Sentences with phrase «election spending makes»

The Chamber's 2016 election spending makes it abundantly clear that rather than being a voice for American business, the Chamber has become a very loud, very powerful voice for the Republican Party.

Not exact matches

The Liberals made a few big - ticket election campaign spending promises, but, on the tax side, they also indicated they intend to pad revenues over the next few years with higher tax rates for personal and corporate income.

Abzug's push for Women's Equality Day was, in fact, far more symbolic than many of the more concrete policies she made a reality in her six years in Congress, not to mention in the two decades prior to her election, which she spent as a lawyer fighting for human rights and civil rights.

Collins pointed out that a big part of UK (and indeed US) election law relates to «declaration of spent», before making the conjoined point that if someone is «hiding that spend» — i.e. by placing dark ads that only the recipient sees, and which can be taken offline immediately after the campaign — it smells like a major risk to the democratic process.

In other words, over the next five years, this government is planning to spend more money on income splitting for a small number of well off families, a promise made during the 2011 election, than on supporting economic growth and job creation through new spending on research and infrastructure and lowering taxes on investment.

With Parliament recessed for the summer and an election call imminent, all three major political parties will now spend the coming weeks making new election promises.

Manafort's last consulting assignment in Ukraine ended less than six months before he started working for the Trump campaign: He spent at least a month in Ukraine advising the Opposition Bloc ahead of local elections in October 2015... In [July], Manafort made a previously reported effort to patch his soured relationship with [Russian oligarch] Oleg Deripaska,... [and] offered to give private briefings about the campaign to Deripaska.

Presidents or Congresses supposedly stabilize policies in the year leading up to the election, or cut taxes, or raise spending, or make promises, or wave a wand.

Lawmakers no matter the party have been loathe to make broad - based spending cuts, especially in an election year.

The suit, which appears below, makes reference to the Citizens United case decided by the US Supreme Court earlier this year that enabled corporations and labor unions to spend much more freely to influence elections.

The coalition will have to make spending plans for the 2015/16 financial year, going beyond the 2015 general election.

The NEA has around 3 million members, spends quite a bit on lobbying, and makes substantial contributions directly to election funds and such (enough to rank as the third largest political donor in the US, according to opensecrets.org).

He can either make clear to his supporters that there will be no return to the days of lavish spending, or he can fight an election knowing that most voters do not believe Labour have learned their lessons, and that many of his potential voters fear Labour would once again borrow and spend more than the country can afford.

Instead, it's spent its years in opposition generally opposing the coalition's cuts as a matter of course, making its commitment to fiscal rectitude just as the election approaches feel like a late conversion indeed.

He argues that to win the next election, Ed Miliband needs to make clear to his supporters that there will be no return to the days of lavish spending, or fight an election knowing that most voters do not believe Labour have learned their lessons, and that many of his potential voters fear Labour would once again borrow and spend more than the country can afford.

Organizations making independent political expenditures over $ 1,000 would have to disclose the name of the person or group behind the spending, and report all major contributors (those that donated over $ 1,000) to the Board of Elections.

26 April 2011 — UGANDA Question: To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Baroness Verma on 21 March (WA 126 - 7), what assessment they have made of the allocation of the budget support for Uganda from the United Kingdom, in particular in relation to the increase in spending by the Government of Uganda prior to the last general election in that country.

Sky - high contribution limits — $ 41,000 for statewide races in the general election — mean that candidates spend more time courting big donors, who in turn exercise disproportionate influence over policy - making.

AG Schneiderman has proposed requiring the not for profits based in New York to make public their donors and any money they spend over $ 10,000 to influence state and local elections.

[71][87] Support for Labour slumped during the recession, and the general election of 2010 resulted in a coalition government being formed by the Conservatives and the Liberal Democrats, which made deep spending cuts in order to ease the budget deficit.

According to the statement; «APC is budgeting N7.5 billion, three months allocation of Ekiti State for a mere governorship election while Fayemi is boasting of having N8 billion his personal money to spend and N20 billion from the Presidency, making N35.5 billion?

The Labour council in Sheffield is to reverse # 2m of spending cuts made by the Liberal Democrats who ran the authority until May's elections.

Labour would have made spending cuts had it won the 2010 general election - but its past decisions are now seen to be a moot point as the general election fades into the past.

Trump has said he would appoint justices like Antonin Scalia who opposed Roe vs. Wade, and supported the Citizens United decision that made it possible for corporations and SuperPACs to spend unlimited amounts of money on elections.

