Sentences with phrase «liberal policy victories»

At the same time, the IDC has pointed to a range of liberal policy victories in the Senate, including minimum wage increases and the creation of a paid - family leave program.

Mainline Democrats insist the IDC is empowering the Republican conference in the Senate through their alliance, with IDC Leader Jeff Klein pointing to liberal policy victories under the arrangement.

Not exact matches

A liberal would probably point to the fact that the so - called «neo-Ottoman» foreign policy in Turkey is a direct result of the electoral victory of the AK government, with its Anatolian roots and its Islamic ideology.

«With the savage cuts that will undoubtedly be announced by the Chancellor in the autumn Comprehensive Spending Review, the introduction of the pupil premium will represent nothing more than a Pyrrhic victory for the Liberal Democrats who originally advocated this policy.

Take the policy often described as «boosting the personal allowance to take the lowest - paid out of tax», the great totem of fairness in the Liberal Democrat manifesto, whose inclusion in the budget was reported as Nick Clegg's progressive victory.

Remarkably, the governor's success in securing unexpected victories on liberal policy issues has fostered the idea that, if he is unsuccessful in securing another legislative victory, it must be because he never really tried to achieve it.

Teachers» unions have long found friendship among Democrats (with the exception of some liberal education reformers who are supportive of Obama - era education policies) so we might expect that as Democrat lawmakers were ousted during the recent wave of Republican victories, so were the NEA's allies.