Sentences with phrase «after the assembly last»

From easing the sale of water utilities to private companies to telling transgender students which bathroom to use, many high - profile — and controversial — legislative proposals have little chance of passage after the Assembly last week completed what leaders say was the final major floor session day.

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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.

General Assembly was worth $ 440 million after its last, $ 70 million investment round, according to a report in Axios, which means that early stage investors will see a nice return on their investment while many later stage backers — including Wellington Management and Fresco Capital are looking at some pretty flat returns.

His whole argument, particularly in the last portion of the book, is that they are priests after Christ, with priestly duties to perform, some of which are performed out in the world, and others of which are performed in the assembly of believers, gathered before God's throne on the heavenly Zion — and how dare anyone forsake priestly service on the heavenly Zion in favor of letting a Levitical priest do it for you on the earthly Zion!

He had me wondering on that last one when, after pointing out that the biggest assemblies in the world today are Pentecostal, he neglected to discuss his own decision to replace that portion of his own congregation's name with the friendlier sound of «family».

Last night, after a marathon closed - door session, the Assembly Democrats emerged to announce that they agreed Silver must go — though whether he will voluntarily heed a growing call for himto resign or they will be forced to actively seek his removal remains an open question.

After toppling both Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver and Senate Leader Dean Skelos with public corruption last year, U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara said he has his eye on the executive branch, too.

Cuomo, however, is highly unlikely to strike the measure down, which was approved last month in the Democratic - led Assembly after the bill had stalled in the chamber for years.

LATFOR Co-Chairs Jack McEneny and Mike Nozzolio both told me on CapTon last night that they will immediately be returning to work on the House lines after releasing the Senate and Assembly lines last week, and should have a finished product sometime in mid-February.

Eleven days after he won the last legislative race in the nation, Tom Kirwan is officially a member of the Assembly once again representing the 100th district in the Hudson Valley.

After passing the controversial furlough budget extender last night, Assembly members from both sides of the aisle gathered with former colleagues for a little R - n - R in the form of the annual reunions known as the Pilots and Rudders dinners.

That hope disappeared last week after Governor Paterson made a show of «delivering» the nearly 7,000 vetoes to the desks of Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver and Senate Leader John Sampson, as required by law.

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.

Rensselaer County's new county executive was sanctioned last year by Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie while he was still an assemblyman, after an independent investigation into allegations of workplace harassment and recommendations from the Assembly Ethics Committee.

After Molinaro said he wasn't running in January, Assembly Minority Leader Brian Kolb of Canandaigua dropped out of the race last month.

Governor Cuomo has signed the Iran Divestment Act that easily passed both the Assembly and Senate earlier this week after an agreement was reached between Speaker Sheldon Silver and Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos last year.

But Higgins is suddenly perceived as vulnerable after last night's 145th Assembly District special election, in which another Paladino - backed candidate, Buffalo Common Council Member Michael «Mickey» Kearns, defeated the congressman's top aide, Chris Fahey, in a decisive upset win.

Assembly Minority Leader Brian Kolb on Tuesday became the latest elected official to raise issues with the spending proposal, which was due to be voted on last week by the board, but the meeting was rescheduled to today after «scheduling» issues arose, according to the Division of Budget.

After leaving the Assembly he made one last political run, but lost his campaign for a seat on the City Council.

Mayersohn, 85, retired in April after nearly 30 years in the Assembly, while Pheffer stepped down last month to fill the vacant county clerk position.

The bill provides for the Presidential election to come last after National Assembly and Governorship elections.

The DUP had been angered over the last few days after details of their assembly members» finances were leaked to the BBC, suggesting that some of them would face financial hardship if their salaries were cancelled as a result of the deadline being missed.

The Assembly last year approved a different version of the pension forfeiture amendment after the Republican - led Senate backed an agreed - to version of the measure.

New York state Assemblywoman Janet Duprey announced her retirement Thursday morning after a 41 - year political career, the last 10 in the Assembly.

According to Chief Supt. Sarfo - Peprah, after the assembly member had caught Afise Inusah red handed, he confronted her on her bad act and lodged a complaint with the Oda Divisional Police Command on her cruelty to the two children last Monday.

