Sentences with phrase «agree on campaign finance reforms»

The two factions could not agree on campaign finance reforms, or a portion of a women's equality act that includes abortion rights.

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Cuomo, along with Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie and Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan agreed relatively early in the budget negotiations that ethics and campaign - finance reform would not be a threat to the passage of the state budget on time.

(CNN)- Campaign finance reform is the issue that the Tea Party and progressives can agree on — at least in new ads designed to drum up support for the Fair Elections Now Act.

Former Assemblyman Richard Brodsky on the left's worst nightmare: «What if Cuomo says he'll muscle campaign finance reform, but only if Klein, Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver (yes, the Assembly has a role), and advocacy groups agree to massive upper - income tax cuts?

Cuomo, perhaps attempting to win favor with both, explained he would not sign off on a pay hike unless legislators — mostly Senate Republican leader Dean Skelos — agreed to major campaign finance reforms.

Cuomo failed to get lawmakers to agree on a package of campaign finance reforms, and says he will now appoint a commission under the powers» of the state's Moreland Act, to investigate campaign filings at the State Board of Elections.

In 2014, Cuomo refused to sign off on a pay raise for state legislators unless they agreed to campaign finance reforms.

The three GOP candidates agreed on most issues in the debate, but tried to stand apart on some of the finer details of policy issues such as campaign finance reform.

The governor had promised to form the investigatory commission in accordance with the state's Moreland Act after he and lawmakers failed to agree on a package of ethics and elections law reforms that ranged from increasing punishment for taking bribes to making it easier to register to vote to using taxpayer money to finance political campaigns.