Sentences with phrase «conservative lawmakers push»

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growth test,» while social conservative groups pushed lawmakers to restore a tax credit for families who adopt children.

The president of the Club for Growth, an influential group promoting tax cuts, issued a statement Tuesday saying parts of the House bill «fails the pro-growth test,» while social conservative groups pushed lawmakers to restore a tax credit for families who adopt children.

The organization has also championed — endorsing and raising money for — the handful of Assembly Republicans who joined the Democrats in voting «yes» to pass the marriage bill on the other side of the Capitol, protecting these lawmakers on a potentially difficult issue (and one that, as it turned out, didn't lead to anyone's ouster, but did contribute to Assemblywoman Dede Scozzafava getting pushed out of the NY - 23 special election by conservatives who argued she was too moderate).

In the resolution, lawmakers say it is a «conservative principle» to push for conservation and environmental stewardship.»

As lawmakers return for a post-budget legislative session push Tuesday, the state Conservative Party reiterated its call for term limits of elected officials.

One conservative blog called it «dumb, dumb, dumb» for lawmakers to «jack up their own pay» while pushing austerity elsewhere.

Former Gov. George Pataki said in an interview with the conservative website and publication Newsmax that state lawmakers should oppose Gov. Andrew Cuomo's push to enhance abortion and reproductive rights in New York.

For example, some conservative lawmakers in rural states such as Arkansas, Iowa, Nebraska, and Texas have been pushing back on state efforts to legislate tax credit scholarships or education savings accounts.

The Zombie XL staggers onward, prodded and pushed by the oil industry and conservative lawmakers — yesterday, 44 senators signed on to legislation that would approve the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline.

First, to refresh, ALEC is the secretive so - called «charity» run and funded by big corporations that subsidize the involvement of conservative state lawmakers, who then push for enactment of model bills written by the corporations who pay them.