Sentences with phrase «albany as legislators»

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ALBANY — Minimum wage, education aid, state university tuition and cost shifts to New York City loom as the major roadblocks as Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo and legislators scrambled Monday to agree on a budget in time to beat New York's fiscal deadline.

ALBANY — A slew of Cuomo - allied upstate business leaders lobbied legislators on Wednesday for more economic development funding, but continued to take no position on whether it should funneled through a competition as Governor Andrew Cuomo has proposed.

ALBANY, N.Y. >> As the clock ticks on the last week of session, legislators have agreements on train crossings, pain pills and a «brunch bill» permitting drinking on Sunday mornings.

ALBANY — As the Assembly approved a pair of budget extender bills that had passed the Senate earlier on Monday, Assemblywoman Amy Paulin encapsulated the mood of numerous legislators who reluctantly voted yes.

ALBANY — As Gov. Andrew Cuomo assails gender imbalance on corporate boards, one state legislator is attempting to address a similar problem much closer to home.

ALBANY — If as many state legislators who say they want to deny pensions to public officials who are convicted of corruption had voted to do so, the hard - line measure might already be on the road to passage.

ALBANY — As the Capitol waits to see what the anti-corruption Moreland Commission turns up in its preliminary report, state legislators have escalated their involvement in a legal challenge to the commission's subpoenas, court filings show.

ALBANY — Even as Gov. Andrew Cuomo leveled a threat to veto new legislative district lines that legislators have drawn for themselves, he left himself open to a negotiated solution that would preserve their control over maps that will be in place for the next ten years.

ALBANY — Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, one of the most powerful New York politicians over the past two decades, will vacate his post by Monday, said Democrats, who last night appointed a Rochester legislator as an interim replacement until Feb. 10.

ALBANY — The «big ugly» budget bill cleared the closely divided state Senate with an easy 53 - 4 vote on Sunday night, as most of legislators who picked at its provisions ended up supporting it.

ALBANY, N.Y. — As the Paterson administration starts to dole out $ 24.6 billion in federal economic stimulus money, good - government groups and some legislators warn projects are being chosen in secret...

ALBANY — Ohio Gov. John Kasich, huddling with state legislators in and near the Capitol as he campaigns across the state, said his fellow Republicans would lose their narrow majority in the state Senate if Donald Trump or Ted Cruz lead the Republican ticket in November.