Sentences with phrase «democrat assembly member»

Welcoming Janet's selection, Peter Black AM, Welsh Liberal Democrat Assembly Member for South Wales West, said: «Janet Ellard will make an excellent voice in Parliament after so many years of neglect by endless Labour politicians taking the people of Ogmore for granted.

Aled Roberts, Welsh Liberal Democrat Assembly Member for North Wales, has welcomed the announcement by Danny Alexander, Chief Secretary to the Treasury, that a new prison is to be built in North Wales.

Responding to the review of cardiac surgery services at Morriston Hospital Swansea, Peter Black, South Wales West Welsh Liberal Democrat Assembly Member, said:

Commenting on the Annual report of the Welsh Language Commissioner, Aled Roberts, Welsh Liberal Democrat Assembly Member for North Wales and Spokesperson on the Welsh Language said:

Speaking in the Welsh Assembly today, the Welsh Liberal Democrat Assembly Member for South Wales West, Peter Black pressed the Minister for Housing and Regeneration to give local councils the power to better control the spread of houses in multiple occupation in residential areas.

Following a suggestion by Liberal Democrat assembly member Caroline Pidgeon that the process may have been «prejudged», Boris replied that: «I find it very depressing that you persist in this Taliban - like hatred of objects of beauty.»

Aled Roberts is the current Liberal Democrat Assembly Member for North Wales having been first elected in 2011.

Aled Roberts, the Welsh Liberal Democrat Assembly Member for North Wales, has said it is now time for commissioners to be brought in to control the health board.

Reacting to the news, Welsh Liberal Democrat Assembly Member for South Wales West Peter Black said:

The Welsh Liberal Democrat Assembly Member for South Wales West, Peter Black has criticised Swansea University for the seven - day deadline it imposes on students wishing to appeal against their degree results.

The Nurse Staffing Levels Act is one of the Welsh Liberal Democrats» proudest achievements and further evidence of the positive difference just one Welsh Liberal Democrat Assembly Member can make.

The Welsh Liberal Democrat Assembly Member for South Wales West, Peter Black is demanding tough action over mobile phone insurance in the light of the recent Financial Conduct Authority investigation which found poor claims handling, poor sales practice, anti-customer exclusions in the small print, and poor product design.

«Sadiq Khan's manifesto specifically said that Londoners won't pay a penny more for their travel in 2020 than they do today,» Liberal democrat Assembly Member Caroline Pidgeon said today.

Since 2000, it has been the same six Liberal Democrat Assembly Members that were returned in every election.

The fact they replaced many committed, talented and caring Welsh Liberal Democrat Assembly Members is heart - breaking.

But you can help us kick out these UKIP AMs in 2021 and return another group of effective Welsh Liberal Democrat Assembly Members in their place.

Welsh Liberal Democrat Assembly Members, Peers and Members of Parliament have been spending time as apprentices in businesses across Wales to highlight the opportunities available for young people to gain experience and skills.

Albany's legislative delegation, including Democrat Assembly members Patricia Fahy and John McDonald, and Senator Neil Breslin, released a joint statement Friday morning, promising their full support.

Claims by the Secretary of State for Wales that the current devolution settlement does not need major changes are misguided and could help to entrench an unsatisfactory system in place where the courts become the final arbiter of laws rather than the electorate, the Welsh Liberal Democrats Assembly Member, Peter Black has said.

Just imagine what difference we could make with more Welsh Liberal Democrat Assembly Members.

Policy recommendations are usually introduced by «calls for», «calls on the Government to» or even «calls on the Liberal Democrat Assembly Members to», but could also follow from «recommends», «proposes», «urges», «demands», «insists», or «resolves».

Some Democrat Assembly members have even blocked another bill that would have limited the use of oil products in California.

Not exact matches

In addition, the Democrats lost two members of their conference: Mark Schroeder's seat (145th AD) out in Western NY up for grabs, as the WNY Democrat (and thorn in Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver's side) stepped down to run for Buffalo comptroller; and Republican - turned - Democrat Mike Spano (93rd AD) will be giving up his seat to start his new job as mayor of Yonkers.

