Sentences with phrase «senate major leader»

State Senate Major Leader John Flanagan said he would oppose a move to block legislators from earning outside income.

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But Republican Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is reportedly at odds with GOP House Speaker Paul Ryan on whether or not to use reconciliation and pass another major bill without any Democratic votes.

CNN: «Clown question, bro» takes off, with a T - shirt, a beer and a trademark You know a quote has entered the national lexicon when a major sports merchandise company plans to plaster it on T - shirts, it inspires a brand new beer and the Senate majority leader invokes it to respond to a reporter.

Washington (CNN)-- You know a quote has entered the national lexicon when a major sports merchandise company plans to plaster it on T - shirts, it inspires a brand new beer and the Senate majority leader invokes it to respond to a reporter.

Sen. Chuck Grassley, R - Iowa, the ranking member of the Senate Finance Committee, is investigating several major church - based ministries known for their leaders» lavish lifestyles and prosperity teachings.

We now urge the Senate and House leaders to quickly reconcile any differences between the Senate and House bills, so the first major tax overhaul in 30 years can be passed and signed into law.

The new revenue bill introduced late last night has four major changes from the original deal struck by Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver and Senate Democratic Conference Leader John Sampson, including a carve out of the so - called «Bloomberg penalty» for extremely rich residents (like the billionaire mayor) in NYC.

The major airline carriers are plotting to collect the personal data of every passenger and use it to set personalized prices that could mean big increases for some and discount coupons for others, U.S. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer said.

With a sweeping gun control measure behind them, the leaders of the newly formed IDC - GOP Senate coalition believe they've passed a major hurdle toward convincing Albany they can manage the state Senate.

Also at 1 p.m., U.S. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer will launch a major effort to push a new bipartisan bill that would help cutoff the flow of illicit fentanyl from China, Mexico, and other countries into Staten Island and across the United States, 121st Precinct House, Graniteville, 970 Richmond Ave., Staten Island.

At 12:30 p.m., Senate Labor Chairwoman Marisol Alcantara, joined by her fellow IDC members and leaders of major labor unions, will announce legislation to combat union - busting tactics used in right - to - work states spreading nationally, outside Senate chambers, 3rd Floor, State Capitol, Albany.

Cuomo said he wants to include major reforms in his State of the State agenda after federal juries lost no time finding former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver and former Senate Leader Dean Skelos and his son guilty of multiple corruption charges late in 2015.

ALBANY — On the eve of Vice President Mike Pence's visit to the Buffalo area, Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer on Monday urged New Yorkers to demand an explanation about Republican proposals to eliminate a major federal tax deduction used by millions of state residents.

Bonomo, a major political player in the state, earned fame as the main witness who cooperated with prosecutors to convict former Senate Republican Leader Dean Skelos (Nassau County) for accepting bribes.

The Democratic Rural Conference drew nearly all of New York State's major Democratic elected officials to its 2018 annual meeting, with Governor Andrew Cuomo, Lieutenant Governor Kathy Hochul, NYS Comptroller Tom DiNapoli, NYS Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, NYS Senate Democratic Leader Andrea Stewart - Cousins and U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand leading the elected attendees.

Other recent major corruption convictions — of former State Senate majority leader Dean Skelos and former State Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver — were overturned last year.

With their bill to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act in tatters, U.S. Senate leaders today pushed to vote on a different measure that would repeal major parts of President Barack Obama's health law without a replacement — but that plan appeared also to collapse.

The hedge fund manager Daniel Loeb, a prominent charter school supporter and a major financial backer of Gov. Andrew Cuomo and congressional Republicans, accused Senate Minority Leader Andrea Stewart - Cousins, who is black, of having done «more damage to people of color than anyone who has ever donned a hood.»

The candidates in the April 19 special election to fill the seat of former Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos rolled out major endorsements Tuesday, as President Bill Clinton backed Democratic Assemb.

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer says a major project that could bring relief to Penn Station commuters is being threatened.

Most if not all major policy decisions, including the direction of a $ 168 billion budget, are still decided by three men in a room: the governor; the leader of the Senate, John J. Flanagan, R - Long Island; and the Assembly speaker, Carl E. Heastie, D - Bronx.

Cuomo, perhaps attempting to win favor with both, explained he would not sign off on a pay hike unless legislators — mostly Senate Republican leader Dean Skelos — agreed to major campaign finance reforms.

Major newspapers have posted editorials calling for the New York Senate Leader, Dean Skelos, to resign after the Senator and his son have been accused of running a corruption scam.

And he says under a leadership driven system like New York's, the Assembly Speaker is one of just three people, along with the governor and Senate leader, who make all of the major decisions about the budget and other important legislation that effects everyone in the state.

