Sentences with phrase «at state legislatures»

Thumbing their noses at their state legislatures, Cuomo and New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie jointly vetoed a bipartisan bill to overhaul the Port Authority, which is trying to move past a series of scandals tied to lane closures at the George Washington Bridge last year.

There is in fact a petition drive directed at state legislatures by politically conservative groups who are particularly interested in adopting a «balanced budget» amendment.

«I don't think anybody would look at the state legislature and its track record over the past few years and decide that only a couple percentage points of the people who are serving in Albany are not up to the task,» Mahoney said.

«Please close Wake County schools on May 16th to allow the largest school system in the state to advocate for public school funding at the state legislature,» Lormand said during Tuesday's school board meeting.

The organization has scored some huge advocacy wins at the state legislature in recent years to benefit charter schools including changes to zoning laws, impact fees, property taxes and the transferring of academic credits between charters and districts.

Fortunately, wiser heads are starting to prevail at the state legislature.

I testified at the state legislature in Louisiana against one of the no - nothing bills you mentioned, and even though it was painfully obvious that the legislators had no real intention of being affected by any argument we might make, it was a necessary «waste» of time.

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ALBANY, N.Y., March 31 - New York Governor Andrew Cuomo and the state legislature agreed late on Friday on a $ 168 billion budget for fiscal 2019, including measures aimed at offsetting damage to taxpayers from new federal tax changes.

The District of Columbia clocks in with the highest hourly pay rate at $ 10.50 per hour, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures.

Elena Sidorenko, who heads an interdepartmental working group on cryptocurrencies at the State Duma, the lower house of Russia's legislature, said it is widely known that Chinese traders use cryptocurrencies to send their revenues abroad.

But this might at least serve as a marker of how far we have to go to establish the legislature as an effective and responsible scrutinizer of the nation's business and the affairs of the state.

The state of Arizona is currently at the forefront of cryptocurrency tax acceptance, as a bill is making its way through the state legislature that would allow Arizona residents to pay their taxes with Bitcoin or other cryptocurrencies.

It's also grappling with systematic racial discrimination from hosts, facing a crackdown from the New York state legislature, and, as of Monday, suing San Francisco over short - term rental rules that the city's board of supervisors passed unanimously at the start of June.

At a moment when the Republican Party has reclaimed power in the House, has taken control of most state legislatures, and is set to begin the process of choosing its next presidential nominee, the Christian Right is playing an increasingly influential role in the party.

And Family Research Council President Tony Perkins says the last time his conservative Christian movement saw so many victories at the state level — where many legislatures are busy passing new abortion restrictions - was in 2004, when more than a dozen states adopted same - sex marriage bans.

If the «wall of separation» is lowered, we are told, our schools may be returned to the days of prayers prescribed by state legislatures; evolution may be banished from the classroom and replaced by «creation science»; and religious minorities may be at the mercy of intolerant majorities.

Wills's contention that Madison was a proponent of legislative supremacy among the branches is unconvincing given that it was the overweening power granted legislatures by the state constitutions that Madison and other Federalists sought to avoid at the federal level in the Constitution.

It also turns out that Perry is pretty good at working the (mostly congenial) Texas state legislature and (complicated) executive bureaucracy.

They should be mad at their state governor and legislature, not Obama for nationalizing a rule that was already approved at a state level.

The law was one of several Nativist measures, aimed at Catholics and immigrants, that the state legislature passed at the time.

From World War II until the late 1960s, no voice raised on behalf of mental patients was more audible and respected than that of William C. Menninger, who talked to at least as many state legislatures as did Dorothea Dix in the previous century.

Yet the attempts made to nullify the Supreme Court decision even at the cost of eliminating the public schools and passing acts of open defiance in state legislatures, to say nothing of rioting and violence and the nonviolent but intimidating acts of white citizens» councils, indicate how long a road there is yet to travel.

The Florida state legislature — at least the key committees controlled by Democrats — refused in a special session called by the governor to consider abortion restrictions.

Former California Governor Pat Brown liked the idea, and at one time the proposal was on its way to the state legislature, but after Ronald Reagan defeated Brown the Andros Plan went into limbo.

Then, in December 1959, the state legislature, influenced by Democratic backers from the big cities, legalized betting at harness tracks.

«If the legislature fails to act and we are forced to proceed with these cuts... student - athletes across the state at those schools will be ineligible to play next semester,» Edwards said Thursday.

According to the National Conference of State Legislatures, 49 of the 50 states have legislation in place protecting (or at least allowing) breastfeeding mother's right to nurse their child wherever they please.

