Sentences with phrase «conservative research groups»

According to the New York Times, Wal - Mart «has discovered a reliable ally: prominent conservative research groups like the American Enterprise Institute...»

The effect of the Triborough Amendment is significant: Edmund J. McMahon, senior fellow at the Empire Center for New York State Policy, a conservative research group, has estimated that longevity - based pay increases for teachers, guaranteed by the amendment even after contracts expire, add $ 300 million to school budgets annually.

«They want to tell the states that from now on the states are going to be in charge, not the federal government,» said Chester E. Finn Jr., president of the Fordham Institute, a conservative research group.

«They've pioneered it,» said Chester E. Finn Jr., president of the Thomas B. Fordham Institute, a conservative research group.

One of the organizations, the Heritage Foundation, a conservative research group, told InsideClimate News that it supports clean economic growth if it's fueled by the free market.

He also noted that the author of that report, Andrei Illarionov, is not a climate scientist but an economist with the Cato Institute, a conservative research group in the United States.

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Some conservative groups, including the Family Research Council and the Center for Military Readiness, have suggested a reversal of the policy.

A joint statement this week from more than 60 conservatives, including former attorney general Edwin Meese and Family Research Council President Tony Perkins, demanded that Facebook and other tech giants «rectify their credibility with the conservative movement» by explaining why content is taken down and accounts deleted and by including more conservative groups on its list of advisers.

Another poll released on Friday, by the Elector Research Group, showed support for Merkel's conservative bloc steady at 37 percent.

In explaining why the group decided to join CPAC, Silverman cited a 2012 Pew Research study that found 20 % of self - identified conservatives consider themselves religiously unaffiliated.

«But after it is over, they will come over to talk to me and whisper in my ear, «I agree with everything you said,»» says Sprigg, a spokesman for The Family Research Council, a powerful, conservative Christian lobbying group.

The Barna Research Group, an evangelical Christian organization that does surveys and research to better understand what Christians believe and how they behave, studied divorce rates in America in 1999 and found surprising evidence that divorce is far lower among atheists than among conservative Christians — exactly the opposite of what they were probably exResearch Group, an evangelical Christian organization that does surveys and research to better understand what Christians believe and how they behave, studied divorce rates in America in 1999 and found surprising evidence that divorce is far lower among atheists than among conservative Christians — exactly the opposite of what they were probably exresearch to better understand what Christians believe and how they behave, studied divorce rates in America in 1999 and found surprising evidence that divorce is far lower among atheists than among conservative Christians — exactly the opposite of what they were probably expecting.

The Family Research Council, a powerful conservative Christian group in Washington, has promoted the Day of Truth in the past.

The Family Research Council, a conservative Christian advocacy group, is turning up the heat on NBC after it edited out «under God, indivisible» - twice - during a taped piece of children reciting the Pledge of Allegiance as part of last weekend's final round coverage of the U.S. Open Golf Championship.

If you actually do the REAL research you will find that the conservative groups twisted all the facts and the data they are using is false.

«An assignment: Compare and contrast the responsefrom the Family Research Council, a conservative Christian group, to the attempted assault on their offices with the response of a Sikh temple to the killings that took place in their house of worship.

Evangelicals are among the least likely of religious groups to support BLM, and the most likely to hold conservative positions on race, according to new research from Barna Group.

While the European Research Group of sixty Conservative Brexit - supporting MPs are demanding significant change in Britain's relationship with the EU, senior politicians are effectively promoting the status quo.

Jacob Rees - Mogg, a Conservative backbencher and leader of the Eurosceptic European Research Group, said customs union membership was unacceptable to leading Brexit supporters and accused Philip Hammond, the chancellor, of undermining Britain's departure from the EU.

Taken together, groups of Conservative - Labour marginals in my research have shown swings to Labour at a similar level to those in the national polls, but there are wide variations between seats with similar majorities: in the first round, published in May, I found swings to Labour of 8 % in Amber Valley and just 2 % in Morecambe & Lunesdale.

