Sentences with phrase «senate stalemate»

A House - Senate stalemate over the fiscal blueprint would have little practical effect as Congress tackles what little budget work it is expected to address before the November elections.

Though its prospects, according to some legislators, looked good at one point, it too could become a casualty of the Senate stalemate.

Judging by the speed with which the State Supreme Court has addressed legal scuffles so far in the Senate stalemate, there's no reason to think the resulting tangle would not be at least expedited, if not swiftly resolved.

But if there was a separate, additional tiebreaker added to the mix, the current 31 — 31 Senate stalemate would be broken.

Unwilling to let David Paterson appear to solve the State Senate stalemate, rebel Democrat Pedro Espada says he's returning to the fold and solving the problem that he started.

He insisted he isn't holding things up on that (remember that Espada stuck to Skelos» side like glue during the 31 - day Senate stalemate that followed the coup).

Espada's fellow «Amigos,» Ruben Diaz Sr., Hiram Monserrate, and Carl Kruger, had predicted that they would together be able to resolve the Senate stalemate by today.

In other Espada news, the Senator's former Chief of Staff, Andrew Young, has accepted a job with state Republicans after he was pushed out during the Senate stalemate in late June.

Prior to his ascendance to the conference leader post in the wake of the coup and subsequent 31 - day Senate stalemate last summer, Sampson was not known for his prodigious fundraising efforts.

Gov. David Paterson has appointed former MTA Chairman Richard Ravitch as lieutenant governor, hoping to break the Senate stalemate.

There are signs, or at least claims, of progress in the New York State Senate stalemate.

She noted the title was bestowed on him by the Republicans during last summer's coup and then, as part of what she called the «blackmail» that ended the 31 - day Senate stalemate, the post was stripped of most of its power so he could retain in and return to the majority.

As you'll recall, Pigeon, who got his $ 150,000 - a-year state job thanks to the coup and 31 - day Senate stalemate, became an issue in the Democratic AG primary when Sean Coffey tried to tar Nassau County DA Kathleen Rice for meeting with him and Golisano and accepting his support.

Not exact matches

Neither of the rival plans offered by Boehner in the House and Reid in the Senate seemed to have the necessary votes in Congress amid a bitter stalemate that could have far - reaching repercussions for the fragile U.S. economy as well as global markets.

With Congress stalemated over immigration, Flake earlier this week sought to force a Senate vote on temporarily protecting «Dreamer» immigrants from being deported, while financing Trump's border wall for three years, but another Republican blocked Flake's effort.

Golisano, as you'll recall, played a big role in the 2009 Senate coup and subsequent 31 - day stalemate, the most lasting result of which was a six - figure job for his longtime advisor, former Erie County Democratic Chairman Steve Pigeon, as Espada's counsel.

In his first on - camera remarks about the health care stalemate in the U.S. Senate, President Donald Trump said that Republicans should now «let ObamaCare fail» following the collapse of their effort to repeal and replace the law.

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.

The State Senate began debate over the $ 152 billion spending plan late Tuesday night after lawmakers and Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo resolved a stalemate that forced them to blow past a Saturday budget deadline.

Sampson rose to power thanks to the dysfunction of the Democratic conference at the height of last summer's Senate coup / stalemate and has been trying mightily to shake off the taint of that experience ever since.

With the budget talks at a stalemate, several Senate and Assembly Democrats took time to weigh in on the biggest national story — the Arizona Legislature's controversial immigration enforcement bill.

ALBANY — With less than two hours before rent regulation laws were scheduled to expire on Monday night, the Republican - led Senate passed an eight - year extension of the laws, setting up a stalemate with the Democratic - led Assembly.

While the Democratic - led Assembly has passed the legislation — which covers topics like pay equity, pregnancy discrimination and human trafficking — as an omnibus bill, Republicans in the Senate have been opposed to an abortion plank, which seeks to align state abortion law with federal law, setting up a continuing stalemate between both houses.

As with the full Women's Equality Act, another minimum wage increase (one was passed in 2013) presents great potential for a political stalemate between the Democratic Assembly and governor and the Republican Senate.

Espada Jr. is certainly no favorite of many Democrats, who have neither forgotten nor forgiven him for his role in the Senate coup and 31 - day stalemate last year.