Earlier this year, Democrat Bill Perkins left his Senate seat after securing a seat on the city Council, which is increasingly stocked with former members of the Assembly and Senate.

The latter portion of that statement is a bit facetious, considering that Democrats have 100 members in the Assembly and are in no danger of losing the majority.

Democrats in both the Senate and Assembly grumbled that a member of their own party — Gov. Andrew Cuomo — was insistent on no new taxes in the 2011 - 12 state budget.

The average majority members in both houses voted with their respective leaders between 97.41 percent (Assembly Democrats) and 98.87 percent (Senate Republicans) of the time.

This is the first session in about a decade that Democrats in the 150 - seat Assembly have fall below 100 members.

Assembly Democrats have a large 100 - plus member majority in the 150 - seat Assembly and have held power since the post-Watergate scandal era.

«I had a great relationship with the governor... and Speaker Shelly Silver really does an outstanding job, whether anybody relates or not to his politics, he does an outstanding job of leading the Democrat - controlled Assembly, which is not an easy task because there are so many members in that conference.»

Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan, who made the committee appointments, insisted «the law is on our side and so is case law,» adding: «I believe that all the members, Democrat and Republican, Assembly or Senate are worthy of the compensation that they receive... All of this is transparent, all of this is disclosed.»

The Republicans got $ 4.4 million to split, Kolb said, while some members — including Assembly Majority Leader Joe Morelle, a Rochester Democrat who battled Heastie for the speakership — received many times more than that for just a single project.

The number of upstaters in the majority conference has grown steadily over the years, adding to the diversity of opinions among Assembly Democrats, though they still tend to be dominated by the largely liberal views of the New York City members.

Punishing her would run counter to the «reform» mantra the Assembly Democrats — including Heastie — have been repeating in the face of Silver's demise, and it also would not likely sit will with the female members of the conference.

Members of the host committee, which is still in formation, include a number of other Assembly Democrats from both upstate and NYC.

But Assembly Democrats can change their practices to allow minority members more power sharing.

Members of VOCAL - NY want Cuomo and Republicans in the state Senate to go along with a plan by Assembly Democrats to expand the millionaires» tax to add several higher brackets to generate even more revenue.

The Assembly Democrats also have the most members who have been in Albany for an extremely long time.

Top Democrat and Republican members of the Senate and Assembly are not attending Governor Cuomo's State of the State Address.

Keith Wright, Chairman of the New York County Democrats, Assembly Member, and a Co-Chair of the New York State Democratic Party, who will speak on behalf of Governor Andrew Cuomo.

Assembly Democrats numerically have the most members of any of the factions in the Legislature, and so it is up to them to pick the person to succeed Schneiderman.

Assembly Democrats have the lion's share of the votes with more than 100 members, but it's not clear if the Senate would go along with the joint session.

Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver was unspecific on about the future of Assemblyman Micah Kellner, should the Manhattan Democrat be cleared on charges that he sexually harassed members of his staff.

So far, some 71 Assembly members — both Democrats and Republicans — have signed on, and at least nine others have pledged to do so as well.

Over half of Welsh voters chose the Tories, Plaid Cymru or the Liberal Democrats in May this year, yet under Two Member First Past The Post, those parties would be left with less than a third of the seats in the Assembly.

ICYMI: There was a little friendly competition on display last night on CapTon during two separate interviews regarding the upcoming Adirondack Challenge in Indian Lake this weekend, which will pit six - member rafts manned by Team Cuomo, Team Bloomberg, the Assembly Democrats and the Senate leadership coalition against one another in a white - water rafting race.

Praise also goes to every Assembly Member — Democrat and Republican — who took this issue on, in particular Hakeem Jeffries, and Mike Gianaris when he was in that chamber.»

In recent days, Heastie's use of his campaign funds, his donations and steering of member items to contributors have come under the magnifying glass as Assembly Democrats coalesce around his election as speaker.

Assembly Member Brian Kavanagh, a Manhattan Democrat, has been a staunch proponent of election reform, sponsoring many of the relevant bills that have passed his chamber, and he lays the failure of reform proposals at the feet of Senate Republicans.

They are going to be the most junior members of an already Democrat controlled Assembly.»