Sentences with phrase «albany over the spending plan»

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ALBANY — State lawmakers spent hours Tuesday seeking — and not getting — many of the answers that they have sought over an increasingly controversial plan by Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo to provide free tuition to some public college students.

ALBANY, N.Y. (WBEN / AP)-- The stalemate over New York's tardy state budget took a new turn Tuesday when lawmakers insisted they had a deal on a new spending plan, only to be dismissed by Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who insisted there is no need to rush.

ALBANY — Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo on Wednesday proposed using his first substantial budget surplus to fund a $ 154 billion spending plan that includes a $ 2.1 billion increase in school funding over two years and billions of dollars in legacy - building construction projects.

ALBANY — The state budget is now later than at any point of Gov. Andrew Cuomo's tenure, as negotiations over the $ 150 - plus billion spending plan remained stuck on Saturday.

ALBANY — The Republican leader of the State Senate said Thursday morning that a minimum wage increase is not part of the state budget, but said negotiations over a new spending plan are proceeding toward completion by the March 31 deadline.

ALBANY — Just a day before the deadline for a new multibillion - dollar spending plan, negotiations over the final pieces of the New York State budget slowed to a crawl on Friday, as Democrats in the Assembly effectively blamed a Brooklyn senator for holding up talks over a provision that would ease state oversight of religious schools.

ALBANY — In a bow to reactive governing, topics that were major local and national news items in communities around the state over the past year were ripped from the headlines and inserted in some way or another into the new $ 168.3 billion spending plan.