Sentences with phrase «republicans move toward it»

When informed of Trump's position, Republicans move toward it on three of the four issues, including a 15 percentage - point increase in support for charter schools.

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The Democratic Party's victory on Tuesday in the governor's race appears to have cemented the move toward climate regulations, with Lt. Gov. Ralph Northam beating Republican challenger Ed Gillespie.

WASHINGTON, Nov 29 - Congressional Republicans scrambled on Wednesday to reformulate their tax bill to satisfy lawmakers worried about how much it would balloon the U.S. budget deficit, as the measure moved toward a decisive U.S. Senate floor vote later this week.

For instance, George Washington University political scientist John Sides found that the white working - class voters who had first backed Barack Obama only to vote for Trump in 2016 were already moving toward the Republican Party before the campaign got underway.

Brady appears to be moving toward a compromise that would allow a deduction for local property taxes — a concession that could win at least some support from the blue - state Republicans.

But the Republicans benefitted greatly from changes within another religious tradition, as Evangelical Protestants simultaneously moved away from Democratic partisanship and toward both greater political involvement and Republican partisanship.

During the last two decades Bellah has analyzed the current national values and mores and finds them moving away from the republican ideal of the public welfare and toward the liberal ideal of individual self - interest.

As a professor at Fordham Law School, the author of important books on political and economic policy, a key figure in Howard Dean's 2004 presidential campaign, and a visionary organizer on behalf of banking and business reforms, she understands that the Democratic Party must move toward progressive populism in order to become more than a tepid alternative to Republican extremism.

Cuomo made little public effort to move the multi-faceted reform agenda he proposed in January and instead appeared to move the goalposts for reform toward the end of session when he announced he wanted to tackle independent expenditure campaigns, something Senate Republicans found much more appealing than restricting legislators» outside income or closing the LLC loophole.

Republican candidate for governor Rob Astorino on Friday blasted the compromise of 2012 that created a new pension tier, saying he would support a plan that would move toward a defined contribution system.

Democrat Adam Haber is considering another run for the state Senate as the Republican who defeated in in 2014, Sen. Jack Martins, moves toward a congressional bid.

The RNC voted nearly unanimously Friday to condense the 2016 presidential nominating calendar, and they took steps toward moving the date of the next Republican National Convention from late August to June, the earliest either party has held their convention in nearly 70 years.

But, Ovide LaMontagne, who was the GOP's gubernatorial nominee in 1996, seems to be moving toward a bid and could find traction among New Hampshire Republicans by running to the ideological right of Ayotte in a primary.

However, in a letter to MTA interim Executive Director Veronique Hakim, Republican state Sens. Kemp Hannon (R - Garden City) and Elaine Phillips (R - Manhasset) said any changes to the capital budget should include investments throughout the entire LIRR system, including a move «toward an advanced and modernized communications and signal infrastructure to increase operational capacity and provide safe and reliable service.»

New England's shrinking Republican delegation in Congress is moving toward the brink of political extinction in November with Trump at the top of the party's ticket.

His move toward launching a campaign comes as Senate Republicans fight to maintain a narrow majority in the chamber ahead of a presidential election year, which typically brings out more Democratic voters in a blue state like New York.

House and Senate Republicans moved in mid-December toward a final vote on a $ 1.5 trillion tax plan that could cost the nation's public schools dearly.

As the process moved toward the 60 - day finish line, the Pinellas County Republican was optimistic about his bold proposals.

The move signaled to his Republican colleagues and the Cuomo administration that the state had health care problems outside of Brooklyn, where Cuomo's top deputies are working toward transforming the health care delivery model, aided by $ 700 million in capital funding set aside in 2015.

«We found that as media coverage of Latino immigration increased, we saw more Caucasians moving away from the Democratic Party and toward the Republican Party.»

Scientists denounced the Republican - controlled U.S. House of Representatives» NASA budget proposal that would take money away from Earth studies, including those of climate change, and funnel it toward space exploration, a move critics say could hinder the space agency's ability to better understand global - warming trends.

Furthermore, knowledge of the president's position moved both Democrats and Republicans toward him on all three issues.

Republicans who are informed of his position move toward it on three of the four issues: we observe a 5 - percentage - point increase in opposition to Common Core, a 15 - percentage - point increase in support for charter schools, and a 10 - percentage - point increase in support for tax credits.

FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP)-- Republican lawmakers took aim at Kentucky's public education system Wednesday, moving closer toward a repeal of Common Core standards and passing a bill to create public charter schools that would operate outside state supervision.

He had campaigned on enacting a revenue - neutral carbon tax, but noted that Republican primary voters started to break out in hives on mentioning carbon and moved toward anaphylactic shock at the word tax.

Below is a transcript of our talk, in which McCarthy discusses whether these rules could really make a difference on climate change, responds to Republican opposition to the rule, and explains how the US electricity sector may have to reinvent itself to move toward a low - carbon future.

So Athens moved toward a more republican structure for finance — electing financial officers to oversee the money and decide on spending.

The likelihood of comprehensive tax reform moving toward enactment has gone up considerably with the election of Donald Trump and another Republican - controlled Congress.