Sentences with phrase «after state assembly»

California is one step closer to allowing e-delivery of insurance documents after the State Assembly Judicial Committee passed a bill that would allow insurance policies to be renewed electronically...

«I feel like we are starting to be heard,» McTavish said after the state Assembly supported a bill protecting students» right to opt out of PARCC.

The governor shut down the commission in March of this year after the state Assembly passed a set of ethics laws.

In 2007, after the State Assembly passed a bill to legalize it, Diaz issued a statement calling out each Hispanic legislator who supported it, by name.

The move to take them down Wednesday came after State Assembly speaker Sheldon Silver wrote a letter — signed by state Senator Daniel Squadron, Councilwoman Margaret Chin and Congressman Jerrold Nadler — on Monday asking the city «to remove the excessive number of barricades.»

The redistricting order, which came after the State Assembly and Senate gave up trying to draw new Congressional lines, reduced the number of districts in New York to 27 from 29, as was required as a result of the 2010 census.

After state Assembly lawmakers on Wednesday grilled his top economic development chief for more than two hours, Cuomo in Buffalo lashed out at lawmakers who are questioning the millions of dollars in spending.

Shady, red - meat - loving Brooklyn power broker Vito Lopez is being inundated with demands for his resignation after a State Assembly committee declared that Lopez sexually harassed two women in his office this summer.

Advocates for DACA recipients, DREAMers, rallied in Albany today — one day after the state Assembly passed «The DREAM Act» for the eighth year in a row.

Not exact matches

The United States, which in July said would take «strong and swift economic actions» if President Nicolas Maduro goes ahead with the Constituent Assembly, could also further sanction senior Venezuelan officials after acting against 13 prominent figures last week.

Carlson is not alone: Susan Fowler, the former Uber engineer who came out publicly against her employer alleging sexual harassment, is also working with members of the California State Assembly to pass legislation to eliminate forced arbitration, which prevented Fowler from coming forward about sexual harassment at Uber until after she quit.

For example, certain employees at the sea freight companies through which we ship our Tesla Roadster gliders to the United States after assembly in England may be represented by unions, as may be employees at certain of our suppliers.

World government proponents were deeply ambivalent about the formation of the UN after World War II, recognizing that in important respects it entrenched the nation - state by creating a General Assembly based on national representation and a Security Council reflecting the conventional notion of Great Powers.

Consequently, on December 10, 1948, after lengthy debate, the UN General Assembly adopted the Universal Declaration by a vote of 48 yes, none opposed and eight abstentions (six Stalinist states and satellites plus Saudi Arabia and South Africa).

A new statement by the World Health Organisation (WHO) released on 17th July, states that follow - up formula is not necessary, is unsuitable as a replacement for breastmilk after 6 months and is covered by World Health Assembly marketing requirements.

«The recent World Health Assembly resolution very clearly stated that professional organisations should not accept any funding from formula milk firms — not that it was fine after «due diligence.»

Sen. Chuck Schumer paid a rare visit to the state Capitol today and spent some time reminiscing about the three terms he served in the state Assembly (from 1975 to 1980, after which he went on to the House).

So dramatic has the upheaval been at the state Capitol after the Assembly transitioned from Silver to Carl Heastie that even public information brochures identifying Silver as speaker have been discarded.

Spano switched his party affiliation in December 2007 — the same year he returned to the state Assembly after a stint in the private sector.

Democrat Shelley Mayer, a state Assembly lawmaker, after the shooting at a Florida high school that killed 17 people, spoke Sunday at a rally with left - leaning groups demanding action on gun control.

Soon after that election, the assembly was dissolved following the declaration of a state of emergency, which saw the banning of the Brunei People's Party.

(Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, who has said furloughing state workers would be an illegal breech of their contract, told me yesterday that the bill arrived after his members had already gaveled out for the day).

While addressing State House journalists after the meeting, Saraki said they briefed Buhari on what transpired in the National Assembly when he was away on medical vacation in London.

Senate Republicans, meanwhile, attacked Kaminsky for being on the hustings this week and not in his seat in the state Assembly, which is back in session this week after passing the budget.

«I have decided therefore after 32 years of public service, I will retire from the New York state Assembly.»

Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie and a Brooklyn state Senator cut hefty checks to the campaign of Assemblywoman Pamela Harris after she found out she was under federal investigation — and she promptly drew on the funds to pay for high - priced defense lawyers.