These are major victories for Senate Democratic Leader Charles SchumerCharles (Chuck) Ellis SchumerSchumer: GOP efforts to identify FBI informant «close to crossing a legal line» Patients deserve the «right to try» How the embassy move widens the partisan divide over Israel MORE (N.Y.) and House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi (Calif.), who threatened to block the bill over what they considered «poison pill» riders.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo has been steering clear of public events at the state Capitol recently, after a second major party legislative leader, the head of the Senate was forced to resign over corruption charges.

Many legislators and advocates disagreed with Cuomo's assessment that the new bill required emergency action, saying that super PACs were not an issue in the major corruption convictions of former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, former Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos, and other recently disgraced legislators.

Both the leader of the Senate and the Assembly have been arrested, tried and convicted in the past year, on major corruption charges, and the U.S. Attorney may still be investigating others.

The leader of the Senate Democrats, Andrea Stewart - Cousins, is at the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia to witness the historic nomination of the first female candidate for president in a major political party.

The Nassau County - based Skelos, who works for Ruskin Moscou Faltischek, a major Long Island law firm that represents dozens of powerful businesses before state agencies, voluntarily revealed last year that he was paid as much as $ 250,000 in private legal fees in 2009, when he was Senate minority leader.

(CNN)- Major veterans» groups this Memorial Day weekend harshly criticized the top Republican on the Senate Veterans» Affairs Committee after he charged that the leaders of the service organizations are too cozy with embattled VA Secretary Eric Shinseki and won't call for him to resign despite allegations of mismanagement and wrongdoing in his department.

New York, NY — The New York State Senate Coalition today unveiled an alarming joint - investigative report, «Keeping Our Children Safe From Sex Offenders,» conducted by the offices of Independent Democratic Conference Leader Jeff Klein (D - Bronx / Westchester) and State Senate Majority Leader Dean G. Skelos (R - Nassau), which uncovered startling violations of residency restrictions and a major loophole in the law.

During more than 20 years as Assembly speaker, Silver played a major part in creating state budgets and policies as one of Albany's «three men in a room» when big decisions are made: the governor, the Senate majority leader and the speaker.

A charter school advocate and major donor to Gov. Cuomo made racist remarks on Facebook about Senate Democratic Minority Leader, according to a report Thursday.

Washington (CNN)- White House officials led by Vice President Joe Biden met for the first time Thursday with House and Senate leaders in both parties to begin negotiations on major differences over spending cuts.

But support from the labor movement comes a coalition of groups backing the bill make a major end of session push for the measure, which is sponsored by Minority Leader John Sampson, D - Brooklyn, in the Senate.

This process is essentially what occurred in the Skelos and Silver cases, when the Republican conference in the state Senate and the Democratic conference in the Assembly played major roles in determining the resignations of their respective leaders and the appointments of their successors.

Deputy Senate Majority Leader Tom Libous, R - Binghamton, a major proponent of hydrofracking, initially didn't rule out a «true» millionaires tax given the devastation from storm flooding.

Democrats in Washington, including Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, are vowing to fight the nomination of Andy Pudzer as labor secretary, setting up another major fight over Trump's cabinet choices.

A promise from Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell to allow a vote on a major immigration proposal next month finally broke the logjam after a three - day shutdown that began at midnight Saturday.

The three current major leaders of the legislature, Senate Leader John Flanagan, Independent Senate Democratic Leader Jeff Klein, and Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie, say they will no longer earn any outside income.

Indeed, Duran's first major post-session fundraiser included as «co-chairs» Sens. Oscar Braynon and Audrey Gibson, respectively, the just - previous and current Senate Democratic leaders (as well as many of his fellow House members, including the Democratic leaders).

I know its bad but these are some MAJOR stories: the Democratic Majority Leader in the State Senate repudiates a home rule bill claiming he was mislead by the Mayor and that gets NO coverage?

Major appropriations bills had not yet been introduced for the public to view when the Democratic governor and his top aides began speaking to reporters in the Capitol's ceremonial Red Room, but Cuomo insisted that leaders of the Assembly and State Senate — who were not present for the announcement — had signed off on it.

With that vote, President Donald Trump's top priority passed its first major test of the legislative process, as Republican leaders in the House and Senate rush the complex tax legislation in a bid to put it on the president's desk before Christmas.

Virtually all major decisions are made by consensus with Democratic Governor Andrew Cuomo, Republican Senate leader John Flanagan, and Democratic Assembly speaker Carl Heastie, with the Republican - aligned Senate Independent Democratic Conference leader Jeff Klein sometimes included.

Along with the Senate majority leader and the governor, he plays a major role in creating state budgets, laws and policies in a system long criticized in Albany as «three men in a room.»

Also at 10:30 a.m., U.S. Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer launches a major effort to protect funding for the Northeast Center For Occupational Safety And Health For Agriculture, Forestry and Fishing, 4397 Route 98, North Java.

As leader of the breakaway Senate Democrats, Klein will play a major role in the negotiations over how the state spends its $ 150 billion budget.

Sen. Charles Schumer leads Senate Democrats and whether the country is ready for both a House speaker and a Senate majority leader from New York is a major question.