Sentences with phrase «senate reached a deal»

The Senate reached a deal mid-Monday to end the government shutdown until Feb. 8, with a House vote expected later in the afternoon.

Around the time the Senate reached a deal Wednesday to allow for lunch hour votes on Pompeo, several more members of the Democratic caucus announced their positions.

Congress failed to reached an agreement on reauthorizing VAWA until last year, when the House and Senate reached a deal on the measure, which provides funding for domestic violence programs throughout the country.

Not exact matches

Yields also rose after Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said leaders have reached a two - year budget deal which would increase current spending caps by roughly $ 300 billion.

The U.S. Senate reached a bipartisan deal on stopgap spending designed to avoid a government shutdown and defuse a fight over aid to victims of natural disasters.

The race for the 37th district is a closely watched one given the narrow divide in the Senate and the unity deal reached late last year that aims to unite the mainline Democratic conference with the Independent Democratic Conference.

He also said the Legislature missed an opportunity to reach a deal on a property tax cap — one of the signature issues of his gubernatorial campaign platform — after the Assembly departed without passing the measure, leaving the Senate to approve a one - house bill.

But without the Senate majority on hand, it's hard to see how a deal is reached.

Also on tap in the Assembly is the no - fault divorce deal that was reached in recent days with the Senate.

However, unlike the budget process which gives the governor broad authority, Cuomo must break out his chess board if he wants to reach a deal on gay marriage in the Republican - led Senate and get the Democratic - controlled Assembly to approve his 2 percent tax cap.

When asked why the Senate set up for a press conference to announce a deal, the governor replied: «There hasn't been a deal that's been reached today.»

The race is expected to be a pivotal contest with potential control of the chamber up for grabs given the narrow divide in the Senate and a unity deal reached between the mainline Democrats and the Independent Democratic Conference pending the outcome of the vote.

Turner drew the short straw in the redistricting process when the Senate Republicans failed to reach a deal with the Assembly Democrats that would have protected his district, NY - 9, from being eliminated.

All the way back in the halcyon days of 2011, when proud centrist Andrew Cuomo reached a tax deal with Republicans in the State Senate, exempting private schools, small businesses, and other groups from having to pay the payroll mobility tax, which put $ 320 million into the MTA's pockets every year.

House and Senate Democrats hope to reach a new budget deal to fund popular programs and block fare increases on trains and buses before the legislative session ends Wednesday evening The Democratic plan calls for fully restoring $ 130 million for the...

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Despite Gov. Andrew Cuomo's ratcheting up threats to force the Legislature's hand via extender bills if an amicable budget deal isn't reached by April 1, Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos is continuing to express optimism that it won't come to that.

Senate President Pro Tem Martin Looney of New Haven said Friday that he was «encouraged» by the bipartisan talks in an effort to reach a budget deal.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo, Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie and State Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan today debuted the «framework» of a deal that will extend the city's rent regulations and the controversial 421a tax abatement for six months — with some tweaks to the former, and potential for the latter to last through 2019 if the real estate industry and labor reach an agreement on construction wages.

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.

A variety of potential compromises have been floated in recent days that seem geared toward enticing the Senate Republicans to reaching a deal with Cuomo on the issue.

Some Senate Democats are hopeful an eleventh - hour deal will be reached on the Wage Theft Protection Act and perhaps something to do with Green Jobs, but that would require a three - way agreement, because leaders are loath to gavel into regular session and open the door for a legislation free - for - all.

And while the Legislature is yet to formally back a specific payroll tax, Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan has said it's unlikely any deal can be reached in the near future.

Westchester County Executive Rob Astorino mocked the memorandum of understanding reached between Senate Republicans and Gov. Andrew Cuomo in a radio interview, calling the deal «useless.»

«I believe we have reached a budget deal that neither side loves but both sides can be proud of,» Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D - N.Y.) said.

Mario Cuomo never boarded it: He told reporters that he felt obligated to remain in Albany and negotiate with recalcitrant Republicans in the state Senate to try and reach a deal on the state budget.

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.

