Sentences with phrase «democratic policy group»

«Albany spends a lot of time on the politics, but not nearly enough time tracking down real solutions to the problems everyday New Yorkers face,» Democratic Policy Group Chair Sen. Daniel Squadron, D - Brooklyn, said in a statement.

New York State Senate Democratic Policy Group Initiatives Would Help Over 1.3 Million New Yorkers; Make Higher Education More Affordable by Reducing Student Loan Debt, Increasing Savings For Families, Expanding Access to College Credit for High School Students Initiatives to Enhance Readiness and Increase Graduation Rates and Employment Will Help More New Yorkers Achieve College Success

Also at 1:30 p.m., the Senate Democratic Conference will unveil a set of policy initiatives spearheaded by the Senate Democratic Policy Group to help New York families during the critical early childhood period, Room 315, state Capitol, Albany.

Lawmakers on the Senate Democratic Policy Group today will hold a forum on climate change in order to assess how the state can respond to the issue.

The report, the product of the conference's Senate Democratic Policy Group, also calls for blocking budget sweeps from environmental protections funds in order to ensure the money fights climate change.

Not exact matches

The pro-Israel lobby group holds its annual policy convention in Washington Sunday through Tuesday and has confirmed both Trump and Democratic presidential front - runner Hillary Clinton as speakers.

Echoing Democratic sentiments of merit - based, un-incentivized business competition, Barnes said his group would «absolutely» join hands with Democrats to push its policy goals forward.

But while the former Democratic Congressman from Massachusetts is sharply critical of U.S. human rights policy (especially as conducted by Republican Administrations), he shows less concern about UN agencies, and none at all about the financing, motives, and agendas of the very mixed bag of interest groups known as NGOs.

Fox tells the story from beginning to end: childhood in the German - American parsonage; nine grades of school followed by three years in a denominational «college» that was not yet a college and three year's in Eden Seminary, with graduation at 21; a five - month pastorate due to his father's death; Yale Divinity School, where despite academic probation because he had no accredited degree, he earned the B.D. and M.A.; the Detroit pastorate (1915 - 1918) in which he encountered industrial America and the race problem; his growing reputation as lecturer and writer (especially for The Christian Century); the teaching career at Union Theological Seminary (1928 - 1960); marriage and family; the landmark books Moral Man and Immoral Society and The Nature and Destiny of Man; the founding of the Fellowship of Socialist Christians and its journal Radical Religion; the gradual move from Socialist to liberal Democratic politics, and from leader of the Fellowship of Reconciliation to critic of pacifism; the break with Charles Clayton Morrison's Christian Century and the inauguration of Christianity and Crisis; the founding of the Union for Democratic Action, then later of Americans for Democratic Action; participation in the ecumenical movement, especially the Oxford Conference and the Amsterdam Assembly; increasing friendship with government officials and service with George Kennan's policy - planning group in the State Department; the first stroke in 1952 and the subsequent struggles with ill health; retirement from Union in 1960, followed by short appointments at Harvard, at the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions, and at Columbia's Institute of War and Peace Studies; intense suffering from ill health; and death in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, in 1971.

Senator Brad Hoylman, Chair Policy Group Members: Senators Leroy Comrie, Velmanette Montgomery, Kevin S. Parker, Diane Savino, José M. Serrano, and David Valesky Senator Andrea Stewart - Cousins, Democratic Conference Leader Senator Jeff Klein, Deputy Democratic Conference Leader

The event itself is being led by a group of Democratic conference members who have released a series of policy - based reports — Sens. Daniel Squadron, George Latimer, Velmanette Montgomery, Jose Serrano and Brad Hoylman.

It represents the views of the author only, and not those of Democratic Audit UK, the LSE Public Policy Group, or the LSE.

I believe that such appeals carry grave threats to democratic discourse, and I think it wrong that faith groups, which in the United States and here enjoy significant hidden subsidies from other taxpayers, should award themselves a special right to influence the law and public policy and seek to impose their views on others who disagree with them.»

Activists point to how Cuomo has enabled Republican control of the State Senate by failing to use the State Democratic Party to support Senate Democrats and actively supporting a group of breakaway Democrats called the Independent Democratic Conference that has empowered Senate Republicans in exchange for a say in policy and perks they wouldn't enjoy as part of the minority.

Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie, a Democrat, and Senator Jeffrey Klein, the leader of the Independent Democratic Conference, a group of renegade Democrats who often collaborate with the Republicans, also signaled their willingness on Tuesday to tighten policies against workplace sexual harassment.

Mason Tvert, spokesman for the Marijuana Policy Project, a pro-legalization group, said a growing number of state Democratic parties had already backed legalization in their platforms this year.

A decade ago, labor groups and Democratic elected officials staunchly opposed the expansion of big - box retailers like Walmart into New York City given the company's anti-union policies.

The Morse campaign goes as far to say that Breslin is «aligning himself» with the policies of the Committee to Save New York — an interesting choice to make a villain here, considering that the business group backs Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo's fiscal agenda.

Mass amnesty, trillions in Medicare spending, and publicly funded abortion are just some of the ideas in a set of policy proposals that a left - leaning policy group gave to Democratic bigwigs this past week.

