Sentences with phrase «council bringing bills to vote»

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The bill in the City Council, which could come up for a vote as early as Thursday, would only allow Uber and similar cab - apps like Lyft to bring 201 new cars onto the road in the next year — a steep drop - off from Uber's planned addition of 10,000 new vehicles.

The former state lawmaker plans to create a second committee — Nickel PAC — that he said will contribute directly to candidates who pledge to support a City Council speaker next year who vowed to bring the bag fee bill up for a new vote.

Brewer used that uncertainty to explain why she's continuing to negotiate a compromise on the bill with Council Speaker Christine Quinn, a leading mayoral candidate who's expressed support for the concept of the bill, but has not brought the bill for a vote.

Still, some council members maintained a bill to temporarily cap Uber's growth at 1 percent had enough votes to pass, and Mr. de Blasio said he hoped a bill, set to pass today, to commission a traffic study would bring «clarity» to the issue — and bolster his anti-Uber criticisms.