Sentences with phrase «nonpartisan committee»

In its report this month, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's nonpartisan committee of education experts agreed.

Joint Committee on Taxation: A nonpartisan committee of the United States Congress charged with assisting Members of Congress on tax legislation and related issues.

«The challenge is that there were a lot of promises made that can't live comfortably with each other,» said Maya MacGuineas, president of the nonpartisan Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget.

Not exact matches

As it stands, the tax plan would lower taxes for most Americans, but one in five could see an increase in their tax bill by 2027, according to a report from the nonpartisan Joint Committee on Taxation.

In fact, millions of people stand to see higher tax bills because of the elimination or curtailment of deductions such as one for state and local taxes, according to the Joint Committee on Taxation, the nonpartisan official scorekeeper for Congress.

Detailed distributional analysis from the Joint Committee on Taxation and the nonpartisan Tax Policy Center is still forthcoming, but Ernie Tedeschi, a private sector economist and veteran of the Obama Treasury Department, crunched some numbers using Tax Brain, an open source tax model from the right - leaning American Enterprise Institute's Open Source Policy Center.

The models used by the Congressional Budget Office, the Joint Committee on Taxation, the US Treasury Department (unless it has just now been directed to do otherwise), and the nonpartisan Tax Policy Center all assign the vast majority of the burden of the corporate tax to shareholders or investors more generally, not to workers.

The GOP bill including some changes would increase federal budget deficits by $ 1.7 trillion over 10 years, according to Joint Committee on Taxation estimates shared by the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office.

While the nonpartisan Tax Policy Center says 80 percent of Americans will see a reduction in their taxes this year, only 44 percent will see a reduction of $ 500 or more, according to the nonpartisan Joint Committee on Taxation.

It will be hard for anyone who has read the Nunes memo to regard the committee's output as nonpartisan now.

According to the nonpartisan Joint Committee on Taxation, the GOP bill is expected to add nearly $ 1.5 trillion to the federal deficit over the course of a decade.

The nonpartisan Joint Committee on Taxation, Congress» tax policy analyst, found the House GOP bill as written would broadly cut taxes, but that the bulk of the benefits would go to corporations and the very wealthy.

He also worked as an attorney and advocate at Demos, a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization, on a nationwide effort to secure the voting rights of low - income citizens, and was a member of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York's Election Law Committee.

The Tennessee Joint Legislative Services Committee is a nonpartisan legislative service agency serving the members and staff of the Tennessee General Assembly.

He is the chairman of the town's nature preserve committee and is a member of the nonpartisan Group for Good Government.

An analysis by the nonpartisan Congress» Joint Committee on Taxation found the Senate version of the tax bill actually would increase taxes in 2019 for 13.8 million households earning less than $ 200,000 a year.

During the election, Skelos signed a pledge to support former Mayor Ed Koch's «New York Uprising,» a Political Action Committee that is calling for nonpartisan redistricting, among other reforms.

NYC Votes is the nonpartisan voter engagement initiative of the New York City Campaign Finance Board and its Voter Assistance Advisory Committee.

This is one of those years, and the Delaware County Democratic Committee joins a vast nonpartisan coalition in urging a NO vote on the issue this November.

Skelos said he doesn't believe Gov. Andrew Cuomo's bill creates a truly nonpartisan redistricting process, noting the governor — who is currently a Democrat — gets to appoint four individuals to the nominations committee that will eventually select the commission members, while each of the legislative leaders get one appointment each.

Senate Republicans» $ 1.5 trillion tax cut would not «pay for itself» according to a report released by the nonpartisan Joint Committee on Taxation.

During the roundtable discussion, which was led by Rep. Stefanik, Vice Chair, House Armed Services Committee's Subcommittee on Readiness at the nonpartisan Oneonta Vets Club in Oneonta, Faso emphasized the need to strengthen our military, modernize our weapons systems and ensure our forces are well equipped around the globe — while also streamlining expensive and burdensome procurement procedures.

A report from the Office of Congressional Ethics, a nonpartisan investigative agency, said last week the House Ethics Committee should probe two potential charges against Collins.

She recently appeared as an expert on a local news station discussing the ethics of cloning and joined the advisory committee of a nonpartisan Washington, D.C., think tank, the Center for Policy on Emerging Technologies.

Roy Bostock is the chair of the Committee forEconomic Development (CED), a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization of business leaders and educators that advocates for strong state and federal government partnerships to ensure high - quality early education for every child.

The nonpartisan Pennsylvania Legislative Budget and Finance Committee reported in 2010 that the average scholarship recipient's family earned only $ 29,000 annually, less than half what the program allowed at the time.

The Team is part of the Prichard Committee for Academic Excellence, an independent, nonpartisan, nonprofit that mobilizes citizens to push for improved Kentucky education.

The Lawyers» Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization, was formed in 1963 at the request of President John F. Kennedy to involve the private bar in providing legal services to address racial discrimination.

The Bretton Woods Committee is the nonpartisan network of prominent global citizens, which works to demonstrate the value of international economic cooperation and to foster strong, effective Bretton Woods institutions as forces for global well - being.

With fidelity to its nonpartisan tradition, the committee championed scientists who found themselves under fire during President George W. Bush's administration.

The results speak to the committee's fairness and nonpartisan approach.

Since 1953, the ABA's Standing Committee on the Federal Judiciary has conducted independent, nonpartisan peer evaluations of the professional qualifications for nominees to the federal bench.

Whether involved in the pre - or post-nomination vetting process, the hardworking members of this ABA committee have been unwavering in their focus on providing thorough, nonpartisan peer evaluations analyzing the competence, integrity and temperament of each judicial nominee.

Several committee members cited to trial judges, who are elected in the state in nonpartisan races, as «accountable» and specified that they did not want term limits applied to trial court judges.

The Lawyers» Committee is a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization, formed in 1963 at the request of President John F. Kennedy to enlist the private bar's leadership and resources in combating racial discrimination and the resulting inequality of opportunity - work that continues to be vital today.

In response to the President's call for assistance in confronting our nation's civil rights problems, several of the attorneys he brought together founded the nonpartisan, nonprofit Lawyers» Committee for Civil Rights Under Law.13 The Lawyers» Committee has a small permanent staff, but it relies dominantly on volunteers to accomplish its aims.

The Planned Parenthood Illinois Action Political Action Committee (PAC) is a nonpartisan political action committee committed to supporting pro-choice, pro-family planning candidates foCommittee (PAC) is a nonpartisan political action committee committed to supporting pro-choice, pro-family planning candidates focommittee committed to supporting pro-choice, pro-family planning candidates for office.

The Planned Parenthood of Nassau County Action Fund Political Committee endorses candidates for political office based on recommendations of the Planned Parenthood of Nassau County Action Fund, a nonpartisan, not - for - profit organization formed as the advocacy and political arm of Planned Parenthood of Nassau County.