Sentences with phrase «vote on policies based»

As evidenced by recent politics around the federal budget, those in Washington, DC, are stuck in debates that involve math that is not well understood even by those who need to vote on policies based on it.
Publically state it, tell others around you to follow suit, vote on policies based upon your tomato belief, etc.... then expect to be rightfully challenged on it.

Not exact matches

The Board recommends a vote against each of the following shareholder proposals based on broader policy reasons as set forth in Walmart's statements in opposition following each shareholder proposal.
However, asset managers usually base their voting on low - cost policies that tend to enhance the returns on their portfolio as a whole.
Morgan Stanley had no comment other than to refer to it's proxy voting policy that says it considers such proposal on a case - by - base basis.
The Board recommends a vote AGAINST a stockholder proposal seeking to have us adopt a policy requiring that senior executives retain a significant percentage of stock acquired through equity pay programs until reaching retirement age because our existing stock ownership guidelines and other compensation policies already effectively facilitate significant stock ownership by our executives, and establishing holding requirements based on a particular retirement age would not be in the best interests of our stockholders.
I suppose it will surprise no one that I will vote based on the energy and environmental policies of the parties.
I will vote for the best person for president based on the one who has the best policies and not because of his religion.
Reduced to essentials, Shaw's contention is that Hecker and those of his «Americanist» cast of mind did represent an assimilationist current in U.S. Catholic thought — a tendency to bend over backwards to «fit into» American culture — that eventually made possible Ted Kennedy, Barbara Mikulski, Nancy Pelosi, and Joe Biden: cradle - Catholic politicians who support public policies that flatly contradict basic moral truths taught by the Church on the basis of reason and revelation, justify their votes in the name of «democracy» and «pluralism,» and are supported by a lot of fellow - Catholics in doing so.
Ames Simmons of Equality North Carolina says, «When we vote for politicians who choose to make policy based on false stereotypes of marginalized communities instead of actual data rooted in scientific methodology, we threaten to set back progress in our country to dark ages of superstition.»
He's still pretty conservative and in a recent analysis, I've applied the model from The Constrained Court to estimate the policy preferences of justices and how they would map onto the vote on the health care legislation (it's all based on a statistical model that links the Court and Congress via positions members of one institution take on votes in the other).
If the Lib Dems had formed a coalition with LAbour, either in 1997 or in 2010, it would have been a predominant Labour policy agenda based on the votes cast.
Again, they are running on the basis of opposition to a major government policy, and will need to demolish a 20,000 vote majority - this time, that of former Conservative MP and Brexiteer Zac Goldsmith.
Rural voters may or may not vote based on their economic interest, but economics in cities have generally deteriorated under Democrat policies, but it hasn't had a noticeable affect on voting preferences.
It wasn't part of the official Vote Leave campaign but it inspired many of the policies on which the campaign was based.
Furthermore, since most people vote based on party and not based on MP, we need some party discipline to ensure that the party policies the electorate voted for will actually get enacted.
The North Dakota Policy Council, a North Dakota - based nonprofit research organization which describes itself as «liberty - based», published the North Dakota Legislative Review, a comprehensive report on how state legislators voted during the 2011 legislative session.
Stockholders of Texas - based oil giant ExxonMobil are set to vote Wednesday on a proposed company policy to ban discrimination against gay or transgender workers, a resolution pushed by New York Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli.
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Children who live in a small Carrollton neighborhood will still get automatic admission to Lusher Charter School next year, but only if they enter as kindergartners, based on a policy the board voted Saturday to extend to the 2011 - 2012 school year.
This is a PR problem, so claiming people don't matter, when they vote for the reps who make policy supposedly based on the science is a dipsydoodle of epic proportion.
Unfortunately, if you are setting policy, or voting for those who set policy, based on your belief that the cause - effect relationships between CO2 and AGW are debatable, or that science is irrelevant to policy decisions because we can «make our own reality», actual reality will eventually prove you foolish.
I agree with the Los Angeles Times editorial board, which recommended a no vote *, saying: «What's needed is a consistent, rational food policy, not a piecemeal approach based on individual groups» pet concerns.»
At the end of 2015, the Nevada Public Utilities Commission (PUC) voted to change its net metering policy to a policy based on the avoided cost rate — one of the first states to make such a change.
While not in disagreement with what you say, I would vote for Trump simply on the basis of my worst fears, which are about US foreign policy.
«Ohio is the only state that does it based on not voting in a two - year period,» says Dale E. Ho, director of the American Civil Liberties Union's Voting Rights Project, which along with the public policy group Demos, is representing Harmon and two Ohio nonprofit organizations.
The changes to the law reduce the amount of unit owners required to reject a plan, postpone the time until another plan can be voted on, and requires that the plan be approved by the Division of Florida Condominiums, Timeshares, and Mobile Homes of the Department of Business and Professional Regulation («Division») based on factual and public policy reasons.
Part III then sets out a framework for analyzing the difference in voting patterns based on the extent to which a judge votes in accordance with her policy preferences and the extent to which the justices of a multi-member court can be characterized as cooperative.
The vote on the remuneration policy will in principle be binding, which means that companies are only able to pay remuneration on the basis of the policy approved by shareholders.
PPHP Votes will use its organizing expertise to continue growing a pro-reproductive health activist base that is ready to step up and take action on our policies and candidates who stand with us.
All monetary and policy decisions at the local, provincial and national levels would be subject to a pre defined, time-wise, democratic vote on a once yearly basis.
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