Sentences with phrase «election year politics»

Washington, DC — Planned Parenthood strongly condemned the House Labor Health and Human Services appropriations bill that was released today and includes an unprecedented suite of attacks on women's health, all of which very clearly put election year politics ahead of critical issues facing women and families.

This bill is the latest example of lawmakers opposed to women's health playing election year politics and trying to insert themselves into a woman's intensely personal and often complex decision.

Clearly, election year politics and a collective weak hand has played a role in their calculus.

Gibbs agreed election year politics will stop all progress.

However, any final determination on the FY13 education budget will almost certainly languish as a result of election year politics.

In my Elephant post, «Will Your Yoga Change Your Politics» followed by another post on my own blog, bitchin yoga, «Modern Yoga Wrestles With Election Year Politics» I pointed out the same thing.

Today's vote is an example of election year politics at its very worst and political pandering at its most deadly.

Chief John Green and from the shares office said that the entire controversy was simply election year politics.

Following the override, Bloomberg called the council's actions «an example of election year politics at its very worst and political pandering at its most deadly.»

Following an appearance at the gleaming new UB facility the state helped build, Cuomo delved into election year politics by acknowledging that intense weekend efforts attempted to woo Hochul away from the second spot and, instead, into a rematch with Republican Rep. Chris Collins of Clarence.

«Election year politics should not hold up this important piece of progressive legislation,» Yassky's Communications Director Danny Kanner said.

Both candidates said the county should consider a midyear budget, similar to one used by the state, that would remove election year politics from the calendar and allow the next executive to craft his or her own budget, rather than inherit their predecessor's plan.

Not exact matches

In the 2016 election cycle, the average winning Senate candidate had spent $ 10.4 million through October 19 of that year, according to the Center for Responsive Politics.

The 81 - year - old media mogul is once again at the center stage of Italian politics and could have a pivotal role in the upcoming general election.

Zuckerberg initially rejected the idea that misinformation on Facebook had contributed to the 2016 presidential election outcome, but he later admitted that fake news is a problem on the social network and that ads linked to Russia's attempts at disrupting U.S. politics, including the 2016 election, reached roughly 126 million U.S. Facebook users over the past few years.

At the beginning of the year, possible far - right election victories in the Netherlands, France and Germany were perceived as the biggest threat to European politics.

Lynch leaves office following a nearly two - year tenure marked by massacres carried out by violent extremists, including the shootings at a nightclub in Orlando, Florida; persistent hacking from overseas, including Russian government efforts to meddle in the U.S. presidential election; and an election - season investigation into Hillary Clinton's email server that entangled the Justice Department in presidential politics and led to criticism for her ill - timed meeting on an airport tarmac with former President Bill Clinton.

The FBI Director has a 10 - year term in office, specifically chosen to be lengthy and not tied to the presidential election cycle, in order to promote independence from politics.

If Sanders, now 74, retires from politics at the end of his current Senate term two years from now, without having won the presidential election, he will be able to collect an annual pension of $ 71,340, MONEY calculated using the current Congressional pension formula.

We try to stay out of politics in our annual rankings, but in an election year, with 36 states choosing governors, that is next to impossible.

The vote highlighted the state's housing and homeless problem as a election - year issue that promises to dominate the state's politics for years.

The most recent notable exception was Ken Kowalski, who retired before the last election after 33 years as a PC MLA (and his three decade long political career in provincial politics is very uncommon).

Two Liberal MLAs, Kent Hehr and Darshan Kang, are leaving provincial politics to run as federal Liberal candidates in next year's federal election.

On politics, we think the trickiest votes for the region happened last year (France, Germany, the Netherlands), and while Italy faces fresh elections in March 2018, a new electoral law reduces the risk of extreme outcomes.

There has been a seismic shift in our politics in this province since last year when the Progressive Conservatives were defeated in the general election and Albertans elected their first new government in 44 years.

The intense feelings this year's election has provoked among Christians is an opportunity to re-examine our assumptions about voting and politics in general.

