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On October 26th, Ray Raimundi of FiOS1News, ran a TV report on my story on Latimer missing three budget votes while he was in London with Kettner.

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While last week's budget vote cleared the way to begin the tax reform effort, 20 Republicans voted against it, citing issues with the elimination of state and local tax deductions and a massive expansion of the federal deficit.

But while Amash's conservative record is strong, he has occassionally bucked his party, most notably by voting against Paul Ryan's budget and against the deal to raise the debt ceiling.

This week, the House is voting on a Fiscal Year 2018 budget while at the same time the Senate is debating its own version — and there are a number of stark differences.

For Immediate Release This week, the House is voting on a Fiscal Year 2018 budget while at the same time the Senate is debating its own version — ...

On the Budget Committee, all voting members are NEDs while two EDs serve in a non-voting capacity.

It would allow Republicans to technically vote for budget cuts while structuring the future cuts so irrationally that the Congress would either have to switch to different kinds of cuts (what Republicans would have hoped for) or no cuts (what Democrats would have hoped for.)

Then the governor started making nosies about no need to rush into a final budget deal, and lawmakers — whose paychecks are being withheld while a final deal eludes them — insisted they were, in fact, close to an agreement, and clamored for him to send them bills to vote on.

While they can't scrape together sufficient votes to pass the revenue portion of the budget, the Senate Democrats had no trouble passing the bill that authorizes legislators and members of the judiciary to be paid.

Turner told me in an interview Tuesday morning that while he voted for the latest version of the Paul Ryan budget — which includes deep cuts to socials service spending — he expects a compromise on revenue - generators might be needed.

While Democrats start behind in the vote in the second - tier districts, a balanced battle on the Ryan budget and tax cuts erodes the Republican advantage by two - thirds, getting Democrats to within 3 points in these districts.

The Senate GOP has allowed for key votes on the legalization of same - sex marriage and gun control, while Cuomo has also racked up significant economic victories, including a property - tax cap and three budgets in a row passing in advance of the April 1 deadline.

Twenty - six minutes later, he cast the deciding vote, pushing through a budget that restores some Say Yes to Education funding while retaining the mayor's proposed 5.38 percent property tax rate hike.

The 45 - 16 vote occurred while Mayor Bill de Blasio was testifying nearby at a Joint Legislative Budget hearing.

Former NYC Councilman Anthony Como is out with a new TV ad that attacks his Democratic target, Queens Sen. Joe Addabbo (also a former NYC councilman), for voting «124 times» to increase taxes and fees while also going along with $ 14 billion worth of new spending in the state budget.

UPDATE: A reader reminds me of another troublesome Sampson story that ran in the DN yesterday about how he chose to host a fundraiser at Yankee stadium while his colleagues and Gov. David Paterson were waiting for him up in Albany to negotiate on the budget in advance of the shutdown vote.

Senate: While addressing the chamber before the vote on its one - house budget on Monday, Majority Leader John Flanagan said that he didn't feel mayoral control was a budget issue.

While New York City Democrats would likely be the most frustrated if there's no agreement in 2016, there are dozens of lawmakers throughout the state who had to grapple with the issue on the campaign trail this year, and thus suffered a political headache for voting in favor of a budget bill that included a provision which didn't actually wind up raising their salary.

While not a very lofty body, I have participated in student government deliberative bodies (with $ 300K of budget authority, some quasi-judicial authority, control over a fair amount of real estate and a role in institutional governance committees) with about thirty elected representatives that operated with approval voting, feminist process and an...

Owens highlights his own biography and push for job creation, and tells voters he's voted against «the Republican budget» while also pushes back against China's currency manipulation.

He added that she has «straight As» from the National Rifle Association and voted against Democratic Gov. David Paterson's «bloated» budget this year (Burns conceded there were other issues on which the Republican has problems with conservatives in her party: she is pro-abortion, voted for gay marriage and, while not endorsing the controversial «card check» provision in the Employee Free Choice Act, she does support «reform in workers» ability to organize» — a stand not too different from that of AFL - CIO President Rich Trumka when he said he could support EFCA without card check).

While New York families are trying to live within their means, Bill Owens voted against balancing our budget.

While not a very lofty body, I have participated in student government deliberative bodies (with $ 300K of budget authority, some quasi-judicial authority, control over a fair amount of real estate and a role in institutional governance committees) with about thirty elected representatives that operated with approval voting, feminist process and an affirmative stack for recognizing people in debate.

While it doesn't appear likely they'll hold up the entire budget on this issue, they may very well vote «no.»

