Sentences with phrase «nonpartisan watchdog»

The association's independent advertising campaign was ranked 13th among all the 2010 outside groups — making it smaller than the major GOP and labor union players but bigger than the two Democratic groups cobbled together late in the campaign season, according to a tally by the Center for Responsive Politics, a nonpartisan watchdog group.

The CBO, a nonpartisan watchdog, estimates defunding Planned Parenthood, which serves roughly 2.6 million women, would lead to more unplanned births as patients lost access to birth control.

Wisconsin Democracy Campaign, a nonpartisan watchdog, recently reported that «wealthy campaign contributors and shadowy electioneering groups» spent nearly $ 10 million in Wisconsin over the past decade to back parental school choice.

Black students continue to be disciplined at school more often and more harshly than their white peers, often for similar infractions, according to a new report by Congress's nonpartisan watchdog agency, which counters claims fueling the Trump administration's efforts to re-examine discipline policies of the Obama administration.

Federal agencies need to patch some scientific holes in their ongoing efforts to protect struggling bee populations, according to the nonpartisan watchdog agency of Congress.

Elizabeth Lynam, assistant research director of the Citizens Budget Commission, a nonpartisan watchdog group, said a worst - case scenario would be a cap filled with exemptions and loopholes.

CREW maintains that it is a nonpartisan watchdog group, but it has come under increasing criticism since 2014 when it hired a new board chairman, David Brock, with ties to liberal donors.

Certainly, the MTA needs faster project delivery - a recent report by the Citizens Budget Commission (CBC), a nonpartisan watchdog group, estimated that MTA repair and upgrade projects will be finished by 2067 at their current rate.

Matt Rothschild, new executive director of Wisconsin Democracy Campaign, a nonpartisan watchdog group, also is irate.

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That is according to a policy brief from a nonpartisan watchdog group that crunched the numbers on the recently opened Gov. Mario M. Cuomo Bridge.

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That any government watchdog is supposed to be very, very careful in the work they do to follow the rules, follow the laws and to scrupulously be independent, and nonpartisan,» the mayor said today.

Florida TaxWatch, the nonpartisan government watchdog group, released its annual «Budget Turkey List,» of almost $ 178 million in line - item projects that are part of the $ 82.4 billion budget passed May 8 by the Florida House and Senate.

Carol Kellermann, the president of nonpartisan fiscal watchdog Citizens Budget Commission, was equally outraged, telling The Observer, «Funds paid in settlement of litigation with the state, unless intended to compensate for specific losses, should be used as determined through the normal budget and appropriation process.

Florida TaxWatch, the nonpartisan government watchdog organization, served up its annual list of «Budget Turkeys,» naming almost $ 178 million in line - item projects part of the $ 82.4 billion budget passed May 8 by the Florida House and Senate.

The article also cited research from the Citizens Budget Commission, a nonpartisan government watchdog group, that likewise found more than $ 8 billion spent each year on economic development incentives in New York state.

Maria Doulis, vice-president of the Citizens Budget Commission, a nonpartisan, nonprofit budget watchdog, sounded two big notes of caution in the executive budget.

An analysis by Citizens Budget Commission, the nonpartisan nonprofit budget watchdog, showed that $ 189 million of the nearly $ 1 billion in savings proposed just for fiscal 2017 comes from agency efficiencies.

The contributions — totaling more than $ 59,000 through July, according to the National Institute for Money in State Politics, a nonpartisan Montana - based watchdog group — are neither illegal nor unusual.

Steve Ellis, vice president of Taxpayers for Common Sense, a nonpartisan Washington, D.C., government watchdog group, said the Army is trying to stir up local communities with scare tactics.

Any lingering doubts about the nonpartisan bona fides of Wisconsin Democracy Campaign, the state campaign finance watchdog, should be annihilated by Mike McCabe's new book, «Blue Jeans in High Places.»

«If you have a machine collecting and recording votes with an electronic ballot box there's no way to go back after the fact and see if the machine made a mistake, whether through malice or simple software error,» says Stanford University computer science professor David Dill and founder of Verified Voting Foundation, a nonpartisan election watchdog.

Fossil fuel industries collect some $ 4 billion a year in tax breaks and other aid, reports Taxpayers for Common Sense, a group of nonpartisan budget watchdogs — and that figure doesn't even take into account hidden forms of support, such as the Pentagon's jet aircraft research and development that led to efficient new natural gas turbines.

asked Rick Piltz, director of Climate Science Watch, a nonpartisan, nonprofit policy watchdog.

[27] Nonpartisan city officials and financial watchdogs agreed with the No on 2's argument that the increase in charters would drain dangerous amounts of money from public schools.