After more people arrived at Naper Settlement, Naper helped to plat the town and then joined the state legislature in 1836 to guide the formation of DuPage County in 1839 with Naperville at that time as its county seat.

For years now, Republican - led state legislatures have been chipping away at abortion rights, making the process more difficult and expensive, regulating clinics that provide the procedure into oblivion.

In his opening remarks at the New York State Democratic Convention, Chairman Jay Jacobs declared to his party that it would retain statewide offices and majorities in the state legislature this November — with one minor improvement: a better functioning state seState Democratic Convention, Chairman Jay Jacobs declared to his party that it would retain statewide offices and majorities in the state legislature this November — with one minor improvement: a better functioning state sestate legislature this November — with one minor improvement: a better functioning state sestate senate.

The National Conference of State Legislatures» announced today that they will be presenting Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver with the William M. Bulger Excellence in State Leadership Award at their annual summit next month — which is taking place in Chicago.

State legislatures, governors» offices and state and federal agencies are less used to being hit with communications from thousands of people at once and seem more responState legislatures, governors» offices and state and federal agencies are less used to being hit with communications from thousands of people at once and seem more responstate and federal agencies are less used to being hit with communications from thousands of people at once and seem more responsive.

«At the end of the day, I would argue if one party controls the entire state legislature, then New Yorkers need a Republican governor to make sure that there's appropriate checks and balances and I'd like to be that person.»

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The National Conference of State Legislatures launched its StateVote elections page today aimed at bringing together in one place a wide range of state election topics, resources and analysis, as well as interactive maps showing legislative and state partisan conState Legislatures launched its StateVote elections page today aimed at bringing together in one place a wide range of state election topics, resources and analysis, as well as interactive maps showing legislative and state partisan constate election topics, resources and analysis, as well as interactive maps showing legislative and state partisan constate partisan control.

At 9 a.m., state lawmakers and the #bFair2DirectCare Coalition urge Gov. Andrew Cuomo and the state legislature to speed up living wage funding for workers who support New Yorkers with developmental disabilities, Legislative Office Building terrace, Albany.

On Friday afternoon, the governor's office released 259 individual vetoes for the appropriation budget bills, which were passed by the state legislature at the end of March.

At the municipal level, the municipality must adhere to the state legislature's laws on voting.

The first of two ways an amendment can be incorporated into the state constitution takes at least four years: two separately elected state legislatures must first vote to place a constitutional amendment on the ballot; then the majority of New Yorkers must vote on it and pass it by referendum.

Gerrymandering, which can be traced back to at least 1788, has resulted in 69 of 99 state legislatures and both houses in 35 states to be controlled by Republicans in a country in which both parties are pretty evenly represented, with Democrats slightly ahead.

Donald Trump, left, and Carl Paladino, who ran for governor of New York as a Republican in 2010, speak during a gun rights rally at the Empire State Plaza in April 2014, in Albany, N.Y. Paladino told New York's Republican members of Congress and the state legislature on Monday, March 14, 2016, that they should endorse Trump to salvage their «pathetic careers» in governState Plaza in April 2014, in Albany, N.Y. Paladino told New York's Republican members of Congress and the state legislature on Monday, March 14, 2016, that they should endorse Trump to salvage their «pathetic careers» in governstate legislature on Monday, March 14, 2016, that they should endorse Trump to salvage their «pathetic careers» in government.

At the time of the 2000 redistricting cycle, both chambers of the state legislature were controlled by Democrats; a Republican held the governorship.

The state legislature will lose one of its most senior members when Hudson Valley Senator Bill Larkin retires at the end of the year.

The actual wording of the change to article 1 section 9 of the state's constitution is to allow «casino gambling at no more than seven facilities as authorized and prescribed by the legislature».

At the kick off event in New York City, a prominent figure in busting corruption in the legislature announced he's found a back door way to confiscating the pensions of convicted state politicians.

And it appears that this time, Cuomo might be listening: Though the governor has yet to make any public remarks on the matter, both the Times's Emma Fitzsimmons and NY1's Zack Fink reported via Twitter that Cuomo is looking at how to implement some form of congestion pricing in the city, with the proposal to (potentially) be discussed when the New York State legislature reconvenes for its next session in January.

The New York State legislature is back at the Capitol for three weeks of meetings before the session ends later in June.

That's all this is, is just neglect,» stated Cuomo, who asked the City Council, Mayor's Office, and state legislature to guide him on how to remedy conditions at NYCHA.

Governor Cuomo's Fix NYC panel is poised to unveil its plan for congestion pricing in Manhattan to the state legislature today, and the New York Times has gotten an early look at the proposal.

They're not going to vote for a crazy theocracy at the federal level but vote Democrats and Republicans into their state legislatures.