Sentences with phrase «legislature came to agreement on»

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A spokesman for the Assembly Democrats has said that technically, the legislature has until the end of 2016 to come to agreement on the pension forfeiture measure.

«It relies on too many unrealistic savings, it contains immense cuts to higher education, and it would violate existing state contracts with our employees, resulting in costly legal battles for years to come,» said Malloy, «if the responsible solution I negotiated with Democrats isn't going to pass, then it is incumbent on the legislature to reach a new agreement soon — one that is realistic and, ideally, bipartisan.»

In fact, the appeals court deadline came and went, with no agreement between the governor and the legislature on how to proceed.

After years of advocacy efforts around the funding formula and some pragmatic compromise this summer, both parties in the Illinois legislature and the Governor's office came to an agreement on fixing the funding formula to make sure schools would be able to open.

But knowing the composition of the state legislature, and the hostility of the Republican leadership in both chambers to Prop B, we knew that we'd have to entertain compromise on some elements of the agreement (at no point, ever, publically, has Pacelle or anyone from HSUS mentioned any thought of compromise — and likely, this is why they didn't have a seat at the table when it came to this new law), in order to protect the measure for the long term and to obviate the need for a second public vote on the issue.