Sentences with phrase «by the state senate before»

Roberts still faces a confirmation vote by the state Senate before he secures his new job.

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Of those, 56 % were from states represented by two Democratic senators — meaning 44 % faced the scrutiny of at least one member of the opposition party before they could be advanced in the Senate.

By appointing a democrat senator in a red state to head the EPA, Trump will get «his» (or whatever) health bill through the senate before the midterm.

A once - quiet effort by governors to block the full repeal of the Affordable Care Act reached its climax in Washington yesterday, as state executives from both parties — who have conspired privately for months — mounted an all - out attack on the Senate's embattled health care legislation hours before Republicans postponed a vote.

She said she saw the decision by Clinton, who like many lawmakers also used a private e-mail while in the Senate, to use a private address as the top U.S. diplomat as a continuation of «what she was doing before she arrived at the State Department.»

Before people filled the auditorium at Hoosick Falls Junior - Senior High School for a state Senate hearing chaired by Marchione on the Hoosick Falls and Petersburgh water crises and other water quality issues, Shaun Francis held a news conference to unveil a billboard critical of his opponent's response to the discovery of perfluorooctanoic acid, a suspected cancer - causing chemical, in both the village water system and wells in the village and surrounding town of Hoosick.

De Blasio, walking the hallways of the state senate and assembly before the speech, was greeted as a freshly minted hero (and greeted by considerable relief — some Albany operatives were worried that De Blasio wouldn't wake up early enough for the morning pre-speech schmoozing).

Sinema spent seven years in the state House, followed by a two years in the state Senate before winning a close race for Congress in 2012.

Recall that last Friday, former governor of old Anambra State, Chief Jim Nwobodo and a former member of the House of Representatives, Uche Ekwunife, who later represented Anambra Central at the Senate, before her election was annulled by the appeal court, defected to the ruling APC.

So far, neither the Senate nor the Assembly has introduced Cuomo's amendments — a move required before they can be formally considered by state lawmakers.

The amendment, due to go before voters on Election Day, is aimed at removing the process from state lawmakers and in to the hands of a commission appointed by the Assembly and Senate.

Last Thursday, as British voters went to the ballot box, former FBI Director James Comey sat before a United States senate intelligence committee hearing to provide testimony on the events leading up to his firing by President Trump.

If the legislation passes the Republican - controlled Senate, where its chances are far from certain, it would then have to be approved by the Legislature again in 2019 before being put to voters as a state referendum.

Mr. Cuomo, a Democrat, acted just a day before the fee was supposed to go into effect, essentially supporting actions by the Republican - led State Senate and the Democrat - dominated Assembly to stifle the new law.

The 49th Senate District seat held by state Sen. David Valesky, D - Oneida, is one Republicans consider one of their top priorities as they try to retake the majority in the state Senate they held for over four decades before losing that hold in 2008.

The Daily News reported last year Biaggi had been courted by mainline Democratic lawmakers in the Senate to run for the seat, but that appears to have been before state party leaders and the factions in the Senate agreed to a unity deal.

Addressing major stakeholders in the state, including the Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu; members of the National and State Assemblies; Council Chairmen and members of the State Executive Council; as well as Peoples Democratic Party chieftains at the Government House, the governor explained: «On Sunday, April 24, 2016, by 7 pm, the night before this carnage took place, I got security information from Uzo - Uwani Local Government Transition Chairman, Hon. Cornell Onwubuya that such an incident was likely to take place in the sstate, including the Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu; members of the National and State Assemblies; Council Chairmen and members of the State Executive Council; as well as Peoples Democratic Party chieftains at the Government House, the governor explained: «On Sunday, April 24, 2016, by 7 pm, the night before this carnage took place, I got security information from Uzo - Uwani Local Government Transition Chairman, Hon. Cornell Onwubuya that such an incident was likely to take place in the sState Assemblies; Council Chairmen and members of the State Executive Council; as well as Peoples Democratic Party chieftains at the Government House, the governor explained: «On Sunday, April 24, 2016, by 7 pm, the night before this carnage took place, I got security information from Uzo - Uwani Local Government Transition Chairman, Hon. Cornell Onwubuya that such an incident was likely to take place in the sState Executive Council; as well as Peoples Democratic Party chieftains at the Government House, the governor explained: «On Sunday, April 24, 2016, by 7 pm, the night before this carnage took place, I got security information from Uzo - Uwani Local Government Transition Chairman, Hon. Cornell Onwubuya that such an incident was likely to take place in the statestate.

Before the focus of US Attorney Preet Bharara's probe emerged this week, Moreland Commission members said they had considered the speaker's outside income a high priority up until the point that the panel was disbanded by Cuomo in a budget deal with Silver and the state Senate.

Disgraced former state Senate majority leader Malcolm Smith was scheduled to turn himself in last week so he could begin his seven - year jail sentence on corruption charges, but he got his surrender date pushed back more than six weeks by claiming that he must be checked for prostate cancer by his own doctor before prison, court papers show.

ALBANY — Sen. Dean Skelos was re-elected by his peers Monday to lead the State Senate and indicated that a pay raise for lawmakers is one of the possible subjects of a special session before New Year's Day.

By permitting the rapid vote, the governor also avoids drawing out publicity about the gun measures before the vote, and preventing even more discomfort for some Republicans who co-lead the State Senate, and who have some reservations about the bills.

Over the past three months, she has introduced herself to voters outside of Yonkers, and they have embraced her candidacy, as evidenced by the large number of volunteers who have stepped forward to help her campaign — numbers unseen in any State Senate race before.

When asked by Deputy Senate President Ike Ekweremadu why he failed to appear before the lawmakers in uniform as requested, Ali said the Senate did not state in its last letter to him that he should appear in uniform.

