Sentences with phrase «as lawmakers did»

Critics said they are hopeful that Congress will reject many of Trump's ideas, as lawmakers did this month when they reached a bipartisan deal to fund the government through September.

The measure is seen as considerably bad optics as lawmakers did not take up a minimum wage increase in this year's budget — a fact that hasn't escape liberal critics who had pushed for the wage hike.

Not exact matches

The idea behind the campaign is to engage and work with lawmakers in Washington, D.C. — as well as those in other states — to get them to start listening to small business owners, and do something about reversing this tide of increasing regulations.

«The government does not recognize cryptocurrency as legal tender or coin and will take all measures to eliminate the use of these crypto - assets in financing illegitimate activities or as part of the payment system,» Arun Jaitley told lawmakers in New Delhi, according to a transcript by The Hindu newspaper.

United States lawmakers will probably prevent the worst from happening — as they did in the debt - ceiling crisis — but nothing is likely to occur before November.

But lawmakers» questions were all over the place, as many tried to get in a moment for their favorite issues, and even illuminating queries sometimes didn't get much follow - up.

As part of his hours - long Senate testimony today, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg had to assure lawmakers that he didn't fire Oculus co-founder Palmer Luckey for his political views.

Mark Zuckerberg emerged mostly unruffled after two grueling days of congressional hearings, reassuring investors with his composure even as lawmakers scoffed at his apologies over failures to protect user privacy and his assurances to do better.

What it does mean is that Illinois» path back to prosperity and financial stability can be easier — as long as lawmakers act now to fix the state's deep structural problems.

As the community mourns, lawmakers in Florida are responding with mixed ideas on what to do to address the recurring issue of gun violence in the state and the national trend of terrorists continually targeting schools.

Lord, give our lawmakers the resiliency, resourcefulness and resolve to accomplish your will on earth even as it is done in heaven.

What lawmakers don't acknowledge in these approaches is that chemical dependency is a medical illness, as the American Medical Association defined it in a 1956 statement.

• Lawmakers in Ohio and Arizona passed bills to ensure that public colleges and universities didn't go down the same road as Hastings.

As a result, nursing mothers have become proactive in recent years, not only lobbying lawmakers to change laws and provide penalties for those who do not comply but also staging huge «nurse - ins» at businesses that have rejected public nursing.

Boehm said Donahue's selection had nothing to do with the fact that her husband, Dan, worked on Mayor Dan McLaughlin's election campaign two years ago and her brother - in - law David Donahue was hired last year as the village's legislative liaison, a newly created position designed to foster communication between the village and state and federal lawmakers.

The New York Times asked a similar question in a Room for Debate — why do lawmakers make such a big deal out of marriage as more of us struggle to define family.

Good - government organizations are pushing the bill, too, after lawmakers and Cuomo did not agree to any ethics law changes in the state budget as initially proposed by the governor.

Former Spitzer spokesman Darren Dopp: «A governor who is perceived as cooperating with lawmakers and getting things done isn't going to be hurt by the revelation that his office has a combative relationship with the press corps.»

«We need a leader who will put the people before politics, and my colleague and friend Sen. John DeFrancisco is the man to do it as the next Governor of New York,» Akshar said in a joint statement with the rest of the lawmakers.

Advocates, lobbyists and even some state lawmakers privately fear this could become one of the least productive legislative sessions in years as «scandal fatigue» pervades the Capitol and criminal allegations dominate the headlines and deflate the desire to get things done.

The organization has also championed — endorsing and raising money for — the handful of Assembly Republicans who joined the Democrats in voting «yes» to pass the marriage bill on the other side of the Capitol, protecting these lawmakers on a potentially difficult issue (and one that, as it turned out, didn't lead to anyone's ouster, but did contribute to Assemblywoman Dede Scozzafava getting pushed out of the NY - 23 special election by conservatives who argued she was too moderate).

This was as constituents of Senator Eyinnaya Abaribe also began a process for his recall on Tuesday alleging that the lawmaker has been executing his own agenda outside what he was voted to do.

While Cuomo has zero responsibility as attorney general for the budget, he did weigh in throughout this process — both from afar during press conferences with reporters, often in NYC or upstate while lawmakers were deliberating in Albany, and in private chats with the legislative leaders and the governor.

After attending a closed - door meeting where Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan, of Long Isand, was re-elected as head of the GOP conference, (Felder said he did not cast a vote), the Brooklyn lawmaker suggested he might even wait until the IDC announced which conference it would be aligning with in 2017.