Conservative groups including the Family Research Council and National Organization for Marriage fired off a letter last week to Boehner, National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC) Chairman Greg Walden (Ore.) and Senate GOP Leader Mitch McConnellAddison (Mitch) Mitchell McConnellGOP lawmakers want Trump to stop bashing Congress Parkland father calls out Trump, McConnell, Ryan after Santa Fe shooting Overnight Finance: House rejects farm bill in conservative revolt NAFTA deal remains elusive as talks drag on Dodd - Frank rollback set for House vote MORE (Ky.) chiding them for backing DeMaio and Tisei, as well as Senate hopeful Monica Wehby (Ore.), who supports gConservative groups including the Family Research Council and National Organization for Marriage fired off a letter last week to Boehner, National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC) Chairman Greg Walden (Ore.) and Senate GOP Leader Mitch McConnellAddison (Mitch) Mitchell McConnellGOP lawmakers want Trump to stop bashing Congress Parkland father calls out Trump, McConnell, Ryan after Santa Fe shooting Overnight Finance: House rejects farm bill in conservative revolt NAFTA deal remains elusive as talks drag on Dodd - Frank rollback set for House vote MORE (Ky.) chiding them for backing DeMaio and Tisei, as well as Senate hopeful Monica Wehby (Ore.), who supports gconservative revolt NAFTA deal remains elusive as talks drag on Dodd - Frank rollback set for House vote MORE (Ky.) chiding them for backing DeMaio and Tisei, as well as Senate hopeful Monica Wehby (Ore.), who supports gay marriage.

Senior Conservative ministers including Sajid Javid, Andrea Leadsom, Penny Mordaunt and David Gauke have used taxpayers» cash to fund the hard - Brexit European Research Group (ERG), which is now led by Rees - Mogg MP, who has been accused in recent days of trying to undermine Prime Minister Theresa May and oust her Chancellor, Philip Hammond.

The European Research Group is a ruthlessly organised faction within the Conservative party, funded by a mix of taxpayer cash and dark money.

In a statement issued to openDemocracy, a spokesperson said: «This is a party political research group which provides briefings to Conservative MPs relating to the UK's relationship with the European Union.

Rivera, one of the most liberal members of the State Legislature, has reprised his attacks from two years ago: namely that Cabrera — an evangelical pastor — used to be a registered Republican, maintains ties to conservative groups like the Family Research Council and has praised the government of Uganda, which subjects homosexuals to imprisonment.

About twelve of them said yes, and the European Research Group was founded under the chairmanship of Michael Spicer, who would go on to chair the 1922 Committee of backbench Conservative MPs, before stepping down as an MP in 2010 after being caught in the 2009 expenses scandal paying for maintenance of his helipad with public money.

Conservative group Family Research Council, meanwhile, has urged President Obama to appeal the ruling, asserting that the decision should be left to Congress and not the courts.

«This governor has fancied himself as a sort of fiscal hawk but willing to deal with other issues from a more moderate or liberal perspective,» said Blair Horner, the executive director of New York Public Interest Research Group, citing Mr. Cuomo's conservative - minded moves, like the property tax cap, and his more progressive policies, like same - sex marriage.

On the flip side, as gay Republican groups have taken off, social conservative groups like the Family Research Council have seen their influence wane.

In the 2014 cycle, GOP congressional campaigns and conservative - leaning groups paid at least $ 729,000 to the firm for a range of services, including research, data analytics and microtargeting.

Between 2004 and 2006 John was full time Deputy Director and then Director of the Conservative Research Department under Michael Howard and David Cameron during which time he set up the secretariat for the Conservative Party's Policy Review Groups.

America Rising, a conservative group that conducts opposition research, has started collecting records of Miner's travel and expenses during her time in office.

