Sentences with phrase «for conservative think tanks»

For conservative think tanks like the Heartland Institute, this is all part of a larger agenda for shifting wealth back into private hands, and shrinking the section of government that provides services like education.

She spoke for over an hour, through a combination of prepared remarks, a question - and - answer period with audience members and a sit - down conversation with Frederick Hess, director of education policy studies for the conservative think tank.

«I have never seen him call someone a name to make his point,» says Lily Eskelsen García, president of the National Education Association, an organization that has about as much love for the conservative think tank AEI as the Red Sox do for the Yankees.

«We've had 150 of these events since I've been here — people like Michelle Rhee after she closed schools in D.C. and (former New York City Schools Chancellor) Joel Klein when he was very controversial,» said Rick Hess, director of education policy for the conservative think tank.

«We need a new approach to the ongoing failure of our city school systems... one that stops jamming scarce resources into dysfunctional systems that remain impervious to reform and improvement,» Smarick wrote in a recent blog post for a conservative think tank.

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Conservative MP Jason Kenney is a member, as are Brian Lee Crowley, head of the Atlantic Institute for Market Studies and Michel Kelly - Gagnon of the Montreal Economic Institute, the second and third most important right - wing think tanks after the Fraser Institute.

Proxy Preview also highlights «a surge of proposals — some two dozen — largely filed by or coordinated by the National Center for Public Policy Research (NCPPR), a conservative Capitol Hill think tank.»

Donors Trust's board of directors, which ultimately decides who gets funded, reads like a conservative who's - who directory: Arthur Brooks, president of American Enterprise Institute; John Von Kannon, vice president of the Heritage Foundation; William Mellor, president of the Institute for Justice, a libertarian legal firm; and Kris Alan Mauren, director of the Acton Institute, a Michigan - based conservative think tank.

Lighthizer is expected to try to nix another transnational court for investment disputes, and he has backing from a wide variety of constitutional lawyers, environmental and labor groups, and conservative think tanks that say the special courts encroach on U.S. sovereignty.

These two elections have shattered the myth cultivated by conservative politicians, newspaper columnists, think tanks and lobby groups for decades that promising to increase taxes is political kryptonite.

In America's Forbes Magazine this week, Alejandro Chafuen praised the leadership of the conservative policy think - tanks that helped set the stage for the election of Prime Minister Stephen Harper's Conservative majority government in 2011 and the success of conservative politicians across conservative policy think - tanks that helped set the stage for the election of Prime Minister Stephen Harper's Conservative majority government in 2011 and the success of conservative politicians across Conservative majority government in 2011 and the success of conservative politicians across conservative politicians across the country.

Jason Delisle is a resident fellow at conservative think tank American Enterprise Institute and an advocate for changes to the PSLF program.

The liberal group People for the American Way's report on how conservative foundations have deployed vast sums to support think tanks, friendly media and other institutions that promote right - wing causes is titled «Buying a Movement.»

Ben Ryan from the religion and society think tank Theos told Premier where it went wrong for the Conservatives, explaining: «If you saw the campaign leaflets that came through my door, they had «Theresa May says «back my candidate»».

For, away from the daily focus of the Westminster media, Conservative and independent free - market leaning think tanks are flourishing in a way they haven't for yeaFor, away from the daily focus of the Westminster media, Conservative and independent free - market leaning think tanks are flourishing in a way they haven't for yeafor years.

The company, Cambridge Analytica, inked a deal with the nation's leading conservative think tank, the Heritage Foundation, for the purpose of hitting up Trump voters for donations.

E.J. McMahon, with the fiscally conservative think tank the Empire Center, said Cuomo still has not yet fully revealed how he's paying for the massive Thruway bridge construction project.

Tim Hoefer, executive director of the Empire Center for Public Policy, a fiscally conservative think tank based in Albany, questioned how the village will afford the raises after its fund balance is drawn down.

Tim Hoefer, executive director of the Empire Center for Public Policy, a conservative Albany - area think tank, said teacher pension costs as now structured «are unsustainable in the long term, in addition to being paid for on the taxpayers» dime.»

The conservative - leaning think tank The Empire Center is analyzing the tax overhaul plan, and also concludes that it won't be good for New York.

Ken Girardin, an analyst at the Empire Center for Public Policy, a fiscally conservative think tank, also sharply criticized the arrangement.

Cuomo beginning in his 2010 campaign for governor, has defined extension of an existing tax as a new tax, says EJ McMahon, with the conservative leaning think tank the Empire Center.

«When you get into long - term contracts that guarantee something every year, you've really tied the hands of districts to maneuver and adjust,» said Tim Hoefer, executive director of the Empire Center for Public Policy, an Albany - based think tank that is fiscally conservative and has strongly supported the state's tax - cap law.

YouGov have carried out a new poll for Iain Duncan Smith's think tank, the Centre for Policy Justice, dealing with the future direction of the Conservative party.

«It doesn't set a very good example,» said Tim Hoefer, executive director of the Empire Center for Public Policy, a fiscally conservative think tank based in Albany.

«All of this stuff is classic pork,» said E.J. McMahon a fiscal analyst for the Manhattan Institute, a conservative - leaning think tank.