In the election aftermath, it might be easy to check out of politics for a while, to take a break — but Eugene Cho says we now have a new civic responsibility as Christians — for the next four years and beyond.

The presidential endorsement not only cost the journal its tax deductible status for two years, but also led to a more realistic understanding of politics and less willingness to wed Christian goals to the election of particular leaders.

Living and working near Washington, D.C., it's difficult to tune out the noise of politics, especially in a presidential election year.

Once Nov. 5 has passed, that doesn't mean that politics cease to matter until the next election year.

It is interesting that the other major emerging force in Italian politics in recent years, the Five Star Movement (M5S), which took 32.6 percent of the vote in the recent elections, has so far been treated more kindly by both the Italian and the international media, being generally described as «antiestablishment,» «Euroskeptic,» or, at worst, «populist.»

We managed to mostly steer clear of politics this election year, with a few exceptions.

There we go again, shut up this hypocritical rightwingers.Only at election time do rear their ugly heads up to be seen and heard.It's time to unleash the CRACKKIN, the monster that the IRS people use on unruly religious groups, exemption is like a death sentence to these groups.Most of these religious leaders are wolves in sheeps clothing, selling their political poison to anyone in their flocks.They push the envelope on the seperation of church and state issue, seeing how far they can go.Pastors and ministers would never speak politics like this years ago, that was taaboo.Now people like Robertson, Graham, and the rest, flaunt their ideaology both religious and political at every event.They don't care about the legal consequences, they have LAWYERS, perishioners pay for that.

Evangelical Voters and the 2016 Election As in every election year, CT's politics coverage drew heavy reaElection As in every election year, CT's politics coverage drew heavy reaelection year, CT's politics coverage drew heavy readership.

«Coles is extremely disappointed the NFF has decided to play politics in an election year rather than continue a co-operative process,» a spokesman for the retailer said on Wednesday.

Senator Xenophon has already said he will leave federal politics to run in the South Australian state election next year.

British politics has shifted in the last few years and as noted above, this election, like the last one, is projected to end without either party gaining an outright majority.

«My ambition is to lead Ukip into the European elections next year as a candidate, which I could not have done if I'd have chosen to stand in the House of Commons, and I believe in those elections next year we can cause an earthquake in British politics,» Farage said.

And, don't miss the preview article, «Riding an Electoral Wave: How Election - Year Politics Can Promote Your Issues.»

He had developed something of a portfolio career — much of which he will drop, bar his weekly ballroom dancing lessons — and as recently as February hinted to The House that he would retire from frontline politics if a snap election was not held this year.

And, these articles are good examples of the kind of interest in digital politics we see in a presidential election year.

Those of us in the online advocacy community often talk about using this tool and that tool to help mold opinions or win votes, but what I wrote after last year's mid-term election still stands: the most important effect of the Internet on politics comes from the unfathomable volume of information now available and the speed with which it can spread.

Douglas Alexander, Labour's election supremo ahead of last year's general election, has made a surprise return to UK politics.

Sure, the elections have gotten most of the attention this year, but if nothing else could, the current crisis in the finance system has cut through the clutter to remind us that the REAL business of politics often comes after the ballots are cast.

Only this week the Labour MP, Jamie Reed, announced he was leaving politics at the start of the year, triggering a nerve shredding by election.

The number of women donating to political campaigns is climbing to new heights ahead of this year's midterm elections as women swarm to politics and run in record numbers for Congress and other elected posts around the country.

Now we know the make - up of the next parliament, and the astonishing outcome of an election that has given David Cameron the chance to lead a Conservative - only Cabinet, we can start to build up a picture of what the next five years has in store for British politics.

There was joy in the air Tuesday, as State Republican Chair Ed Cox and Erie County Republican Chair Nick Langworthy reflected on what they called a great election year for the GOP and an opportunity to change politics - in New York and nationally under President - Elect Donald Trump.

This is a new term in British politics born out of George Galloway's surprise win in the Bradford West by - election earlier this year.

«But this looks like election - year Earth Day politics.»