We are prepared to raise and spend what it takes to win this election and this quarter proved we have the fundraising muscle needed to make that happen.

According to a filing made with the state Board of Elections, Jobs for New York spent $ 432,000 on air time late last week.

This means the next government, whatever party wins the election, will have to make tough choices on spending, including spending on social security.

Instead Brown may play a longer game and gamble that a Tory minority administration making unpopular spending cuts during a double - dip recession will rapidly lose support, raising the prospect of fighting an autumn election with his record for economic competence intact.

He said that he will spend the last two months before the November general election talking about «what comes next,» noting that they have the «chance to make even bigger changes.»

This confirms that the party made no attempt to stick to its election pledge to delay spending cuts until 2011.

Every election cycle — in every part of the country — AFL - CIO unions and unaffiliated labor organizations make pragmatic calculations about who to endorse and spend money on.

You may recall he was the Conservative MP who was ruthlessly sacked by Michael Howard just before the 2005 election for making some unhelpful comments about the prospects for spending cuts.

The DSCC's unusually heavy spending against Sestak can be attributed in part to the belief among some party leaders that he would make a weak general election candidate against Republican incumbent Sen. Patrick J. Toomey.

And so the Tories will spend the final week of their election campaign on Brexit - trying to talk it up, making it out to be the great national project of the next five years rather than the enormous looming omnishambles it actually is.

Of course a shadow Chancellor can not, more than 3 years from the next election, make any detailed spending commitments — nor would he be expected to — but, if pressed, he could certainly make clear his intention to redress the worst of the cuts as soon as the economic situation allowed.

In the most recent election there, charter school supporters and labor unions collectively spent $ 15 million trying to elect their allies, making it the most expensive school board election in United States history, according to The Los Angeles Times.

SANDERS: And then, to make a bad situation worse, we have a corrupt campaign finance system where millionaires and billionaires are spending extraordinary amounts of money to buy elections.

Outlining the city's new spending initiatives, including investments in public safety, education, anti-homelessness services, transportation, infrastructure and the Board of Elections, Fuleihan said the executive budget, «makes investments that address longstanding structural issues that affect all New Yorkers.»

The Board of Elections requires political clubs that raise or spend money for candidates to register and to make disclosures.

Tories fear Ukip could make capital out of any perception that England will lose out if Scotland gains the power to set its own spending, taxes and welfare policy — or so - called devo max — in return for staying in the UK, ahead of a potentially damaging by - election in Clacton next month.

«I believed that if we made a principled case for ruling out a VAT rise, as well as against premature cuts in public spending, it would change the course of the election,» said Mr Balls.

«I can tell you I'm going to spend a lot of time between Election Day and January 1 making sure everybody who signs the pledge to pass the Women's Equality Agenda recommits and recommits,» the former Council speaker told Capital, alluding to her surrogate role for the governor on women's issues.

Tenney, a member of the state Assembly until she won the 22nd Congressional District election last year, has been a frequent critic of Gov. Andrew Cuomo's spending on discretionary projects and the lack of public input into the decision - making process.

But Cameron's admission that the Tories made the same arguments about tax and spend in the 2005 election risks trapping them in a boring, static and ultimately unwinnable debate based on Government numbers: x billion tax cuts «paid for» by y billion spending cuts.

Vince Cable warned before the election that «the danger of drastic cuts in public spending right now is that it would make the recession worse and it would make the deficit worse» — but he signed up to them.

In August 2014, Connor told the Daily News that the IDC Initiative was in the process of re-registering with the state Board of Elections as an independent expenditure committee, a change that would allow it to spend unlimited sums as long as its spending decisions were made independently of candidates» campaigns.

Half or more agreed with the statements that Mr Cameron is «too keen» on staying in the EU; refuses to «shake up the Westminster clique»; has lost control of the UK's borders; should cut both spending and tax; and should bring in new laws to make it easier for voters to sack MPs in between general elections.

«CCHQ accepted in March 2016 that it had made an administrative error by not declaring a small amount constituting 0.6 % of our national spending in the 2015 election campaign.

Dozens of Conservative MPs expect to learn shortly whether they will be charged with fraud in relation to their spending at the last election, as deadlines for the Crown Prosecution Service to make a decision approaches.

The winnings might well be enough to finance the election campaign and make up some of the difference between what the Tories will spend.