Sentences with phrase «as state legislators began»

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As Congress begins its seven - week recess, legislators are heading back to their home states.

While the Berks County legislator, a longtime advocate of limited government who billed himself as the true conservative in the primary, has neither encouraged or discouraged the nascent write - in movement, which began to take shape only a few days after the state's bruising primary election — a lopsided contest in which the heavily - favored attorney general and the GOP establishment unleashed a last - minute barrage of negative ads against Rohrer's insurgent candidacy.

That means that if state legislators adopted a plan as early as March 13 that was then signed by Cuomo, it would require Justice Department approval in a matter of days before the beginning of petitioning — an unlikely feat.

As Pride Weekend begins in Buffalo, one legislator is pushing for protections for all under state law.

The million dollar question now is whether the state legislator will increase the «mansion tax» from $ 1 to $ 2 million as the Empire State begins the fiscal year with a $ 4 billion defstate legislator will increase the «mansion tax» from $ 1 to $ 2 million as the Empire State begins the fiscal year with a $ 4 billion defState begins the fiscal year with a $ 4 billion deficit.

A former Hyde Park town councilwoman who is in her second term on the Dutchess County legislator, Serino, 53, first emerged as a candidate for the 106th state Assembly District but tossed her hat in the race for the state Senate when controversies began to taint other potential GOP candidates for the seat.

And though he had many supporters, including powerful state legislators who pushed through a special bill that transferred powers from the school board to the superintendent, Amato could not survive the disastrous financial reports, audits, and indictments that began flowing through his office in 2005, almost as a prelude to Katrina's tidal surge.

Perhaps in response to Illinois having been named the third most corrupt state in the nation, and maybe also just having watched former governor Blagojevich head off to prison for 14 years, our state legislators have begun acting uncannily as though they are listening to us instead of the power elite.

The report was obtained Tuesday by The Associated Press as the groups behind the study began distributing it to state legislators, other education policymakers and teachers who took part in the focus groups.

«Our policy agenda focuses on state houses,» said Tim Melton, a former Democratic state legislator in Michigan who recently began working as StudentsFirst's national legislative director.

The study arrives as legislators consider an override of Governor Bruce Rauner's amendatory veto of Senate Bill 1, which would rewrite the school funding formula to drive more dollars to the state's neediest districts and begin to close funding gaps between low - income and wealthier students.

«[M] ore and more state legislators are beginning to understand the crisis that we are in in America as it pertains to our public education system.»