Thus after repeated entireties by your elected Governor to both the Assembly and the Legislature, to take up action and to pass my Anti-Corruption Bill, I was ignored this past Legislative session and now deem it in the essential interest of the people of New York to accomplish the goals of my Anti-Corruption Campaign via other means, a «Mooreland Commission» composed of the best legal minds in the State of New York.

He is competing for the party's official designation against Sen. John DeFrancisco, a Syracuse state lawmaker who entered the race in February and appeared to be the frontrunner after Assembly Minority Leader Brian Kolb ended his campaign.

Twenty - five years after Gov. Mario Cuomo proposed building high - speed rail between New York and Boston, a group of Assembly members will introduce legislation on Wednesday establishing an «exploratory commission» to «study and develop Hyperloop and High Speed Rail within New York State.»

Sheldon Silver, the former powerful Democratic speaker of the state Assembly, was found guilty of federal corruption charges less than a year after his first conviction on the same charges was thrown out.

After going nuclear on the Patrerson administration yesterday, effectively blaming the governor for the city's budget cuts, Mayor Bloomberg this morning was full of praise for a state leader with whom he has often been at odds: Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver.

The state Senate returned to Albany yesterday, about 24 hours after member of the Assembly finished passing the deal announced by Gov. Andrew Cuomo late Friday night, and passed the 2017 - 18 spending plan.

Since Squadron began his push to rename the park, he has been joined by Assemblyman Charles Lavine, who introduced a bill in the state assembly, and by New York Congressman Sean Patrick Maloney, who circulated a petition to rename the park after folk singer Pete Seeger.

NEW YORK (AP) A jury has convicted former New York Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver of public corruption charges, dashing the 74 - year - old Democrat's second attempt to avoid prison after a decades - long career as one of the most powerful politicians in state government.

Cuomo said he wants to include major reforms in his State of the State agenda after federal juries lost no time finding former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver and former Senate Leader Dean Skelos and his son guilty of multiple corruption charges late in 2015.

Reactions were mixed after two state Assembly districts in eastern Queens were drastically changed last Thursday by a state panel in charge of redrawing political boundaries.

After a year in which Dean Skelos and Sheldon Silver, respective legislative leaders of both the State Senate and State Assembly, were convicted for defrauding the public for personal gain, politicians in Albany have once again refused to act on preventing corruption and enacting needed ethics reform and running a more open government.

he was the only democratic lawmaker whom after Sheldon silver passed a bill in the state Assembly had enough clout with the republican state Senators to have the bill killed.

The attorney, Gary Klein, said on Tuesday that after Mr. Silver, then the New York state Assembly speaker, complained about delays between the time a check was signed and when it was mailed, Mr. Klein took to depositing them himself in Mr. Silver's HSBC account, a duty...

Like in 2013 when I was re-elected after an 8 - year break and beat the candidate endorsed by Assembly Member Glick, State Senator Hoylman, and City

After Stop & Shop announced in March that it would be closing, Deputy State Assembly Speaker Earlene Hooper (D - Hempstead) met with store staff, residents, Mayor Don Ryan and other community leaders to discuss their concerns about the store closing, and with Stop & Shop officials to lobby to keep the store open, she said.

Former state Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, who is also awaiting sentencing on public corruption charges, has only $ 246,608 left in his campaign account after spending $ 1.5 million in the past six months.

The vote came a few months after the state's teachers unions, closely aligned with the Assembly, claimed a victory in December when the Regents, prompted by the governor and Legislative leaders, placed a moratorium on the use of student test scores in teacher evaluations.

«After much reflection I have concluded that the best way I can continue to serve my constituents is in the New York State Assembly,» Mr. Cusick said in a statement.

After studying studied microbiology at the University of Kentucky, Louise Slaughter (August 14, 1929 - March 16, 2018) entered politics, serving in the New York State Assembly.

As the public continues to bear the brunt of pain after budget cuts to services, schools, and safety net programs, community leaders came together to demand that our elected leaders in the State Senate and Assembly ensure the priorities of Central New York are met by passing Fair Elections.

A measure to rename the bridge after Gov. Mario M. Cuomo failed to pass the State Assembly on Wednesday.

The emails became public later, only after the officials were subpoenaed by the state Assembly.

Former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver and former state Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos are both facing retrial after their separate corruption convictions were overturned on appeal.

This bill has been stalled in our NY State Senate's Health Committee, where the members of the committee refuse to bring it to the floor for a vote, even after our Assembly has approved it.