Sentences with phrase «other policy campaigns»

I wonder whether (and how much) of that $ 500M is stuff like ads to join the military, or ads to use this or that government program, or anti-drug or other policy campaigns?

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Mueller's team announced charges in October against three other Trump campaign officials, former chairman Paul Manafort and his business associate Rick Gates, and a former campaign foreign policy adviser, George Papadopoulos.

Emma Boorboor, election reform campaign director at U.S. Public Interest Research Group (U.S. PIRG), told me that in October 2015, she sent a letter to Vanguard CEO Bill McNabb and two other Vanguard employees outlining her concerns with the mutual fund company's voting policies with respect to corporate political disclosure.

Arthur — good issue raised.The candidacy of Hollande will not make much difference for French policy for it was Mitterand who pushed for Maastricht even though the referendum barely passed — the French are terrified of decoupling from the Germans for as DeGaulle famously said — EUROPE IS FRANCE AND GERMANY — all the others are mere trimmings.Also, Germany is the coach and France the coachman — there is so much at work here — the media does a greart disservice by measuring it in sound bites.Sarkozy is bringing Merkel in to campaign for him to subtlely remind the French citizens what is at stake in the upcoming French elections.The tear gas is in Athens but game is in Paris

Low Inflation Tests World's Central Banks Inflation is slowing across the developed world despite ultralow interest rates and unprecedented money - printing campaigns, posing a dilemma for the Fed and other major central banks as they plot their next policy moves.

Our campaigns this year have pressured Subway, Darden / Olive Garden and In - N - out Burger (among others) to adopt more responsible policies on antibiotic use in their meat supply.

And yet, KONY 2012 was objectively the organization's most successful campaign ever, both in its mission — making Kony famous, even if on the other end of punch lines — and in policy.»

We've also reduced pesticide use on our own experimental station and do other work, such as run educational campaigns and advocate to policy - makers, to help stop pesticide mis - use.

The 1998 and 2005 AAP policy statements and the Back to Sleep campaign not only addressed the importance of back sleeping but also provided recommendations for other infant care practices that may reduce the risk of SIDS and other sleep - related infant deaths.1, 9 Unfortunately, the ability to measure the prevalence of these other risk factors is limited by lack of data.

We are collaborating with other organizations to establish better policies for working families, utilizing social media, online petitions, and unique campaigns to create positive change on this critical issue.

Donate or become a member to help Baby Milk Action run campaigns, monitor baby food companies and brief the European Commission, MEPs and other policy makers.

I spoke to a contact who admitted that he and one other guy, also now working for the government, came up with the idea of the campaign over a drink while they were reading a story about Labour's policy in the Guardian.

So, in the current indictments, there is nothing regarding «collusion» between the Trump campaign and Russia, or any other foreign interest, other than a foreign policy advisor seeking but not getting dirt on a political opponent from a foreign country, which isn't necessarily illegal but is politically quite damaging.

As a visionary for New York's economy, she has created a leading voice for business on economic growth, corporate governance, tax policy, labor, manufacturing, campaign finance reform, value creation, and education, among other issues.

As for paying for hotels, dinners and meetings, as a campaign and office, we have a strict policy of never allowing a constituent, lobbyist or other party to ever pick up a tab, we pay for all meetings to avoid any question of impropriety.»

Senator Gillibrand, on the other hand, campaigned for Congress as a conservative Democrat... now she supports every one of the those liberal policies....

In a victory for reformers, campaign finance reform is high on the list, along with other progressive initiatives such as raising the minimum wage and changing New York City's «stop and frisk» policy.

Combined with other popular policies, including withdrawal of troops from Afghanistan, such a shift in orientation would place Labour in the best position to fight the forthcoming election campaign.

The letter was signed by Rootstrikers, American Family Voices, Democracy for America, MoveOn.org and four other groups that campaign for progressive policies.

Some say the bill seeks to stifle contributions to issue advocacy groups that campaign for changes to environmental, education, criminal justice, government ethics, and other policies.

Clearly vulnerable Democrats would rather exit Congress voluntarily than be forced out by voters because of their support for Obamacare and other disastrous Democrat economic policies,» Rep. Greg Walden of Oregon, the National Republican Campaign Committee chairman, said in a statement.

Romney / Ryan's New York Campaign Chairman, Eric Ulrich, who is also running for NY State Senate's 15th district, supports this plan and many other ultra-conservative policy initiatives of the Romney / Ryan ticket, making it clear that he remains deeply out of touch with voters in the 15th district.

The only concrete policy from his leadership campaign - to pull the party out of the EPP - is looking increasingly misguided, while most other positioning seems to revolve around finding something the Tories backed at the last election and opposing it.

One Cabinet source said: «The PM is very angry at the way some ministers have abused the freedom to campaign for Brexit by attacking other parts of Government policy.

And, it is not as if they voted for other policies and had to go along with this to get them because it was such an essential part of Trump's campaign.

Veritas is finished and was really pretty much from the beginning, it never had any real raison d'etre other than as the Robert Kilroy Silk Fanclub and now that he has abandoned them what is there left for them, The English Democrats are somewhat lightweight policy wise, UKIP actually despite the Kilroy Fiasco got the second biggest gain in total number of votes for any party after the Liberal Democrats and at 2.5 % are now up to where the Liberal Party was in the 1950's, on the other hand the Liberal Democrats have a lacklustre leadership campaign with a lot of scandals, are divided on economic policy and show every sign of being ready to implode.

Although his campaign team has been sharply critical of Specter since he began considering a run, Sestak focused on policy matters in his announcement - the economy, health care and other challenges.

Also in the gubernatorial primary was Randy Credico, a onetime comedian turned political activist who has campaigned for a $ 15 minimum wage, lower subway fares, universal Medicare, free state college tuition, and marijuana legalization — among other policies.

The Donald J. Trump Foundation gave away $ 158,250 in 2014 to fight cancer and other diseases, many of which target children, and donated $ 141,000 to groups that promote conservative social policy he would espouse in his presidential campaign a year later, state and federal records show.

(The lack of effective limits on campaign spends also makes this a more attractive approach than it might in other countries) And if your policies are popular with the electorate then the party will probably approve you.

De Blasio has taken lots of heat for the vast sums of cash raised through the Campaign for One New York and the official actions — on Uber, on carriage horses and on other policies — that at least appeared to follow the money.

to improve the understanding of and support for Land Value Taxation amongst members of the Liberal Democrats; to encourage all Liberal Democrats to promote and campaign for this policy as part of a more sustainable and just resource based economic system in which no one is enslaved by poverty; and to cooperate with other bodies, both inside and outside the Liberal Democrat Party, who share these objectives.

Cameron, on the other hand, had spent years wooing the Lib Dems — calling himself a Liberal Conservative; declaring that there was «not a cigarette paper» between many of their policies and praising Clegg for his campaign for Gurkha rights.

At an Albany press conference on Tues., Jan. 31st, the New York Immigration Coalition (NYIC), New York City Comptroller Scott Stringer and Fiscal Policy Institute joined Moya and other immigration advocates to reveal report findings and launch a new awareness campaign titled Green Light NY: Driving Together.

Cuomo on Saturday said he would continue to press for approval of the Child Victims Act and other policy matters that were not included in the budget through the end of the Legislature's session in June and if necessary make them campaign issues in the fall.

Voting, government ethics, and campaign finance reforms are among many of Cuomo's 2017 policy proposals that did not materialize last year, either due to resistance from the Legislature, a lack of more aggressive lobbying by the governor, or other challenges.

In his first major intervention in the election campaign, Brown said May's policies would reverse the progress made in tackling poverty under Labour and leave the country more «economically divided and socially polarised than any other prime minister in living memory».

Other policy matters that Cuomo had proposed, including campaign finance reform, the Dream Act and bail reforms, were also left out of the final spending plan.

Graham Brady and the other recently elected officers of the»22 should be ambitious in (1) policy development, (2) improving the party's campaigning and (3) in representing the interests of the Conservative grassroots.

Dramas from elections past - like the way Michael Foot was nearly sacked as Leader half way through the 1983 campaign, like Kinnock and Hattersley endlessly contradicting each other over Labour's tax plans in 1987, like Kinnock «s «take to the hills» defence policy against a potential Soviet invasion, like the tax bombshell, like Maggie Thatcher's «I want the doctor I want, on the day I want» rant in 1987, like John Major unleashing the soap box in 1992, like Neil Hamilton and Martin Bell slugging it out on Knutsford Heath in 1997, like the Prescott punch of 2001 - seem more vivid than the more measured and choreographed procession of 2010.

Zimet did attack Cahill's stand on sales - tax policy, but on other issues, including school aid, women's reproductive rights, ethics and legislative misfeasance, gay rights, local hospitals and campaign finance reform, there wasn't much difference between these two liberal Democrats.

There may be other events designed to highlight the resistance: New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio is pondering one to provide a policy counterpoint to Trump, according to an adviser, and has made political hay from bashing the president during his re-election campaign.

Two other Trump campaign officials, Manafort associate Rick Gates and foreign policy advisor George Papadapoulous were also charged as part of special counsel Robert Mueller's probe into possible campaign ties to Russia

Cuomo has also revealed new pieces of his $ 15 minimum wage campaign and criminal justice reform policies, among others, as he sets his agenda for 2016 and frames budget negotiations in Albany.

The de Blasio administration has also adopted other pro-labor policies, like going after illegal Airbnb rentals, an action supported by the Hotel Trades Council, and supporting the campaign for a $ 15 minimum wage.

The greatest lesson for other public health campaigns, he says, is that «top - down policy alone is not sustainable.

There's the ongoing special - counsel investigation into whether the Trump campaign aided a Russian campaign to aid Trump's candidacy and defeat his Democratic rival, Hillary Clinton; there's the associated inquiry into whether the president obstructed justice when he fired former FBI Director James Comey, whom he had asked not to investigate his former national - security adviser; there are the president's hush - money payments to women with whom he allegedly had extramarital affairs, made through his personal attorney, Michael Cohen, and facilitated by corporate cash paid to influence the White House; there is his ongoing effort to interfere with the Russia inquiry and politicize federal law enforcement; there are the foreign governments that seem to be utilizing the president's properties as vehicles for influencing administration policy; there's the emerging evidence that Trump campaign officials sought aid not only from Russia, but from other foreign countries, which may have affected Trump's foreign policy; there are the ongoing revelations of the president's Cabinet officials» misusing taxpayer funds; there is the accumulating evidence that administration decisions are made at the behest of private industry, in particular those in which Republican donors have significant interests.

They will have opportunities for showcasing their teaching practices and experiences at national conferences, through online media and multi-media case studies, as well as through a range of other promotional material, and be proactively consulted for their views and opinions for campaigns related to education policy.

The Global Call to Action Against Poverty (GCAP) is a growing alliance that brings together trade unions, INGOs, the women's and youth movements, community and faith groups and others to call for action from world leaders in the global North and South to meet their promises to end poverty and inequality.GCAP's main aim is to achieve policy and practice changes that will improve the lives of people living in poverty.GCAP adds to existing campaigning on poverty by forming diverse, inclusive national platforms that are able to open up civil society space and advocate more effectively than individual organisations would be able to do on their own.

But both groups acted with the same purpose: to inform and highlight the debate over education in the 2008 presidential campaign and to influence the future of the No Child Left Behind Act and other policies of the next president.