At the end of the day, during which rank - and - file lawmakers did a whole lot of not much, legislation was introduced just before midnight that included a two - year extension of NYC mayoral control as part of wide - ranging deal.

Cuomo did include a package of ethics measures in the budget, reiterating proposals such as limits to outside income for lawmakers and term limits through constitutional amendments.

From the Legislature, Sens. Geroge Latimer, Andrea Lanza and Brad Hoylman attended as did Assembly lawmakers Nick Perry, Helene Weinstein and Majority Leader Joe Morelle.

While other measures lacked the same urgency or drama as mayoral control, which did not get done this session, lawmakers did approve scores of bills in recent days, like a provision that would make it easier for cancer patients to sue for malpractice, and a ban on e-cigarettes in bars and restaurants.

State Comptroller Tom DiNapoli's office has rejected tens of thousands of dollars in stipends for five state senators — including two IDC members — after an investigation revealed that the lawmakers had been assigned false titles as chairs of committees they did not lead and as a result had been paid for jobs they did not hold.

NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio isn't planning to veto a controversial measure that was sneaked into the city's new $ 85.2 billion budget this week, according to a City Hall operative — even as a group of Albany lawmakers publicly urged him to do so.

He has not made any public appearances in Albany as lawmakers struggled to land deals before the session's scheduled end, though he did participate in closed door negotiations with legislative leaders.

State Comptroller Tom DiNapoli's office has rejected tens of thousands of dollars in stipends for five state Senators after an investigation revealed that the lawmakers had been assigned false titles as chairs of committees they did not lead and as a result had been paid for jobs they did not hold.

Despite being described by Democratic leaders as an «economic missile,» the federal tax cuts are doing precisely what congress predicted they would do: giving middle class people, like our $ 79,500 earning state lawmakers, a financial break.

In the short term, lawmakers do not expect Carl Heastie to make wholesale changes to the Assembly's leadership structure if he succeeds — as it now appears he will — in becoming the chamber's next speaker.

The Buffalo News quoted one lawmaker as calling it the «Monday night massacre,» but Cuomo said he doesn't think he vetoed a higher - than - average portion of the bills.

The system, adopted in the 1970s as a supposed «reform,» has led to myriad cases of lawmakers, who haven't had a pay raise since 1999, intentionally seeking to supplement their incomes by spending time in Albany even when they have no meaningful official work — and they've sometimes done it illegally.

Lawmakers unveiled plans to extend deadlines for developing new teacher evaluation criteria as well as changing how state funding is distributed, so districts won't lose out on money if they don't adopt the new evaluations.

As ConAgra Foods prepares to close its Carriage House plants in Fredonia and Dunkirk, Rep. Tom Reed says lawmakers are working hard to ensure other businesses don't do the same.

As the final days of the current state Legislature's session wind down, there's growing calls for lawmakers and the governor to do something about ethics reform.

The decision by the Michigan lawmaker — who has held his seat since 1965 and who denies the harassment allegations — followed several days of internal deliberation and pressure from Democratic colleagues, including Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, who wanted Conyers to leave the high - profile post but didn't want to be seen as forcing him out.

As the Governor and lawmakers were in Albany Tuesday grappling with the budget nightmare du jour, the budget savvy Lieutenant Governor was in his private office in Midtown.

She said she saw the decision by Clinton, who like many lawmakers also used a private e-mail while in the Senate, to use a private address as the top U.S. diplomat as a continuation of «what she was doing before she arrived at the State Department.»

State lawmakers, business and real estate developers as well as local preservation advocates gathered Thursday to send a united message to Governor Andrew Cuomo: do not remove from the budget a tax incentive they say is critical to continued economic redevelopment.

Krueger said she doesn't hold it against Senate Democratic Conference Leader John Sampson that he backed Epsada, even going so far as to suggest that the Brooklyn lawmaker actually backed the controversial Bronx incumbent «on a personal level.»

Republican lawmakers, too, do not want to appear too close with Cuomo on policy issues, especially when it comes to hot - button measures such as gun control.

Still, most lawmakers do not continue to hold dual roles as legislator and taking in outside income.

This year, state lawmakers and Gov. Andrew Cuomo have proposed a package of measures to reform the state's sexual harassment guidelines as well as for companies that do business with the state.

«It raises questions as to why lawmakers would appear to have a health benefit that other state employes do not have,» Camarda said.

Nicolello replied that lawmakers did not authorize the borrowing as «a fallback position for the county to pay for any other expenses that came forward.

Mr. Landrieu said the conference would continue to lobby state and federal lawmakers for city priorities, as it has done for years.