Sentences with phrase «budget votes yesterday»

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Sen. Darrel Aubertine, one of the Democratic senators who needed convincing to overcome his concerns and vote «yes» on the two - way budget deal yesterday, said today that he doesn't regret his decision, although he would have to «think long and hard» about supporting an override.

Diaz Sr. seemed to back off his threat yesterday to vote «no» on the next round of budget extenders, which are expected to include cuts to the mental health and hygiene and human services spending.

There was intermittent voting on budget bills today in the Assembly, which followed the lead of the Senate, approving legislation that the upper house took up late yesterday.

On Monday, Governor Paterson suggested the people of New York would be «very surprised» by the results of yesterday's school budget votes.

Lawmakers departed Albany as scheduled yesterday without heeding Paterson's call for an up - or - down vote on his budget proposal «just to see where we stand,» as he put it this morning.

The NYC Council moved to force de Blasio to offer city - funded lawyers to immigrants facing deportation even if they're convicted of serious crimes, as it voted to pass a new $ 85.2 billion budget yesterday.

Mr. Bellone joined Legislator Bridget Fleming, Suffolk Presiding Officer DuWayne Gregory, Matt Cohen, vice president of the Long Island Association, Laureen Harris, president of the Association for a Better Long Island, Gina Coletti, co-chairwoman of the Suffolk County Alliance of Chambers, and small - business owners in Hauppauge yesterday to announce his opposition to the plan, which took an important step toward passage on Tuesday when the Senate Budget Committee voted along party lines to approve it.

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.

Here's US Sen. Chuck Schumer during a brief upstate swing through the Capital Region yesterday, talking about his hope that the Senate would vote on a bill that included some $ 16.1 billion worth of Medicaid funding for the states — including $ 1.1 billion New York has already accounted for in its 2010 - 2011 budget.

All school district budgets should be decided by a simple majority of local voters; as Assemblyman Kevin Cahill (D - Kingston) was quoted yesterday as saying, the 60 % override vote for tax levies exceeding the cap is «undemocratic».

«Yesterday the Legislature appears to have finally taken the initiative to introduce the Governor's budget so that it can be voted up or down on Monday.»

Both the Senate and Assembly had a snow day yesterday, but they're scheduled to be back at work today, voting on their respective one - house budgets.

Paterson said yesterday he's not sure when he might force a vote on education cuts, the most contentious of the outstanding budget issues.

Assemblyman David DiPietro (R - East Aurora), stoked the controversy again yesterday in a video posted on Facebook, saying he would vote against two budget bills because they contain two provisions that, in his view, fund the SAFE Act:

Yesterday, legislators on the Tompkins County Public Safety Committee voted to table a request by county Sheriff Ken Lansing to increase his budget by just over $ 360 thousand dollars.

The budget, which passed in the Dáil yesterday by a margin of four votes, came following an $ 85 billion International Monetary Fund - E.U. rescue package announced last month.

Thank you to the Comsewogue community who came out yesterday to pass the Comsewogue school budget with a shade under 80 % of the voters voting «Yes» for the school budget.

Well, the budget has passed — both the House and the Senate voted in favor yesterday — but some of the green was sacrificed in the political process.