But several advocates I spoke with today said the true test of whether Cuomo is serious about creating a public campaign finance system is if he puts funding for said system in his 2014 - 15 executive budget proposal (assuming, that is, no deal is reached prior to the start of the 2014 session, which, given the Senate GOP's opposition to the idea, seems highly unlikely at this point).

Both the Senate and Assembly are due to leave Albany later today after the scheduled session, but could return at some point this weekend if a framework deal on the budget is reached.

While insisting he remains optimistic about reaching an «amicable» and on - time budget deal with the Assembly and Senate leaders, Gov. Andrew Cuomo made it clear today he will have no qualms about letting the clock run out and forcing his entire budget on the Legislature through extenders.

But a deal with the Senate, where a number of lawmakers are lawyers who work for law firms that represent clients with interests before state, has been more difficult to reach for Cuomo.

The highest - earning Americans will get a lower tax rate and corporations will pay slightly more than in previous plans under a deal House and Senate Republicans reached on the party's competing tax - overhaul bills.

U.S. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer met in a closed - door meeting with Trump at the White House, but failed to reach a deal to avert a shutdown.

The speaker said yesterday that there's a «long way to go» to achieve the Tier 6 reform Cuomo is seeking, but a number of his majority conference members (quoted without attribution by the DN) and Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos have said they believe a deal will be reached on pension reform before the end of the legislative session.

The deal, which would make New York the 23rd state with medical marijuana, was reached after days of negotiations among Cuomo and the bill's sponsors in the Senate and Assembly.

Meanwhile, sources say the Assembly and Senate have re-started talks about trying to reach a deal on the House lines (recall that they agree on eliminating retiring Rep. Maurice Hinchey's district, NY - 22, but diverge on how to deal with the second seat New York must lose).

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R - Kentucky, and House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, R - Virginia, both told Sunday talk shows that all issues are on the table in deficit reduction talks led by Vice President Joe Biden intended to reach a deal on raising the federal debt limit.

Higgins said that it's important at this point that Trump is reaching out to Democrats — just as he did on a debt ceiling and budget deal the president struck with Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer, D - N.Y., and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D - Calif.

Leaders in the U.S. Senate hope to reach a deal on a two - year budget plan after the House approved a spending measure as the government is set to shutdown again on Thursday.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo and the state Democratic officials are pushing the party's warring factions in the state Senate, meanwhile, to reach a deal and unify by the spring.

Senate President Steve Sweeney (D - Gloucester) and Democratic lawmakers reached a deal with Christie this year that begins to ramp up to full funding in the SFRA over five years, and Murphy may choose to continue that schedule.

Word is that Democratic resistance to recognizing Espada as Senate president is «weakening,» and the always - reliable Espada himself predicted that a deal would be reached by Tuesday, though we won't hold our breath.

Late last night, the governor and legislature reached a deal on redistricting that essentially allows the State Senate's and Assembly's partisan majorities to put in place gerrymandered lines for the next decade, and creates the framework for a constitutional amendment to govern future redistrictings that creates a bipartisan commission to submit lines to the legislature for approval.

ALBANY — Several people within the Working Families Party said its leaders have reached a tentative deal whereby the party would offer its endorsement to Andrew Cuomo in exchange for a pledge by the governor to publicly endorse Democratic control of the State Senate.

In the meeting, Rep. Lee Zeldin (R., N.Y.)-- a Trump supporter — stood up and said Mr. Trump had undercut Mr. Ryan and the Republican conference in Wednesday's meeting where the deal was reached with Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer of New York and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi of California.

If a tentative deal is reached, the Senate Republican and Democratic caucuses would meet separately on Monday to gauge support for the agreement.

The Connecticut Senate is scheduled to be back in session on Monday to vote on the $ 1.5 billion labor concession deal reached between Democratic Governor Dannel Malloy and state employee unions.

The unions and Cuomo are prepared to publicly agitate for Democratsto take control of the State Senate if there's no deal reached on a broader system of public campaign finance, which many in the institutional left see as necessary to combat court decisions that have open floodgates of spending by the rich.

, who had been threatening to prevent the measure from reaching the Senate floor, reached a deal with Senate Democrats, according to ABC News and The Post's Greg Sargent.

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid announced Wednesday a House - Senate deal has been reached on the stimulus.