Sentences with phrase «budget battle with»

Anticipating the coming budget battle with Congress, Obama said that educators and the lawmakers that provide funding for schools should continue to focus on directing more resources to low - performing schools; on maintaining high standards for students and providing schools with the resources to meet those standards; and on providing sufficient funding for special - education students and English language learners.

On the verge of a bruising budget battle with the Republican - controlled Congress, President Clinton in recent weeks has sharpened his rhetoric and increased his focus on education as a critical dividing line between himself and his opponents.

Cuomo walked into a packed news conference in Albany and cited a continuing budget battle with New York's Republicans in declining to run.

In the final days of his budget battle with the Legislature, Gov. Andrew Cuomo threatened lawmakers with the shutdown vs. extender bills option, saying he felt completely comfortable that he would win in the court of public opinion.

Actually, these ads were made by SEIU 1199 (the healthcare workers union) during a budget battle with the former governor.

Keep in mind, the former governor wasn't trying to husband resources to do budget battle with the labor unions.

The biggest department using these cars is the Onondaga County Sheriff's Department, which has had heated budget battles with legislators in the past.

Observers say he would supply strong leadership for this summer's budget battles with congressional Republicans, some of whom are trying to block the bureau from using statistical sampling instead of a traditional headcount in the upcoming 2000 census (Science, 6 February, p. 798).

Not exact matches

Later chapters offer a detailed peek into how the Canadian media sausage is made, detailing the challenges of offsetting public funding with ad sales, the overwhelming importance of NHL hockey to the CBC's operating budget, Ceeb - style office politics and the uphill battle against the private channels of Corus, Rogers and Bell.

Under McCall's charge, the budget airline beat its earnings target yet again in 2014, with profits of $ 957 million, up 28 %, and the stock price up 11 % even as competitors battled losses in a tough business environment.

The target on the backs of government and political organizations coupled with limited security budgets poses an uphill battle to agency security teams.

There is no doubt that a powerful brand can be an invaluable company asset, however, marketers have always battled with senior management to secure the budget necessary to build brand value.

Filmed entirely on location in Morocco on a relatively modest budget of $ 20m, major challenges included filming large - scale battle sequences using a stunt team, and recreating the fall of Jericho with powerful explosives.

Dortmund have brilliantly battled with the Bayern machine on a fraction of the budget.

We're unlikely to see him poring over dense regulations, struggling to meet an underfunded budget, lamenting the lack of a real school kitchen in which to cook and store food, dealing with a cafeteria too small to accommodate his students, competing with fast food outlets because of an open school campus, or, most importantly, battling an unyielding Congress for more school food funding.

Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver downplayed the possibility that he has lost his ability to override any gubernatorial vetoes without GOP assistance, saying he doesn't intend to get to that point with Governor - elect Andrew Cuomo, despite the looming budget battle.

That little joke was about the traditional budget fight that involved battle ships captained by himself, Skelos and Silver, with the «special interests» as torpedos.

That's because Cuomo has tasked the Medicaid Relief Redesign Team with proposing cuts of its own by March 1 — one month before the April 1 budget deadline (and remember, Cuomo is reportedly willing to risk a government shutdown rather than let the budget battle drag on indefinitely).

This is really a big win for unions (and they need one, considering the battle they're facing with Cuomo in the next budget cycle) and also for Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, who stood right next to DiNapoli early this morning during victory speech.

The government is facing a tough battle to pass many of its budget measures, with Labor, the Greens and crossbenchers attacking plans to impose a $ 7 GP co-payment, cut health and education spending, and change the indexation of pensions.

«Mr. Bloomberg's hypocritical support of constitutional protections, only when they don't impact the New York City budget, coupled with his uneducated and uninformed statements on the issue, serve to fan the flames of aggression, and undermine the potential for peaceful resolution of these matters, while perpetuating a long dormant policy of Indian termination which dates back to the days of General Custer's failed battle of Little Bighorn.»

In this clip, dated May 10, Caputo is getting a haircut and engaging in a heated conversation with his barber, Jack, (whose hobby appears to be enaging his customers in political debates while cutting their hair) about the current budget battle in Albany.

Now one of her challenges as governor will be grappling with a state budget deficit that, by her calculation, will be much larger if the courts overturn those reforms after a long legal battle...

Gov. Cuomo is holding a $ 15,000 - a-head Manhattan fund - raiser to raise money for a likely battle with special - interest groups over his soon - to - be-released state budget.

«This Budget signals that the battle for Britain's public services has begun with the government declaring war.

Throughout the budget battle, Skelos has been striving to cast himself and his conference as close to Cuomo in an attempt to box out the speaker — something the governor seemed all too happy to indulge during the final days of negotiations when he met several times alone with the majority leader.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo has released an on - line «video message to the people» that's essentially a consolidated version of his budget address and an effort to rally New Yorkers to his side as he prepares to do battle with the special interests and lobbyists that want to protect the status quo in Albany.

