Sentences with phrase «wisonsin budget battle»

The approaching budget battle between the White House and Republican lawmakers has cast a shadow over markets.

The «McPick 2» deal bridged the gap for a while, but this new value menu is a huge step forward in the budget battles.

The vote followed a long day of drama and discord on Capitol Hill that highlighted fraying Democratic unity and featured an uneasy alliance between President Barack Obama and House Speaker John Boehner, enemies in past budget battles but on the same side this time in pushing for passage.

This year's winners incorporated the advent of the information age and developed models of how markets can also respond to day - to - day and minute - by - minute information, such as the minutiae involved in the current budget battle and debt - ceiling talks in Congress.

They also have recent real - world examples to make their case: Tax cuts in Kansas made by Gov. Sam Brownback failed to deliver the expected boost, forcing the state into years of grueling budget battles and harsh spending cuts to make up the gap.

A few statehouse budget battles in recent months have been notable...

Congress gave final approval to a giant $ 1.3 trillion spending bill that ends the budget battles for now, but only after late scuffles and conservatives objected to big outlays on Democratic priorities at a time when Republicans control the House, Senate and White House.

The steep fall in 2012 - 2013 has many possible causes, including the heated presidential elections and the knockdown, drag - out budget battles that culminated in last year's government shutdown.

One of the casualties of the latest round of budget battles in Washington may be the U.S Commission on International Religious Freedom, which has from time to time done invaluable work in highlighting threats to this basic human right.

In last week's down - to - the - wire budget battle between the White House and Republican leaders, for example, it was a GOP effort to defund Planned Parenthood — a longtime enemy of Christian conservatives — that emerged as a final stumbling block.

in Monday's edition of Politico, the opening salvo in what the leaders say will be a broader campaign to prevent cuts for the poor and international aid programs amid the budget battle raging in Washington.

Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver downplayed the possibility that he has lost his ability to override any gubernatorial vetoes without GOP assistance, saying he doesn't intend to get to that point with Governor - elect Andrew Cuomo, despite the looming budget battle.

The mayor and the governor spent much of the budget battle at odds over a host of issues — most prominently how to pay for universal pre-K.

That's because Cuomo has tasked the Medicaid Relief Redesign Team with proposing cuts of its own by March 1 — one month before the April 1 budget deadline (and remember, Cuomo is reportedly willing to risk a government shutdown rather than let the budget battle drag on indefinitely).

Donohue has been very outspoken during this budget battle, issuing some memorable zingers directed at Gov. David Paterson in response to the governor's efforts to get the public employee unions to agree to concessions such as furloughs or a wage freeze that he says would help close the budget deficit.

The last time I recall a concerted push on this topic was 2007 when newly - minted Gov. Eliot Spitzer called out GNYHA and 1199 at the start of that year's budget battle over Medicaid.

Hence, the Committee to Save NY and his post-campaign appeals for ammunition in what is widely anticipated to be a bruising budget battle.

AG Andrew Cuomo told reporters today that he is talking «on an ongoing basis» to «many of the parties» involved in the budget battle, giving «advice» and answering legal questions and generally «talking to everyone at every level.»

NYSUT gave its top honor to Kennedy last April following a bruising budget battle during which the union and the governor were at odds on his proposed deep education funding cuts (eventually approved by the Legislature).

Keep in mind, the former governor wasn't trying to husband resources to do budget battle with the labor unions.

But Schneiderman also acknowledges he was hamstrung by the never - ending budget battle, which required him to be in Albany while all but one of his rivals worked donors and hit the campaign trail (Assemblyman Richard Brodsky was in the same boat).

Gov. Andrew Cuomo has said he favors a three - year extension of New York City's mayoral control law, while the Assembly Democrats pushed during the budget battle for seven years.

This angered liberal activists, which has been pressuring the governor to call a special ASAP because they don't want to see the Republicans continue to control the Senate through what is shaping up to be a protracted budget battle.

Actually, these ads were made by SEIU 1199 (the healthcare workers union) during a budget battle with the former governor.

and also moves to achieve Democratic unity before the budget battle gets underway.

Rep. Louise Slaughter, who has never been one for mincing words, particularly when it comes to women's issues, likened Republican efforts to limit access to abortion in the budget battle to «an old German Nazi move,» and accused her colleagues across the aisle of wanting to «kill women.»

