Sentences with phrase «most powerful interest groups»

For the third year in a row, Fortune magazine has ranked NAR in its annual list of the 25 most powerful interest groups.

«Teachers unions, historically one of the most powerful interest groups in American politics, are being besieged like never before — under attack from conservative GOP governors with a zeal for budget - cutting even while taking fire from some Democrats, including President Barack Obama, who has suggested he agrees that unions can be an impediment to better schools.»

If the public, the political parties, and the most powerful interest groups are either apathetic about or hostile to education reform, how can the reformers prevail?

The teachers union, considered by many to be «the most powerful interest group in the Capitol,» has stepped up its political giving in the wake of Vergara v. California, a landmark court ruling that could ultimately throw out California's teacher tenure system.

If Crist becomes Florida's next Senator, the teacher unions can claim that they are not only the most powerful interest group in Florida but strong enough to underpin a third - party movement.

Unfortunately, in the Governor's first full day in office, he chose to stand with the state's most powerful interest group that spent millions to elect him, rather than the parents and children of California.»

CTA is powerful, easily the most powerful interest group in the state.

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But the positions of these interest groups and powerful individuals says nothing about the popularity of this measure with what should be the most important constituency — the American people.

As it turns out, they are talking more and more about religious revival, about the rise of new religions, about the worldwide resurgence of fundamentalism, about the enormous impact religion is having on world affairs and, in this country, about the increased prominence of the Religious Right, a movement which may already be the most powerful special interest group in America and which has given ample notice that it doesn't consider its job anywhere near done.

The ECA is the successor organisation to the G - 14 group of Europe's most powerful clubs and now represents the interests of 220 clubs from 53 countries.

Opposing the convention is a broad array of powerful interest groups — including most of state's unions and environmental advocates — who argue that it would give business interests and other well - financed groups an avenue to weaken existing labor and environmental protections.

Held annually at the exclusive Torrey Pines Golf Course in San Diego, the Pro Tem Cup raises money from Sacramento's most powerful special interest groups to support the California Democratic Party.

State disclosure reports released Tuesday independently confirm what CalNewsroom.com first reported last December: the names of 18 state lawmakers who relaxed on the beaches of Maui with Sacramento's most powerful special interest groups.

For the first time in recent memory, the unions were outspent by a directly opposing interest group, and divided, after Cuomo brought some of their most powerful representatives into his decision - making process.

While AB 934 was once an honest attempt to support effective teachers and prioritize quality in California's education system, the bill is now the product of backroom deals in the state capital with the state's most powerful special interest groups.

A backroom deal that was manufactured by the state's most powerful special interest groups, which swapped a promising bill out for a reinforcement of the status quo.

One of the most powerful factors that sustain the idea that «I am a member of a group, identified by common interests, and those who are not part of my group are somewhat, if not fundamentally, inferior, or in some other way, opposed to me.»

Conteh explores the fact that people posses their power solely within the actions of a group, saying about the piece, «Africans who act solely on the behalf of the interests and concerns of African people are Africans in their most powerful form, bar none.»

It enfranchises the very groups that have the most to lose from conventional climate policies — from powerful corporate interests to many of the world's poorest people.»

Don't let the AGA fool you: despite its handwringing over sensible (and flexible, as written in Section 433) targets, the organization is no «Mom and Pop» suffering from overregulation: the simple fact is that the AGA is one of the largest, most powerful special interest groups in the United States, with many lobbyists on its payroll.