Sentences with phrase «conservative reform agenda»

Are they going to pursue a yet - to - be defined conservative reform agenda?

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Yes, plenty of conservative activists will still be fired up about Obama's «socialist» agenda, but with health care reform passed into law, they've lost the main focus of their ire.

Within months of assuming office, the Conservatives had taken full control of the agenda, rolling out ambitious reform programmes in health, education and welfare.

«This race will be a choice between a community advocate who stands for ethics reform in government, supporting small businesses and middle class workers, and equality for all people, or a out of touch 1 % er who represents big business, back door politics as usual, and the conservative agenda,» Small said.

«If we focus on that kind of reform agenda, that bridges the divide very naturally between the Conservatives and the Liberals in the coalition,» Mr Horwood added.

The Conservatives signed up to Tony Blair's reform agenda, and now call on Brown to out - Blair his predecessor or David Cameron will do it for him.

Miliband will also set out a reform agenda for the EU, but rejects the Conservative promise to hold the referendum by 2017, saying the programme is not best achieved by setting an artificial timetable.

Mindful of the fact that the conservative grassroots is still smarting from the same - sex marriage vote two years ago, and steaming over the SAFE Act passage, the Senate Republicans drew a line in the sand over the abortion plank of the governor's Women's Equality Agenda and also refused to budget on campaign finance reform.

ProgCon has now reformed as the Centre for Progressive Conservatism to both support David Cameron's progressive agenda during the inevitable knock - backs over the next few years, and to encourage him to come even closer to our progressive conservative values and approach.

Mr Burnham's appeal for cooperation with the Liberal Democrats marks a significant change of tone for Labour towards the Lib Dems, who have previously been criticised by the opposition for being complicit in the Conservatives» market - driven reform agenda.

Answering a question from ITV News Deputy Political Editor Chris Ship the Prime Minister said «I think the Conservative party is delighted that we've got a renegotiation reform and referendum agenda, there's complete unity about that.»

The protest outside the Lib Dem meeting played an important role in putting voting reform squarely on the agenda, ensuring we have a referendum on the voting system, rather than just an investigative «commission» as the Conservatives were initially offering.

Early this August, at his request, the minority staff of the House Committee on Government Reform issued a 40 - page report charging the Bush administration with misusing science to advance a conservative agenda.

But a more productive response is to recognize that the unions are frustrated by the same things that have frustrated conservative school reformers in recent years — the eagerness of the Obama administration to impose its particular school - reform agenda on states, as rapidly as possible and by whatever means necessary.

The book, Education for Upward Mobility: The Reform Conservative's Education Agenda, is edited by Mike Petrilli.

The left's strategy, as telegraphed to reporters like Hensley - Clancy, is to drive Democrats away from liberal reform by treating it as identical to the conservative agenda.

Her alliance with Weingarten was significant: While Ravitch had never indulged in the strident anti-labor rhetoric common among educational conservatives, her reform views were far from the union agenda.

But the resistance to DeVos obscured an inconvenient truth: Democrats have been promoting a conservative «school reform» agenda for the past three decades.