Sentences with phrase «senate budget agreement»

Senate budget agreement lifts spending caps in ways that could enable significant gains in spending on research and student aid.

LA CROSSE, Wis. (WKBT)---- Wisconsin dairy farmers facing difficult dairy market conditions will get relief from a new U.S. Senate budget agreement.

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Public housing vouchers for the poor are targeted as well, much to the consternation of the pragmatic - minded lawmakers on the House and Senate Appropriations committees, whose programs were significantly curbed by a hard - fought 2011 budget and debt agreement.

Aides and lawmakers say budget talks in the Senate are moving toward an agreement for whopping increases in Pentagon spending as well as domestic programs.

The House passed a short - term budget deal Tuesday, which is separate from the Senate's agreement.

The budget agreement negotiated by Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R - Ky., and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D - N.Y., calls for a $ 63 billion increase in domestic...

The mainline Democratic conference in the state Senate on Sunday urged the eight - member Independent Democratic Conference to block any votes on budget bills until a concrete agreement on raising the age of criminal responsibility is in place.

In an interview on The Capitol Pressroom on Tuesday, Skelos pointed to successes of the Senate under coalition rule — ranging from on - time budgets to a property tax cap (a measure that came in 2011, before the formal governing agreement was actually in place).

The budget isn't the only two - way agreement between Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver and Senate Democratic Conference Leader John Sampson.

The Assembly and Senate came to a tentative agreement on the substance of all the remaining budget bills over the past 24 hours with the exception of revenues and the still - contentious SUNY overhaul plan, a legislative source confirms.

And Senate Democrats who hope to flip the district once held by Republican former Sen. Dean Skelos are pointing to the support from groups like the PAC maintained by StudentsFirstNY after the initial charter school aid proposed by Gov. Andrew Cuomo was doubled to $ 54 million in the final budget agreement — a figure that was backed by Senate Republicans.

Senate Republicans in the final budget agreement were able to secure elements of their original one - house budget resolution on key issues ranging from education aid to upstate transportation, a source familiar with the talks said.

The agreement in the budget, which had been a negotiating point for state Senate Republicans, was the first workers compensation law change in 10 years.

Klein is one of the four men in the room negotiating the budget agreement alongside Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan, Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie and Gov. Andrew Cuomo.

Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan on Monday took a victory lap on an agreement in the budget for the first change in the state's workers» compensation laws in a decade.

The U.S. Senate's top leaders reached an agreement on a two - year budget pact that would shower both the Pentagon and domestic programs with almost $ 300 billion above existing limits, giving wins to both GOP defense hawks and Democrats seeking billions for infrastructure projects and combatting opioid abuse.

Senate Democrats in a letter sent this week to Republican Majority Leader John Flanagan urged that a final budget agreement shore up supplemental aid to safety net hospitals in New York.

Ten days before the start of a new fiscal year, House and Senate negotiators working to resolve differences in $ 30.5 billion spending plans are closing in on a fiscal 2012 budget agreement, according to one of the six conference committee members.

His support could attract other Senate Republicans, potentially setting up a deal with Mr. Cuomo to include the tax increase as part of a three - way budget agreement later this year.

New York Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie says there is a possible compromise to resolve the ongoing state budget stalemate - but the leader of the Senate says there is no final agreement.

New York legislative leaders say they are working together and are close to a budget agreement, after a blowup that left the Senate and Assembly leaders negotiating separately with Governor Andrew Cuomo.

Governor Andrew M. Cuomo, Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan, Senate Independent Democratic Conference Leader Jeffrey Klein, and Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie today announced an agreement on the 2016 - 17 state budget.

House and Senate leadership announce a bipartisan budget agreement outside the Connecticut House chamber.

The source referred to Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver (D - Manhattan) as «the Big Spender» but praised him for at least reaching an agreement with the Senate in late June on the final budget bill — one that Paterson continues to oppose.

