Sentences with phrase «as lawmakers head»

Fred Thiele (I - Sag Harbor) and Sen. Kenneth LaValle (R - Port Jefferson) will kick off their effort with a State Capitol news conference next week as lawmakers head into the final three weeks of the 2015 legislative session.

Texas is looking at a budget shortfall projected between $ 11 to $ 17 billion as lawmakers head into the 2011 session.

Not exact matches

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.

The issue is expected to be one of the first to surface in Alabama's state legislature as lawmakers there head back to session this week, and a colorful standoff is likely.

This is great news — and also very important data to have on hand as we head into the Child Nutrition Reauthorization this fall, when federal lawmakers will debate whether to roll back some of these same healthier school meal standards.

After attending a closed - door meeting where Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan, of Long Isand, was re-elected as head of the GOP conference, (Felder said he did not cast a vote), the Brooklyn lawmaker suggested he might even wait until the IDC announced which conference it would be aligning with in 2017.

After all of the head - spinning votes, speeches, delays and challenges on the floor of the Erie County Legislature, lawmakers ultimately voted 10 - 1 to approve Democratic lawyer Mark Carney as the newest commissioner on the Erie County Water Authority.

But as Capital Tonight's Nick Reisman explains, all signs point to a deal between lawmakers and the governor coming to a head in the near future.

Voters» view of Cuomo is up as he and state lawmakers head into a tough budget season, a new poll shows.

As we head into the home stretch of negotiations, the Fiscal Policy Institute has drawn up a helpful side - by - side comparison of the three plans to help lawmakers, reporters ordinary citizens keep track.

New York's expected budget gap is growing larger — a more than $ 4 billion deficit heading into the next fiscal year now poses a challenge for Governor Andrew Cuomo and state lawmakers as they prepare to run for re-election.

Brannan's request comes in response to mounting pressure on state legislators to secure funding for New York City public schools as Albany lawmakers head into budget negotiations.

Donald TrumpDonald John TrumpGOP lawmakers want Trump to stop bashing Congress US ends aid for northwest Syria: report FBI informant met with three Trump campaign advisers: report MORE's campaign on Friday announced two major hires as he ramps up his staffing heading into the general election.

Backers feel that first - year record of accomplishment puts lawmakers in good stead to maintain control as they head into a new election cycle in 2015.

My findings indicate that all entreaties to make the family, now headed and directed by billionaire younger brother, Dr. Deji Adeleke, see the death of the lawmaker as act of God which should not be used to tarnish the image of the government fell on deaf ears.

Ravitch, a Yale - educated lawyer, has a long history of running into flames and rescuing institutions: the Urban Development Corporation in the seventies, Bowery Savings Bank in the eighties, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, both as chairman during Mario Cuomo's administration (they butted heads) and as the architect of the bailout plan approved by lawmakers in the spring.

ALBANY — Voters» view of Gov. Andrew Cuomo is up as he and state lawmakers head into a tough budget season, a new poll shows.

The governor's absence has fueled suspicion among Democrats that Cuomo, the de facto head of their party, is siding more closely with Republicans in the State Senate as lawmakers negotiate the renewal of rent regulations in New York City.

The future of the state's property tax cap is one of the big items on the docket as state lawmakers head back to Albany to finish up the current session.

Andrew Kennedy, who heads the board and also serves as a senior economic development aide for Governor Andrew Cuomo, defended the report against the harsh criticism of columnists and lawmakers who derided the 76 jobs created in Start - UP's first year as lackluster.

After all of the head - spinning votes, speeches, delays and challenges on the floor of the Erie County Legislature, lawmakers ultimately voted 10 - 1 on Thursday to approve Democratic lawyer Mark Carney as the newest commissioner on the Erie County Water Authority.

After the arrest, the lawmaker who replaced Mr. Sampson as the head of the Senate's Democratic conference, Andrea Stewart - Cousins, acted swiftly by stripping him of rank and privilege.

The lawmaker asked attendees to boost support for Republican town and county candidates as they head towards next month's general election.

A Queens lawmaker said Monday that he was replaced as head of the state Senate Ethics Committee shortly after attempting to convene its first public meeting in years.

That wasn't the case Wednesday, as Gov. Andrew Cuomo's economic development czar Howard Zemsky alternately jousted with, rebutted and generally went head - to - head with lawmakers who posed pointed questions about job creation programs overseen by Empire State Development Corp..

New York lawmakers should use all tools available to fight this issue head on through legislation, such as S. 4417, introduced by Senator Tony Avella, which would direct the state PSC to repeal any electric rate increase «where such increase is a subsidy to upstate nuclear power plants.»

The House Republican Conference offered GOP lawmakers some advice on how to plug education as they headed to their home districts for the spring recess this month.

NSBA will continue to work with lawmakers to prioritize the interests of our nation's local school board members and public schoolchildren as S. 1177 heads to the Senate for a vote, and approaches the finish line for the long overdue ESEA modernization.

The effect on schools at the start of the 2014 - 15 school year had some lawmakers scratching their heads as they considered the possibility of the draft bill becoming law during the short session that begins this May.

The 64 - year - old Texan is being discussed as Donald Trump's head of foreign affairs, according to Joe Scarborough, host of MSNBC breakfast show «Morning Joe» and a former Republican lawmaker.

«We would still like to hear from Mr Zuckerberg as well,» lawmaker Damian Collins, who heads parliament's Digital, Culture, Media and Sport committee, said on Tuesday.

As a point of interest, Zuckerberg will be heading to Washington D.C. this week to answer questions from lawmakers about the privacy scandal that has seen the company's share price plummet in recent weeks.

As evidence has grown, including from Facebook's own internal investigations, lawmakers have pushed the company and others to search more deeply and more quickly for answers - both to determine what happened in 2016 and to head off a repeat in future elections.

David Bitner, head of Americas capital markets research at commercial real estate services company Cushman & Wakefield, advises HNW real estate investors to monitor two particular provisions as lawmakers continue formulating the plan: 1031 exchanges and carried interest.