Sentences with phrase «policy debate at»

Firstly, it means engaging in the public policy debate at the intellectual level.

Indeed, as this blog has also pointed out, ad nauseum, the notion of the scientific consensus is used in political and policy debates at all levels, with no regard for the substance of the consensus.

Not exact matches

There have been just two questions on income inequality asked so far during the debates — one of which was directed at Sen. Rand Paul right before a commercial break (he focused on Federal Reserve policy), and the other which was for Gov. Mike Huckabee (who bemoaned general government incompetence).

That debate takes place internally at the central bank, where contrasting views are regularly articulated by members of the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) as our Federal Reserve (Fed) policymakers attempt to steer monetary policy with regard to interest rates.

Larry Levitt, a senior vice president at the Kaiser Family Foundation, a nonpartisan health - policy think tank, said the new version should end debate over whether sick people are protected under Graham - Cassidy.

Ken Bone (C), a power plant employee from Belleville, Illinois, waits in the audience to ask a question about energy policy and jobs during the presidential debate between Republican U.S. presidential nominee Donald Trump and Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri, October 9, 2016.

Trump helped push Syria back to the forefront of foreign policy debates, hinting at retaliating against a deadly chemical weapons attack.

Within the coalition are two factions: those pushing to play hardball on Capitol Hill by threatening to force uncooperative lawmakers from office in November, and those who'd rather see the debate settled at the congressional negotiating table sooner rather than later, even if it means making policy concessions to companies such as Verizon and Comcast.

«Last I checked, there's not a lot of debate and democratic deliberation, particularly when it comes to policies directed at the United States.»

We at the Bank of Canada are grappling with this question, and it is being debated by economists and policy - makers around the world.

«Our sense is that the brain drain at the White House, coupled with the acuteness of the trade policy debate, will foster a risk - off bias,» said Boltansky.

In the upcoming months as the political debate unfolds, any economic policy proposed by any political party, to be financed from the rather small projected surpluses, should be judged, at a minimum, on how it will strengthen economic growth and job creation.

Canada's coming national price on carbon adds further fuel to the debate, as some will be looking for Canadian industries affected by the carbon price to get protections, maybe even in the form of a carbon tax applied at the border on goods coming from places in the U.S. where there is no such policy.

At its core this debate is not about economic policy but about competing visions of the role, scope and validity...

The monetary policy debate over whether rule - like behavior is preferable to pure discretion dates back at least to Henry Simons in 1936.1 More recently, in their Nobel Prize - winning work, Finn Kydland and Ed Prescott demonstrated that a credible commitment by policymakers to behave in a systematic rule - like manner leads to better outcomes than discretion.2 Since then, numerous papers using a variety of models have investigated the benefits of rule - like behavior in monetary policy and found that there are indeed significant benefits.

At the same time the Liberal Party, and Liberal leader Stéphane Dion, have made environmentalism a major component of their election platform through a policy initiative known as the Green Shift — an initiative that was the source of considerable discussion and debate in the lead - up to the election.

For more than a year, public policy experts across Canada have hotly debated the federal government's strict anti-corruption rules, which are aimed at ensuring that Ottawa does business only with ethical suppliers.

Alas, the report released yesterday by the Corporate Mapping Project and its partners at the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives and the Edmonton - based Parkland Institute is likely only to intensify a debate that has become highly politicized and, in some quarters, nearly hysterical.

Urban municipalities conference The Alberta Urban Municipalities Association held their annual general meeting at the end of November where they debated and adopted a series of new policies.

We can look at the specifics of what the policy debate should be, which is what gets into the background system and all that stuff.

Over the past ninety years or so, the American debate about the national interest and the national purpose» the debate about morality and foreign policy» has careened through at least ten cycles, resulting in numerous, and sometimes jarring, shifts in the nation's approach to the world.

The Austrian delegation, in General Assembly debate in December 1963 pointedly complained at the American policy of keeping communications satellites out of the UN purview:

The opposite coalition will be united by nontheistic or at least nonorthodox beliefs, the policy implications of such beliefs, and hostility to religious language in political debate.

CNN: Twitter blocks content of German neo-Nazi group Twitter will withhold content from a neo-Nazi account at the request of German authorities, the first time it has put into action a policy of local censorship it adopted in January and a step that will probably reignite debate over freedom of expression on the Internet.

The nature of public policy debates in the United States in recent years has tended to exclude - or, at least, to suggest that we ought to exclude - religious considerations.

Although I agree with Father Richard John Neuhaus that immigration and border policy is a legitimate area of public debate (While We're At It, May), I think his view of the Mexican border situation is rather superficial in historical context.

Both medical experts and pro-life advocates have debated the fetal pain argument at the center of the policy.

