Sentences with phrase «national liberal groups»

A Houston - area congressional seat, now held by Republican John Culberson, pits national liberal groups against Democrats» House campaign arm in Washington.

Edwards has led the field in fundraising and has the backing of national liberal groups.

MARK HALPERIN: You're going to come under pressure from national liberal groups to join an attempt to block him by demanding 60 votes.

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«The overarching message here is we don't just have a jobs deficit; we have a «good jobs» deficit,» said Annette Bernhardt, the report's author and a policy co-director at the National Employment Law Project, a liberal research and advocacy group.

In 1942 people from this group formed the National Association of Evangelicals — and found themselves attacked by the hardline fundamentalists just as they attacked the mainstream moderates and liberals.

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Groups may be based around a single European political party (e.g. the European People's Party, the Party of European Socialists) or they can include more than one European party as well as national parties and independents [7](e.g. the Liberal Group).

They said that since the election, «a passionate group of liberal protesters» has opposed virtually all the national Republicans and their plans.

«Plans by the Liberal Democrats to halve the Trident nuclear deterrent are a «reckless gamble with the UK's national security», a cross-party group of Britain's most senior military and defence figures warn today.

Even before the swearing - in for his second term, de Blasio is headed back to Iowa, the land of presidential hopefuls, to headline a December fund - raiser in Des Moines for a liberal group and polish his own national profile.

Independent councillors retained their status as the majority group, with councillors also being elected representing the Labour Party, Liberal Democrats, and Scottish National Party.

Tuesday marked the deadline for presidential candidates to express interest in attending an aspirationally bipartisan Iowa presidential forum sponsored by The Progressive Agenda Committee, the national advocacy group founded by de Blasio, New York City's liberal Democratic mayor.

Several liberal groups, including NARAL Pro-Choice America, MoveOn and the National Organization of Women, have come out strongly against Boggs.

The ingested group became the National Liberals.

Teachers College of Columbia University did a study that found the typical opt out activist — the target of the Long Island teachers group — is «a highly educated, white, married, politically liberal parent whose children attend public school and whose household median income is well above the national average.»

More than half of all states have a 30 - point or more differential between their own reported proficiency rates and the National Assessment for Educational Progress (NAEP), which is commonly considered the gold standard of assessments by groups ranging from the liberal American Federation of Teachers to the conservative Heritage Foundation.

Alexandria, VA — This weekend, union leaders and liberal advocacy groups from across the country will march in Washington, D.C. for what they call the «Save Our Schools March and National Call to Action.»

The threatened early termination of Liddell is one reason that the Monash Forum has gone on the offensive — a fired - up group of 30 National and Liberal MPs are determined not only to prevent that event, but also to ensure that Victoria replaces its recently closed 1,600 MW Hazelwood plant, with a High - Efficiency Low - Emissions coal - fired plant, to prevent blackouts and bring power prices back to earth in that state.