A group of state Senate Democratic candidates challenging breakaway Democrats say the state Senate's revised sexual harassment policy targets victims — and they called on state government to stop using taxpayer dollars to settle sexual harassment claims.

IDC Leader Jeff Klein has previously argued the group has a better chance to advance Democratic policies by pushing Republican partners than by working in a combative minority.

They're working with the town and county Democratic committees on initiatives including get - out - the - vote campaigns in an effort to defeat Zeldin, whom they describe as tightly allied with Trump and his policies, said Eileen Duffy, a Quogue food writer who helped found the group.

Patrick Dunleavy is the Co-Director of Democratic Audit, Chair of the LSE Public Policy Group, and a Professor of Political Science at the LSE.

The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee hammered the lawmaker on Thursday, and questioned the effectiveness of the bipartisan group in crafting policy.

With community groups still spurning Cuomo despite his attempt to strongarm Democratic unity and win WFP support, the New York political world entered something of a parallel universe in which the governor and his allies act like Cuomo has always been a champion of party unity and that the primary fight is about anything but progressive policy failures due to years of a sanctioned Democratic split.

Mnuchin's use of the plane at taxpayers» expense prompted an outcry from Democratic lawmakers and interest groups and spurred a government watchdog to begin examining whether it violated travel or ethics policies.

Mr. Peralta's defection does more than siphon power from the Democratic conference; it puts the independent group in position to expand its sphere of influence, pulling Republicans toward the political middle and offering John J. Flanagan, the Senate's Republican leader, an unbreachable bulwark against liberal policies favored by the Democrats who dominate the State Assembly.

Ads from the groups portrayed Maffei as a rubber stamp for the policies of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, President Barack Obama and Democratic leaders in Congress.

: A Statewide Snapshot Identifying Low Voter Turnout, a report by the New York State Senate Democratic Conference Policy Group.

Patrick Dunleavy is Co-Director of Democratic Audit, Chair of the LSE Public Policy Group, and a Professor of Political Science at the LSE.

A growing group of Democratic lawmakers will boycott President - elect Donald Trump's inauguration Friday to protest what they described as his alarming and divisive policies, foreign interference in his election and his criticism of civil rights icon...

UPDATE: Murphy's campaign said the initiative «organized under the umbrella of Murphy's re-election committee, will fund organizers to work in collaboration with the campaigns of the Connecticut Congressional delegation and the Connecticut Democratic Party to recruit and train volunteers, offer action alerts to existing organizing groups, provide messaging help to grassroots activists, and provide a conduit between local activism and the fight in Washington to defeat the reckless policies of the Trump administration.»

Senate Democratic Conference Leader Andrea Stewart - Cousins speaks with lawmakers and community groups urging New York Gov. Cuomo and the State Senate majority to join the State Assembly in supporting fair - share tax policies.

«Explicitly avoiding» policy prescriptions The Risky Businesses analysis has been eagerly anticipated by some environmental groups, businesses and Democratic activists because of the high - powered team behind the document.

A research group GEPS (Globalisation, Education and Social Policies) of Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB) have initiated a petition draft concerning the future developments of UNESCO's Education for All framework, it includes inter alia the following critique: «-LSB-...] efforts that would outsource the role of elected and accountable governments to provide free quality education to the private sector and for profit companies are neither equitable nor democratic.»

Indeed, one could make a strong argument that any outsized influence that teachers unions exercise in school board elections provides a nice enhancement of democratic decisionmaking on education policy because teachers, as much as any other group in society, can serve as powerful advocates for those Americans who can not vote: schoolchildren.

As Colvin explains, some groups work to amplify the voices of top classroom teachers as they weigh in on controversial policy issues; other groups try to keep successful teachers in the profession by giving them opportunities to assume leadership roles or try to change the way teacher unions work so that they are more democratic.

The results of our quantitative analyses suggest that districts can play a role in promoting participatory democratic structures in schools by creating policies and expectations for participation by a wide array of peoples and groups.

Voters across all demographic groups reject the «last in, first out» policy by overwhelming margins,» said David Kanevsky, vice president of Republican polling firm, American Viewpoint, that conducted the poll with the Democratic polling firm Greenberg Quinlan Rosner Research.

Over the past thirty years, I served as a member of the Connecticut House of Representatives under a Democratic Governor and a Republican / Independent Governor and worked with a variety of progressive and liberal groups, including unions, as we advocated for policy changes under two different Republican governors.

Meanwhile AFT, along with NEA, are using their ties to progressive groups within the Democratic National Committee to attempt to reshape the party's stances on key education policy issues.

In October, InsideClimate News reported that a group of Democratic senators wrote a letter to Exxon «questioning Exxon's contributions to Donors Trust and the Donors Capital Fund, which provide a conduit between well - heeled contributors and various conservative public policy organizations, including many at the forefront of climate science denial.»

As close ties between fossil fuel billionaires Charles and David Koch and the Trump Administration come more to light, a group of Democratic Senators led by Sheldon Whitehouse (D - RI) is demanding answers about how much influence the Koch brothers have had in shaping key federal policies.