Sentences with phrase «as nonpartisan»

As a nonpartisan online voting guide, we make it easy for voters to compare candidates based on issue stances, biographies, and endorsements.

CRS is a department of the Library of Congress works exclusively as a nonpartisan analytical, research, and reference arm for Congress.

The Foundation may support organizations engaged in public policy by either providing general operating support or by funding educational advocacy such as nonpartisan research, technical assistance, or examinations of broad social issues.

As a nonpartisan organization with conservative core values, we find it troubling that a fundamental American principle such as religious liberty became a partisan issue in the Florida Senate.

Attorneys arguing on behalf of Evers said as a nonpartisan, elected constitutional officer, the state superintendent has complete supervision over education policy in Wisconsin.

As a nonpartisan organization, we work closely with all members of the Illinois General Assembly to keep them up to date on education issues and help them make informed research - based policy decisions.

As a nonpartisan education association, ASCD continues to advocate for policies and practices that ensure each child has access to educational excellence and equity.

We serve as a nonpartisan 501c3 public education policy resource for New Hampshire families, educators, and elected officials.

It's not the first time that Trump's actions have triggered activism among scientists, a group that, as a whole, has traditionally couched itself as nonpartisan.

Led by Joseph Concannon, a retired NYPD detective and former City Council candidate, the rally was billed as a nonpartisan affair but attracted a variety of Republican organizations and officials to decry Mr. de Blasio, a progressive Democrat.

Notwithstanding activist complaints that Judge Graffeo has been insufficiently progressive on such issues as same - sex marriage, her real crime seems to be a willingness to defer to legislatures on these contentious issues, just as a nonpartisan judge would do.

In his first campaign speech Monday, Republican gubernatorial candidate Marcus Molinaro sought to position himself as a nonpartisan problem - solver who would bring civility to Albany after years of rough - and - tumble politics.

But not everyone sees it as nonpartisan.

A Cuomo aide cited the website Reclaim New York — which bills itself as nonpartisan and opines on public policy — which has promoted the petition on its site.

* Although Jay Mathis won election to the Mississippi House of Representatives as a Nonpartisan candidate, after swearing in he was listed as a Republican representative.

Of those 72, 49 were Nebraska State Senators, where all candidates must run as a nonpartisan.

Larry is as nonpartisan as analysts can be these days.

It will be hard for anyone who has read the Nunes memo to regard the committee's output as nonpartisan now.

Even as Facebook has outwardly defended itself as a nonpartisan information source — Mark.

Sunshine Hillygus, who advises the federal government on the census, notes that this question is likely to fuel suspicion on the part of the undocumented that the census will become a political tool to be used against them — with negative implications for both data accuracy and for the long - run reputation of the Census Bureau as a nonpartisan agency.

Not exact matches

As it stands, the tax plan would lower taxes for most Americans, but one in five could see an increase in their tax bill by 2027, according to a report from the nonpartisan Joint Committee on Taxation.

As a result, in the federal exchange's first week, only 1 percent of the 3.7 million people who tried to register were successful, according to the nonpartisan research firm Millward Brown Digital.

In fact, millions of people stand to see higher tax bills because of the elimination or curtailment of deductions such as one for state and local taxes, according to the Joint Committee on Taxation, the nonpartisan official scorekeeper for Congress.

The adjunct senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, a nonpartisan think tank in New York City, suggests looking at the stock market as a guidepost.

The nonpartisan Cook Political Report rates Baldwin's seat as «likely Democratic» — meaning she has a relatively good chance to retain it.

According to the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, a nonpartisan research group that focuses on reducing poverty, 20 million children in the United States (nearly 1 in 4) will have received Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits — better known as food stamps — in 2016.

Supporters in the five states set to vote on recreational marijuana had a war chest of $ 30 million as of Oct. 20, compared to just $ 6.6 million for their rivals, according to campaign finance data collected by the nonpartisan site Ballotpedia.

The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office forecast enrollment of 11 million in 2018, a figure that includes HealthCare.gov as well as sign - ups in the 11 states and Washington D.C. that run their own websites and have later deadlines.