Mr Aitken is to lead a study for the Centre for Social Justice (CSJ), a think tank headed by Iain Duncan Smith which advises Conservative party leader David Cameron on social issues.

Funding for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which is celebrating its 50th anniversary this year, is being targeted for budget cuts by lawmakers and an influential conservative think tank whose findings have helped shape the Trump administration's still - forming budget.

Bill Hammond, health policy director for the Empire Center for Public Policy, a conservative think tank based in Albany, says, «Obamacare had certain gaps that people slipped through, I think this system would have bigger gaps.»

David Blankenhorn with national conservative think tank the Institute for American Values says that particular number comes from a lobby group, the New York Gaming Association, not independent studies, and he predicts that the opposite will occur.

The conservative - oriented think tank Empire Center for New York State Policy will fight the ruling of the state Apeallate Division today that prohibits the release of the names of retired teachers currently receiving pensions.

Guests of the London Center for Policy Research, the conservative think tank of former gubernatorial candidate Herb London, included Norman Podhoretz, Rita Cosby, p.r. pro Josh Nass and former Gov. George Pataki.

E.J. McMahon, president of the Albany - based Empire Center for Public Policy, a conservative think tank, attributed the police pay to a 1974 state law that mandated binding arbitration when police and a municipality reach a negotiating impasse.

While the executive proposal includes $ 200 million in funding to address the opioid crisis, it does not prevent the state from using the existing funds designated for these programs to plug other holes in the budget, according to Bill Hammond, health policy analyst at the Empire Center for Fiscal Policy, a conservative - leaning think tank.

E.J. McMahon, the head of the Empire Center for Public Policy, a fiscally conservative think tank, told Newsday last week that the plan would «basically undermine the state's tax base.»

But 90 percent of that highway and bridge spending was already included in the state Department of Transportations 5 - year capital plan last year, according to E.J. McMahon of the Empire Center for Public Policy, a conservative think tank.

Beginning in his 2010 campaign for governor, Cuomo has defined extension of an existing tax as a new tax, says E.J. McMahon, with the conservative - leaning think tank the Empire Center.

A member of the free market think tank Reform, Browne has been associated with the more right wing and free - market orientated wing of the Liberal Democrats, and occassionally suggested as a target for seduction by a Conservative party looking to lure Liberal Democrat defections (more information at They work for you)

«The entire point of charging a toll for crossing the bridge itself is to recover costs from the people who benefit from it,» said Ken Girardin of the fiscally conservative Empire Center think tank.

«The one cheering piece of news for Mr Cameron in the survey compiled by the New Local Government Network think - tank is that 46 per cent of Conservative Party candidates have a business background compared to just 18 per cent of Labour candidates.»

Many Republicans, Democrats, conservative activists and think tanks support reforming this law due to its abuse against Americans and encouraging policing for profit.

EJ McMahon, with the fiscally conservative think tank The Empire Center, says Cuomo still has not yet fully revealed how he's paying for the massive Thruway bridge construction project.

Ossorio recalled that Sessions voted against reauthorizing VAWA, and pointed out Trump has embraced a conservative political think tank Heritage Foundation plan that calls for cuts to VAWA.

E.J.McMahon of The Empire Center, a conservative think tank, said that it is generally expected that there will be tension between a Comptroller and Governor and that it is unsurprising that Cuomo, who has a reputation for «ad hominem denunciation» over «the substantive argument,» is feuding with someone charged with monitoring him.

In the afternoon I joined a workshop on environmental and climate change policy, which was being run by the Green Alliance think tank for a group of my fellow Conservative candidates.

According to documents leaked to Hans — Martin Tillack, a German investigative journalist, and think tank Open Europe, many high - profile MEPs are members of the scheme, including Syed Kamall, Leader of Conservative MEPs; Glenis Willmott, the leader of the European Parliamentary Labour Party; Sir Graham Watson, the president of the EU — wide Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe; and Nigel Farage, leader of Ukip.

In a Daily Politics film, Giles Dilnot puts on a thinking cap to look at what they do with Nick Pearce, from the Institute for Public Policy Research, and Conservative MP Charlotte Leslie, who was at the Policy Exchange think tank.

Empire Center for Public Policy Empire Center, a conservative think tank based in Albany, has released a slew of criticisms of the budget.

Steyer also dismissed the idea of swapping the Clean Power Plan for a carbon tax, a concept favored by several conservative and libertarian think tanks.

«Conservative think tanks, conservative media, corporations, and industry associations (especially for the fossil fuels industry)-- domains dominated by conservative white males — have spearheaded the attacks on climate science and policy from the late 1980s to the present,» McCright and Dunlap concluded in Conservative think tanks, conservative media, corporations, and industry associations (especially for the fossil fuels industry)-- domains dominated by conservative white males — have spearheaded the attacks on climate science and policy from the late 1980s to the present,» McCright and Dunlap concluded in conservative media, corporations, and industry associations (especially for the fossil fuels industry)-- domains dominated by conservative white males — have spearheaded the attacks on climate science and policy from the late 1980s to the present,» McCright and Dunlap concluded in conservative white males — have spearheaded the attacks on climate science and policy from the late 1980s to the present,» McCright and Dunlap concluded in their study.