Sentences with phrase «assembly during budget negotiations»

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Meanwhile, Senate GOP Leader Dean Skelos told the NY Post he's prepared to fight on behalf of charter schools during the ongoing budget negotiations with Cuomo, Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver and IDC Leader Jeff Klein.

During this Assembly, we have used our influence in budget negotiations to secure, amongst other things, over # 200 million extra investment in schools through our Welsh Pupil Premium.

In an interview this spring, Sen. James Seward, R - Milford, said fellow representatives in the Senate and Assembly discussed ride hailing during 2018 fiscal year budget negotiations.

The Senate GOP said it plans to act within two weeks on its budget proposal that will be submitted to public budget conference committee negotiations with the Assembly and used during continued discussions with the governor.

ALBANY — Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie on Wednesday cast doubt on comments by Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos that a minimum wage hike has not been seriously discussed during budget negotiations.

Senator Simcha Felder, a Democrat who caucuses with the Republicans and who has supported the tax credit bill, said Cuomo and the Assembly both played parts in the proposal's demise during budget negotiations.

During the budget negotiations, Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver promised to bring back up the millionaire's tax, and this week he did just that.

Legislators rejected this change during the first round of budget negotiations, with the Assembly creating a credit based on income (and not tied to local spending) and the State Senate embracing a simpler but less onerous plan advanced by groups representing cities, towns, counties, school boards and villages to give the «freeze» check back to the local government to invest as it sees fit.

So far, few Democrats in the Assembly have called for Mr. Silver to resign his leadership post — but last night several newspapers reported that Mr. Silver would step back from his duties, while not resigning his post, and allow five veteran Democrats to run the chamber during critical budget negotiations.

The final budget negotiations occur during secretive, closed - door meetings between the governor and legislative leaders — in this case, Cuomo, Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan (R - Long Island) and Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie (D - Bronx), and Klein, leader of the breakaway Democrats.

by Assembly Minority Leader Brian M. Kolb (R - Canandaigua) As we enter the middle of March, Albany's notoriously secretive budget negotiations will gain momentum during the coming weeks.