Sentences with phrase «as budget talks»

Republicans said the plan was inadequate, and as budget talks continued last week, observers said that the dust may not settle until early next year.

Meetings with individual lawmakers have already begun and will intensify as the budget talks heat up.

«I think it will be there in some form,» DeFrancisco, R - Syracuse, said as budget talks begin in earnest in Albany this week.

As budget talks wind down, de Blasio still facing stiff resistance on immigration legal services plan

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Tuesday said retaining a surcharge on the state's highest earners is a sticking point as budget talks with the state Legislature heat up.

As such, Majority Leader John Flanagan had been playing his cards close to the vest, repeatedly insisting everything remains on the table as budget talks intensify.

The court was hearing the case as the budget talks wound down.

The Assembly does not make any revisions to the economic development competition, but Speaker Carl Heastie says that could change as budget talks progress.

As budget talks head into their final days, the Gotham Gazette takes a look at the key issues with 15 questions heading into the week.

ALBANY — Republicans who control the state Senate have embraced hundreds of millions in cost shifts to New York City in their one - house budget resolution, backing Gov. Andrew Cuomo and setting up a clash with Assembly Democrats as budget talks intensify over the next three weeks.

The initiatives are contained in the Assembly's proposed state budget, which outlines its priorities as the budget talks with Gov. Cuomo and the Senate heat up.

Not exact matches

There is little talk of tax cuts and balanced budgets, items which form the economic lodestar of the Official Opposition; think tanks such as the Fraser Institute, the Macdonald - Laurier Institute, the Atlantic Provinces Economic Council; and almost everyone who writes a column for the Financial Post, including former finance minister Joe Oliver.

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.

CB: How should the government talk about the tougher issues touched on in this budget, such as cost cutting, in the coming years?

In talks with fund officials over the past year, Goldman executives presented an analysis of the fund's allocations based on publicly available data and suggested areas it could improve, such as where to spend the risk budget and whether to be more active or passive in certain portfolios, said the comptroller staffers, who spoke on the condition they not be named.

The prospect of Britain blocking a deal loomed larger on Wednesday, as Cameron saw his room for manoeuvre at the budget talks shrink in the face of a parliamentary revolt.

Login to your budget system to show him where you stand as you talk through it, instead of just saying, «It's fine!

As talk about the economy has largely focused on tax cuts, the U.S. budget deficit and the potential for trade tariffs, one of the biggest things investors and the general public seem to be missing is the increased spending soon to be pumped into the U.S. economy by the government.

Aides and lawmakers say budget talks in the Senate are moving toward an agreement for whopping increases in Pentagon spending as well as domestic programs.

He didn't talk as if you could get to a sustainable budget primarily by cutting waste, fraud and abuse.

(We can talk about the democratic practice of an omnibus bill later, perhaps, because gracious, what a miscarriage of democracy...) So Bill C - 45 is an omnibus bill, attached to our budget currently going through Parliament, with hundreds of provisions included, which (and these are the key ones related to Idle No More) seriously undermine our environmental sustainability as a nation and the sovereign rights of the First Nations still existing within our borders.

When we talked about it she said that she saw it as a challenge, which I loved — it's a challenge to create bright, colourful, healthy meals that fit into a busy life on a student budget.

«An Epic Dance to the Music of Girl Talk» March 4, 2011 «It started randomly, as collaborations often do for young people with high - speed connections, limited budgets and big ideas.»

And it seems as we travel around to state and national conferences to talk to our many friends in the recreation field, more and more we hear about budgets being cut, staff let go and recreation programs being forced to turn their programs over to volunteer based organizations simply because they have no other choice.

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New York is one of just two states (along with North Carolina) that still does that, and the effort to end this practice has become a big rallying cry for Assembly Democrats and the IDC, as well as a big sticking point in the budget talks.

The money raised by the taxes in part would go toward a potential boost in education spending, an apparent sticking point in the talks as lawmakers and Cuomo fight over what's known as foundation aid in the budget.

