Sentences with phrase «bill by millions of dollars»

«I am really tired of hearing our Republican colleagues on the City Council whining about our state delegation not delivering funds for Yonkers,» said Majority Leader Michael Sabatino, «Let me point out that the current State Senate is controlled by Republicans, who reduced the amount of money in the original Assembly budget bill by millions of dollars.

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Hall spokesman Patrick McGarrity said: «Our democracy is weakened by candidates who spend millions of their own dollars trying to buy elections and then force their radical ideas on people like letting corporate polluters like BP off the hook — sticking taxpayers with the bill.»

«The people of New York are demanding change and it's time we took action to restore the public trust by closing the LLC loophole and bringing fairness to our campaign finance system,» Cuomo said in the May 24 statement announcing his bill menu aimed at closing the loophole that has allowed tens of millions of dollars into campaign accounts.

ALBANY — The annual tradition in the State Legislature of proposing «sweeteners» to state pensions for workers and retirees represented by politically powerful unions has produced 120 bills so far worth hundreds of millions of dollars in benefits, according to the independent Citizens Budget Commission.

Meanwhile, Bill Samuels, a co-founder of Effective NY, has urging the commission to investigate millions of dollars in campaign contributions by business interests formed as limited liability corporations.

But Denenberg's campaign imploded in spectacular fashion after he was accused by his former law partners of inappropriately billing for millions of dollars worth of work he never completed.

However, the program was plagued with delays, strongly criticized by struggling homeowners, it paid contractors $ 6.8 million for work later deemed «flawed or incomplete» and the city was double billed by hundreds of thousands of dollars by firms carrying out the work, according to an audit by Comptroller Scott Stringer.

First, this bill doesn't send one nickel a religious school,» Bellafiore said «Second, New York State already sends hundreds of millions in taxpayer dollars to religiously affiliated schools, via a very long - standing program that pays for services mandated by the state.»

By contrast, 49.5 percent of the $ 4.5 million raised by Bill Thompson, another Democratic candidate in the race, came from small dollar donationBy contrast, 49.5 percent of the $ 4.5 million raised by Bill Thompson, another Democratic candidate in the race, came from small dollar donationby Bill Thompson, another Democratic candidate in the race, came from small dollar donations.

After holding it for four months, the state Senate has just sent Governor Andrew Cuomo a bill that would add hundreds of millions of dollars * to state and local pension costs by allowing public employees to claim pension service credit for time spent in peacetime military duty.

Daniel Dromm, a Queens city councilman and the head of the council's Finance Committee, and New York City Independent Budget Office Director Ronnie Lowenstein, join «In Focus» Host Cheryl Wills to dig a little deeper into Mayor Bill de Blasio's budget plan and the programs that might be impacted by the federal tax bill and the possible loss of millions of dollars in state reveBill de Blasio's budget plan and the programs that might be impacted by the federal tax bill and the possible loss of millions of dollars in state revebill and the possible loss of millions of dollars in state revenue.

Higgins said he is open to seeking funding in the pending federal transportation bill, but he also pointed out the authority receives millions of dollars annually through the federal gas tax paid by motorists.

(1) Word on the street is that the new Speaker of the State Assembly, the Honorable Carl Heastie has achieved a monumental goal by having Governor Andrew Cuomo take away $ 100 million dollars from New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio and send that money to the Assembly.

ALBANY — Bill de Blasio's first trips to Albany this year were like walking into a buzz saw: First, the New York City mayor was confronted by a proposed state budget that shifted millions of dollars of costs onto his books, and then he was grilled by Republicans who wanted to impose a cap on his ability to raise property taxes.

«To sponsor the Ghana Premier league with capital injection of one million dollars each season, to remove Airport Taxes, to remove utility bills paid by university students living on campus, to increase and give Ghanaians high quality infrastructure nationwide, loans from Western World will be abolished, Woyome will pay back our money, continuation of Mahama projects and we will use our oil wealth income to clear all Ghana's debt.»

THE DVD by Bill Chambers Warner issues Million Dollar Baby on DVD in competing 2 - disc widescreen and fullscreen editions as well as in a «3 - Disc Deluxe Edition» containing a bonus CD of Clint Eastwood's complete score.

