"Emergency extender" refers to a device or method that helps to prolong the duration or availability of emergency resources or supplies during a crisis or urgent situation.
Sentences with «emergency extender»
(Recall that Paterson initially had some sympathy for Paladino back when his personal life was the focus of multiple news stories, but the two had a falling out — so to speak — when the Buffalo businessman called the govenor «weak» and claimed he had given Paterson the idea of inserting budget cuts into emergency extender bills). (nystateofpolitics.com)
Cuomo's linkage of policy to spending in his $ 142 billion budget plan hinges on a court ruling that sided with Republican Gov. George Pataki that granted the governor broader latitude over the budget and emergency extender process. (nystateofpolitics.com)
The governor already wields broad influence over the budget process itself and a late budget could empower him to include broad swaths of his preferred spending plan in emergency extender legislation. (nystateofpolitics.com)