Sentences with phrase «senate leader on the issue»

One Senate leader on the issue, John Kerry (D) of Massachusetts, said he and Sen. Joseph Lieberman (I) of Connecticut are ready to «scale back the reach of our legislation» to gain more support.

Not exact matches

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer issued a joint statement urging bipartisanship on both issues Sunday afternoon, but did not commit to anything outright.

In a statement, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer announced plans to introduce legislation to decriminalize marijuana on the federal level, saying his thinking on the issue «has evolved.»

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer had actually urged Trump to implement the steel tariffs back in October, calling the president a «paper tiger» on the issue for delaying the announcement.

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R - Ky., concurred, issuing a statement Friday night promising that the «Senate stands ready to act quickly» on the measure.

U.S. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D - NY, touched on a number of federal and international issues during a quick trip Thursday through Buffalo.

Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie and Senate Minority Leader Andrea Stewart - Cousins, Democrats both, received scores of 100 from the group, which assessed votes on key environmental issues, including the Clean Water Bond Act, renewable energy, septic storage and bolstering solar panel technology.

Senate Minority Leader Andrea Stewart - Cousins did not praise the constitutional amendment that would codify the Roe v. Wade decision in state law as backed by Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Monday, indicating more urgency was needed on the issue.

The mayor's words of support come as Johnson is being targeted, along with Deputy Senate Majority Leader Jeff Klein, by the AFL - CIO for his «yes» vote on charter schools, as well as a host of other issues with which the union is displeased.

Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos after exiting a leaders meeting on Wednesday said he wanted all three issues unlinked.

Independent Democratic Conference Leader Jeff Klein in an interview late Monday afternoon slammed the political and policy strategy of the mainline Democrats in the chamber, saying the leadership of Senate Minority Leader Andrea Stewart - Cousins has failed to effectively advocate on key issues.

Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan did not speak publicly but he did issue a statement, saying the GOP is «hard at work on a comprehensive school safety plan» that will include strengthening school security.

New York State Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan issued a statement on Sunday, saying that he had recently been treated for an alcohol problem.

Still serving his first term in the State Senate, Brad Hoylman has already emerged as a leader on street - safety issues.

As GOP Assemblyman Steve McLaughlin took his protest over a lack of hearings on water issues in Hoosick Falls to the Senate's Republican leadership, his counterpart who also represents the area in Albany backed Majority Leader John Flanagan's stance.

UPDATE: The Senate GOP press office says Skelos» statement actually went out before Cuomo wondered aloud where the majority leader is on this issue.

Here's Ulrich responding to my question on both the broad issue of mayoral control and the proposal from the Republican leader of the state senate providing a one year extension while adding a gubernatorial oversight role.

I look forward to working with the coalition, and with my colleagues in the Assembly and the Senate, especially Senate sponsors Andrea Stewart - Cousins and Michael Gianaris, Election Law chair Michael Cusick, and Assemblymember Latrice Walker, all of whom have been leaders on these issues, to do the vital work necessary to strengthen this most basic aspect of our democracy.

Deputy Senate Majority Leader Jeff Klein (D - Bronx) and Craig Johnson (D - Nassau) dismissed the AFL - CIO's distribution of leaflets that attack them for championing an expansion of charter schools and opposing unions on other pocketbook issues.

The Senate and Assembly each passed their own one - house ethics reform bills earlier this year, but their leaders have failed to reach a deal on the issue.

Republican Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan was disappointed the speech didn't focus enough on bread - and - butter issues.

Following Senate GOP Leader Dean Skelos» comments yesterday about ongoing talks on a public campaign finance system, state Conservative Party is upping the ante on the issue, warning Republican lawmakers that they could lose a crucial endorsement if they vote «yes» should a bill come to the floor.

U.S. Sen. Chuck Schumer pledged during a tour of upstate New York on Monday to not shift away from his locally driven focus on Empire State issues as he prepares to become the next leader of the Senate Democrats in Washington.

But the debate over public financing is a complex one for the Senate, with Independent Democratic Conference Leader Jeff Klein facing pressure from liberal advocacy groups to deliver on the issue.

In the wake of the arrest of Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos on federal corruption charges this morning, Westchester County Executive Rob Astorino, the 2014 GOP gubernatorial candidate, issued a statement expressing «confidence» that the Long Island lawmaker «will do the right thing and promptly resign his leadership position.»

Although Bloomberg clearly put pressure on Republicans to bring the bill to a vote Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos left the meeting with Bloomberg and told reporters that his conference needed to further discuss the issue.

In remarks to reporters, the Republican Senate leader, John J. Flanagan of Long Island, said he believed that lawmakers still deserved a raise but was willing to turn the page on that issue, at least.

And even as Assembly and Senate leaders have raised the possibility of leaving town on Wednesday without extending the mayoral control law, there's still a possibility the two houses will agree to yet another one - year extension without tying it to another issue, sources say.

