Sentences with phrase «u.s. voting public»

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Emma Boorboor, election reform campaign director at U.S. Public Interest Research Group (U.S. PIRG), told me that in October 2015, she sent a letter to Vanguard CEO Bill McNabb and two other Vanguard employees outlining her concerns with the mutual fund company's voting policies with respect to corporate political disclosure.

On June 28th, the U.S. Supreme Court — in a bitterly divided 5 — 4 vote — upheld a public university's right to enforce an «all - comers» antidiscrimination policy against a student group affiliated with the Christian Legal Society (CLS).

Reduced to essentials, Shaw's contention is that Hecker and those of his «Americanist» cast of mind did represent an assimilationist current in U.S. Catholic thought — a tendency to bend over backwards to «fit into» American culture — that eventually made possible Ted Kennedy, Barbara Mikulski, Nancy Pelosi, and Joe Biden: cradle - Catholic politicians who support public policies that flatly contradict basic moral truths taught by the Church on the basis of reason and revelation, justify their votes in the name of «democracy» and «pluralism,» and are supported by a lot of fellow - Catholics in doing so.

Most U.S. Olympians opposed Carter's decision, but the public rallied behind the President, and he pressured the USOC board to back him up, by about a two - to - one vote.

In a surprising victory for former President Barack Obama's environmental legacy, the U.S. Senate voted to uphold an Obama - era climate change regulation to control the release of methane from oil and gas wells on public land.

As our own U.S. Representative, John Faso, refuses to attend public town halls to explain his vote for the American Health Care Act, Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney from neighboring NY20 stepped in to answer questions from local residents concerned about how AHCA would adversely affect their access to quality health care.

In the video, elected officials such as Public Advocate Letitia James and U.S. Rep. Nydia Velazquez, says a vote for the WFP is a vote for women's equality, as well as campaign finance reform and the Dream Act.

Hoffman, a Lake Placid accountant, made his first run for public office last year and came within 4,000 votes of defeating U.S. Rep. Bill Owens, D - Plattsburgh, in a three - way special election.

The U.S. Senate on Dec. 9 voted 85 to 12 for an overhaul of federal education law that dials back the federal role in public education and bars the federal government from tying teacher evaluations to test scores.

On Thursday (June 10, 2010), the Senate will vote on Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski's resolution of disapproval (S.J.Res.26) to overturn the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's finding that greenhouse gas emissions endanger public health and welfare.

«I can tell you this — if you gave the American people a choice today between using federal dollars to renovate and build new public schools or using public tax dollars to pay for private school vouchers, there would be no question how the American people would vote,» asserted U.S. Secretary of Education Richard W. Riley in a speech made when the report was released.

A $ 600 - million, seven - year program to fund asbestos removal in public and private schools will be considered by the U.S. Senate some time in the next few weeks, and its sponsors are cautiously optimistic that it will win the votes needed for passage.

On the same day they cast their votes for president — November 8 — residents of one U.S. state will decide whether or not to remove a cap on the number of such schools, which are given public funding but operate free of the usual restrictions placed on conventional public schools...

U.S. lawmakers always have reasons for what they do, so there must be one for why they didn't make public the 1,059 - page rewrite of the 2002 No Child Left Behind until a few days before Congress began voting on the compromise legislation last week.

The GI Bill, Pell Grants, student loans, both Presidents Bush, President Trump, the 25 states that allow parents to choose among public and private schools, Congress with its passage of the Washington, D.C. voucher program, 45 U.S. senators who voted in 2015 to allow states to use existing federal dollars for vouchers, Betsy DeVos — or her senate critics?

This illustrated companion book to the film Milk features archival materials about the life and murder of Harvey Milk, the first openly gay American to be voted into a major public office in the U.S.

The winner has been selected entirely by public vote, which drew voters from Canada, India, the U.S., the U.K., France, Germany, Mexico, and China.

Nathan focuses on regulatory design for distributed generation in the eastern U.S. Prior to joining Vote Solar, Nathan was a Senior Economist at the Massachusetts Department of Public Utilities where he worked renewable energy and distributed generation regulation.

Tony Mauro reports in The National Law Journal that the U.S. Judicial Conference voted yesterday to increase fourfold the number of free documents that members of the public will be able to retrieve from the federal courts» PACER system.

From 1976 to 1989, Bill was an attorney with the Public Citizen Litigation Group, where he litigated law reform cases on state and federal constitutional law, antitrust and administrative law, voting rights, product liability, nuclear power, and food and drug law, and where he argued dozens of appellate cases, including several in the U.S. Supreme Court.