Sentences with phrase «with nonpartisan»

«If you live in a high tax state, are an itemizer, buy a house with a big mortgage, have medical expenses or casualty losses, you will likely be a loser,» said Howard Gleckman, a senior fellow with the nonpartisan Tax Policy Center.

State Comptroller Kevin P. Lembo agreed Wednesday with nonpartisan analysts that the budget deficit is worse than Gov. Dannel P. Malloy administration is projecting.

The bill would have replaced Missouri's existing bi-partisan redistricting process with a nonpartisan one modeled after Iowa's.

«The budget office is being run by a political operative and not a financial professional with a nonpartisan approach to managing the town's finances.

Mayor Bloomberg just dropped a report that demonstrates elections in states with nonpartisan redistricting are considerably more competitive across the board than in places like New York where the process is political and directly controlled by elected officials.

The NYC Charter Revision Commission might combine a term limits question with a nonpartisan election question on the ballot this fall.

Still, he thinks the low barrier of entry combined with a nonpartisan effort to support troops helped boost his effort in an age where petty spats on social media often dominate one's news feed.

Not exact matches

«The challenge is that there were a lot of promises made that can't live comfortably with each other,» said Maya MacGuineas, president of the nonpartisan Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget.

Sunshine Hillygus, who advises the federal government on the census, notes that this question is likely to fuel suspicion on the part of the undocumented that the census will become a political tool to be used against them — with negative implications for both data accuracy and for the long - run reputation of the Census Bureau as a nonpartisan agency.

That would lead to 13 million fewer Americans with health insurance in 2027 compared to current law, according to the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO).

The Texas Tribune is a nonpartisan, nonprofit media organization that informs Texans - and engages with them - about public policy, politics, government and statewide issues.

All in all, the Trump tax plan would wastefully increase deficits by at least $ 3.5 billion over ten years — with half of all tax cuts going to the top 1 % — while actually raising taxes on nearly half of all families with children, according to the nonpartisan Tax Policy Center's (TPC) analysis.

A 2013 analysis of the Senate's immigration reform bill by the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office estimates its passage would have resulted in nine million more people entering the U.S. work force in the next 20 years, with new immigrants participating at a higher rate, on average, than other U.S. residents.

«We are a nonpartisan group, but small businesses just don't benefit at all from tax breaks on in the upper bracket, and they don't benefit from large corporate loop holes,» says Arensmeyer, adding that not addressing this now just means Washington will have to deal with it later.

Perillo beat incumbent Gerald Turning in the nonpartisan election with 53 % of the vote.

Medical marijuana is a nonpartisan issue, the poll finds, with 81 percent of Republicans, 94 percent of Democrats, and 93 percent of Independent voters all say medical pot should be legal.

To get a better sense of the dynamics at play in this relationship, I spoke with Ely Ratner, an expert on US - China relations and East Asia policy at the Council on Foreign Relations, a nonpartisan think tank in Washington, DC.

AFSCME's political connections with the Democrats are well known, of course, but Walden Asset Management is not exactly a nonpartisan outfit.

Its mission is to foster leadership based on enduring values and to provide a nonpartisan venue for dealing with critical issues.

Joint Committee on Taxation: A nonpartisan committee of the United States Congress charged with assisting Members of Congress on tax legislation and related issues.

The report presents a highly optimistic view of the economy's current condition and future course, with growth predictions that exceed most nonpartisan economists» expectations.

My relatively nonpartisan definition of JUDICIAL ACTIVISM has to do with an objection to «natural rights» or any other kind of «rights / liberty» jurisprudence — whether it flows from Randy Barnett or Rawls or Hadley Arkes.

Since 2010, the CWA — a nonpartisan organization with strong Christian and pro-life principles — has expanded to launch 40 chapters on college campuses.

Its mission is to foster leadership based on enduring values and to provide a nonpartisan venue for dealing with critical issues.

A nonpartisan group called the Voter Participation Center is reaching over 300,000 black voters here with direct mail and text messages.

Lockheed Martin has purchased ad space on a number of nonpartisan, politically oriented websites, with many of the ads promoting funding for the F - 22 fighter plane.

Rice's campaign announced with some fanfare yesterday that she had signed three pledges distributed by former NYC Mayor Ed Koch's New York Uprising PAC that call for nonpartisan independent redistricting, budget and ethics reform.