Final decisions on key issues such as that one are being negotiated by Cuomo, the leader of the Assembly and two Senate leaders — all male.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo, Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos, and Sheldon Silver walked out of a meeting earlier today and had no announcements on deals to move forward the important legislative issues of the day.

Serving as the communications director for two Senate Democratic Leaders, including the leader of the «Wisconsin 14», has given Mike extensive experience working with state and national media to deliver the progressive viewpoint on issues.

While Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos joined in celebrating this week's agreement, his position on the sunset issue is unclear.

Mr. Heastie and Mr. Cuomo lauded their consensus on the issues, even as the agreement does not include GOP State Senate Leader Dean Skelos.

The Republican Senate Leader also threw cold water on a proposal to enact public financing of campaigns, an issue that both Speaker Silver and Governor Cuomo support.

- suburban struggle, will now almost certainly be between DeFrancisco, a conservative on social and fiscal issues, and Sen. John Flanagan (Suffolk), a leader of the socially liberal and often - pro-big-spending Long Island delegation and the Nassau County - based Skelos» preferred successor, Senate insiders said.

SYRACUSE — Governor Andrew Cuomo on Wednesday called the charges against Senate Republican leader Dean Skelos «deeply disturbing» but said he would keep negotiating end - of - session issues — including housing programs mentioned in the criminal complaint against him — if Skelos keeps his Senate post.

The prosecutor, Preet Bharara, speaking at the New York Law School on Friday, castigated how deal - making has long been done in Albany — by «three men in a room» (the governor, the State Assembly speaker and the State Senate majority leader), who work in secret and without accountability to decide most vital issues.

Senate: While addressing the chamber before the vote on its one - house budget on Monday, Majority Leader John Flanagan said that he didn't feel mayoral control was a budget issue.

Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan and Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie said Wednesday that they are negotiating possible compromises on the minimum wage issue, which could include a lower minimum wage in Upstate New York than in New York City, excluding farms from the hike, and providing a tax credit to small businesses to help them adjust.

Cuomo's statement calls on IDC Leader Jeff Klein, a Bronx Democrat who supports the policy, to end the «historic recalcitrance» in the Senate on the issue, which would end the treatment of 16 and 17 - year - olds as adults in the criminal justice system.

The Gateway Project, which was approved by then - New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo and the Obama administration in 2015, has been an important priority for Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D - N.Y.. But President Donald Trump has threatened to oppose it, perhaps to extract concessions from Schumer on other issues.

Paterson, who served 22 years in the Legislature and was the first black legislative leader (Senate minority leader) before departing to become Gov. Eliot Spitzer's LG, urged the Senate Democratic conference he used to lead to follow through on this issue and not be «press release reformers.»

What makes it more expensive for the rest of us is the corruption involved in government — and the strongest remaining champion of continued corruption is your boss and friend JOhn Flanagan — a leader who can not bring a bill to the Senate floor on an issue that 97 % of New Yorkers demand action.

Senate Republicans starting this month will hold a series of hearings on the issue, with Majority Leader Dean Skelos pledging to review whether elected officials helped create a negative atmosphere that ultimately played a role in the recent shooting deaths of two New York City police officers.

A paid family leave measure remains a top issue for Senate Independent Democratic Conference Leader Jeff Klein, he said in a Capital Tonight interview on Tuesday.

Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos just issued a statement insisting he and his 31 felllow Republicans will honor their redistricting reform pledge to former NYC Mayor Ed Koch, but declined to go into detail on how, exactly, he plans to do that.

«The women of New York deserve a vote on the entire Women's Equality Act and have a right to know where their elected officials stand on these important issues,» Senate Minority Leader Andrea Stewart - Cousins said in a statement.

The IDC, (minus Sen. Tony Avella, who's testifying), issued a statement in response to questions about a wiretapped conversation played yesterday at the federal corruption trial of former Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos and his son, Adam, saying (in part): «We can not speculate on the motives of Sen. Skelos.»

Just before 11 p.m., Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan issued a statement announcing the achievement of «a responsible agreement that brings about a sixth consecutive on - time budget,» though that statement is a bit debatable, but what's a few hours — give or take — on Planet Albany?

I expressed my views in this regard on WhatsApp last weekend, «Any country in which its elites consider re-electing a president like Buhari just as thousands of citizens are murdered across the country with not a single person arrested; a president who can not make an intelligent conversation on any policy or global issue with other global leaders; a president whose EFCC and DSS engage in open confrontation; a regime which crippled the economy and relies on cyclical movements in oil prices as its sole economic lever; a regime under which 10 million jobs are lost; and key accusations against top officials are treated with levity; just as the regime appears complicit in the invasion of its senate by thugs and seizure of mace... such a country is in serious trouble, that is if it isn't doomed.