Sentences with phrase «state senate president»

State Senate President Stephen Sweeney and the New Jersey Democratic Party have advocated ideas like raising the minimum wage wage and better school funding.

Sen. Bill Galvano, a Republican and the incoming state Senate president, said the Senate was preparing a package that would include raising the age to purchase any firearm to 21, creating a waiting period for purchasing any type of firearm, banning bump stocks that can allow semi-automatic guns to spray bullets quickly and creating gun - violence restraining orders.

Rally «round the flag in Florida on October 20, when state senate President - designate Don Gaetz puts forward a motion called the Property Rights Bill to ensure that the evils of Agenda 21 never touch the sunshine state.

State Senate President pro Tempore Kevin de León will keynote on Tuesday and describe an even more ambitious goal to reach 100 percent renewable energy by 2045.

On February 2, at the recommendation of former State Senate President Tom Lee, the Florida Constitutional Revision Commission's (CRC) Local Government Committee unanimously voted to reject Proposition 95.

After the Senate education committee declined to endorse the measure, state Senate President Stephen Sweeney (D - Gloucester) this week nonetheless posted the bill for a full Senate vote today.

«That's obviously unacceptable,» said state Senate President Pro Tem David Long, R - Fort Wayne, when IndyStar informed him of the conditions at the school.

State Senate President Steve Sweeney and acting Education Commissioner David Hespe will be in Lambertville today to tout school regionalization as one way to deal with rising education costs.

A bill was up for final vote in the Senate, but now is unlikely to be posted, as state Senate President Steve Sweeney (D - Gloucester) was directly involved in the compromise talks.

Former State Senate President John McKay — who created the law — agrees.

State Senate president Peter Groff drafted the statewide Innovation Schools Act, which passed in 2008.

State Senate president Peter Groff, from northeast Denver, seized on the idea, and with help from Bennet's staff and other reformers, drafted a statewide Innovation Schools Act.

Same with Coffman's wife, state Attorney General Cynthia Coffman, and state Senate President Ellen Roberts and prosecutor George Brauchler.

For Republicans, the name of choice appears to be former state Senate President Ken Bennett, who has said he would consider the race if Renzi vacated the seat.

Earlier this month, New Jersey state Senate president Steve Sweeney raised the prospect of a voter referendum to allow casinos outside Atlantic City, and Governor Chris Christie indicated he's willing to listen.

Tomblin, the long - serving state Senate president, took over as governor last autumn after then - Gov.

Stoltze's professional experience includes serving on the Board of Directors of Chugiak Senior Housing, administrative assistant to the Alaska State Senate President from 2001 to 2002 and legislative aide in the Alaska Legislature from 1982 to 2002.

The new New York State Senate President Pedro Espada, Jr., who took power in the coup that occurred yesterday afternoon, said today that he would like to see marriage equality brought to a vote in the state.

Here's what State Senate President Martin Looney, who is from New Haven, the city with the state's largest hospital, Yale New Haven, told me.

By contrast, New Jersey lawmakers hope to have legislation ready for Gov. Phil Murphy's signature by June 7, state Senate President Stephen Sweeney said Tuesday.

Paterson, Assembly member Sheldon Silver and the state senate president are expected to jointly choose a winner in the coming weeks.

Menendez will then head south for an event at Rowan University, where he is scheduled to be joined by state Senate President Steve Sweeney, according to reports.

Flake, 65, has close ties to both state Senate President Malcolm Smith and Representative Gregory Meeks, and is being accused of using his political influence to profit financially.

New Jersey state Senate President Steve Sweeney has made some changes to Senate leadership following the resignation of Sen. Bob.

White House political Director Patrick Gaspard has been active in expressing concerns that in a low - turnout special election, which is set for May 22, former Rep. Ed Case and state Senate president Colleen Hanabusa could split the Democratic vote enough to allow Honolulu City Councilman Charles Djou (R) to win.

State Senate President Martin Looney, a New Haven Democrat, says only a handful of very wealthy taxpayers are responsible for the shortfall.

