Sentences with phrase «republican policy positions»

I'm supportive of including national defense as one among many Republican policy positions.

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With a Republican Congress backing him (most items need 60 % support to pass in the Senate), Trump will be in a position to reverse trade agreements, immigration policies, Roe V. Wade, the Iran nuclear deal, and any other policy the party takes issue with — including those that impact how Canadians do business with the United States.

At the time that Democrats began paying for the research, Mr. Trump was in the process of clinching the Republican presidential nomination, and Ms. Clinton's allies were scrambling to figure out how to run against a candidate who had already weathered attacks from Republican rivals about his shifting policy positions, his character and his business record.

Some possibilities are that Trump voters are more protectionist than the average Republican voter, or that they instinctively back his positions based on a cult of personality, or that Trump is an inherently divisive figure even within the Republican Party and that this extends to his positions on policies.

Likewise, John McCain's appeal in the Republican primaries had more to do with his informal style, his refreshing bluntness, his humor, his underdog status, and his legendary experience as a POW than with his policy positions.

After roundly castigating fellow Democrats and Republicans alike during his announcement speech yesterday and proposing a host of policy positions that seemed tailor - made to get under the speaker's skin, Cuomo today dodged the question about Silver, (the longest - serving legislative leader in Albany), saying it's not his place to determine who leads either house.

As Cuomo increasingly seeks to position himself at the national level, potentially with an eye on a future White House run, by embracing a host of liberal policy proposals, look for the Senate Democrats and their allies to keep up the «we could accomplish so much more together» drumbeat, even though at this point it's pretty much a done deal that the Republicans and the IDC have renewed their power - sharing relationship.

As the only non-politician, Wendy Long is best positioned for November to reach women, Republicans, Conservatives, independents, disaffected blue collar democrats and the growing cross section of voters who want a real alternative to the Gillibrand - Obama radical policies of government intrusion.»

Two prominent Democrats under consideration to be Hillary Clinton's running mate — Labor Secretary Thomas E. Perez and Sen. Sherrod Brown of Ohio — attacked Republican Donald Trump on trade policy Sunday while defending their own past positions.

Buoyed by his unprecedented victory, Republican leaders revived the old lily - white southern strategy in an attempt to permanently capture the South for the G.O.P. Basically, this policy required purging black Republicans from leadership positions in the southern wing of the G.O.P. and replacing them with respectable, business - oriented southern whites....

Instead of outlining her own policy proposals in granular detail as she often does in these settings, she asked the crowd to give her their votes to show Republicans their positions carry consequences at the polls.

Freshman Rep. Lee Zeldin has positioned himself as a foreign policy firebrand with his tough talk on taking out ISIS, but the Long Island Republican has skipped out from his assignment as a member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, which is charged with dealing with national security foreign policy.

At a candidate forum in Brooklyn last night, Republican mayoral candidate Paul Massey repeatedly hit de Blasio for the several investigations swirling around the mayor's fundraising, while offering few policy positions of his own.

Republicans are more forgiving than Democrats when it comes to the personal issues of a candidate who's running for public office, according to a new Morning Consult / Politico poll that shows GOP voters care more about policy positions.

Brooklyn Congressman Hakeem Jeffries won election last night to one of three co-chairmanship positions atop the Democratic delegation's Policy and Communications Committee — which will craft the minority party's platform in unified Republican Washington.

He supports the policy position of Paul Giardina, his running mate on the Republican ticket, of utilizing the federal Environmental Protection Agency's Clean Water State Revolving Fund to pay for water - quality remediation efforts including replacement of failing septic systems, rather than the community preservation fund.

In an interview on CBS» «Face the Nation», Graham said the Republican Party is in the midst of a «civil war» and called Trump's foreign policy positions dangerous.

However, the more Cuomo appears positioned to be a national figure, the more it will behoove Senate Republicans to thwart his plans as they've largely embraced President - Elect Donald Trump and his policies, and Cuomo is positioning himself as the resistance.

(CNN)- Mobster and crook references aside, the Illinois Senate debate between Democrat Alexi Giannoulias and Republican Mark Kirk covered substantive policy issues, from their positions on the bank bailouts to the effectiveness of the stimulus bill.

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.

JC Polanco, a Republican running for Public Advocate, joined Max & Murphy to discuss his candidacy, explaining a variety of policy proposals and his overall mission to reform the position itself to give it more power, funding, and teeth.

Ensign was the head of the Republican Policy Committee, the fourth - ranking elected leadership position.

In staking out platforms in the coming months for what will likely be a feisty GOP primary, Republicans face two quandaries regarding education policy: They need to distinguish their positions from Obama's centrist education reforms, and they need to win over the Republican base, fueled by some Tea Party energy, that will push for the U.S. Department of Education to be dismantled altogether.

In the end, Republicans captured the default position on tax and spending policy at relatively limited cost to their high - income constituents.

Party label is no indication of position, alas — over-testing insanity might have started under a Republican administration with No Child Left Behind, but rather than correcting the problem, the Obama administration's policies have reinforced it.

When Republican Party presidential campaign front - runner Donald Trump named 2009 DePaul University graduate George Papadopoulos as a member of his foreign policy advisory team, some in the media raised eyebrows, while others jested that his wunderkind status makes him more likely to serve as office coffee fetcher than in a position of such prestige.

Democrats and Republicans had, in the course of a few short months, effectively switched policy positions on energy, with Democrats voting to hand trillions in new subsidies to coal - burning utilities and power plants while gutting Clean Air Act restrictions on the construction of coal - fired power plants, and Republicans, long - standing coal boosters, voting against a pro-coal bill.

Abbott's position, though, is consistent with that of the Republican Party in the US, which has responded to Barack Obama's climate policies by calling for accelerated drilling programs that Climate Progress described as «Big Oil's Christmas list».

With the Obama Administration willing to sacrifice jobs and economic development for some perceived environmental legacy, it is time for unions to abandon the historic allegiance to the Democrat Party and realize that it is the Republicans who advocate for policies that protect the jobs in construction, manufacturing, mining, and energy — all well - paying positions that are often filled by union members.

While it's too early to definitively handicap the electoral impact of a Republican call for carbon taxation (we have, after all, no political data points to go by), it's not too early to handicap the electoral impact of the position forwarded by most of the Republican presidential candidates today: pretending that climate change is an open scientific question while offering cheap fossil fuel as the holy grail of federal policy.

The resolution begins by saying «it is a conservative principle to protect, conserve, and be good stewards of our environment,» perhaps marking the discomfort that some Republicans feel about their party's positions on environmental policies.

The exchange illustrated the ways in which both allies and opponents of gun - law reform will have to maneuver gingerly when dealing with a president known for fluidity in his policy positions, especially in matters on which public opinion is at odds with the traditional views of his Republican party.

Some House and Senate Republican staffers said they hadn't heard of the resolution and weren't aware of any changes in the policy position of their bosses.