Sentences with phrase «asking lawmakers»

NAR is asking lawmakers to keep property owners and tenants in mind as the U.S. House of Representatives moves forward on long - sought reforms to the National Flood Insurance Program.

The 2012 and 2016 presidential candidate said students could work to stop bullying in their communities or respond themselves to a shooter instead of asking lawmakers to approve legislation to protect them.

North Carolina's superintendent of public schools is asking lawmakers to delay a planned $ 5.1 million cut to the state education agency's operating budget for the 2018 - 19 school year, saying his agency needs the money to be more efficient and effective.

Engaged charter parents will be delivering hundreds of handwritten letters from charter parents across the state, asking lawmakers to enact a fair and comprehensive funding formula that includes public schools of choice, including charters.

Parents and students testified before the House Appropriations Committee in support of the Louisiana Scholarship Program, asking lawmakers to provide full funding for the program.

Wake County Public School officials said they're asking lawmakers to restore state funding for driver's education.

Superintendents are asking lawmakers to do nothing until Governor Bill Haslam's review is complete, which was — perhaps intentionally — timed to be finished this summer, after the legislative session is over for the year.

Cuomo is asking lawmakers to put the needs of Wall Street and the wealthy ahead of the needs of our students, the poor and the middle class,» said Mark Dunlea of Hunger Action New York.

Cuomo isn't asking lawmakers to approve the three issues as a package.

There's also an online campaign called Read the Bill along with a group called Read to Vote that's collected more than 80,000 signatures asking lawmakers to promise to read every page of every bill before voting.

The program has worked so well, Onondaga County Executive Joanie Mahoney is asking lawmakers to approve $ 3 million worth of projects in the suburbs.

That's why a number of organizations are asking lawmakers to let departments be reimbursed by insurance policies.

The committee is asking lawmakers and Gov. David Paterson to require that agencies, when they can do so without undue burden, post on their Web sites meeting minutes, audits and other information that is «clearly public and frequently requested,» Freeman said.

The counties are asking lawmakers to take over some of those services.

It has collected more than 100,000 signatures on an online petition asking lawmakers to allow the service upstate.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo's administration quietly floated the project in a February budget amendment asking lawmakers to approve a highly privatized building arrangement, not currently legal for state agencies, to speed construction and limit risk.

«I am going to ask lawmakers to stay longer in the week,» the governor said.

At 1:30 p.m., the Preservation League of New York State is bringing preservation and business leaders to the Capitol to ask lawmakers to support two key changes to New York's Historic Tax Credits, LCA Press Room (130), LOB, Albany.

But he publicly released no details of what he was about to ask lawmakers to approve before they end their session today.

McLaughlin's final months in the Assembly were dogged by the revelation that he had used abusive language against a female aide, and he was sanctioned by the chamber's ethics committee — after election day — for allegedly asking another lawmaker's aide for nude photos.

He's asked lawmakers to add $ 35 million in a potential special session to help victims of flooding earlier this year along Lake Ontario and the St. Lawrence River.

Adams» testimony also asked lawmakers to pass significant and real property tax and mandate relief.

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.

New York City mayor Bill de Blasio has asked lawmakers to permanently extend the power, which was secured by then - mayor Michael Bloomberg early in his tenure.

Syracuse Mayor Ben Walsh's first proposed budget asks lawmakers to use $ 11 million from the city's savings account to cover a budget gap.

George Pataki, a Republican, asked lawmakers to pass it immediately before ending the legislative session — even though the Assembly hadn't even seen it.

Supporters from across New York gathered in Albany this week to ask lawmakers to pass the Medical Aid in Dying Act, which would authorize doctors to prescribe lethal medication to terminally ill adults wishing to end their lives.

He also asked lawmakers to consider an eight - point ethics reform proposal, a $ 15 minimum wage and a paid family leave program.

The mayor also asked lawmakers to urge the state to increase the shelter allowance for homeless families, the amount of aid the state provides for families who receive a subsidy under a program called the Family Eviction Prevention Supplement, or FEPS.

The governor has asked lawmakers to expand casino gambling, which will eventually bring in additional revenue from related taxes and fees.

He also said voters should ask lawmakers «why can't you get it done on time?»

At 12:10 p.m., cancer patients, survivors and advocates will ask lawmakers to restore the 15 percent cut Cuomo proposed as part of a consolidation of health programs including the Cancer Services Program, Hearing Room A, LOB, Albany.

At 8:30 a.m., educators representing 11 state - supported schools serving deaf, blind and severely physically disabled students will kick off their lobby day, where they'll ask lawmakers to treat the students equally and increase state funding by 4.8 percent — the same percentage increase Cuomo has recommended for public school districts in his proposed 2015 - 16 executive budget, 3rd Floor Terrace, Legislative Office Building, Albany.

Governor Cuomo delivered his state of the State address this afternoon to a joint session of the legislature in Albany, he asked lawmakers to cooperate, in a time of political divisiveness: (Cuomo 1-3-18) Both Houses of the legislature will get... Continue reading →

Governor Andrew Cuomo, in his third State of the State message Wednesday, asked lawmakers to help him «stop the madness» and pass tough new anti gun legislation.

Specifically, Warren asked the lawmakers at a joint legislative budget hearing to provide an additional $ 31 million in municipal education funding, in order to offset the city's obligation to the Rochester School District.

More than a dozen county residents attended the Legislature's meeting to ask lawmakers to formally oppose the pipeline, which would carry Bakken crude from Albany to Linden, N.J., through a pipeline that would follow the Thruway corridor for much of its route.

Three groups, Citizens Union, Common Cents / NY and NYPIRG, have asked lawmakers to sign a Clean Conscience Pledge to vote for a three - prong ethics reform package.

Robb Farrell said she will ask lawmakers.

A government watchdog group, Public Citizen, said on Wednesday it will ask lawmakers to investigate whether billionaire investor Carl Icahn should have been subject to lobbying disclosure laws when he...

The Moreland panel has also asked lawmakers, and some of the firms that employ them, for records detailing the nature of their work.

The library lobby is heading to Albany today to ask lawmakers to restore funding that has been lost for five years now.

HARTFORD — The biggest crowd of the year jammed into the Legislative Office Building on Tuesday to ask lawmakers to block Gov. Dannel P. Malloy's proposal to eliminate the minimum pricing system for alcohol.

FPI and other organizations gathered in the Capitol to ask lawmakers to pass reforms that would expand New York State's contracting guidelines in order to oversee economic development projects and to prevent other bribery and bid - rigging scandals.

This year, good - government advocates have asked lawmakers to sign a pledge to bring more «transparency» to these funding pools, saying they provide «an unfortunate opportunity for corruption.»

On the same day, Gov. Andrew Cuomo called for a special session of the State Legislature, partly to ask lawmakers to approve more money for people impacted by spring flooding.

It asked the lawmakers to concentrate on their primary constitutional responsibilities of lawmaking and discharging of their legislative mandates to their constituents at the National Assembly

Gov. Ed Herschler of Wyoming in his opening address to the legislature has asked lawmakers not to subject the state department of education to cuts over the next biennium any deeper than the 6 - percent reduction he recommended in his budget.

Republican Gov. Bill Graves, meanwhile, asked lawmakers to extend the law for a year to allow time to explore other options.

Gov. Tom Ridge of Pennsylvania has asked lawmakers to allow local districts to opt out of the state's controversial academic standards.