Founded in 1943 as a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization, NFIB gives small and independent business owners a voice in shaping the public policy issues that affect their business.

Hockley co-founded and works as managing director of Sandy Hook Promise, a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization based in Newtown that works toward preventing gun violence through education in, as Hockley says, «those days, weeks, months, years before someone decides to pick up a firearm and hurt someone else or themselves.»

The nonpartisan Joint Committee on Taxation, Congress» tax policy analyst, found the House GOP bill as written would broadly cut taxes, but that the bulk of the benefits would go to corporations and the very wealthy.

Larry Noble, general counsel of the nonpartisan Campaign Legal Center, agreed the timing «is still strong evidence of it being campaign related,» as is the reimbursement.

The description of the conflict is not, as it is said today, nonpartisan.

The evidence covers partisan political activity and nonpartisan community activity; it covers religious activity and secular activity; it covers high - commitment activities and low - commitment activities; it covers things one can do as an individual as well as things requiring the cooperation of others; it covers informal socializing as well as participation in formal organizations.

Public cynicism toward religion, and toward the Religious Right in particular, is exacerbated when an organization such as the Christian Coalition claims to be nonpartisan.

At the same time, he's attempting to strike a more nonpartisan tone, such as backing gun control measures.

Even as generic congressional ballot polling has indicated that Republicans are making up some ground ahead of 2018 midterm election, Democrats are widening their targets and a nonpartisan analysis shows that more GOP incumbents might be at risk.

Joshua Lafazan, who ran for his 18th District seat as a Democrat but is not registered in any political party, is showing his nonpartisan roots by setting up a property tax grievance workshop with three other elected officials — all Republicans.

He also worked as an attorney and advocate at Demos, a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization, on a nationwide effort to secure the voting rights of low - income citizens, and was a member of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York's Election Law Committee.

Dick Dadey, executive director of the Citizens Union, a nonpartisan good governance group, said he doesn't believe that Stringer's position as a Clinton delegate would influence his audit.

Rookie Nassau legislator Joshua Lafazan, who ran for his 18th District seat as a Democrat, but is not registered in any political party, is showing his nonpartisan roots by setting up a property tax grievance workshop with three other elected officials — all Republicans.

[19] Since 1984, New York State has only passed a budget on time once, in 2005, leading Paterson to call for an «end to the dysfunction in Albany» in his speech, echoing a 56 - page study from the nonpartisan New York University School of Law's Brennan Center for Justice, which referred to the legislature as «the least deliberative and most dysfunctional in the nation.»

Ten of New York's Democratic - held House seats were ranked as competitive by the nonpartisan Cook Political Report prior to the election; the 4th District was ranked likely Democratic; the 13th, 22nd and 25th Districts were ranked as lean Democratic; the 1st, 19th, 20th, 23rd and 24th were ranked as toss - ups; and the 29th District was ranked as likely Republican.

Green Party candidates in the United States have primarily won elected offices at the local level; most Green officeholders have won nonpartisan - ballot elections (races in which candidates were not identified on the ballot as affiliated with any political party).

Of the 435 seats in the House of Representatives, none have flipped back and forth between parties as often as the 24th District since 2008, according to David Wasserman, House editor of the Cook Political Report, a nonpartisan political newsletter that tracks elections.

As Democratic campaigners search for the best tools to track voters and voter contacts, some of them are looking at working with their voter data in a platform from the upstart nonpartisan firm NationBuilder instead of with software from NGP VAN, which many Democrats have used for years.

Some proposed measures to increase voter participation include nonpartisan elections and instant runoff voting as well as stronger voter education.

It's clear that New York will lose two House seats in the next round of redistricting — most likely one upstate and one downstate, as is the tradition, although if the push for a nonpartisan commission is successful (seems doubtful at this point), that could change.

Mick Mulvaney, director of the Office of Management and Budget, criticized an assessment of the House GOP's health care bill by the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office, while Democratic leaders seized on the findings as proof the plan would do more harm than good.

Nonpartisan elections, also known as «top - two» elections, would let all candidates run in a September primary open to all voters.