Sentences with phrase «election time pledge»
The Daily Mail and Times (#) are among the newspapers to confirm last week's story that Downing Street has decided to revisit David Cameron's election time pledge to protect all pensioner benefits such as the Winter Fuel Allowance.
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Though after Trump won the election, he seemed to soften on this campaign promise, the Times reported, pledging to keep an open mind.
The people under the most pressure are the Senate Republicans, all of whom signed Koch's three - pronged pledge (it also included budget and ethics reform), only to turn around and pass a constitutional amendment that would overhaul the process in time for the 2022 elections but leave it in all it's partisan and un-independent glory this year.
It was a pledge originally made in his leadership election campaign at a time when his victory over rival David Davis was far from certain.
Since the Supreme Court has now prevented itself from acknowledging the question of whether Barack H. Obama is or is not an Article II «natural born citizen» based on the Kenyan / British citizenship of Barack Obama's father at the time of his birth (irrespective of whether Barack Obama is deemed a «citizen» born in Hawaii or otherwise) as a prerequisite to qualifying to serve as President of the United States under the Constitution — the Court having done so at least three times and counting, first before the Nov 4 general election and twice before the Dec 15 vote of the College of Electors — it would seem appropriate, if not necessary, for all Executive Branch departments and agencies to secure advance formal advice from the United States Department of Justice Office of Legal Counsel as to how to respond to expected inquiries from federal employees who are pledged to «support and defend the Constitution of the United States» as to whether they are governed by laws, regulations, orders and directives issued under Mr. Obama during such periods that said employees, by the weight of existing legal authority and prior to a decision by the Supreme Court, believe in good faith that Mr. Obama is not an Article II «natural born citizen».
In fact, virtually all GOP Senators, as well as many Democrats, signed a pledge to Koch during the 2010 elections that they would draw non partisan lines this time.
[76] At the conference, Miliband pledged to focus on six national goals for Britain until 2025, including boosting pay, apprenticeships and housing; a mansion tax and levy on tobacco companies to fund # 2.5 billion a year «time to care» fund for the NHS; a commitment to raise the minimum wage to # 8 or more by 2020; and a promise to lower the voting age to 16 ready for elections in 2016.
Obama: U.S., Germany united in sanctioning Russia for Ukraine crisis... As growing Ukrainian violence turned deadly Friday, President Barack Obama and German Chancellor Angela Merkel pledged to seek harsher sanctions against Russia if Ukraine doesn't stabilize in time for elections this month.
Samuels and a host of reform - minded Democrats traveled by bus out to the Nassau County district of freshman Sen. Jack Martins to protest outside his district office and highlight his renegging on the NY Uprising reform pledge promise that called for creation of an independent redistricting commission in time for the 2012 elections.
And the third, of course, is that David Cameron bitterly regrets his rather rash pledge to the BBC's James Landale in his Oxfordshire kitchen during the election campaign to quit as PM in a few years» time.
After the prime minister's social care u-turn, Neil did not pull any punches, most notably by stating: «This must be the first time in modern political history that a party has broken a manifesto pledge before an election.»
His pledge for an in / out referendum on Europe temporarily pacified his backbenchers, but the letter suggests a new showdown could come to a climax before the time of the general election in 2015.
Tory leader David Cameron has pledged a referendum on the Lisbon treaty if it has not been ratified by all 27 member states by the time of the election.
They said that after hearing each side out many times over the past several years, they see a «reasonable solution» as both sides pledging to unite to win the special elections and subsequently reconvening as co-leaders.
The timing is absolutely right now for the unveiling of an election pledge to legislate to scrap any further MP and Ministerial final salary pension accrual from the date of the next election and to replace it with money purchase pensions with a decent employer contribution for all future service.
«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.
Chief executive Pam Tatlow said: «The Liberal Democrats made a clear election pledge that tuition fees for full - time and part - time students would be abolished.
During the general election the government pledged that all children would be required to learn their multiplication tables, by heart, up to the 12 times table.
The application comes at a critical time for both teacher recruitment and apprenticeship creation, with education ministers under pressure to boost the number of trainees entering the profession and meet a pledge made by the prime minister during the general election campaign to generate three million apprenticeship starts over the course of this parliament.
The main thrust of the interview was about plans to ensure all pupils take a times table test at the end of primary schools - and an indication, by nodding when it was suggested, that the Conservatives would pledge to protect the schools budget - from age five to 16 - if the party wins the next election.
««Pledges» communicates a sentiment that institutions have been eager to articulate since the election,» Nato Thompson, Creative Time's artistic director, stated in an email.
The Conservative government pledged on Thursday to close tax loopholes and curb spending to erase its budget deficit in time for the 2015 election, even as it found new cash for infrastructure spending and manufacturers.