(CNN)- Twitter will withhold content from a neo-Nazi account at the request of German authorities, the first time it has put into action a policy of local censorship it adopted in January and a step that will probably reignite debate over freedom of expression on the Internet.

At the Forum, about 300 eminent experts from around the world will review and debate the investment needs, technologies and policy measures needed to secure the world's food supplies on horizon 2050.

James Piper, Managing Director at Ecosurety, will be chairing the panel debate, which will explore how brands can take on the growing problem created by packaging at the end of life and stay up to date with the fast - moving policy area.

Rudd's comments at the final debate come just two weeks after he suggested the simplification of foreign investment rules to assist Labor's northern Australia policy.

As I understand it, the policy at just arsenal is to promote debate and cross pollination of ideas, however those that call themselves AOBs have contaminated the good policy by their obsession with Wenger sacking.

One of the major criticism leveled at Arsenal and Arsene Wenger's transfer policy on Monday night by Gary Neville was the same issue that a vast majority of us fans have been left frustrated by for many years, namely the Defensive Midfield debate.

Since the early 1990s, government policy on maternity care in England has moved towards policies designed to give women with straightforward pregnancies a choice of settings for birth.1 2 In this context, freestanding midwifery units, midwifery units located in the same building or on the same site as an obstetric unit (hereafter referred to as alongside midwifery units), and home birth services have increasingly become relevant to the configuration of maternity services under consideration in England.3 The relative benefits and risks of birth in these alternative settings have been widely debated in recent years.4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Lower rates of obstetric interventions and other positive maternal outcomes have been consistently found in planned births at home and in midwifery units, but clear conclusions regarding perinatal outcome have been lacking.

Our next piece took a look at this week's Hollyrood election debate and and suggested that the SNP's income tax policies show that the New Labour project lives on in Scotland.

Overall, judging by the rapturous applause he received, Miliband was in sublime form: dynamic, incisive, intelligent (a man who can quote the 1648 Treaty of Westphalia and apply it to the current foreign policy debate between those who oppose liberal interventionism based on the principle of nation state sovereignty and those who support it based on the natural rights of individuals superseding that sovereignty certainly deserves this accolade) and even at times funny.

A trio of senior ministers have demanded a full discussion on Britain's nuclear policy in the wake of the decision not to debate the issue at this year's Labour conference.

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There was ample substantive policy discussion at this morning's Crain's NY Business debate between the five men vying for the GOP line in the NYC mayor's race, but that was largely overshadowed by a verbal tiff between the moderator, Crain's columnist Greg David, and former MTA Chairman Joe Lhota, who took offense when David referred to his former boss, Rudy Giuliani, as a «jerk.»

Policy Network debated The EU after the European Elections at a major conference on 5 June held in partnership with the European Commission Representation in the United Kingdomand hosted by Nomura.

But I'm looking for an objective, non partisan explanation of whether or not Trickle Down economics has been effective in the past People debate whether economics is a hard or soft science, but I think it's fair to say that even if it's a hard science, conclusions can still differ and, at the end of the day, economic policy certainly can, and often is,...

Douglas Alexander made some similar - ish points at the General Election of 2010 book launch, from a «debates good and here to stay, but need to avoid squeezing out policy scrutiny».

At the same time, Paladino remained defiant in his criticism of Obama's policies, saying the ongoing violence in Syria, as well as ongoing debate surrounding the Buffalo teachers contract, made him overly emotional.

Instead, IDC Leader Jeff Klein of the Bronx indicated in a statement this was aimed at furthering the policy debate with about two weeks to go before a budget agreement is expected.

KINDERHOOK, NY... October 14, 2016 — John Faso, who has been running a substantive grassroots campaign in his bid for the 19th Congressional District, picked apart his opponent's policies, platforms and phony claims during a live one - hour debate at WMHT's studio in Troy, N.Y.

This is a good strong step towards a better deficit reduction and tax policy debate in general and a clearer policy choice going before the electorate at the next election.

During the one - hour event — the first of at least 10 debates and forums that the Faso campaign has agreed to — Faso highlighted his record as a fiscal hawk, his deep roots in the district and outlined a series of policy proposals to streamline government, eliminate burdens on business to kick - start the local economy and reform Washington's fiscal chaos.

«Let's have the debates over various policy issues and at the end of the day, either approve pieces of legislation, or if they fail to achieve enough votes, then the bill ultimately fails, but in the final analysis, that's good government,» Valesky said.

In the major debates of the past two or three years, the Orange Book tendency has whittled away at broadly centre - left policies on, for example, public spending, income - tax rates and the role of local government in education.

September 14th On Monday, Liberal Democrats will debate economic policy at our Glasgow conference.