Sentences with phrase «john as legislature»

He voted with Republicans twice to elect his father John as legislature chairman.

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As the 2016 fiscal year comes to a close, first - term Governor John Bel Edwards and the state legislature have been in crisis mode, struggling to close a fiscal 2017 budget gap that could run as high $ 800 million — and that is after $ 485 million in emergency spending cuts this yeaAs the 2016 fiscal year comes to a close, first - term Governor John Bel Edwards and the state legislature have been in crisis mode, struggling to close a fiscal 2017 budget gap that could run as high $ 800 million — and that is after $ 485 million in emergency spending cuts this yeaas high $ 800 million — and that is after $ 485 million in emergency spending cuts this year.

As the 2016 fiscal year comes to a close, first - term Gov. John Bel Edwards and the state legislature have been in crisis mode, struggling to close a fiscal 2017 budget gap that could run as high $ 800 millioAs the 2016 fiscal year comes to a close, first - term Gov. John Bel Edwards and the state legislature have been in crisis mode, struggling to close a fiscal 2017 budget gap that could run as high $ 800 millioas high $ 800 million.

But it's clear that Gregorius, as Democratic majority leader, is not enamored with a county legislature that has more members of his own party seated (13 - 10), yet is controlled by Republicans in league with a small Democratic breakaway faction that, together elected Democrat John Parete as its chair.

We thought as a legislature that we backed away from a governor's proposal, made a compromise so the school districts got a enough money, but it never ends,» said state Sen. John DeFrancisco, R - Syracuse.

Ghana's legislature on Wednesday October 26 approved John Oti Bless as Deputy Minister of Local Government and Rural Development.

Mark John's proposal of a unicameral legislature makes a lot of sense — provided legislators did not get to pick their constituents as was done in the last round of redistricting.

As senate minority leader since 2007, John was a highly qualified state - government - experienced social moderate and fiscal conservative who was intimately knowledgeable about the inner workings of our state legislature and eminently qualified to get things done.

The other is Assemblyman John McEneny, who came up in Albany's Democratic machine, and has emerged as the sharpest - tongued defender of the legislature's institutional prerogative on redistricting.

At the behest of Cahill, state Sen. Jim Seward (he replaced John Bonacic as our upland solon) and Gov. Andrew Cuomo, the state legislature appropriated $ 2 million for a Route 28 valley rail - trail, something of a misnomer.

While some think John Quigley too young for the job, others point to Ken Ronk successfully running for legislature as a senior at SUNY New Paltz a half dozen years ago.

He has mostly calmed relationships with the county legislature, while fighting for cost - saving measures such as closing the John J. Foley nursing home, privatizing health care centers and combining the treasurer's and comptroller's offices.

But now it seems the Boiceville Inn, what with the election of Olive son and proprietor John Parete as county legislature chairman, has become something of the western county office building.

Things get more interesting as there are grumblings and rumblings that the town's Democratic chairman and county legislator, John Parete, may also be facing an in - party challenge for the legislature despite having received a nomination at the party's county caucus last week.

After Governor Scott Walker and the state legislature killed collective bargaining in Wisconsin, the D.C. based National Education Association sent its chief of staff, John Stocks, to the Badger State as a lobbyist.

In 1999, the state legislature amended the law, named after the late Republican state senator John Stull, to require that «the governing board of each school district shall evaluate and assess certificated employee performance as it reasonably relates to: the progress of pupils toward the standards established pursuant to subdivision (a) and, if applicable, the state adopted academic content standards as measured by state adopted criterion referenced assessments.»

Prior to joining APA, John spent six years as the Education Program Director for the National Conference of State Legislatures (NCSL), served as executive assistant to the Governor of Kansas, and served six years as a member of the Kansas House of Representatives.

Both houses of the state legislature recently passed Senate Bill 310, and [as of press time] it awaits signature by Gov. John Kasich to become law.