Under Northern Irish electoral law, the source of this dark money has remained secret but we do know that money came through the Constitutional Research Council, a shadowy group chaired by Richard Cook, a former vice chairman of the Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party.

Upstate's shrinking population helps explain its economic woes, said E.J. McMahon, research director of the Empire Center for Public Policy, a fiscally conservative watchdog group.

Jacob Rees - Mogg, the Conservative backbencher and chair of the European Research Group, which represents Tory MPs pushing for a harder Brexit, has - not very surprisingly - backed Boris Johnson.

E. J. McMahon, founder and research director of the Empire Center for Public Policy, a fiscally conservative watchdog group that has often criticized Mr. Cuomo, was skeptical.

Councilman Fernando Cabrera, a pastor and socially conservative Democrat, recently appeared on the radio show of the Family Research Council, a right - leaning organization that was labeled a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law center four years ago.

These statements might sound like the rhetoric used by extreme animal rights groups, but they come from White Coat Waste — a new, unlikely coalition of fiscal conservatives and liberal activists that aims to end federal funding for research involving dogs and other animals by targeting people's pocketbooks in addition to their heartstrings.

Based on these findings, the research team hypothesized that the bombings would cause liberals to shift moral perspectives in favor of protecting the in - group, akin to the values typically reported by political conservatives.

Pruitt then appointed as science advisers a number of researchers whose work is funded by industry, energy lobbying groups and conservative think tanks, while forcing out academics from major research institutions.

Other aspects of our news diet are out of whack, too: a nationally representative survey done in 2014 by the Pew Research Center found that conservatives are far more likely than other ideological groups to rely on a single outlet — Fox News — for political and government news coverage.

Moral stereotypes about «typical» liberals and conservatives held by both groups are generally correct, but exaggerated both for their own group and the other, according to new research published December 12 in the open access...

Michael J. Petrilli, president of the Thomas B. Fordham Institute, a conservative education policy research group, said the United States has a tradition of local control over education, «and as long as that's the case there's going to be disparities.»

Even tiny research outfits can get something: the Global Institute for Language and Literacy Development got $ 18,000, while the Employee Benefit Research Institute was awarded $ 7,500, and Media Matters, a group that attacks conservative groups and commentators, was treated to a $ 100,0research outfits can get something: the Global Institute for Language and Literacy Development got $ 18,000, while the Employee Benefit Research Institute was awarded $ 7,500, and Media Matters, a group that attacks conservative groups and commentators, was treated to a $ 100,0Research Institute was awarded $ 7,500, and Media Matters, a group that attacks conservative groups and commentators, was treated to a $ 100,000 gift.

It's a short essay, but is packed with evidence (from the Education Intelligence Agency) of NEA's multi-tentacled reach, from a $ 250,000 grant to the Great Lakes Center for Education Research and Practice («which has migrated to the University of Colorado at Boulder, which received another quarter million in direct funding,» says Peterson) to $ 100,000 for Media Matters, «a group that attacks conservative groups and commentators» and $ 35,000 for «the anti-accountability group,» FairTest.

«In addition to giving grants to right - leaning think tanks like the Thomas B. Fordham Institute and the American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research, the Walton foundation hired an education program officer who had worked at the American Legislative Exchange Council, a conservative business - backed group.»

Brent Bozell founded both the Media Research Center and the Parents Television Council, conservative advocacy groups represented at Thursday's meeting.

This tribal theory applies to peoples political affiliations such as liberal or conservative, or membership of other social groups, and we know liberals do tend to accept climate science more than conservatives from polls by Pew Research etc, although its not black and white.

I'm researching the sceptics view of climate change for an international engineering firm that needs to know more about how this issue will affect us... I've got the IPCC report and other things that support anthropogenic climate change, but I need to address the other side of the argument as well, especially for a group of conservative engineers.

The research by its affiliated scientists is funded by a mix of anonymous sources, companies, trade groups, conservative think tanks and government grants.