«Ironically,» he said, «the provision preemptively limiting worker rights and benefiting the unions could not have made it into the budget without agreement of Senate Republicans — whose slender working majority has been targeted by campaigns funded largely by NYSUT and UFT,» the state and local teachers unions.

The congressman plans to be back in time to vote tomorrow on the budget agreement reached this week by House and Senate leaders.

The Senate is voting on the first bill of the two - way legislative budget agreement, with senators currently engaged in explaining their votes.

«Governor Cuomo today met with Senate Majority Leader Skelos and Assembly Speaker Silver and progress towards a budget agreement continues.

Senate Republicans are publicly supporting the goal of funding full - day kindergarten after Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie announced he had reached an agreement with Gov. Andrew Cuomo for the effort in next year's budget.

Senate Republican Leader Dean Skelos emerged from a closed - door budget session to say that as far as he's concerned, there's an agreement on a 2014 - 15 spending plan.

As for ethics disclosure in the budget, Senate Republicans were poised to make an agreement on a bill that would require revealing outside legal clients, a move already backed by Assembly Democrats.

Despite an array of media reports expressing astonishment at how well Democrats — a minority in both House and Senate — fared in the budget agreement, White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer said Monday that President Trump got much of what he wanted, including more money for defense and homeland security.

In a statement, Heastie, Cuomo and Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos congratulated themselves for the agreement, which if fully voted into law before midnight on Tuesday will be the fifth on - time budget in Cuomo's tenure — a record not matched for decades.

Governor David Paterson, State Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos, and Assembly Majority Leader Sheldon Silver met this weekend in an effort to reach a budget agreement before an emergency legislative session on Tuesday.

* Senate Independent Democratic Conference (IDC): The IDC which is aligned with the GOP, said it would not vote for a budget without a raise the age agreement.

Once the hearings are complete, the Assembly and Senate will develop one - house budget bills before a final agreement is negotiated.

A spokesman for Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan said he can't confirm that there are any agreements on the budget or the related items.

Governor Cuomo, Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos and Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie today announced an agreement on the 2015 - 16 State Budget.

WASHINGTON — Senate leaders brokered a long - sought budget agreement Wednesday that would shower the Pentagon and domestic programs with an extra $ 300 billion over the next two years.

Talks over completing the 2017 - 18 state budget blew up on Wednesday as Senate Republicans, frustrated with a lack of progress on key deals, signaled they're leaving the Capitol until an agreement is reached.

At the same time, Cuomo worked on the separate track of convincing Senate Republicans — many of whom are philosophically opposed to the $ 15 wage — to back an agreement in the budget.

Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos doesn't see an agreement — in the budget or otherwise — limiting the public release of teacher evaluation data.

Inserting policy into appropriations measures could hold up a final agreement on the state budget, Senate Finance Committee Chairman John DeFrancisco warned in an interview.

Last night, a number of Senate Democrats took their frustration with being excluded from the closed - door budget negotiations on the final product, voting «no» on part of the agreement that dealt with transportation, economic development and environmental spending.

An ethics agreement with the Senate would be one of the final puzzle pieces in order to achieve a broader deal on the state budget, which is due on Tuesday.

The Assembly Democrats and Senate GOP are in agreement — again, conceptually — when it come to revisiting the education reforms, especially the teacher performance evaluation system, they agreed to in the budget deal.

The Senate Finance Committee, Assembly Ways and Means Committee and state Budget Division have reached on agreement on just how much cash they've got to spend in 2011 - 2012, settling on a number that's $ 155 million higher than the governor's initial estimate.

Senate Finance Committee Chairman John DeFrancisco this afternoon said the GOP conference was close to an agreement with Gov. Andrew Cuomo on new disclosure requirements in the state budget.

Cuomo said it was because they were busy briefing their respective members on the agreement — or maybe trying to sell it to them, especially in the Senate GOP, because there was quite a bit of discontent over aspects of the budget, especially the minimum wage piece.

A version of the amendment was approved by the Republican - controlled Senate in March as part of a broader agreement over the state budget.