Sentences with phrase «budget conference committees»

Budget conference committees were postponed for yet another day as legislators deliberated in private.

Budget negotiations are now underway at the Joint Budget Conference Committees between the Senate and Assembly.

Both houses of the state Legislature are in session, and budget conference committees start meeting with an eye toward the April 1 deadline.

Legislators sounded optimistic as they kicked off the first legislative budget conference committees — a largely ceremonial public negotiation that will unfold over the next two weeks as top lawmakers privately hammer out a $ 141.6 billion spending plan.

Plus, he explains his push to have joint budget conference committees.

Earlier in the day, lawmakers announced that «table targets» — essentially spending levels for budget conference committees — had been agreed to.

Senate Democratic Conference Leader John Sampson made good on a promise he made at yesterday's leaders meeting and announced assignments from his conference to the joint budget conference committees.

State Senator James Seward was named co-chairman of the general government / local assistance budget conference committee and will also serve on the education budget conference committee.

Senator James Seward (second from left) makes opening remarks as co-chairman of the general government / local assistance budget conference committee.

Sen. Ken LaValle, chair of the Senate Higher Ed Committee, said at a budget conference committee yesterday that the SUNY Board of Trustees is set to pass a resolution today to establish a five - year tuition plan at its meeting in Binghamton this morning.

The Senate GOP said it plans to act within two weeks on its budget proposal that will be submitted to public budget conference committee negotiations with the Assembly and used during continued discussions with the governor.

At 4:30 p.m., Assembly and Senate General Budget Conference Committee meets, Hearing Room B, Legislative Office Building, Albany.

Most say they are progressing though, Senate Education Committee chair John Flanagan spoke at a budget conference committee meeting.

Monday afternoon's General Budget Conference Committee — known as the «mother ship» — was a moment of public unity ahead of closed - door talks where details of the budget are hashed out.

The Task Force on American Innovation urges co-chairs of the FY14 budget conference committee to reach an agreement that eliminates the sequester.

A congressional budget conference committee had been convened to consider spending options.

Not exact matches

A House - Senate conference committee must resolve differences in the budgets.

«Mark - Up of H.R. 3996, The Temporary Tax Relief Act of 2007 and H.R. 3997, The Heroes Earnings Assistance and Relief Act of 2007,» Hearing Before the Committee on Ways and Means, United States House of Representatives, November 1, 2007; «Baucus, Grassley Tackle Alternative Minimum Tax Relief on First Day of 110th Congress,» Press Release, January 4, 2007; «Easing the Family Tax Burden,» Hearing Before the Committee on Finance, United States Senate, March 8, 2001; «Revenue Proposals and Tax Cuts in the President's Budget,» Hearing Before the Committee on Finance, United States Senate, February 28, 2001; «President's Tax Relief Proposals: Individual Income Tax Rates,» Hearing Before the Committee on Ways and Means, House of Representatives, February 13, 2001; Jerry Tempalski, «The Impact of the 2001 Tax Bill on the Individual AMT,» National Tax Association Proceedings: 94th Annual Conference on Taxation, November 10, 2001.

Following on missives from Catholics to House Speaker John Boehner, from Catholics and evangelicals to Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan and from the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops to Congress as a whole, Protestant leaders such as the Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church, Katharine Jefferts Schori, are advancing the argument that the GOP budget is an immoral docBudget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan and from the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops to Congress as a whole, Protestant leaders such as the Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church, Katharine Jefferts Schori, are advancing the argument that the GOP budget is an immoral docbudget is an immoral document.

The Assembly and Senate are expected to pass their own one - house budget bills — the official start to the conference committee process — next Monday.

Assuming all goes according to plan and the latest budget extender passes this afternoon without a hitch, the 2010 - 2011 budget will be almost two - thirds of the way done — all through an unprecedented piecemeal fashion and without a single conference committee.

IDC members chair committees in the Senate, while conference leader Jeff Klein is included in the closed - door budget negotiations with the governor, Assembly speaker and Senate majority leader.

After the first round of regional conferences, the outcome can be presented to the budget committee of the Greek parliament, which can then hold an initial debate on the citizens» recommendations.

At 1:25 p.m., U.S. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, a member of the Senate Agriculture Committee, will tour Capital Roots Urban Grow Center and hold a press conference urging the Senate to reject the Trump administration's budget proposal to cut SNAP benefits for low - income families, 594 River St., Troy.

«Mr. Klein outlined a system in which the leaders of the Republican caucus and the Independent Democratic Conference would work together to run the Senate, with joint control over committee agendas, the bills that are taken up on the floor and state budget negotiations,» Tom Kaplan wrote.

Ten days before the start of a new fiscal year, House and Senate negotiators working to resolve differences in $ 30.5 billion spending plans are closing in on a fiscal 2012 budget agreement, according to one of the six conference committee members.