Republicans are also excited about their candidate — state Senate President Jeff Lamberti (R).

Two years later, Republicans heavily targeted Giffords and recruited state Senate President Tim Bee, who, in the small world category, went to high school with both Giffords and Paton.

New Jersey's teachers union is supporting Fran Grenier, a Republican who is challenging Democratic state Senate President Stephen Sweeney in what has become the most expensive legislative contest in state history.

January 9, 2013: Wyoming State Senate President Opens Legislative Session with an Attack on «Fringe Parties» January 8, 2013: Ballot Access Bill Introduced in Wyoming

Hanabusa argued she'd been more successful than Schatz over the last 16 years — a more apt comparison than their careers on Capitol Hill, she said — including her rise to state Senate president.

«These types of issues being on the front lines does create disorganization within party structures,» said incoming state Senate President Bill Galvano, a Tampa - area Republican who is leading 2018 Florida Senate GOP races.

The most clearly defined «workaround» has been introduced as a bill by California's State Senate president pro tem Kevin de Leon.

Rep. Neil Abercrombie is in the race while two potential heavyweights — Honolulu Mayor Mufi Hannemann and state Senate President Colleen Hanabusa — remain undecided.

Babock's mother - in - law is state Senate president and fellow Wasilla Republican Lyda Green, who fought many of Gov. Palin's legislative initiatives and recently told the Daily News that Palin is «not prepared to be governor.

That political fact of life, which has set in among the smart strategist set in Washington over the last 10 days or so, is due longstanding in - state rivalries — much of Hawaii Democratic establishment including its two U.S. Senators don't like former Rep. Ed Case (D)-- as well as a special election quirk that puts Case, state Senate President Colleen Hanabusa (D) and Honolulu City Councilman Charles Djou (R) all on the same ballot.

With the conviction of state senate President Jim Black for bribery and other charges and Jim Nifong's liscense being stripped.

Djou took 36 percent to 28 percent for former Rep. Ed Case and 22 percent for state Senate President Colleen Hanabusa (D), according to the Ward Research poll.

Democratic state Senate President Martin Looney of New Haven disagreed.

The unsuccessful measure had the support of state Senate President Pro Tempore Martin Looney, who is from New Haven and whose district includes Yale.

There seemed to be no doubt about it: The conduct that state Senate President Mike Ellis, R - Neenah, was recently caught on tape discussing — creating an outside group to attack his Democratic opponent — is against the law.

He turned aside a primary challenge from Rep. Robert Andrews in 2008, and state Senate President Steve Sweeney has already moved to form an exploratory committee for the 2014 race.

Her chief rival, state Senate President Kevin de León, garnered 54 percent of the vote to her 37 percent.

Former U.S. Senator George Voinovich Congressman Mike Turner Congressman Jim Renacci Congressman Steve LaTourette State Senate President Tom Niehaus Former Attorney General Betty Montgomery Former State Treasurer and Hamilton County Prosecutor Joe Deters and State Auditor David Yost (announced Feb. 29, 2012)

Connecticut Senate Minority Leader Len Fasano, R - North Haven, center right, talks with State Senate President Martin Looney, D - New Haven, center left, in a huddle with other legislators in the Senate Chambers at Capitol on the final day of session, Wednesday, June 3, 2015, in Hartford, Conn..

«It's like the guy who catches the little fish, then by the time he's done telling you the story, it's a 60 - pound tuna,» said Stephen M. Sweeney, the State Senate president and a Gloucester County Democrat who initially proposed the pension changes and property tax cap.

On early clashes with State Senate President Kevin Sullivan and how they resolved their differences:

The owner of a Monroe construction business, he narrowly lost 2014 and 2016 races to state Senate President Michael Thibodeau.

Hawaii (R): Rep. Neil Abercrombie is the first Democrat to formally announce his candidacy but it's not likely he will have the field to himself as Honolulu Mayor Mufi Hannemann and state Senate President Colleen Hanabusa are also interested.

Former state senate president Codey became governor by fiat, when Governor Jim McGreevey resigned in 2004.