Sentences with phrase «as state lawmakers who»

James was endorsed by the New York State Nurses Association, as well as state lawmakers who hold leadership posts in the state Assembly.

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Some of the lawmakers who won't attend will instead host an alternative State of the Union — a meeting «to talk about our opposition to these racist policies that are being put out of the White House and to make sure we put out our own aggressive vision of what our America looks like as we take it back,» according to Jayapal.

But eliminating that deduction is already opposed by Republican lawmakers from high - tax states such as New York and California, who say it helps their state governments pay for social programs, including public education.

-- «State senators condemn fatal police shooting of Stephon Clark,» by LATimes» Patrick McGreevy: «Lawmakers» tempers flared Monday as the California Senate adjourned in memory of Stephon Clark, an unarmed African American man who was shot to death by Sacramento police officers on March 18.

TRENTON — The U.S. Supreme Court today spurned New Jersey's long effort to legalize sports betting, handing another defeat to Gov. Chris Christie and lawmakers who view it as a way to revive Atlantic City and the state's ailing racetracks.

Democrats in the narrowly divided state Senate have sought to stake out ground opposing (or «resisting» in the parlance of the political times) the Trump administration as well as pointing out their contrasts with Republican lawmakers, who they have sought to tie to actions by the new president.

Helming is one of seven lawmakers in the Senate — three Independent Democratic Conference members, plus four Senate Republicans — who were listed falsely as committee chairs on Senate records forwarded to the state comptroller's office.

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 Comptroller Tom DiNapoli has had to calculate and sign off on the pensions for former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver and former Senate leader Dean Skelos, who are both convicted felons, as well as several other lawmakers convicted of felonies.

The Republican tax bill hurtling through Congress is increasingly tilting the United States tax code to benefit wealthy Americans, as party leaders race to shore up wavering lawmakers who are requesting more help for high - earning business owners.

The conviction of Silver, a Democrat from lower Manhattan who spent two decades as speaker, was the crest of a wave of prosecutions brought against state lawmakers by Preet Bharara, the former U.S. Attorney in the Southern District of Manhattan.

Ms. Quinn, who has emerged as a leading surrogate for Mr. Cuomo, promised to deliver the pledge — which asks lawmakers across the state to support the passage of all 10 points of the controversial Women's Equality Act, which has died in two consecutive sessions — to Mr. Astorino in Midtown, where he is fund - raising with retired business executive Carly Fiorina.

Acting Attorney General Barbara Underwood is among the candidates to be interviewed by state lawmakers as they determine who fill the remainder of Eric Schneiderman's term in office.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo plans to be «very, very, very active» in the upcoming House races in New York as he targets GOP lawmakers who have voted for a December tax law he has deemed «an economic missile» amied at the state.

Restructuring the state's tax code has been met with skepticism from Republican lawmakers as well as some budget observers who have questioned whether such an undertaking can be done by the end of March.

The two Congress members are rivals with Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams, who held the State Senate seat before Hamilton and is seen as the Albany lawmaker's mentor and political patron.

As New York State budget talks reach their final days, and perhaps even hours, a group of Hispanic lawmakers is pushing for the inclusion of the Dream Act in the budget, It would offer college aid to children of undocumented immigrants who were born in the country.

The lawmaker, who spoke through his media aide, Austin Oniyokor, said it was true that he was renovating the health facility as part of his constituency projects, only for the state government to claim it was not informed.

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Six women who have reported sexual harassment by state lawmakers wrote them an open letter today, urging them not to «rush through bills» as part of the state budget being negotiated in the next 10 days.

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.

Those on the shortlist include Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren, a favorite of progressives who has emerged as a blistering critic of presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump; Virginia Sen. Tim Kaine, a well - liked lawmaker from an important general election battleground state; and Housing and Urban Development Secretary Julian Castro of Texas, a rising star in the Democratic Party.

If not, this stock of lawmakers would go down in history as those who failed their people in this turbulent dispensation in the political history of the state.»

U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara, who successfully prosecuted the former legislative leaders, as well as several other lawmakers, was not even in New York State.

As an example of such thinking, he cited the former leader of the State Senate who instructed his members to deliver their public disclosure forms by hand rather than mailing them so as to avoid any possible federal mail fraud charges — the unspoken assumption being that lawmakers might have lied on those formAs an example of such thinking, he cited the former leader of the State Senate who instructed his members to deliver their public disclosure forms by hand rather than mailing them so as to avoid any possible federal mail fraud charges — the unspoken assumption being that lawmakers might have lied on those formas to avoid any possible federal mail fraud charges — the unspoken assumption being that lawmakers might have lied on those forms.

As the tension mounts in Albany over the late budget and thousands of state workers forced to cut their hours and pay, the AFL - CIO is targeting individual lawmakers this election year who they say aren't looking out for the interests of working men and women.

The state Legislature is empowered to name a replacement to fill out the remainder of Mr. Schneiderman's term, but a range of editorial pages called for lawmakers to hold off and keep the interim attorney general, Barbara Underwood, who had served for years as state solicitor general, in the job.