Senate GOP Leader John Flanagan, Senate Independent Democratic Conference Leader Jeff Klein, and Democratic Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie spoke after their first General Conference Committee meeting of the budget season.

The conference committees closed down work last night, another sign the budget agreement was concluding.

Yandik is running for the 19th Congressional District, he will meet with residents at the Sidney Memorial Library; he is seeking to replace Chris Gibson, who declined to seek re-election for another term, -------------------------- Both Houses of the State Legislature have forwarded their budget proposals for eventual negotiations by conference committees, Assemblyman Bill Magee chairs the Assembly Agriculture Committee, he said that some but not all of the Agriculture cuts from the Governor have been restored in the Assembly Bbudget proposals for eventual negotiations by conference committees, Assemblyman Bill Magee chairs the Assembly Agriculture Committee, he said that some but not all of the Agriculture cuts from the Governor have been restored in the Assembly BudgetBudget:

State lawmakers are hurrying toward getting a budget agreement in place, with a stepped up schedule of conference committees and meetings with Governor Cuomo.

The lawmakers met formally launch the joint conference committees on the budget, part of the traditional dance that begins in the second week of March and, in theory, leads to the passage of a budget by April 1, the start of the fiscal year.

Meanwhile, back at the Capitol, the Assembly and Senate are scheduled to pass their respective one - house budgets today and convene a general conference committee (AKA the mothership) this evening.

Senate Finance Committee Chairman John DeFrancisco this afternoon said the GOP conference was close to an agreement with Gov. Andrew Cuomo on new disclosure requirements in the state budget.

At 1:30 p.m., Joint Budget Legislative General Conference Committee: Topic «Human Services» Hearing Room C, LOB, Albany.

Also at 1:30 p.m., Joint Budget Legislative General Conference Committee: Topic «Transportation», Hearing Room B, LOB, Albany.

Also at 1 p.m., Joint Budget Legislative General Conference Committee: Topic «Mental Hygiene», Hearing Room B, LOB, Albany.

At 1 p.m., Joint Budget Legislative General Conference Committee: Topic «Public Protection», Hearing Room A, LOB, Albany.

At 3 p.m., Rep. Adriano Espaillat and members of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs will hold a press conference to discuss the Administration's requested cuts to the international affairs budget, Room 2172, Rayburn House Office Building, Washington, D.C.

Also at 1 p.m., Joint Budget Legislative General Conference Committee: Topic «Higher Education», Hearing Room C, LOB, Albany.

At 2 p.m., Joint Budget Legislative General Conference Committee: Topic «Education», Hearing Room C, LOB, Albany.

There's more super Tuesday aftermath to sort through and a legislative session in Albany as state lawmakers and Gov. Cuomo continue to negotiate the details of the 2016 - 17 state budget with the joint conference committees convening.

House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan, R - Wisconsin, and Senate Budget Committee Chairman Patty Murray, D - Washington, are leading a conference committee convened to work out differences between House and Senate budget resoluBudget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan, R - Wisconsin, and Senate Budget Committee Chairman Patty Murray, D - Washington, are leading a conference committee convened to work out differences between House and Senate budget resCommittee Chairman Paul Ryan, R - Wisconsin, and Senate Budget Committee Chairman Patty Murray, D - Washington, are leading a conference committee convened to work out differences between House and Senate budget resoluBudget Committee Chairman Patty Murray, D - Washington, are leading a conference committee convened to work out differences between House and Senate budget resCommittee Chairman Patty Murray, D - Washington, are leading a conference committee convened to work out differences between House and Senate budget rescommittee convened to work out differences between House and Senate budget resolubudget resolutions.

Several other committees closed down, but the conferences covering the two largest areas of the budget, health and education, postponed their meetings.

Conference also welcomes moves to put the Office of Budget Responsibility on a statutory footing, siting it outside the Treasury and subjecting the appointment of its Chair to approval by the Treasury Select Committee.

The groups urged the Governor to adhere to the funding recommendations that the Senate and Assembly Human Services Conference Committee suggested in their bi-partisan proposal and to resubmit his budget to reflect that agreement.

It's expected that Klein will continue to sit in on closed - door negotiations involving the state budget and major legislation, and that the seven members of his conference will chair Senate committees.

The rare move came during a vote on a fiscal year 2012 budget proposal by the Republican Study Committee, a group of 176 conservative House Republicans, or 76 percent of the entire Republican conference.

«Citizens» Committee for Children is grateful to the members of the Independent Democratic Conference for their commitment to ensuring legislation to raise the age of criminal responsibility was included in this year's budget agreement.

Cuts to the Park Opportunity Program will be discussed at a City Council Parks & Recreation Committee budget hearing to take place right after the press conference.

In a sign that the end of the budget process is near, some conference committees began wrapping up their work and closing down.