Sentences with phrase «by liberal lawmakers»
Cuomo, along with Senate Republicans, oppose keeping the surcharge — a position that is coming increasingly underfire by liberal lawmakers.
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Democrats, liberal advocacy groups, and immigrants» rights activists have long been opposed to the idea, which has been repeatedly proposed by Republican lawmakers in recent years.
Notably, U.S. lawmakers are poking the same hornet's nest that Canada's Liberals got stung by this year, taking on sole - proprietorships and similar corporate structures that can help individuals lower their tax bills.
Those are the issues at stake for the Independent Democratic Conference in a video released Monday as the lawmakers in the breakaway bloc seek to re-affirm their support for liberal causes they believe has been lost in the pitched battle being waged by progressive advocacy groups to pressure them into forming a coalition with mainline Democrats.
Counteracting President Trump; bolstering the Affordable Care Act; and publicly funding campaigns are the issues at stake for the Independent Democratic Conference in a video released Monday as the lawmakers in the breakaway bloc seek to re-affirm their support for liberal causes they believe has been lost in the pitched battle being waged by progressive advocacy groups to pressure them into forming a coalition with mainline Democrats.
Skelos resigned this month from his leadership post and was replaced by John Flanagan, a Suffolk County lawmaker who has made conciliatory statements with regard to the liberal New York City mayor.
Linking both the DREAM Act — a measure supported by liberals in the Legislature — with the education tax credit has been floated in the Capitol in recent budget negotiations, but lawmakers have insisted the two should be kept as separate issues.
«As New Yorkers are faced with a punishing economic climate fueled by Gov. Cuomo's special interest donors and liberal career politicians, Congressman Gibson's announcement of an exploratory committee for governor is a light at the end of the tunnel,» said Nojay, a conservative lawmaker from the Rochester area and a talk - radio host.
Still, having the wage provision not tied to inflation, a key provision for more liberal lawmakers who backed the legislation when it was proposed by Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver last year, could make things easier to pass through the GOP conference.
The district is being vacated at the end of the year by Republican Rep. Richard Hanna, a moderate - to - liberal lawmaker who was being challenged in a GOP primary by Assemblywoman Claudia Tenney.
The public forum, hosted by the Republican Party of Bennington County, included two moderate to liberal Democrat legislators, a first - term Republican lawmaker, and Manchester's pragmatic chief of police.
Already, deep fissures are emerging between, on one side, a base of ideological voters and lawmakers with strong ties to powerful tea - party groups and super PACs funded by the fossil - fuel industry who see climate change as a false threat concocted by liberals to justify greater government control; and on the other side, a quiet group of moderates, younger voters, and leading conservative intellectuals who fear that if Republicans continue to dismiss or deny climate change, the party will become irrelevant.
Buoyed by outspoken environmentalists, climate change doomsayers, and liberal lawmakers, President Obama has repeatedly threatened to veto any bill that Congress might send him to authorize the construction of the Keystone XL pipeline.
As enthusiasm for deliberative democracy in liberal societies is «driven by a perceived distance between the drives and motivations of citizens and the political decisions made in their name,» live - blogging in all its informational immediacy may be able to narrow the temporal distance between lawmaker and subject, as the latter is able to instantly respond to the actions of the former.