Sentences with phrase «legislative leaders from both parties»

That meant legislative leaders from both parties were at the table for budget negotiations.

«I think the budget that was passed in both chambers is a terrible budget for the state of Connecticut,» House Speaker Joe Aresimowicz, D - Berlin, said Thursday after emerging from closed - door talks with Malloy and legislative leaders from both parties.

Rep. Robyn Porter, a Democrat from New Haven, criticized Malloy and top legislative leaders from both parties for declaring early in the budget process that tax increases for top earners were off the table.

Legislative leaders from both parties have said they are prepared to resume negotiations to try and reach a consensus budget before October 1.

Malloy is meeting Wednesday afternoon with legislative leaders from both parties, with the hope of calling rank - and - file lawmakers to the Capitol by the middle of next week.

Not exact matches

The labor - aligned Working Families Party in a statement Friday called on Independent Democratic Conference Leader Jeff Klein to step aside from his leadership post as an investigation is conducted into an allegation that he forcibly kissed a former legislative staffer.

If both legislative leaders from opposing parties are against this convention then the public ought to be clamoring for it.

And as presidents from Jefferson to Bush have found, the leaders and members of the legislative branch have their own agendas, even if they nominally belong to the same party as the Chief Executive (lucky Washington pretty much got a free ride).

In reality, it gets more complicated because the legislative leaders actually need to win a majority only from their own party.

The Moreland Act commission wrote letters to state senators and assemblymembers who make more than $ 20,000 a year from outside legal clients, a figure that includes all of the major party legislative leaders.

For the first time in Republican history, most of the party's top legislative leaders came from former Confederate states, where resistance to minority and worker rights was an established tradition.

The reaction from legislative leaders form the governor's own party was cool, and non committal.

Last week, legislative leaders from both political parties agreed to a budget that seeks to close the state's $ 3.5 billion deficit; a vote could be held next week.

In theory this could be interpreted to support an argument that a parliamentary party ought to have the power to elect their party leader directly, and indeed, at least historically, parliamentary system parties» leadership electoral procedures usually called for the party's legislative caucus to fill a leadership vacancy by electing a new leader directly by and from amongst themselves, and for the whole succession process to be completed within as short a time frame as practical.

Democratic legislative leaders on Wednesday were able to push through a two - year, $ 40.3 billion Democratic budget on the final night of the legislative session, despite opposition from some lawmakers in their own party, Republicans and some of the state's major employers.

Voters also want to raise the minimum wage higher than the governor is proposing, and think he should not exclude minority party leaders, including the only female legislative leader Senate Democratic Leader Andrea Stewart Cousins, from budget leader Senate Democratic Leader Andrea Stewart Cousins, from budget Leader Andrea Stewart Cousins, from budget talks.

Minority party leaders traditionally have been excluded from the meetings, which have become known around the Capitol as the «three men in a room» because they typically include the governor and two major party legislative leaders, who so far have all been male.

Minority party leaders have been traditionally excluded from the meetings, which have become known around the Capitol as the «three men in a room» because they typically include the governor and two major party legislative leaders, who so far have all been male.

Voters also want to raise the minimum wage higher than the governor is proposing, and think he should not exclude minority party leaders from budget talks, including the only female legislative leader Senate Democratic Leader Andrea Stewart - Coleader Senate Democratic Leader Andrea Stewart - CoLeader Andrea Stewart - Cousins.

Legislative leaders from both sides of the aisle hailed the plan as a historic step toward bipartisan cooperation, but the debate also exposed deep ideological rifts within the chamber: 23 lawmakers from the far reaches of both parties cast «no» votes, rejecting the centrist approach that led to the deal.

As the leader of the legislative arm of government, with members from different political parties, the governor said that Mr Adeyemo ensured that the relationship with the Executive was very robust.