As questions continue over the stipend arrangement in the state Senate, Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Thursday pointed not to Senate Republicans or the Independent Democratic Conference, but Comptroller Tom DiNapoli, a political rival who signed off on the checks for seven lawmakers.

But individually, state lawmakers from both parties are frustrated with Cuomo, who they view as mercurial at best and dictatorial at worst.

He also said rather flatly during a CapTon interview that he didn't believe the plan would cut $ 2.85 billion — or even the revised $ 2.3 billion, for that matter — in the current year, as the administration has insisted, and is among the Democratic state lawmakers who have championed extending the millionaire's tax.

The state Conservative Party has now codified its threat that any lawmaker who votes «yes» on gay marriage will be politically punished, passing a resolution that states «any elected official or potential candidate who does not support marriage as defined between one man and one woman» won't get Row C «in any election».

The bill, sponsored by Democratic Assembly Majority Leader Joe Morelle (a Rochester - area lawmaker) and Republican Sen. George Amedore, is aimed at codifying state Department of Labor guidelines that exempt delivery people who are hired as independent carriers from aspects of the unemployment, the minimum wage and workers» compensation coverage laws, according to the sponsor's memo.

The measures were requested city officials and state lawmakers who represent the area as its school district seeks to plug yet another budget deficit.

The measure, known as the Education, Labor and Family Assistance budget bill, included a suite of ethics reform legislation that address client disclosure for state lawmakers who are attorneys as well as per diem and campaign finance reform.

MacKay's personal endorsement of the legislation was cast as a counterweight to state Conservative Party Chairman Mike Long's pledge to yank the endorsement of any Republican who voted «yes» on the bill, even though MacKay stressed this issue would not be a litmus test for support no matter how a lawmaker voted.

As lawmakers returned to the state Capitol for the first time since the convictions of Sheldon Silver and Dean Skelos, it was Assembly Minority Leader Brian Kolb who perhaps best summed up what 2015 did to the term «state legislator.»

Gov. Cuomo was jeered by protesters when he arrived at a fundraiser for lawmakers who had been a part of the Independent Democratic Conference, which is dissolving as part of a unity deal for the state Senate.

GOP leaders scrambled in recent days to overcame opposition from House conservatives unhappy about deficits and debt, and lawmakers from high - tax states such as New York and New Jersey, who are upset about plans to curb the state and local tax deduction.

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Chris Jacobs, the Republican candidate who currently serves as Erie County Clerk, is pushing term limits for state lawmakers.

A Marine and state lawmaker is from the same area as one of the fallen soldiers who were on board the plane that crashed in Mississippi on Monday.

Robert Kane, who recently resigned as a state senator, told lawmakers Thursday that he is qualified to become one of the state's financial watchdogs despite questions about his management experience and his falling behind on divorce payments.Kane's...

Ross Whaley, the former Adirondack Park Agency chair who is one of the event's organizers, hoped their insights would resonate throughout the day as attendees hashed out their proposals and ideas, which would later be condensed into a two - page brief and zipped off to state lawmakers, many of whom were in the audience.

State Senator Pedro Espada, Jr., who has spent the past year boasting of the «millions» of dollars he has brought into his Bronx district as one of the state's most powerful lawmakers, appears to have left the vast majority of that money on the tState Senator Pedro Espada, Jr., who has spent the past year boasting of the «millions» of dollars he has brought into his Bronx district as one of the state's most powerful lawmakers, appears to have left the vast majority of that money on the tstate's most powerful lawmakers, appears to have left the vast majority of that money on the table.

O'Malley, who served as chairman of the Democratic Governors Association and later as finance chairman, will also spend some time with state lawmaker Lucy Flores, a candidate this year for lieutenant governor.

«The Council is committed to fighting for the diverse needs of the 8.4 million people who call New York City home and I look forward to continuing to work with Governor [Andrew] Cuomo, [Senate] Majority Leader [John] Flanagan, [Assembly] Speaker [Carl] Heastie and state lawmakers to advocate for our top priorities, such as the DREAM Act, a $ 15 minimum wage and paid family leave, and to make sure that New York City gets its fair share.»

State Comptroller Tom DiNapoli has had to calculate and sign off on the pensions for former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver and former Senate Leader Dean Skelos, who are both convicted felons, as well as several other lawmakers convicted of felonies.

What if he were on the air or talking to the press, publicly accusing senators — as the tenant activists and many rank - and - file Democrats do — of carrying water for the same developers who keep turning up in criminal complaints against state lawmakers, including the former Republican leader?

The letter comes as gun control advocacy groups and some Republican lawmakers who voted no blast the law, which tightens the state's assault weapons ban, limits the number of rounds in a high capacity magazine and tightens criminal penalties for illegal weapons.

A majority of Senate Republicans are opposed to Savino's Compassionate Care act, although Savino said support is growing among the 29 GOP members, particularly among lawmakers who see legalization as a potential opportunity for economic growth in the state's poorest areas.