Sentences with phrase «democratic assembly members»

In March, Democratic Assembly members introduced a $ 1.6 billion program called Degrees Not Debt, that would help nearly 400,000 UC and CSU students pay for tuition and living expenses.

Mandela Barnes, 26, of Milwaukee, is one of five freshmen Democratic Assembly members who are 35 or under.

He says he has bipartisan support, but declined to name those Democratic Assembly members who are on board.

«For years, former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver was the target in a lot of Republican campaigns against Democratic Assembly members.

An coalition of Senate Republicans and suburban Democratic Assembly members have joined forces to try to end the so - called GEA, a legislative source said Wednesday, said Assemb.

In a letter to the P.S.C. sent Wednesday, a group of Democratic Assembly members questioned how R.E.V. could reduce rates and improve reliability if more transmission lines were not built soon to connect upstate's power surplus with downstate's growing power needs.

But Assembly Majority Leader Joe Morelle says that item is likely off the table, because most Democratic Assembly members are against it.

The two Democratic Assembly members in the area are Phil Ramos, who lives just west of the district line, and Ed Hennessey, who beat Dean Murray, a Tea Party darling, in the 2012 election.

Minutes after scolding Republicans for not heeding the advice of the Unemployment Insurance Advisory Council, Democratic Assembly members Thursday voted against a bill containing only provisions approved by that panel.

But Assembly Majority Leader Joe Morelle said that item is likely off the table, because most Democratic Assembly members are against it.

In the wake of the arrest of Speaker Sheldon Silver, Democratic Assembly members held a press conference where they came out strongly in defense of their longtime leader.

He would not answer when asked whether Silver would resign, or whether the Democratic Assembly members would have to vote the speaker out of office.

This sends a message to everyone in the State and the Nation that senior citizens, the poor and the needy really, really, REALLY have a voice in their Democratic Assembly Members, contrary to what took place within the New York State Senate.

Democratic Assembly members Patricia Fahy of Albany, John McDonald of Cohoes and Phil Steck of Colonie as well as Democratic Sen. Neil Breslin of Bethlehem also have pledged their support of employees.

Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie met with his Democratic Assembly members for three days at the Capitol in early December, but did not come to resolution with the governor on a session.

The Governor got the Senate Democratic Conference and the Democratic Assembly Members to vote against their own community interests and against themselves, while on the other hand, the Governor created his own, private, HUGE Member Items — or should I say, Governor Items and Governor Capital Funds for his disposal, making everyone believe that he did away with the system — and in the process, using the Democrats as rubber stamps.

Assemblyman Michael Cusick (D - Mid-Island) and Assemblyman Matthew Titone (D - North Shore) had opposed a proposal in January to replace Silver with a five - member group of Democratic Assembly members.

His aides pointed out that relatively few state legislators — including Democratic Assembly members from New York City — have publicly supported congestion pricing compared with the broad legislative support for marriage equality and the minimum wage going into budget negotiations.

Two Democratic Assembly members at the hearing took a somewhat more diplomatic approach.

In their letter to Cuomo, Democratic Assembly members Deborah Glick (Manhattan), Matt Titone (Staten Island), Danny O'Donnell (Manhattan) and Harry Bronson (Rochester) and Sen. Brad Hoylman (Manhattan) wrote:

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On the flip side, it means difficulty for central New York's Democratic Assembly members to push through key agenda items, and reduces the influence of Sen. Dave Valesky, who DeFrancisco shares representation of Syracuse with.

The two Republicans who will be running on both the GOP and the new party lines against incumbent Democratic Assembly members are Rebecca Harary, challenging Dan Quart in the affluent Silk Stocking District on the East Side, and Jon Kostakopoulos, challenging Rebecca Seawright, whose East Side district is just to the north of Quart's.

Democratic Assembly members initially said every candidate would have a chance to make their case before a vote on February 10, but the Times reports that in recent days party leaders quickly settled on Heastie and gathered up the needed votes.

ALBANY — Several Democratic Assembly members and a top Republican state senator say they still want to see new policies to address sexual harassment in the state budget, even though there are concerns about the negotiation process and disagreements over how best to tackle the issue.

After the Legislature confirmed Finn on Tuesday, two Democratic Assembly members came across Finn's Facebook page, which features spiritual affirmations.

Democratic Assembly members would dominate that process with more than 100 votes.