Like most of the director's work, it's a road movie: Fooled by one of those «you may have already won» mail scams, elderly drunk Woody (Dern) badgers his youngest son, David (Forte), into driving him from Billings, Montana to Lincoln, Nebraska, to collect the million dollars he's been promised.

Of course, Mr. Hickok fails to mention the millions of dollars fed to the ELC by his own department and the ELC's implosion in 2004, as four ELC leaders quit the council: former U.S. Rep. Bill Goodling, R - Pa.; Colorado Commissioner of Education William J. Moloney; former Minnesota Education Commissioner Cheri Pierson Yecke; and Abigail Thernstrom, a member of the Massachusetts state board of educatioOf course, Mr. Hickok fails to mention the millions of dollars fed to the ELC by his own department and the ELC's implosion in 2004, as four ELC leaders quit the council: former U.S. Rep. Bill Goodling, R - Pa.; Colorado Commissioner of Education William J. Moloney; former Minnesota Education Commissioner Cheri Pierson Yecke; and Abigail Thernstrom, a member of the Massachusetts state board of educatioof dollars fed to the ELC by his own department and the ELC's implosion in 2004, as four ELC leaders quit the council: former U.S. Rep. Bill Goodling, R - Pa.; Colorado Commissioner of Education William J. Moloney; former Minnesota Education Commissioner Cheri Pierson Yecke; and Abigail Thernstrom, a member of the Massachusetts state board of educatioof Education William J. Moloney; former Minnesota Education Commissioner Cheri Pierson Yecke; and Abigail Thernstrom, a member of the Massachusetts state board of educatioof the Massachusetts state board of educatioof education.

Stellar results posted by high - performing charters are dismissed, while New York City mayor Bill de Blasio invests hundreds of millions of dollars in his signature «renewal schools» model largely without success.

(Calif.) Programs aimed at keeping kids in school and out of the so - called «prison pipeline» would receive a big boost under a bill being carried by the chair of the Senate Education Committee that lays groundwork for the use of millions of dollars in prisoner - release savings.

An education advocacy group founded by two New York City teachers and backed financially by Bill Gates is launching a public - relations push to pressure the city and the local teachers union to strike a deal on a new teacher evaluation system, two weeks before a state - mandated deadline that could cost the city millions of dollars in education funding.

This report is one of the projects funded through a three - year, $ 3 million dollar grant awarded to ASCD last year by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to support implementation of the Common Core standards.

This bill filed by Rep. Jim Murphy would save public charter schools millions of dollars on lower interest rates on their bonds and other related costs.

In 2003, the legislature voted to give Boeing hundreds of millions of dollars in tax breaks by passing House Bill 2294.

In January 2014 Apple provided full refunds to consumers, paying a minimum of $ 32.5 million, to settle a Federal Trade Commission complaint that the company billed consumers for millions of dollars of charges incurred by children in kids» mobile apps without their parents» consent.

Even with complicated reviews of multi - million dollar litigation, including legal bills, it typically takes us less than a week or so per case to prepare a second opinion and costs 3 % or less of the fees charged by primary counsel, including examination of their bills.

This is because motorists could not purchase auto insurance, which would cover over $ 5 million dollars by way of medical bills.

Internal corporate documents from July seen by Jalopnik describe overdue bills in the tens of millions of dollars to several more suppliers in addition to Futuris.

WASHINGTON — Ignoring the outsized need for family planning resources and turning a blind eye to the looming and near - immediate threat of the Zika virus, a House subcommittee passed a bill that prohibits funding for the nation's only dedicated source of federal funding for family planning services, eliminates the evidence - based Teen Pregnancy Prevention Program, and proposes wasting millions in taxpayer dollars by funding ineffective abstinence - only education.

If Indigenous unemployment was reduced to the same level as that commensurate with the rest of the population, and assuming that this latter rate remained constant, then the savings to government in payments to the unemployed, in 1996 dollars, would be around $ 193 million by the year 2001 and $ 274 million by 2006 with much lower unemployment bills of $ 112 and $ 126 million respectively.

Under the Senate tax bill, middle - class families would pay thousands more, millions would lose coverage, and Medicare would be cut by billions of dollars.

From the Vancouver Sun: «Gamblers flocked into four Vancouver - area casinos over a recent three - month period hauling bags of $ 20 bills that added up to millions of dollars in suspicious transactions, according to information provided by the provincial Finance Ministry in response to a freedom of information request from the CBC.»