Sentences with phrase «asking state lawmakers»

State superintendent Glenda Ritz is asking state lawmakers to study the state's voucher program in the second half of this 2016 General Assembly.

KINGSTON >> School trustees are asking state lawmakers to recognize that Gov. Andrew Cuomo is seeking to take control of education away from communities while making contradictory budget demands on local school boards.

The governor is asking state lawmakers for the $ 50 million first, with details to come later.

New York's anti-corruption commission that's asking state lawmakers to reveal private law clients has the backing of the state Bar Association, which says attorney - client privilege doesn't bar the disclosure required in 20 other states.

Cuomo is asking state lawmakers to provide $ 1 million to the State University of New York (SUNY) and City University of New York (CUNY) systems to implement the program.

The Democrat says he will be asking state lawmakers to help with more changes at the more than century old fairgrounds.

In a letter to New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo and the Democratic and Republican leaders of the state House and Senate Wednesday, Schneiderman asked state lawmakers to pass legislation that would allow for prosecuting people on the state level for the exact crimes they were convicted of — and pardoned for — on the federal level.

During a press conference, sophomore Lydia Hester from Madison East High School asked state lawmakers, «How do you expect students to be successful when kids have to worry about themselves, their friends, and their teachers being shot?»

Gov. David Paterson said earlier today that he will ask state lawmakers not to depart Albany midweek as planned and instead remain at the Capitol in hopes of hammering out a deal on the 2010 - 2011 state budget, which is now almost two full weeks late.

The U.S. Attorney's Office has asked state lawmakers to preserve records relating to the Moreland investigation, and Cuomo's office has not said whether he has been asked to do the same.

PLATTSBURGH Gov. Andrew Cuomo has asked state lawmakers to authorize funding for a study that will explore the legalization of recreational marijuana in New York state.

Mayor Stephanie Miner has asked state lawmakers for help fixing the city's water system, which averages about one water main break a day.

Rick Snyder asks state lawmakers for extra funds to deal with lead - poisoned water, school financial crisis

ALBANY — Mayor Bill de Blasio may have come to the Capitol on Tuesday to ask state lawmakers for help with affordable housing programs and homeless shelter allowances, but he found himself forced to answer a barrage of questions about an unexpected issue as more than a half - dozen lawmakers pressured him to allow a property tax cap in the city.

She joined with dozens of other local officials to ask state lawmakers to reject Cuomo's proposal to freeze property taxes for two years.

New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman on Wednesday asked state lawmakers to expand his powers to prosecute people who have received a presidential pardon.

New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman asked state lawmakers to expand his powers to prosecute people who have received a presidential pardon.

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio, in his State of the City address, stuck to his plan to continue to ask state lawmakers for permission to tax the wealthy to fund universal pre-kindergarten.

Cash asked state lawmakers to kick in an additional $ 52 million, and members of the local delegation have been optimistic they will be able to secure a substantial bump.

The County Legislature plans to ask state lawmakers to eliminate tolls for anyone who enters and exits the Thruway between exits 34A and 39.

The legislature will ask state lawmakers to eliminate fees for routes that originate and end between exits 34A and 39.

In his State of the City address at LaGuardia Community College in Queens on Monday, de Blasio said he plans to ask state lawmakers next week for the power to raise the minimum wage.

The name change comes as Gov. Pat McCrory earlier this month asked state lawmakers to give community colleges more discretion in how they spend money they have saved to train the state's workforce.

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In Tallahassee, the National Rifle Association, one of the most influential special interest groups in the state, asked House lawmakers to vote against the legislation.

State lawmakers are beginning to ask how this new knowledge can (or even if it should) influence policy decisions in early childhood development, spurring a growing interest in programs such as high - quality child care, pre-kindergarten and home visiting.

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.

A group of state lawmakers from the Mohawk Valley is asking for New York Governor Andrew Cuomo's help in pressing Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie to introduce a relief package for a racino.

Some upstate lawmakers are asking the state to step in and fund refugee resettlement programs that they said have been caught up in President Donald Trump's travel ban and the resulting chaos.

Davis has asked Kentucky Governor Steve Beshear, a Democrat, state lawmakers and Bunning to accommodate her beliefs.

And he told lawmakers that in the future, Empire State Development will not ask for money for anything that is «inappropriately risky.»

During an interview on AM 710's «The John Gambling Show», Governor Paterson asked the state legislature to give him the power to implement the same FMAP contingency plan lawmakers agreed to back in the summer when they weren't sure if the state aid bill would pass.

It's also sent letters to numerous state lawmakers who are attorneys, asking them to disclose the names of clients they've represented in public civil or criminal cases, and the amount of money they received in legal fees.

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.

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.

Mulvaney was asked on CBS News» «Face the Nation» whether lawmakers were «wobbling» over the proposal to scrap state and local tax deduction.

Onondaga County lawmakers on Tuesday will ask the state to consider eliminating tolls for local travelers on the New York State Thrstate to consider eliminating tolls for local travelers on the New York State ThrState Thruway.

Gubernatorial press aides then contacted several reporters, three of them said, hoping to have them ask if the governor was inclined to give state lawmakers a pay raise this year.

Syracuse CIty Councilor at - large Jean Kessner asks Gov. Andrew Cuomo and state lawmakers to halt a multi-billion-dollar state bailout of upstate nuclear power plants.

Two - thirds of NYC state lawmakers asked by the DN to reveal their outside incomes refused to do so after voting in favor of a measure that would force them to do just that.

Yesterday, a coalition of labor groups released a letter to state lawmakers asking that they not tinker with the state's Scaffold Law.

Meanwhile, students, parents and community members organized by the Alliance for Quality Education, Citizen Action of New York and the New York City Coalition for Educational Justice delivered valentines to state lawmakers» local offices in the Capital District Buffalo, Syracuse, Binghamton, Queens, the Bronx, Brooklyn and Long Island asking them to reject Gov. Andrew Cuomo's proposed education aid cuts.

A reform group is asking New York Governor Andrew Cuomo's anti-corruption commission to probe cash donations to state lawmakers by the pharmaceutical industry, to find out if there's a connection with some pro-consumer bills dying in legislative committees.

U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara, who has said there is a «crisis of corruption» at the state Capitol in Albany, had asked Caproni to send Silver to prison for longer than any other previous New York state lawmaker convicted of public corruption, which would be at least 14 years.

It's not unusual or out of the ordinary for communications staff to ask for statements in support of legislation or initiatives from various groups and Zambelli's correspondence that morning wasn't limited to lobbying groups after a flurry of bills — which included legislation expanding the state's DNA databank and approving the lawmaker - drawn political boundaries — passed the Legislature.

Molo suggested that lawmaker's resistance to the commission's enquiries was based in a belief that Cuomo had overstepped his executive authority, and asked her if she was bothered the governor was violating the state Constitution.

Lawmakers spent considerable time asking Finch and Matthew Driscoll, the state transportation commissioner, about I Love New York tourism signs that popped up in the last year along the Thruway and other state roads.

Cuomo, when asked directly about ethics reforms, says he and lawmakers already did that in the state budget.

Prosecutors back up their request by stating, «Weiner, a grown man, a father, and a former lawmaker, willfully and knowingly asked a 15 - year old girl to display her body and engage in sexually explicit conduct for him online.»

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 state says no lawmakers were involved in crafting the application, but Slaughter did ask the Obama administration to consider Rochester in the selection process.