The stalemate highlighted this year's new political reality that the Senate is evenly divided for the first time in nearly 125 years.

House Speaker Paul Ryan said Wednesday that a Democratic takeover of the House or Senate in November would lead to a stalemate in Congress while opening the way for partisan investigations of the Trump White House.

Cuomo himself created an entire political party to back the ten - point proposal that has been the source of bickering and stalemate between the Democratically - controlled Assembly and Republican - controlled Senate because of the plank that would codify Roe v. Wade in state law.

He had trumped the Senate's we can't get 32 votes because that guy is holding out act, and the I'll just wait this out until you get sick of the stalemate approach of the Assembly.

The goo - goos praised the GOP for keeping «most of the important advances from the last session,» which, as you'll recall, were made in the wake of the coup - inspired 31 - day stalemate, but said the changes proposed «fail to take the next crucial steps that are needed to continue reforming the Senate.»

The Senate Democrats seen as the most likely contenders to challenge Trump in 2020 — including Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand — all voted against the bill to reopen the government, even though most Democrats agreed to end the stalemate over immigration and fund the government again.

Over the holidays, the four brainstormed about how to distance themselves from Sampson and other Downstate Democrats who were part of the Senate's fiasco in 2010 when a 31 - 31 stalemate between the two parties stopped all work.

A Republican - led Senate also likely means a continued stalemate on some ethics reform proposals.

Of course, New York might not have had the unusually high number of competitive congressional races underway across the state if Cuomo had heeded calls from national Democrats — including Pelosi — to intercede in the redistricting stalemate between the state Senate and Assembly when it came to the House lines.

For weeks, there's been a stalemate in Albany over the issue of raising the state's minimum age, with Assembly Democrats backing the idea, Senate Republicans opposing it, and Governor Cuomo remaining neutral in the middle, saying he generally backs the measure, but feels that the GOP can't be convinced.

A Republican led Senate also likely means a continued stalemate on some ethics reform proposals.

Cuomo, in his speech and other recent remarks, is blaming the leadership in the state Senate for the stalemate.

As with some other controversial pieces of legislation, the stalemate over the Child Victims Act could continue for years more if the Senate doesn't approve the bill in this session.

Paterson botched the handling of Caroline Kennedy's interest in the U.S. Senate seat now held by Kirsten Gillibrand and has been ineffective in the budget stalemate.

BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (AP)-- House Speaker Paul Ryan said Wednesday that a Democratic takeover of the House or Senate in November would lead to a stalemate in Congress while opening the way for partisan investigations of the Trump White House.

By SCOTT BAUER Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP)-- No resolution appeared imminent Monday to the stalemate over union rights in Wisconsin, leaving Senate Republicans resigned to forge ahead with less - controversial business such as tax breaks for dairy farmers and...

Paterson's proposal will sail through the Assembly and it will pass the Senate, assuming that Pedro Espada plays the spoiler and causes a 31 - 31 stalemate, which Ravitch will break through his vote.

[S] ome GOP lawmakers were exploring whether the political stalemate over funding the government could best be resolved by crafting a broader fiscal package that would include an increase in the debt ceiling... The speaker expressed optimism at the lunch that he might be able to combine the two issues to embark on broader budget negotiations with the White House and Senate Democrats.»

The Republican leader of the Wisconsin state Senate sent mixed signals Friday about how close lawmakers are to reaching a budget deal and ending a three - week stalemate on passing a new spending plan.

The omnibus bill passed the Democratic - led Assembly, but was broken up into individual bills in the Republican - led Senate, creating a stalemate.

The Senate agreement comes in contrast to a partisan stalemate in the House, where a vote on a GOP - crafted bill authored by Rep. John Kline (R - Minn.)

Like the devastation in the Gulf, that stark assessment underscores the price that the United States is paying for the debilitating energy stalemate symbolized by this week's Senate showdown2.

It's been 60 days since Governor Chris Christie ordered all state - funded transportation projects to be shut down, and Senate President Stephen Sweeney said last week that he doesn't see an end to the stalemate between the...

A third possibility is that the Obama administration, desperate to break Senate Republicans» hold on climate policy, was willing to take any deal, no matter how weak, as a way to «unlock» the Congressional stalemate.