State Assembly candidate Aravella Simotas will face no challengers in her bid for Assemblyman Michael Gianaris's (D - Astoria) seat after John Ciafone dropped out of the race last week.

The same bill was introduced last year but didn't make it through the Assembly after the Bloomberg administration warned it would cost taxpayers $ 17 million and set a dangerous precedent.

The council appointed Nicoletti to a vacant seat last year after former councilor Pamela Hunter was elected to the state Assembly.

The once - powerful Lopez lost his Assembly leadership role and his job as Brooklyn Democratic party boss last year after allegations emerged that he had sexually harassed female staffers.

Calls have been mounting for Lopez to give up both his party post and his Assembly seat in the wake of last week's announcement by Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver that he had censured the veteran lawmaker after a bipartisan ethics committee found he had sexually harassed two female staffers.

Current Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver will step down late tonight after being arrested last month on corruption charges.

The once - powerful Lopez lost his job as Brooklyn Democratic party boss and was stripped of his Assembly leadership role last summer after the allegations were made public.

Paterson, who became governor after Spitzer resigned amid his own scandal in 2008, told The Post, «Records now show that the last four Senate majority leaders, not counting Skelos, have been indicted, that two of the last four Assembly speakers were indicted, and one of the last three governors had to resign.

In an email made public last week, Assembly lawyer William Collins indicated the decision to seek mediation was made after «extensive dialogue» with attorneys for the accusers.

Democrat Ginny Fields, who lost her Assembly seat after losing a party primary last September, is looking to make a comeback by running for $ 76,800 a year post of Islip tax receiver in November.

Two veteran Assembly members and an official from the governor's office said they expect a deal will be struck on the popular ethics measure this legislative election year after an unprecedented string of corruption convictions within the last 12 months.

Akunyili, in the suit No CA / E / EPT / 2011 which she filed at the appeal, is challenging the decision of the National / State Assembly Election Tribunal Awka, which last month upheld the election of Senator Chris Ngige of the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) as the winner of the election after striking out her petition.

Caution may have been warranted after last June when, after NYRA was nearly returned to private nonprofit control, Gov. Andrew Cuomo and state Assembly and Senate leaders extended the state's oversight for a fifth year.

Lawmakers and Cuomo agreed last year to take the politically thorny issue into the hands of the commission, which is set to make a determination on the pay scale for the Senate and Assembly after Election Day this year.

And that explains why Silver, after saying quite clearly last week that he doubted there would be support for extending the temporary PIT increase on wealthy New Yorkers in either the Senate GOP or in the governor's office, revealed he planned to include a proposal to do just that in the Assembly's budget.

Cuomo's last - minute effort to name the new Tappan Zee Bridge after his late father failed in Albany this week after the Senate unanimously passed the measure, but the Assembly took a pass on passing it.

Some of the contacts he made in that role paid off for him after he left the Assembly: the personal injury and class - action «mass tort» law firm Moretti Ratner (partners of which contributed $ 10,000 to his campaign) hired Lancman at some point in the last year, it appears.

Lauren Morelle, the daughter of Assembly Majority Leader Joseph Morelle, a Rochester Democrat, died yesterday after a highly public struggle with breast cancer that lasted for more than a year and a half.

He death came after a brief illness as he was last seen at the National Assembly on Monday.

Support has been building for the legalization of support since the start of the year after the measure had been bottled up in the Assembly for the last several legislative sessions.

Pension forfeiture has stalled in the Legislature after lawmakers in the Senate and Assembly approved competing constitutional amendments last year.

The surcharged, initially delayed last year after a compromise was put in place with the Assembly, is set to take effect in February.

Calls for anti-corruption legislation grew late last year after the convictions of the former Assembly speaker, Sheldon Silver, and ex-Majority Leader Dean Skelos in the Senate, in separate corruption cases.

A day after his office charged Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver with five counts of corruption and fraud, U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara mocked the power structure that Silver has been a part of for the last 21 years.

Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver's spokesman Michael Whyland released the following statement shortly after 10:30 p.m. last night: