Sentences with phrase «policy achievements»

It is beyond the scope of the framework to set as the goal of policy the achievement of equality.

There are also several books in the works abou the passage of same - sex marriage — the signature policy achievement of Cuomo's first year in office.

President Trump declared that he was pulling out of the Iran nuclear deal, unraveling the signature foreign policy achievement of his predecessor, Barack Obama, and isolating the United States among its Western allies.

The moves come after Republicans in Congress could not reach an agreement to unwind the law, a signature domestic policy achievement under President Barack Obama.

When the central public - facing aspect of your most significant policy achievement has problems, your presidency has problems — which is why Obama should send Ted Cruz a thank - you note.

These are all important policy achievements that will make a huge difference in how our charters operate and will help enable faster and more effective expansion of these high - quality options in every corner of the state.

After 25 years of advocacy and major policy achievements, the Empire State Pride Agenda's work is done.

No President in recent times has exploited that advantage more than President Obama, whose policy achievements have owed much to his powers not of persuasion but (in national security matters especially) of unilateral decision by means of executive orders.

In the meantime, Cuomo is continuing to tout what he considers his biggest policy achievement last week: Getting the Legislature to pass Start - Up NY, a rebranded version of his economic development initiative Tax Free - NY.

After all, the tax cap was one of Gov. Andrew Cuomo's signature policy achievements during his first year in office.

Although there have been Democrats in the White House, and some notable policy achievements, for nearly 40 years the vision that Ronald Reagan offered — small government, lower taxes, and self - reliant individualism — has remained the country's dominant political ideology.

«As we are removing cigarette smoke — and that's a major public policy achievement — that success will be attenuated by increasing exposure to secondhand marijuana smoke,» said lead researcher Renee Goodwin.

It forces them to take on the responsibility for potentially blowing up arguably the most important foreign policy achievement of the Obama era.

We could be on the cusp of conservative reforms that would rival all of the domestic policy achievements of the 1980s and 1990s if some conservatives would stop trying to relive the Kemp - Roth tax cuts or else engaging in hopeless struggles to get the public to support flat taxes or national sales taxes that would either raise taxes on the middle - class or collapse revenues or both.

Unlike with Hillary Clinton (to say nothing of a cipher like John Edwards), it isn't difficult to create a list of Palin's significant policy achievements.

The Iran deal is thought to be the crowning foreign policy achievement of the Obama administration, and experts have speculated previously that his determination not to compromise the deal affected his policy on Syria.

The President's signature policy achievement - the ACA - has been problematic for small - business owners.

They'll be looking for a policy achievement to tout early in their administration, and this plan, with its bipartisan support, makes a lot of sense.

Policy achievements — such as the pupil premium, free school meals, the increase in the tax allowance and so on — tend to be in micro areas of public policy that are invisible to most voters.

Obama's opening to Cuba, negotiated in secret with the help of the Vatican and which culminated in a presidential trip to Havana in March 2016, was regarded by his administration as one of its signature foreign policy achievements, ending an embargo of more than a half century, which had failed to produce a softening of the communist regime.

Yesterday, Collins introduced federal legislation that would supersede state gun laws and effectively repeal part of the SAFE Act — one of Cuomo's signature policy achievements.

The Florida Democrat faces calls for her resignation from her perch atop the DNC from party activists who worry the relatively skimpy debate schedule could be seen tilting the scales for front - runner Hillary Rodham Clinton and for her potential apostasy when it comes to supporting President Barack Obama's Iran deal — what amounts to his signature foreign policy achievement and one backed by all of the Democrats running for president save for Jim Webb.

Crime is low, the city's economy has been strong and he has policy achievements to point to, such as universal prekindergarten.

Developing such positions and outlining the party's achievements in government is a key challenge for the Lib Dems if they are to win back support as even those planning to vote for the party struggle to name any policy achievements.

In the debate, each side talks past the other, because each cares more about gaining a political advantage than a policy achievement.

In a development that should surprise no one, the U.S. Supreme Court agreed to review the constitutionality of President Barack Obama's signature policy achievement, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act — aka Obamacare.