The governor has so far declined to directly criticize the Senate GOP, no doubt recognizing he's going to need them as allies in the budget battle — particularly when it comes to his more conservative agenda items like the property tax cap.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo is under pressure from the left to call the election ASAP, but he has suggested the race won't be held until after the April 1 budget deadline, leaving the GOP in charge of the chamber for what is shaping up to be a difficult budget battle.

Andrew also benefited from watching his father in office; he saw how badly he was hurt by those budget battles, by failing to set priorities, by resisting sacrificing in one area to gain in another.

Now McCall is co-chairing both Cuomo's transition team and the Committee to Save New York, which is melding business and private sector union interests to help the governor - elect fight the upcoming budget battle.

Cuomo has also made it clear organized labor — particularly the public employee unions, but also the health care sector — will be in the crosshairs during the budget battle, so WFP isn't going to have the easiest time of it next year.

In this clip, dated May 10, Caputo is getting a haircut and engaging in a heated conversation with his barber, Jack, (whose hobby appears to be enaging his customers in political debates while cutting their hair) about the current budget battle in Albany.

For the first time yesterday, Cuomo talked at length about the new paradigm created by the creative use of extender bills by his predecessor, David Paterson, during last year's budget battle.

Yes, the party did get Andrew Cuomo to accept its line and moved up from Row E to Row D as a result of his performance in the 2010 election, but there were a lot of strings attached to that agreement — not the least of which was the labor - backed party's silence in the budget battle over the millionaire's tax last year, which is something the WFP would normally be all over.

The mayor raised the specter of the budget battle dragging out until the end of June, saying he gets indications of where the three sides are headed «every day,» but «next day, there are new indications.»

But if Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver loses his 108 - vote veto - proof majority, the Republican conference will take on a whole new level of importance — particularly during a tough budget battle in which likely Gov. Andrew Cuomo has made clear that everything — including education aid — will be on the cutting table.

Andrew Cuomo is about to weigh in on the seemingly intractable bitter state budget battle between Gov. Paterson and the Legislature, and he will tell Democratic lawmakers, who are nervously eyeing the November elections, what he wants them to do, The Post has learned.

The use of the extenders themselves, which Gov. David Paterson successfully used during the 2010 - 11 budget battle, are in a legal «gray area.»

The Senate Republicans cast themselves as Gov. Andrew Cuomo's best ally during the budget battle, but some daylight has emerged between the majority and the Democratic executive since then on several key issues, including the property tax cap.

Just because the budget battle appears to have ended doesn't mean legislative leaders will spend the remainder of the 2011 session twiddling their thumbs.

But he's staying out of some of the other high profile budget battles this year.

I am calling about the budget battle that is happening in Albany right now.

The other executives — all of them engaged in unresolved budget battles — are under 50 percent.

In the final days of his budget battle with the Legislature, Gov. Andrew Cuomo threatened lawmakers with the shutdown vs. extender bills option, saying he felt completely comfortable that he would win in the court of public opinion.

Throughout the budget battle, Skelos has been striving to cast himself and his conference as close to Cuomo in an attempt to box out the speaker — something the governor seemed all too happy to indulge during the final days of negotiations when he met several times alone with the majority leader.

Duffy took a pass on wading too far into the budget battle out of «respect» for Gov. David Paterson, saying:

REBNY's Steve Spinola, who, as you'll recall, is playing a big role in the Committee to Save NY, which is backing Gov. Andrew Cuomo in the budget battle, told the Times that kind of swap would be «unacceptable,» adding:

Cuomo saw both his job performance and favorability ratings jump following the budget battle, even though voters believe their local schools and hospitals lost out as a result of the on - time spending plan passed by the Legislature.

The start of the petitioning period last Tuesday signaled the official kick - off of the 2010 campaign season, but state lawmakers are stuck in Albany while the budget battle drags on and their opponents capitalize on their absence back home.

NYSUT insisted politics played no role in its decision to honor Kennedy, but it's hard to ignore the fact that the teachers have been at war with her ex-husband, Gov. Andrew Cuomo, and were one of the few groups to actually advertise against him during the budget battle (not that it did them much good in the end).