Sentences with phrase «senate means a number»

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Ahead of Mark Zuckerberg's Senate testimony today, Facebook has rolled out a number of product updates — including a bounty hunting program of up to $ 40,000 for user data violations — meant to address (and blunt) the criticism he's likely to face.

«I mean the numbers don't look good in taking the Senate back right now and the Republicans are going to keep the House, and in a Trump presidency, with the Senate confirming a conservative Supreme Court nominee, all of the progressive things that we care about in New York City could be taken away,» he said.

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.

Also, as Capitol Confidential so neatly pointed out, the numbers in the Senate chamber at the moment mean that no one — not the Democrats OR the Republicans — has a clean majority without the IDC.

Cuomo's poll numbers aren't great these days, but they're still higher than the collective popularity of the Assembly and Senate, which means he has less to lose in this situation — for now.

The state Senate did its duty by New York's public - school children yesterday, passing a bill that would more than double the number of charter schools allowed to operate statewide — without the usual poison pills meant to strangle the wildly successful charter movement by stealth.

The outcome of a number of Senate and gubernatorial races could also mean a sea change in education policy in the coming years.

That means it's possible that some number of the remaining 14,500 students don't currently qualify for vouchers, but still attend F schools — that's the group that represents an expansion under the Senate bill.

The political party that is in the majority (with the highest number of members in the chamber — the House or the Senate) takes the lead on Committees, meaning that Committee chairs represent the majority party of the House or the Senate.

To get started, here are the members of the Senate Ways and Means Committee, and their phone numbers.

For example, to determine what constitutes a new v. old rule of U.S. Senate procedure, or to determine which statute is newer or older for purposes of determining which statute of two that conflict should be given effect when there was a cosmetic recodification of the section numbers of one of the titles but not the other without changing the substantive meaning of the recodified statute.