NYSUT insisted politics played no role in its decision to honor Kennedy, but it's hard to ignore the fact that the teachers have been at war with her ex-husband, Gov. Andrew Cuomo, and were one of the few groups to actually advertise against him during the budget battle (not that it did them much good in the end).

A plan to revive a lucrative property tax break, whose expiration has sparked a long battle among developers, construction unions, affordable housing activists and politicians, will be included in Gov. Andrew Cuomo's budget this week, according to three sources familiar with the arrangement.

The charter issue became an unexpected budget battle after Mayor de Blasio stripped $ 210 million in capital funding from the city's charter schools and rescinded co-location agreements with three charters operated by former City Councilwoman Eva Moskowitz.

Ms. Magee and the 600,000 public school teachers she represents lost out in their battle with Mr. Cuomo over the new test - based evaluations outlined in this year's budget agreement.

«If you're going to be in a budget battle, you want to be with someone who can make points, who has relationships with legislators and can change minds and turn people toward public education.»

«There are two items in the budget that are not fair to New York City, that are harmful to New York City, that will set us back,» he said, vowing to enlist the city's representatives in the State Senate and Assembly to do battle with the governor.

«This is probably the toughest budget we had to do because we're battling a hostile federal government,» Gov. Andrew Cuomo said in a conference call with editorial boards earlier this month.

Cuomo's clarion call on the budget formulas that pump up deficits will likely set up even more bruising battles with the state Assembly.

«Martin Callanan MEP: We've improved the Common Fisheries Policy and debated with Hollande — now it's time to vote on the EU budget Main Can you spare a few hours for the battle of Eastleigh?»

«Nick Clegg signalled a fresh battle over budget cuts with George Osborne on Sunday after warning that it would be «wholly unrealistic» for the coalition to pursue further reductions in welfare spending without increasing taxes on Britain's richest 10 %.»

Though McCall and Cuomo ran against each other in the 2002 Democratic primary for governor — Cuomo dropped out — McCall has recently worked closely with the governor on both the tuition and budget battles.

With the state government deadlocked in a budget battle as the legislative calendar draws to a close, Mayor Noam Bramson is working with the four state representatives of New Rochelle in Albany to sneak through last minute legislation authorizing the City of New Rochelle to tear down the Naval Armory in New RocheWith the state government deadlocked in a budget battle as the legislative calendar draws to a close, Mayor Noam Bramson is working with the four state representatives of New Rochelle in Albany to sneak through last minute legislation authorizing the City of New Rochelle to tear down the Naval Armory in New Rochewith the four state representatives of New Rochelle in Albany to sneak through last minute legislation authorizing the City of New Rochelle to tear down the Naval Armory in New Rochelle.

Also, via statements released by King and Jacobs, the party provided the governor with some backup during the budget battle.

During the budget battle in March, the Capitol was clogged with even larger demonstrations that protested cuts to health care and education.

The potentially hefty surplus could set of a rare battle at the Capitol in next year's budget debate: What do with money a cash - strapped state hasn't seen in years following the economic downturn of the last decade.

But now that Cuomo has successfully neutralized the two biggest players in budget battles past — GNHYA and SEIU 199 — he only has the teachers and public employee unions to deal with.

The relationship between NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio and Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie has taken on new importance given the animosity between the mayor and the governor, with the city looking to the Bronx leader to protect its interests in the budget battle.

A sample of those that don't: - CA (R incumbent, budget mess, strongly D state with a good couple of D candidates in Brown & Newsom)- MN (R incumbent not seeking re-election, strongly D state with a much stronger bench than the R's thanks to Coleman's legal battle probably costing him a run)- PA (D incumbent in swing state, with much stronger R bench with AG & / or Rep likely to run)

Count New York's government - employee unions among the biggest winners of this year's budget battle — with taxpayers as the big losers.

Lori Pelletier, who as president of the Connecticut AFL - CIO has battled with Malloy over budget cuts and tax policy, said she does not expect the governor to change in the second half of his second term.

(Interesting aside, REBNY, which poured more than $ 3 million into the state Senate races with an eye toward restoring power to the GOP, is also heavily involved in the Committee to Save NY, which is the business - dominated organization created to help Cuomo in the upcoming budget battle).

Obama returned from his Martha's Vineyard vacation yesterday, ready for a busy fall season and more battles with Congress over Zika funding, the federal budget and $ 400 million the administration paid Iran this year for the never - completed sale of military equipment.

The initial rejections led to lawsuits from Success Academy, along with a political battle between Cuomo and Mayor Bill de Blasio that ended with the new charter law, which was part of the state budget that funded universal pre-K in the city.