Sentences with phrase «as lawmakers begin»

A decision is expected to emerge in the coming days as lawmakers begin a vetting process and interview those said to be interested in the post.

Fair Elections for New York, an umbrella group for several organizations that has the politically connected SKD Knickberbocker firm running its PR, is beginning an $ 800,000 ad campaign and plans several rallies around the state this month as lawmakers begin a two - week break from Albany.

As lawmakers begin their dash to the end of session in about a month, it is important that expanding the state's availability to college financial aid must be approved.

Tax reform faces an uphill battle, with an already packed legislative calendar set to become even more crowded as lawmakers begin to address disaster relief for the Texas Gulf Coast.

Further changes are expected next week as lawmakers begin debating the measure.

Reaction to the newly agreed upon state budget continued to pour in at the State Capitol, as lawmakers began passing the first of a series of budget bills, in the hope of finishing the spending plan by the end of the week.

Several other measures were still pending legislative action as lawmakers began eating dinner.

Not exact matches

Valeant's prescription drug sales began to unravel last year as its history of large price increases drew sharp criticism and the attention of lawmakers as well as New York and Massachusetts attorneys general, which opened investigations.

As word trickled out Thursday morning on Capitol Hill that Durbin and Graham were heading over to the White House, legislative affairs director Marc Short began to make calls to lawmakers and shared many of Miller's concerns.

In addition to mollifying lawmakers and investors, Mr. Zuckerberg needs to impress another important audience during next week's hearings: Facebook's rank - and - file employees, who have begun to question the company's leadership as the latest crisis has spiraled.

State lawmakers are beginning to ask how this new knowledge can (or even if it should) influence policy decisions in early childhood development, spurring a growing interest in programs such as high - quality child care, pre-kindergarten and home visiting.

This was as constituents of Senator Eyinnaya Abaribe also began a process for his recall on Tuesday alleging that the lawmaker has been executing his own agenda outside what he was voted to do.

Percoco's trial marks the beginning of several months of court proceedings against former Cuomo associates, as well as some ex-state lawmakers.

State lawmakers will begin interviews on Tuesday to determine whether Underwood or someone else will serve as the AG through December.

Tuesday was an especially crowded day at the state Capitol, but it's just the beginning of a very busy month for lawmakers as we get closer to the budget deadline.

As some state lawmakers begin to question corruption - busting U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara's tactics, his former boss is continuing to not weigh in.

Lawmakers in Albany are doing what they do best — targeting lobbyists and special interests for campaign cash as they begin negotiating a new budget that will exceed $ 150 billion.

As lawmakers prepare for the state budget waltz, the state Senate and Assembly on Wednesday began to preview their one - house budget proposals, which are set to include a 25 percent income tax cut for middle class New Yorkers, a SUNY tuition freeze and «parity» between upstate and downstate transportation funding.

The early projects, hand - picked by lawmakers and Cuomo, are starting to come to light as the borrowing begins.

The debate was fairly bitter by Senate standards, and as the hour grew later — many lawmakers were anxious to leave for receptions hosted by the Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce and American Irish Legislators Society — they began openly sniping at Krueger as she gave a final critique.

Cuomo relayed his readiness for such a high - stakes confrontation in conversations with key aides and state lawmakers during the past two weeks as he outlined general plans to cut the state payroll and impose billions of dollars in reductions on school districts and the Medicaid program in the fiscal year beginning April 1.

Fall for lawmakers means more hearings as the Senate and Assembly begin to prepare for next year's session.

As discussions on the city's 2013 budget begin in earnest, some city lawmakers say that a combination of state - mandated expenses,

State lawmakers could begin final budget negotiations are early as this afternoon, and the latest deal reportedly funds Visit Florida at $ 25 million, a more than $ 50 million cut from the current level.

As the legislative session begins to wind down this month, lawmakers have a number of outstanding issues to take up, and a mini «big ugly» could be in store at the Capitol.

This could change as Republican lawmakers begin to hash out deals before the next Senate session is held, scheduled to gavel in at 3 p.m. on Monday.

And as a tumultuous week in Albany began to settle down, lawmakers needed little prompting to discuss their desire to change the education measures in the budget.

Calls against the US allowing any more Syrian refugees into the country reached a fever pitch yesterday, as Republican lawmakers began drawing up legislation to prohibit the move and the number of governors promising to prevent Syrians from entering their borders grew as many Democrats played wait - and - see on the issue.

But it's not clear just when the once - powerful disgraced former lawmaker will begin serving time if he is sentenced to prison as expected.

As the new legislative session is set to begin amid tensions between the governor and the Legislature, Republican and Democratic lawmakers are talking tough about the need for the Legislature to reassert its independence from the executive branch.

Allowing taxpayers to use the proposed $ 10,000 deduction for property taxes also for state income and sales taxes is one option on the table as Congress begins to hammer out differences in the House and Senate tax bills, a key lawmaker said.

The ideas are bubbling up as state lawmakers begin their 2018 sessions and assess the effects of the Republican tax overhaul that President Donald Trump signed into law last month.

SARANAC LAKE U.S. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D - NY) is proposing legislation to make it easier for small businesses to craft employee - owned stock ownership plans, or ESOPs, a measure the lawmaker says will stave off possible disruptions in local economies as older business owners begin to transition out of the labor force.

Things could also get tougher after 2023 when lawmakers begin contemplating whether and where to site the final three casinos approved as part of the 2013 referendum.

New York's subsidy program to support financially impaired nuclear power plants has been caught up in the budget negotiations as some lawmakers are trying to halt the program right before it begins.

That promise came on March 12, as state lawmakers began advancing bills to upend a state policy that automatically deletes employee emails after 90 days if they are not proactively saved.

As the new legislative session begins, lawmakers should get to work on restoring the public's confidence in Albany.

The late negotiations meant that full details of the spending package weren't available as the votes began, forcing the public and even lawmakers to rely on promises of legislative leaders.

The governor's proposals were all made in a series of addresses and conversations with lawmakers in January as the process begins to craft a new state budget by April 1.

Monday was the first full day of session in the New York State legislature, and lawmakers have a lot to contend with, including a multibillion dollar budget deficit, as well as the beginning of an election year.

Financial challenges have been at the forefront of lawmakers» work this session as the state faced a mounting budget deficit that's now projected to be close to $ 1 billion for the next fiscal year that begins on July 1.

As a result, lawmakers returned to a more subdued Capitol to begin the 2016 session.

The 114th Congress begins with republicans taking control of the Senate along with the House as lawmakers return to Washington.

Meetings with individual lawmakers have already begun and will intensify as the budget talks heat up.

New York state lawmakers began their work with a vote to prohibit the use of cellphones as recording devices in the Senate chambers.

Bad blood between lawmakers, some of whom saw the potential special session as an opportunity to secure their first base pay raise in nearly two decades, and the governor has spilled over into the beginning of the 2017 session.

Lawmakers rejected the Administration's effort to strip Congressionally - directed projects from ARS's budget, but did give it the green light to close 12 of USDA's 100 + research centers, some of which began life as Congressional earmarks.

So he exhorted lawmakers to consider «chartering,» as a way to allow entities other than school districts to establish new public schools that would be open to students regardless of where they lived, thereby beginning to withdraw the monopoly school districts held over the provision of public education.

Even as the Department of Education began soliciting proposals from test contractors last week, House lawmakers both criticized and praised the Clinton administration's plan for new national student tests in reading and math.

A long - standing dispute over standardized testing of California's second graders has simmered back to the surface, as lawmakers consider legislation that would remove the assessment from the Standardized Testing and Reporting Program, beginning July 2012.