Sentences with phrase «as state lawmakers return»
Ken Lovett: «As state lawmakers return to Albany this week, the stench of corruption scandals that hung over the Capitol in 2015 is not expected to dissipate any time soon.»
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Hundreds of teachers returned to the Capitol on Thursday morning as lawmakers debated the rest of the state's $ 10.4 billion budget plan.
The changes come as lawmakers have sought to push for returning power to DiNapoli's office for procurement oversight following the arrests of prominent upstate developers, a former top aide to Gov. Andrew Cuomo and the ex-president of SUNY Polytechnic stemming from an alleged effort to rig state bids on lucrative economic development projects.
Work on the budget continues today as more state lawmakers return to the Capitol, with an eye toward early passage, due to the looming Easter and Passover holidays.
This summer, a bipartisan group of state lawmakers called on Cuomo to expedite NYRA's return to private hands as well.
As lawmakers return for a post-budget legislative session push Tuesday, the state Conservative Party reiterated its call for term limits of elected officials.
As lawmakers prepare to pass the third consecutive state budget with no new pork - barrel spending, Cuomo said yesterday he doesn't believe legislative «member items» should ever return.
Meanwhile, Libous returns to the Capitol while state lawmakers in both the Republican - led Senate and Democratic - controlled Assembly sort out an extension of rent control laws for New York City as well as an extension of mayoral control of New York City schools and the creation of an education tax credit.
Instead, Cuomo framed the debate over the tax abatement, which is expected to pick up when state lawmakers return to Albany next month after an extended break, as a union battle for them to fight over the prevailing wage.
As lawmakers returned to the state Capitol for the first time since the convictions of Sheldon Silver and Dean Skelos, it was Assembly Minority Leader Brian Kolb who perhaps best summed up what 2015 did to the term «state legislator.»
AUSABLE — As federal lawmakers returned to their districts last week to engage in rough and tumble town halls, state lawmakers encountered more mild turf.
As state lawmakers ready to return to the Capitol on Wednesday to consider passing hundreds of new measures in the months ahead, here's a look at when 2016's enacted legislation will go into effect:
While he described the return of former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar to the PDP as a good omen for the party, the BoT chairman added that the likes of the Senate President, Bukola Saraki; a former governor of Kano State, Musa Kwankwaso; Sokoto State Governor, Waziri Tambuwal, and other lawmakers would soon return to the party.
On Wednesday, as lawmakers returned to the state Capitol for the first time since the convictions of Sheldon Silver and Dean Skelos, it was Assembly Minority Leader Brian Kolb who perhaps best summed up what 2015 did to the term «state legislator.»
As state lawmakers have returned to work and Governor Andrew Cuomo has been inaugurated for his second term, one of the most important issues on the agenda in Albany will be housing related.
A panel of state lawmakers is considering a proposal that would bar Indiana from returning to the nationally - crafted academic standards known as the Common Core at the end of a year - long review.
At a so - called «advocacy day» timed to correspond with state lawmakers» May 16 return to Raleigh, organizers with the N.C. Association of Educators, a group that lobbies for thousands of teachers statewide, say they're hoping to draw as many educators and parents as possible.