Jewish voters represent a sizable portion of the Queens district's population, and an even larger portion of the district's swing voters willing to vote for either party, a fact further highlighted by the announcement events of Democratic Assembly Members Rory Lancman and Grace Meng heavily highlighting the issue.

Brodsky also rolled out the endorsements today of four other Manhattan Democratic Assembly members: Herman Farrell, Jr., Jonathan Bing, Brian Kavanagh and Richard Gottfried.

ALBANY — Several Democratic Assembly members and senators on Monday backed a bill to require online political ads to include the source of funding, something that has been required of political ads on television for decades.

But Assembly Majority Leader Joseph Morelle says that item is likely off the table because most Democratic Assembly members are against it.

He'll soon launch a two - week tour of upstate, aides said, paying a visit to ever district represented by a Democratic Assembly member.

Democratic Assembly Member Shelley Mayer defeated Republican Jillian Killian in a special election Tuesday for the state senate seat in the 37th district vacated by George Latimer, who wa...

Democratic Assembly Member Shelley Mayer defeated Republican Jillian Killian in a special election Tuesday for the state senate seat in the 37th district vacated by George Latimer, who was elected Westchester County Executive.

Sepulveda, a Democratic Assembly member from the Bronx, was overwhelmingly favored.

Locally, there was even more good news for Dems as the village of Sloatsburg went blue and for the first time in decades the Town of Stony Point will have a Democratic Assembly member.

There was a press conference Wednesday morning in Albany about the resolution, for which Democratic Assembly member Didi Barrett of the Hudson Valley voted in support.

Ellen Jaffee, a Democratic Assembly member from Rockland County who is one of the bill's lead sponsors, said that installing a monitor to oversee the school board «has nothing to do with who they are in terms of their culture or religious background.»

And Delaine Eastin, a former Democratic Assembly member who was elected the state schools superintendent last year, has come under fire from some bilingual - education...

On the other side of the Capitol, Democratic Assembly Member Jared Huffman of San Rafael, who thought Proposition 2 was flawed and did not support it in February, introduced a more stringent measure to require all eggs sold in California come from chickens able to stretch their wings without touching a wall.

Not exact matches

Racine Mayor Cory Mason, who helped pass the compact through the Wisconsin Legislature as a Democratic member of the state assembly, said he believes the application meets the compact standards.

Democratic state Sen. Bob Hertzberg and Democratic State Assembly member Marc Levine have both introduced legislation that would require social platforms such as Facebook and Twitter to identify automated accounts — essentially, a sort of sticker that says, «I'm a bot.»

Silver issued a late - night statement — sent out by DACC, not the Assembly itself — offering a warm welcome to four new Democratic members, despite the fact that Barrett's race hasn't yet been called.

Mayer, a member of the state Assembly, is running in a key Westchester County Senate district next Tuesday that could shift control of the chamber to the Democratic Party.

Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver made a non-publicized trip to Washington, D.C. yesterday to meet for the first time with Democratic members of New York's congressional delegation, who are growing increasingly concerned about the state's redistricting process — a process that will reduce their number from 29 to 27.

The March 20 special election is right around the corner, and Democratic Common Council Member Michael «Mickey» Kearns is kicking his campaign for the 145th Assembly District up a notch with an ad that slams his opponent as nothing but a «puppet» of Speaker Sheldon Silver.

Hon Nii Lante Vanderpuye who is known as a grassroot man and the longest serving Assembly Member in the Accra Metropolitan Assembly used the occasion to engage opinion leaders from the various ethnic groups in the Old Fadama and Kokomba Yam Market community and members of the National Democratic Congress in his constituency to share ideas on how to mobilize people and make the Party more appealing to the constituents.

When in the Course of New York State Governmental events, it becomes necessary for a Governor to dissolve the political ideas and assumptions which have connected him with Democratic and Republican Members of the Assembly and the Senate, and forced him to assume among this executive powers, the right to assemble a Mooreland Commission, to reinstitute the rule of law in NYS; keeping in mind a decent respect for the opinions of New Yorkers requires that he should declare the causes which impel him to such dramatic action:

Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie called the effort to strengthen oversight of economic development programs «an admirable goal» but said a measure aimed at expanding the authority of Comptroller Tom DiNapoli will first be aired with his Democratic conference members.

Based on numerous conversations around the Capitol the last few days, here is part of the problem: Some of the rank and file members of the Democratic Assembly wanted to hold up the budget in exchange for a better deal on Raise the Age — an issue that is deeply important to them.