Sentences with phrase «budget group talks»

Budget Group Talks Education, Spending August 23, 2016 by Brett Kittredge Special legislative committees, which were recently formed to study the state's current tax structure and spending among the largest agencies, including K - 12, began meeting yesterday.

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New York Public Interest Research Group Legislative Director Blair Horner joins Alan in the studio today to talk about the budget.

You talk about the «$ 1m per constituency the money is already in the budget, it's just setting up a committee or a group of individuals to manage the money or the resources so that is very easy to do.

As New York State budget talks reach their final days, and perhaps even hours, a group of Hispanic lawmakers is pushing for the inclusion of the Dream Act in the budget, It would offer college aid to children of undocumented immigrants who were born in the country.

«Once again this highlights the need for real ethics reforms, something the Senate Democrats have been calling on for years, and really shows the absurdity that there has been no talk in this budget process of cleaning up Albany and passing the strong ethics reforms,» said Mike Murphy, a spokesman for the Senate Democratic Conference, a 23 - member group which is in the minority.

Cuomo had a group of mainline Senate Dems, including Leader Andrea Stewart - Cousins (Yonkers) and Gianaris (Queens), to the governor's mansion to talk about the budget when the discussion turned to the war with the Independent Democratic Conference, the sources said.

I absolutely have no idea why I prefer this awful show compared to «a group of 15 people talking in a forest for half the show since the company stinted it's budget».

I talked with Joel Packer, the executive director of the Committee for Education Funding, a Washington, D.C., advocacy group, and he explained that Congress actually began cutting funds to education before the sequester budget battle.

In an interview with InsideClimate News, Miller, 52, talked about the group's origins, Congress» climate problem, and how a SuperPAC can make a difference with a not - so - super budget.

Indeed, there's great concern among some groups that the rights of injured victims may become bargaining chips, especially if budget talks get kicked down the road.