Kentucky Sen. Mitch McConnell, the future majority leader, dismissed the extensive inquiry as a partisan "study" done at the behest of Democrats for political advantage.
It "provides non-partisan study, research and analysis on policy issues, and nothing more.
Mr. Romney's ad asks the question: "Who will raise taxes on the middle class?" It cites an "independent, non-partisan study" which concludes that "Barack Obama and the liberals" will raise taxes on the middle class by $4,000 per family.
Unfortunately for them, study after non-partisan study has shown an abuse rate of 1percentt or less across the board, a stunning efficiency.
On July 30 , 2014 the Government Accountability Office released a non-partisan study that concluded the administration did not provide "effective planning or oversight practices" in developing the HealthCare.gov website.
If I were a right-wing media critic, this couldn't be better news: According to a non-partisan study of one Sunday show, liberal and Democrats are more often telling whoppers.
Partisan identities, studies have found, are formed young and stay with voters for a long time, sometimes for the rest of their lives.
Ms. Edwards called the study "partisan" for singling out Texas.
Ms. Douglass said she had already contemplated leaving journalism altogether a couple of years ago, when she retired from ABC News and studied partisan gridlock in Washington at New York University.
"Congress still wants lending to be profitable, just not too profitable," says Ajita Talwalker of TICAS, a non-partisan institute that studies the accessibility and affordability of higher education.
Ms. Douglass said she maintained contact with his team after she left ABC News in 2006 to study partisan gridlock at New York University and, later, when she had a journalism fellowship at Harvard.
