He was active in the Reform Party, an association of conservative New Orleans businessmen, which spoke in favor of civil rights and voting for the recently freed slaves, hoping to form alliances between African-Americans and Democrats to vote out the Radical Republicans in the state legislature.

In September 2008, Sununu became one of twenty senators ( ten Democrats and ten Republicans ) co-sponsoring a bipartisan energy bill, the New Energy Reform Act of 2008.

( In the same year, a short-lived Reform Party, also called Liberal Reform Party or People's Reform Party a coalition of Democrats, reform-minded Republicans, and Grangers secured the election for two years of William Robert Taylor as Governor, as well as a number of state legislators, although it never formed a coherent organization.

Medved also notes that the Orthodox community, which he states as less than ten percent of the American Jewish population, " gives nearly as disproportionate support to Republicans as their Reform, Conservative, and secular Jewish neighbors give to Democrats " and argues this for the main reason: " The Orthodox feel no instinctive horror at political alliances with others who make faith the center of their lives.

Notable College Republicans have included prominent Republican strategist Lee Atwater, Americans for Tax Reform President Grover Norquist, former U. S. Senator Rick Santorum, U. S. Senator Roger Wicker, North Carolina Congressman Patrick McHenry, conservative activist Morton Blackwell, disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff, former Virginia Governor Jim Gilmore, McCain Campaign Manager Rick Davis, lobbyist and McCain advisor Charles R. Black, Jr., Texas Republican Party Chairman Emeritus Tom Pauken, Christian Coalition executive director and political consultant Ralph E. Reed, Jr., New York political consultant Roger Stone and political consultant Joshua Workman.

When Republicans took control of the Senate in 1981, Laxalt became chairman of the Judiciary Committee's Regulatory Reform Subcommittee, and the Appropriations Committee's State, Justice and Commerce Subcommittee.

From early on in his administration, Gage was highly partisan, due mostly to frequent accusations from Reform Republicans and Democrats alike who accused Gage as being a pawn for the Southern Pacific.

The party, divided by Railroad Republicans with the backing of the Southern Pacific Railroad and Reform Republicans of the growing Progressive movement, nominated Pardee, due to his municipal and medical background, as a compromise candidate.

Since taking control of the U. S. Senate in 2006, Democrats have accused Republicans of filibustering almost every proposal, and, hence, requiring 60 votes to pass any legislation ( e. g., the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, and the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act ).

He was a strong advocate for divorcing the judicial branch of the House of Lords from Parliament by setting up a new Supreme Court of the United Kingdom, which was accomplished under the Constitutional Reform Act 2005.

Reform was accomplished through legislation, and written law replaced consensus.

On March 31, 2000 the FEC certified primary season matching funds for John Hagelin, who was seeking the nomination of the Natural Law and Reform Parties.

In the 2000 U. S. presidential election, he was briefly considered as possible candidate for the Reform Party nomination but instead endorsed Ralph Nader.

In 1995, he founded the Reform Party and won their nomination for the 1996 election.

The Reform Act's chief objective was the reduction of the number of nomination boroughs.

The Reform Act strengthened the House of Commons by reducing the number of nomination boroughs controlled by peers.

" He sought the nomination of the Reform Party.

Ultimately, when the Federal Elections Commission ruled Buchanan was to receive ballot status as the Reform candidate, as well as about $ 12. 6 million in federal campaign funds secured by Perot's showing in the 1996 election, Buchanan won the nomination.

* 2000 Reform Party nomination acceptance, August 12, 2000

Manning stated that during the 1988 election he was faced with such an extremist who had joined the Reform Party named Doug Collins who was seeking nomination as a Reform candidate, Manning was faced by calls by many Reform Party supporters themselves who condemned Collins as being racist and said that they would leave the party if he were nominated.

Manning responded by sending a letter to the constituency association which called for all candidates to accept the Reform Party's denouncement of racism and demanded that Collins accept this, Collins and his supporters refused and he subsequently failed to win the nomination.

When the 1996 election season arrived, Perot at first held off from entering the contest for the Reform Party's presidential nomination, calling for others to try for the ticket.

After a bitter fight, Pat Buchanan secured the Reform Party nomination over John Hagelin of the Natural Law Party.

Kristin Davis, the Manhattan madam involved in the Elliot Spitzer scandal, announced on June 27, 2010 that she was running for Governor using the Reform Party name after failing to secure to Libertarian Party nomination.

The split occurred when some members of the Reform Party, believing that party founder Ross Perot had rigged the party's 1996 presidential nomination for himself, walked out of the national convention.

On May 31, 1993, Gamble won the Reform Party's nomination in Don Valley West for the 1993 federal election, but was expelled by the party prior to the election because of his links to far-right extremists such as Paul Fromm, Ron Gostick, Wolfgang Droege and the Heritage Front.

* On February 23, 2012, Roemer dropped out of the GOP nomination to seek the Reform Party's nomination.

* Jesse Ventura: Won the Reform Party nomination with no opposition.

Pardee's nomination was largely a compromise between the Railroad and the growing progressive-minded Reform factions of the party.

Roberts subsequently sought the Reform Party's nomination in the British Columbia riding of Saanich — Gulf Islands for the 1988 federal election, but was defeated.