Yesterday, however, it became clear what Heastie's price might have been, as word started circulating around the Capitol that certain elements of Cuomo's heretofore «my way or the highway» education reform plan had been dropped during ongoing budget talks.

Rewind now to January when Mayor de Blasio was here in Albany to testify on the budget and lawmakers (almost as if they were reading from talking points) grilled him on why New York City won't adhere to the cap.

Stewart - Cousins, a Democrat from Yonkers, confirmed that issues such as voter reform measures and changes to the state's ethics laws had fallen out of the budget talks.

Lawmakers met Monday afternoon for the start of the joint budget committee process — a meeting known in Albany as the «mothership» and initially held as a way of enhancing transparency in the opaque state budget process, but also a chance for lawmakers to lay out their public priorities in the talks.

Talks on the state budget were stalled just days before the April 1 deadline, as Gov. Andrew Cuomo and state lawmakers continued negotiations.

Talks on the state budget were stalled just days before the March 30 deadline, as Governor Andrew Cuomo and state lawmakers continue negotiations.

And, as always during budget talks, there's potential for legislative horse trading: Senate Republicans want to remove the Cuomo administration's ability to raise the minimum wage for a specific industry, which it used to approve a major hike for fast - food workers last year.

Niou joined Poozer Politics to reflect on her first year as a member of the Assembly and talked about the personal toll of the late budget, her approach to the legislative process and accomplishments for her constituents.

State budget talks became heated in the final hours of negotiations Friday, as ultimatums were offered and there were threats of a government shutdown.

Talks on the state budget were stalled just days before the March 30 deadline, as Gov. Andrew Cuomo and state lawmakers continued negotiations.

Lawrence Levy, a political analyst and executive dean at the National Center for Suburban Studies at Hofstra University, said that the program will likely be addressed as part of budget talks in Albany.

Still, as late as January 2014 when the mayor traveled again to Albany, this time to testify before the legislative state budget hearings, he and Cuomo were still talking about one another as old buddies who might have played lacrosse together at some posh Connecticut boarding school.

Talks on the state budget were stalled just days before the March 30th deadline, as Governor Andrew Cuomo and state lawmakers continue negotiations.

In a subsequent statement, Cuomo said he wanted to inject the issue as a top issue in the budget talks.

Injecting Dolan back into the debate over the tax credit comes as both forces for the measure as well as those in favor of the DREAM Act are making a last - minute push to have them included in the budget talks.

DiNapoli said more information is needed to address concerns raised during the budget talks, such as potential cuts to federal aid, a premise that drove the governor to successfully receive power over making changes to the budget after it is approved.

Gov. David Paterson, who authored a Times OpEd entitled «Borrowing Our Way to Failure» less than two months ago, essentially panning the proposal of his own hand - picked LG in the process, today said he's open to borrowing — as long as it's a «last resort» used to close down budget talks.

ALBANY — A proposal to end cash bail for lower - level crimes will likely not be considered as part of the state's estimated $ 170 billion budget, top lawmakers said Sunday as they continued closed - door talks less than a week before the budget deadline.

The law, which was hammered out as part of this year's state budget talks, limits the free services that New York's public - sector unions must provide to workers who opt not to join the union.

In recent weeks, as Nixon began her upstart campaign, Cuomo has been talking about a budget proposal that would require school districts within cities with a population of more than 125,000 people — New York City, Buffalo, Syracuse, Yonkers and Rochester — to submit an annual plan detailing the allocation of local, state and federal funds by school building.

The key Republican lawmaker involved involved in talks surrounding juvenile justice reform said Monday he's hopeful an agreement can be reached this week on raising the age of criminal responsibility as part of a broader budget agreement.

I voted against increases to EU budgets, I voted for an EU referendum as soon as possible, I'm pro-grammar schools, I'm pro-reducing immigration — it would make sense to talk about at least a joint candidacy.

Democrats described the overall mood on budget talks as «very different» from the start of this session.