These have long been left for well - meaning civic associations and nonpartisan groups, but were taken up again and pursued with considerable energy and finesse by the Bush campaign among conservative Christians in 2000 and 2004, and by the Obama campaign among African Americans, Latinos, and college students in 2008 on the basis of new forms of political targeting.

NonPartisan incumbent Jane Veron received 1,361 votes, with running mates Justin Ares and Lena Crandall getting 1,243 and 1,234, respectively.

Joshua Lafazan, who ran for his 18th District seat as a Democrat but is not registered in any political party, is showing his nonpartisan roots by setting up a property tax grievance workshop with three other elected officials — all Republicans.

Arnold Schwarzenegger's push for nonpartisan redistricting has gained significant Republican support, with Ohio Gov. John Kasich signing on to his amicus brief at the Supreme Court and Arizona Sen. John McCain filing a separate friend - of - the - court brief.

Elections for municipal or other local offices (city councils, governing boards of schools, hospitals, etc) are nonpartisan by law, with the exception that home - rule cities may legislate partisan elections for themselves.

Now that he has secured a pledge in support of independent, nonpartisan redistricting from all four gubernatorial hopefuls, former Mayor Ed Koch is looking for the same from New York's congressional delegation, who, along with members of the state Legislature, would be directly impacted by that reform.

Lerner compared New York's flawed system with Los Angeles, which has a nonpartisan professional election administration that, she said, is responsive to voters and taxpayers.

The Reform Party would like to voice its support for a nonpartisan special investigation into White House ties with the Russia.

Heading into the election, Republicans technically controlled 57 chambers while the Democratic Party technically controlled 41 chambers, with Nebraska being nonpartisan.

One of them was disqualified because the party name she chose for herself, Democratic Values, could be too easily confused with the Democratic Party, a no - no under Board of Elections rules in what is a nonpartisan special election.

One chamber (Nebraska) is officially nonpartisan and in one chamber (Alaska), several Republicans vote with a caucus other than the Republican caucus.

A nonpartisan redistricting commission's remap of district lines mixed with an aging delegation and a rush of ambition is resulting in an unusually competitive election cycle in a state largely uncontested at the presidential or Senate levels.

Rookie Nassau legislator Joshua Lafazan, who ran for his 18th District seat as a Democrat, but is not registered in any political party, is showing his nonpartisan roots by setting up a property tax grievance workshop with three other elected officials — all Republicans.

Meanwhile, another opponent is nonpartisan group Common Cause New York, which put out a statement saying with overall crime dropping in Dutchess County, legislators should seek lower - cost, creative alternatives.

«I am proud of my achievements in office, proud too of having accomplished them with bipartisan and nonpartisan support,» the statement continued.

Green Party candidates in the United States have primarily won elected offices at the local level; most Green officeholders have won nonpartisan - ballot elections (races in which candidates were not identified on the ballot as affiliated with any political party).

Ronald Deutsch, executive director of the Latham - based Fiscal Policy Institute, an independent, nonpartisan, nonprofit research and education organization committed to improving public policies and private practices to better the economic and social conditions of all New Yorkers, is equally dissatisfied with the status quo.

The No Hospital Downtown group is now getting some support from members affiliated with Reclaim New York, a nonpartisan group with conservative connections.

As Democratic campaigners search for the best tools to track voters and voter contacts, some of them are looking at working with their voter data in a platform from the upstart nonpartisan firm NationBuilder instead of with software from NGP VAN, which many Democrats have used for years.

Ivanka Trump said that she and Sen. Bob Corker, a longtime deficit hawk, believe the tax cuts, combined with deregulation, will «ultimately eliminate» the country's debt, which flies in the face of virtually all nonpartisan research that shows the deficit will actually increase.

The nonpartisan board that oversees elections in Wisconsin too often favors Democrats and needs to be reconstituted, perhaps with a more partisan model like what previously existed, incoming Republican Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald said Monday.

«The injection of partisan politics by Speaker Boehner into a relationship with Israel that has been nonpartisan is deplorable.»

The ethics office — an independent, nonpartisan entity charged with reviewing allegations of misconduct against members, officers and staff — is concentrating on his investments in Innate Immunotherapeutics.