«While Howard Kopel voted to eliminate the tax on heat and electricity and voted for two no - tax - increase county budgets, his opponent, Adam Moser, wants a 39 percent tax hike so county employees can continue to get free health care, 61 paid days off and big six - figure salaries.

Some may find it a bit hypocritical for Latimer, a Roman Catholic as is his wife and girlfriend, to raise concerns that Senate leadership did something wrong by scheduling a budget vote on one of the most important days in the Roman Catholic calendar when he left his wife back in New York to attend mass by herself while he was on vacation in Europe with another woman.

Members of the New York State Assembly vote on budget bills while in session at the Capitol Wednesday, April 5, 2017 in Albany, N.Y. (Lori Van Buren / Times Union)

However, the Assembly's proposed one - house bill is only for 8 days, which is insufficient, while the Senate's proposed budget excludes early voting all together.

The budget deal did not include the Dream Act, which would provide tuition assistance to undocumented immigrants, and failed in a curiously timed floor vote while budget negotiations were still ongoing.

Under narrow Republican control, the chamber has forced Democrats to compromise on key issues like the minimum wage and taxes, while also stymying efforts to make it easier to vote and bar a woman from having a seat at the budget negotiating table.

DeFrancisco stressed unity repeatedly in his remarks while also defending to an at - times skeptical audience why he voted for a budget last year that included a $ 15 minimum wage and a paid family leave program he had been on the record opposing.

Rhodes is campaigning for an activist government that will promote prosperity while alleviating real social problems, and he accuses Faso of shortchanging local communities — from his vote on Trumpcare to his support for harsh budget cuts to agencies like the Environmental Protection Agency.

Latimer came under fire for not paying property taxes on a family home, having a car - registration suspension on his record and missing state budget votes in April while vacationing in the UK with a woman other than his wife.

While people said that they supported the measures in the budget, only 5 % said it made them more likely to support Labour, 23 % said it made them less likely to vote Labour.

While voting for the budget on Tuesday, Rosenthal again decried that this funding hadn't been included and said the city's commitment to these providers, who operate shelters, food pantries, adult literacy programs, and more, «could be better.»

Many point to a cap imposed in 2012 on the amount that school districts can increase taxes each year as the reason more budgets have passed while interest in voting has waned.

While the bill is still awaiting approval in three separate committees — Budget and Appropriations, Legislation, and Public Safety and Social Services — the Democratic Caucus is pushing for the committees to approve the proposal in order to move forward on a late night vote of the full 17 - member county Board of Legislators on Monday, July 17.

While town boards vote on highway budgets, most leave them intact.

But polls show that overhauling Medicare is unpopular with the public, and even while the overall budget plan has wide GOP support in the House, Senate Republicans are still discussing what to do with it as a vote looms this week.

The ad's narrator notes that Scozzafava voted for Paterson's «huge tax and spend budget» while a picture of the state's governor in shown on screen.

While most city and county budgets already are set for the coming year, school budgets aren't developed and voted on until the spring.

On Wednesday, the Democrat - led Assembly aligned itself with Cuomo, a second - term Democrat, on measures like voting and campaign finance reform, while separating on other items related to transparency and budget control.

After the Senate's bipartisan 91 - to - 9 vote in a favor of a bill that keeps federal agencies open through March 18 while enacting $ 4 billion in new spending cuts, Mr. Obama urged House and Senate leaders to meet with Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. and two top aides to work out a longer - term budget agreement.

Some of those projects are already in the works, while others King presented to the board Tuesday and asked for their guidance — and eventually their vote to fund them when the budget is approved in June.

While the nine - member council ultimately voted 8 — 1 to accept a budget that includes $ 700,000 in education cuts, they strongly denounced any plans to cut teachers» jobs.

This study found that employee benefits as a percentage of the district's budget were negatively associated with levy outcomes, while salaries were positively associated with levy outcomes, suggesting that voters may be more sensitive to retirement and healthcare benefits than salaries when voting.

While some Democrats are pushing for the additional charter school money to be reduced or eliminated, some said the issue alone would not cause them to vote against the entire budget that funds scores of agencies, nonprofit organizations, and departments that operate everything from state prisons to the attorney general's office.

While bar members are hoping there might be some chance of reversing the decision, they may be too late as the N.W.T. legislature is set to vote on its budget in the next couple of weeks.

While a couple of thousand agents and brokers listened to keynote speaker Michael «Pinball» Clemens, most left before the budget vote took place, leaving fewer than 200 to pass the budget.