In early 1997, Vellacott defeated Sam Dyck and Fred Wesolowski to win the Reform Party's nomination for Wanuskewin.

He served three terms as 38th Governor of Colorado as a Democrat ( 1975 – 1987 ) and ran for the Reform Party's nomination for President of the United States in 1996.

Guangxu Emperor and the reformists then launched a more comprehensive reform effort, the Hundred Day's Reform ( 1898 ), but it was shortly overturned by the conservatives under Empress Dowager Cixi in a military coup.

His opposition to the Reform Bill caused him to leave the Whigs and join the Tories, and he was elected, first for Cockermouth in 1831 and then in 1832 for Norwich, for which he sat until the dissolution of parliament in 1835.

He then served in the German delegation to the Paris Peace Conference and as advisor to the Confidential Committee for Constitutional Reform, which drafted the Weimar Constitution.

Originally established as a Reform synagogue in 1938 ( then called Temple Emanuel ) Emanuel Synagogue is now a very large, explicitly pluralist congregation affiliated to Masorti Olami as well as the Progressive and Renewal movements.

The Conservatives then formed a ministry, in which after long Parliamentary debate Disraeli passed the Second Reform Act of 1867, more far-reaching than Gladstone's proposed bill had been.

From the beginning of the nineteenth century, the word " temple " began to be used for Jewish houses of worship, almost exclusively by the followers of Reform Judaism, first in Germany, then in other countries, especially in the United States, as in Temple Beth-El.

After the passing of the Reform Act 1832, which gave the vote to a section of the male middle classes, but not to the working class which was then, because of social and industrial conditions, emerging from artisan and labouring classes many Radicals made speeches asserting the betrayal of the working class and the sacrificing of their interests by the misconduct of the government, in conjunction with this model.

In his book, Conservative Judaism: Our Ancestors to Our Descendants, Dorff creates and then explains a chart of various views of revelation and Jewish law, including the mainstream Orthodox approach, four Conservative approaches, and the Reform approach.

Bust of Titus Salt ( not then a baronet ) presented to him by his workforce in 1856, and now in Saltaire United Reform Church. Titus Salt's statue in Roberts Park

United then formed a coalition government with Reform, making Labour the Opposition.

From 1571 to 1832 Eye returned two MPs, then, following the Reform Act 1832, a single MP until 1983 after which the Eye Constituency became the Suffolk Central constituency.

Until the passing of the Education Reform Act 1988, the Polytechnic was under the control of the Inner London Education Authority — part of the then Greater London Council and awarded the degrees of the former Council for National Academic Awards.

In 1956 for example, the moetzes issued a written ruling forbidding Orthodox rabbis to join with any Reform or Conservative rabbis in rabbinical communal professional organizations that then united the various branches of America's Jews, such as the Synagogue Council of America.

It began in October 1902 with a supplementary prayer meeting, an adjunct to the then Orthodox and Reform synagogues, with the intention of using more English in services, men and women sitting freely together, the use of organ music, and a more inclusive form of worship which would prove attractive to members of British Jewry who felt uninvolved or out of sympathy with existing traditionalist patterns of worship.

Neither of these suggestions was then adopted, but the former ultimately formed part of the Reform Act 1867.

The Reform Party called for a decentralized Canadian federation whereby the provinces would have more authority and advocated that the Canadian federal government ensure provincial equality in Canada such as by creating a Triple E Senate the Canadian Senate ( upper house ) would become a democratically-elected assembly ( then and now the Senate continues to be an appointed assembly, appointments are still made by the Governor General, but now following the list offered by the Prime Minister ) and each province would have an equal number of seats, so that no province would have more power than another.

In later decades, the Reform movement modified this view, and now much of Reform Judaism in the USA encourages chidren to celebrate becoming Bar / Bat mitsvah at the traditional age, and then has the confirmation at the later age as a sign of a more advanced completion of their Jewish studies.

He felt then, and still more after the Reform Act of 1867, that " we must educate our masters ," and he rather scandalized his old university friends by the stress he laid on physical science as opposed to classical studies.

With the opening of the reform era, Zeng joined the State Development and Reform Commission in 1979 and then held a series of management positions in the state petroleum sector, including a series of foreign liaison positions with the China National Offshore Oil Corporation.

After the Reform Laws in the 1860s, most of the monastery property passed into state, then private hands, leaving only what is now the cathedral and several smaller chapels on a very large atrium.

A major division then took place within the Seventh Day Adventist Reform Movement itself at its General Conference session held at Zeist, Utrecht ( province ), Netherlands in 1951.

In 2006, the then Australian attorney-general Philip Ruddock had rejected calls by two reports — from a Senate committee and the Australian Law Reform Commission — to limit the sedition provisions in the Anti-Terrorism Act 2005 by requiring proof of intention to cause disaffection or violence.

The United Party gained its main support from the cities, and drew upon businesses for money and upon middle class electors for votes, while the Reform Party had a rural base and received substantial support from farmers, who then formed a substantial proportion of the population.

In July 2007, the Institution announced the creation of the Engelberg Center for Health Care Reform to be directed by senior fellow Mark McClellan, and then in October 2007, the creation of the Brookings Doha Center directed by fellow Hady Amr in Qatar.