Sentences with phrase «as state lawmakers once»
The poll results come as state lawmakers once again are being pushed on the issue of public financing, this time by a coalition of good - government groups, labor organizations and even the former campaign apparatus of President Obama's re-election effort, Organizing for America.
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The news is significant, not only as it temporarily exonerates Silver — once one of the state's most powerful elected officials — though he can be retried, and the acting U.S. attorney has indicated he will, in fact, seek to take another legal crack at the former Manhattan Democratic lawmaker.
Gun control, transparency over school funding and housing matters were among issues still being negotiated Wednesday in Albany as Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo and lawmakers tried once again to close down a new state budget in advance of a self - imposed Friday deadline as religious holidays loom.
Buffalo Sabres owner Terry Pegula, who made his fortune hydrofracking, has used his status as a sports mogul at least once to lobby state lawmakers to embrace drilling for natural gas.
Schneiderman's proposal comes as state lawmakers prepare to debate once again a public financing of campaigns on the state level that could see the adoption of a matching program based off the New York City system (Senate Republicans have blocked efforts to institute public financing).
ALBANY — A top aide to Governor Andrew Cuomo has been consulting with the Tax Foundation — a Washington - based organization the administration once denounced as a «right - wing think tank» — as lawmakers consider a number of tax cuts in the state budget.
You see, once a law like this goes on the books at the state or local level, it becomes much easier for lawmakers — and the activists who have their ears — to promote similar legislation in other places by using precedent as justification.