Sentences with phrase «policy fights»

This year, it began wading into political and policy fights on its own — spinning off a super PAC that spent at least $ 24 million boosting Republican Senate candidates.

EFF has often found itself on the opposite side of policy fights from AUTM and AAU, but we largely agree with them on this issue that something needs to change.

That means it will serve any faction in the climate policy fight — providing uncertainty to be sprinkled by those seeking energy stasis and reasons for concern for those pushing for action.

The finance minister isn't easy to rile, but this protracted policy fight is now testing his patience

Jack Layton, despite some good economic planks in his platform (including cancelling $ 50 billion in corporate tax cuts), is new to the economic policy fight.

Education policy fights this year are not as heated as in prior legislative sessions, but charter school policy remains a sensitive topic in legislative races and in the halls of the Capitol.

For him, the gay marriage policy fight has left a flame burning deep inside which is forcing him on to make change to life in Britain.

Netroots Nation organizers chose San Jose this year because they thought last year's protests against the Stop Online Piracy Act and its House counterpart demonstrated the potential power of the tech community as allies in important policy fights.

(Mr. Miller's successor, Christine Quinn, was more accommodating, though she would pick occasional policy fights.)

Flanagan, a 57 - year - old trade - directory publisher who once had aspirations of running for office, is now a study in conservative grassroots activism, illustrating both the way in which Tea Party groups can figure into policy fights even in a liberal state like New York, and how they maximize the influence they have with public officials.

But the measure, widely expected to be one of the last big policy fights before this year's midterm elections, has Republicans and Democrats on track to clash.

After I wrote on the hidden factor behind the lopsidedness of the climate - energy policy fight (the inertia in a society and economy deeply reliant on fossil fuels), Paul Birkeland of Seattle posted an apt quotation from Niccolo Machiavelli:

Check out Climate Nexus» article on net metering policy fights around the country, the 2015 solar set - back in Nevada, and why this has become such a big issue.

Letter - signing campaigns are not necessarily an effective way to shift attitudes on scientific institutions like the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, given that any entrenched camp in the climate policy fight can pull together heaps of signatures from people with PhDs.

«Tonight, we put aside all of the policy fights in Washington, DC, you've been hearing with the fake news and all of that.

Republicans and their conservative allies need to more aggressively make their case, while taking account of public opinion in the policy fights they choose.

Senate Democrats offered a competing measure last week, but Majority Leader Harry Reid immediately scaled it back, setting the stage for yet another policy fight between Democrats in the two chambers.

But here's hoping that they stay the course on the policy fight, as well.

The fact is that, for whatever reason, better reading preparation as a critical reform tool is not tops on most peoples» minds, conference agendas, policy fights, or funded grants, and its absence speaks volumes.

Ideally, you often want to seek coverage from your own insurance first, and then let your policy fight it out with his over liability and collecting the money they paid out.

Haim Harari, a physicist and former president of the Weizmann Institute of Science, writes of the «edge of the circle» in referring to today's polarized, and largely nonproductive, policy fights:

When you put that kind of process in the distorting environment of a policy fight, the temptation to overstate (in both directions) is essentially akin to a «positive feedback,» to adopt the parlance of climate research.

So «here and now» arguments take the policy fight on global warming into the terrain favored by those who recoil at environmental regulation or profit from fossil fuels — an arena where there's lots of real scientific uncertainty.

Ideally, you often want to seek coverage from your own insurance first, and then let your policy fight it out with his over liability and collecting the money they paid out.

However, the latest crisis over the fiscal cliff gives new urgency to the policy fights in Washington.