's why many don't use them,» Ottawa MP Pierre Poilievre, newly minted Conservative leader Andrew Scheer's pick as finance critic, said in an interview.

Conservative finance critic Pierre Poilievre called the PBO's findings «damaging» for the government, citing the impact of larger deficits, higher debt payments and a carbon tax that he says will erase at least $ 10 billion per year from the national economy by 2022.

Conservative infrastructure critic Michael Chong said the report reflected a pattern of mismanagement on the infrastructure file, with money not being spent or allocated on time.

Monte McNaughton, the Progressive Conservative critic for citizenship, immigration and international trade, said the premier needs to use «bold» language.

Critics have said Limbaugh and his allies in conservative media did not sufficiently express during the primaries that the now GOP nominee did not hold conservative views on many issues.

«Since the 2015 Alberta election there has been significant discussion about the Progressive Conservative Party of Alberta and the Wildrose Party coming together to form a new political party,» he said, adding that the voting record «shows the two parties may have more in common than some critics have suggested.»

Supporters have praised the government for supporting the elderly, who are some of the most vulnerable in society, while critics have said increasing the state pension is a ploy to secure votes from older people, the majority of whom vote Conservative.

Garry Wills, a harsh and sometimes caricaturing critic of those of us who are religious conservatives, once said that the failure of Evangelical political activism is that it is not Evangelical enough.

Critics have accused the Tories of selling access to May and other ministers, but a Conservative spokesman said: «This is an important opportunity to engage directly with businesses and to highlight how, as part of our plan to create an economy that works for everyone, we will continue to back business and enterprise.»

Critics are calling for stronger action against Mrs Miller after claims she was uncooperative with an inquiry into her expenses claims, but Conservative Party Chairman Grant Shapps says it is time to move on.

How does she respond to critics on her left who say her record is too conservative?

Some critics, including Nicole Gelinas of the fiscally conservative Manhattan Institute, say de Blasio is driving up out - year deficits by agreeing to contracts that offer retroactive raises.

Critics say her voting record belies her claims on women's health care, revealing her to be more in line with the conservatives controlling the House GOP than more moderate voters back home.

The Conservative MP Andrew Bridgen, a longtime critic of Bercow, said that either he or another MP would put down an early day motion (EDM) expressing no confidence in the speaker.

Critics of the Conservatives said the real threat to territorial integrity was campaign posters like the one of Labour leader Ed Miliband dancing like a puppet as the SNP's Alex Salmond played the flute.

(CNN)- The controversial pastor who called Mormonism a «cult» after introducing Rick Perry at a conservative conference is firing back at his critics, saying religion has an important place in presidential politics.

«My problem is with his temperament,» says backbench Conservative Nadhim Zahawi, a Trump critic.

Alastair Campbell, Tony Blair's former director of communications - and well - known critic of Mr Corbyn - said Labour should be destroying the Conservatives given the «disastrous Brexit negotiations» and «serial incompetence» in the government.

Critics of David Cameron's tax arrangements should admit that they «hate anyone who has even got a hint of wealth in their life», a Conservative MP has said.

Lt. Gov. Spencer J. Cox, a longstanding Trump critic who is running for re-election this year, said he was impressed with Mr. McMullin's conservative message.

After conservatives won a majority on the state board in 2004, they quickly moved to adopt standards that critics say were tainted with creationist ideology, including a definition of science aimed at allowing supernatural explanations for natural phenomena.

Any doubts that Canada is an «outlier» on climate change were dispelled this week, say critics, after the Conservative government announced it is withdrawing from a U.N. convention to combat desertification signed by 194 other nations.

But last year, a national conservative uproar began to grow, with critics saying the standards represented federal intrusion into state affairs.

But the Conservatives took much longer to put forward members, in a move some critics said was aimed at holding up the committee's work.

With school budgets already limited by a conservative - led state legislature that critics say chronically underfunds public education, the district turned to Diplomas Now, an education nonprofit whose aim is to increase graduation rates using a data - driven system of early intervention.

Occupy LAUSD organizers say they have common cause with a movement that conservative critics have termed an un-American call to class warfare.

But critics say Rhee risks destroying the very public schools she aims to save by forging alliances with political conservatives, evangelical groups and business interests that favor turning a large chunk of public education over to the private sector.

And yes, I say their agenda since, according to NDP public safety critic Randall Garrison, Conservative Party members voted a few years ago at their annual convention in favour of a resolution to eliminate the human rights commission's authority to «regulate, receive, investigate or adjudicate complaints» dealing with hate speech on the Internet.

Bob Ambrogi: There does still seem to be concern from conservative corners in particular something that's been expressed any number of times over the years, the legal aid lawyers spend too much time litigating, political and social causes and not enough time representing those that they're intended to serve, what do you say to critics of the LSC who raised that issue?