Sentences with phrase «assembly speaker control»

The Senate majority leader and Assembly speaker control the flow of legislation; distribute millions in campaign cash to colleagues; and decide on members» staff and supply allotments, committee chairmanships and lucrative stipends.

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«For decades, Republicans controlled the State Senate and blocked every single piece of reform legislation proposed by the Assembly and Democrats in the Senate — campaign finance reform, election reform, ethics reform and budget reform,» the speaker said.

Supporters say the skills that helped Heastie secure and keep control of the Bronx party will allow him to succeed as speaker of the Assembly.

Carl Heastie, speaker of the Democrat - controlled Assembly, is against the proposal and pointed out that having a trained armed officer on the premises didn't prevent last week's slaughter.

Silver wields iron control in Albany and has faced few real threats to his throne since he became Assembly speaker in 1994.

Complimenting the disorder of the Senate the whole time was the unassailable lethargy of the Assembly, where Ent - like speaker Sheldon Silver controls a Democratic supermajority that is seemingly impervious to public opinion, editorial outrage and, as Eliot Spitzer can unhappily attest, governors with «popular mandates.»

Tensions between Gov. Andrew Cuomo and members of his own party in the Legislature continued on Wednesday, with the governor's office getting into further dustups with both the Assembly speaker and defending itself for not doing more to help flip control of the state Senate.

A spokesman for the current speaker, Carl Heastie, who also served under Silver, called the claim of Silver's total control over the Assembly Democrats «just no true.»

By the time a few dozen lawmakers had assembled in Albany the week before Christmas for an economic development meeting, negotiations were moving so rapidly that the Assembly speaker, Sheldon Silver, a Manhattan Democrat, instructed his members not to leave the capital until they had called his office — just in case a gun control deal was ready.

Mr. de Blasio, the Democratic mayor, has repeatedly relied on the taciturn Assembly speaker to battle for his priorities in the state legislature, where New York City ambitions often crumble in a Republican - controlled Senate.

For two decades, Sheldon Silver was one of the most powerful men in New York politics, his control and demands as speaker of the State Assembly virtually unchallenged.

Each played a role in the breakdown: Mr. Flanagan, who demanded more charter schools in exchange for giving Mr. de Blasio an extension; Carl E. Heastie, the Assembly speaker, refused that demand, and said that he would no longer allow mayoral control to be used as a bargaining chip.

He was first elected by a district on the Lower East Side in 1976, rose to speaker of the Assembly in 1994, and has methodically consolidated his control of that half of the State Legislature.

In court documents unsealed Friday the U.S. attorney accused the former speaker of having two affairs, one with former communications director who ran one of Albany's highest earning lobbying firms, another with a former assemblywoman who received state jobs in agencies controlled by Silver and Assembly Democrats.

After initially supporting him, Democrats who control the Assembly forced Silver to resign as speaker, though he retained his Assembly seat.

Prosecutors attempted to pull the curtain back on the inner workings of the Assembly under Silver, specifically how the former speaker controlled the flow of funds.

New York is «under attack like never before» because of the Trump administration's policies, the speaker of the Democrat - controlled Assembly said Monday as state lawmakers got down to work on what is likely to be one of the most contentious legislative sessions in years.

Another witness, a deputy budget director, later testified it was «the speaker» who, at the end of the day, controlled the who, what and when for funds in the state Assembly.

• The fate of Atlantic Yards now rests with State Assembly speaker Sheldon Silver, who controls one of three votes on the Public Authorities Control Board, which requires unanimity to pass a project — and he boasts an impressive megaproject kill ratio, having already done in the West Side stadium and put the brakes on Moynihan Station.

«So the speaker (Assembly speaker Sheldon Silver) controls what bills get to the floor,» Mr. Palumbo said.

Sheldon Silver, the speaker of the Democrat - controlled State Assembly and a longtime supporter of a higher minimum wage, praised the proposal.

The administration had not reached out to Democrats who control the state Assembly, according to Mike Whyland, a spokesman for speaker Carl Heastie.

At the same time, he worked for decades for the Democratic Assembly Campaign Committee, which is controlled by the speaker.

And because such a step would not require legislative approval, Mr. Cuomo could achieve it while bypassing the Assembly speaker, Sheldon Silver, and the Democratic - controlled State Assembly, labor's most powerful allies in Albany.

As speaker of the Democrat - controlled Assembly, Silver is one of the most influential people in state government.

Mr. Skelos, the Republican who led the Senate, and Mr. Silver, speaker of the Democrat - controlled Assembly, were for years two of the three most powerful men in Albany.

Until Sheldon Silver's arrest and subsequent resignation as speaker of the New York Assembly, he was considered one of the state's most powerful politicians, controlling how billions of dollars of state funds were doled out.

As speaker, Silver controlled millions of dollars in political donations that he could spend to help Democratic Assembly candidates win elections.

With support from the Senate president pro tem, the House speaker and both majority leaders in the Democratic - controlled legislature, the chances of action by the General Assembly this year are virtually guaranteed.

The governor did not hold a face - to - face meeting with legislative leaders, but has previously backed the Assembly's position on mayoral control — something the speaker pointed out with force.

After the indictments of former Assembly speaker Sheldon Silver and former Senate majority leader Dean Skelos, legislators and political observers have hinted that little, besides rent regulations, the 421 - a tax abatement program and mayoral control, will get done this legislative session, going so far as to hint that they might do a one - year extender for each of the measures.

As speaker, Mr. Silver controlled which bills the Assembly considered, so there was never a question about where he stood on those that came before it.

Mr. Barron, a progressive firebrand, did praise the Assembly speaker, Carl E. Heastie of the Bronx, for refusing to bend to the Senate's demands to increase the number of charter schools in the state as a condition to extend mayoral control of the city's schools.

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