In addition to the legislation passed last week by the Senate and Assembly before they wrapped up the 2016 legislative session, the state budget approved on April 1 contained $ 189 million to combat heroin and opioid addiction.

The measure still has to be considered by the Arizona state Senate before it can become law.

A Democratic assemblyman by the time he was 23, the younger Díaz rose in the political world before his father — a heroin junkie - turned - evangelical preacher — assumed his place in the State Senate.

The announcement was sent out on the same day that former Senate Majority leader Dean Skelos and his son Adam were convicted on eight counts of bribery and extortion following a federal trial, and weeks after former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver was convicted of abusing his office by receiving millions of dollars in kickbacks from companies with business before the state.

He is one of the principal members of the Unity Team, a group formed by the elected officials of Jackson Heights and Corona, to share ideas and rid the political culture of the infighting left over from former state Sen. Hiram Monserrate, who was convicted of misdemeanor assault in an incident that left his girlfriend's face slashed before being ousted by the Senate.

Smith, the feds said, told the lobbyists «they should treat the fund - raiser as an «IPO» [initial public offering] by donating early while prices were low and while there was still an opportunity to participate» before Democrats took control of the state Senate.

An official of the Code of Conduct Bureau, Mr. Samuel Madojemu, on Thursday explained why the Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki, was not invited by the bureau before charges were filed against the former Governor of Kwara State before the Code of Conduct Tribunal.

An identical Senate version (Bill Number S.6893 - B) introduced by state Senator Michael Gianaris must now be passed by the Senate before the bill can be sent to Governor Andrew Cuomo to be signed into law.

In a related event in Albany on Thursday, a parade of business and restaurant officials and owners testified before the Republican - controlled state Senate Labor Committee hearing on the recent Fast Food Wage Board convened by Cuomo, bashing it as largely one - sided political stunt designed to appease progressive advocates.

Former Senate Leader Dean Skelos arranged to get his son Adam Skelos a job at a medical malpractice insurance company with business before the state — where the son threatened a supervisor and said he didn't have to show up to work because of his father's position — according to new charges brought by a grand jury.

Question topics included financial incentives given by the City to Altronix (which hosted the Mayor for a visit just before the press conference), whether the mayor has concerns about offering such incentives, whether his jobs task force will work with local communities, whether his affordable housing plan conflicts with his plan to enable more manufacturing in the city, what a base livable minimum wage is, whether the mayor is concerned about the possibility that Republicans may control the U.S. Senate next year, whether NY State has done enough to assist NYC in obtaining hazard mitigation money from the federal government, the Mayor's views on items sold at the September 11th Museum gift shop and what the first «tangible» product of the task force will be.

Meanwhile, Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance has another panel hearing arguments that the mayor and his closest political assistants deliberately circumvented campaign finance laws in their failed 2014 effort to flip the State Senate to the Democrats, by directing donors (many of whom also had business before the city) to funnel money into upstate party committees instead of into candidates» individual campaign accounts — thus bypassing state contribution State Senate to the Democrats, by directing donors (many of whom also had business before the city) to funnel money into upstate party committees instead of into candidates» individual campaign accounts — thus bypassing state contribution state contribution caps.

The former Senate majority leader used some of the $ 1.5 million in legal fees reimbursed to his campaign committee by the state to fund this «independent PAC» that existed for only five months before transferring its balance to his former conference.

The bill passed by the Senate includes anti-nepotism provisions, today: · Prohibits gifts from lobbyists and their clients of more than nominal value, including travel, lodging and other expenses, and broaden the types of lobbying activities that lobbyists must disclose; · Prohibits elected government officials and candidates for elected local, state or federal office from appearing in taxpayer - funded advertisements; · Closes the «revolving door» loophole by prohibiting former legislative employees from directly lobbying the Legislature for two years, and expands the revolving door restrictions for Executive Chamber employees to preclude appearances before any state agency; · Prohibits non-legislative employees from using their authority or influence to «compel or induce» any other employee to make political contributions; · Prohibits state employees from participating in any personnel decision or contracting matter concerning a relative.

In the state Senate, the measure was sponsored by Senator Diane Savino (D - Staten Island), who spoke on the floor before the vote about her parents, both of whom suffered from lung cancer.

The Communications Workers of America donated $ 109,600 to the Nassau Democratic Committee to help Todd Kaminsky win the Long Island state Senate seat vacated by convicted crook Dean Skelos — just days before the April 19 special election, Board of Elections records show.

The additional funds appeared in the capital projects budget bill in an amendment at 10:37 p.m. on Thursday — just over an hour before the budget deadline, and roughly four overnight hours before it cleared the State Senate by a 59 - 3 vote.

The frontrunner is state Assembly Speaker Emeritus Albio Sires, who started aggressively raising money for the race long before Menendez was formally named to the Senate by Gov. Jon Corzine (D).

A complaint detailing six charges against Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos, released on Monday by federal prosecutors, describes an unnamed «Developer 1» with substantial business before the New York State legislature.

While the proposal wasn't included in the one - house budgets submitted by the state Assembly and Senate last week, the issue remains a wildcard before the budget deadline of April 1.

The bill had already cleared the Senate, but it would have to surmount fierce opposition in the House before it could be ratified by the Northern states.

U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan appeared before the Senate on Wednesday to defend his budget request and was given a hard time by Senator Lamar Alexander over his decision to revoke Washington state's NCLB waiver.

The proposal by Mr. Parker, a former chairman of the Senate education committee, calls for the state comptroller to certify the state's school - spending legislation each biennium before the legislature can enact funding for other state services.

Senate Democratic Leader Nan Rich and her caucus will hold a press conference Monday morning before the floor session begins to voice their objections to the proposal, also opposed by the state teachers» union.

It was unveiled just hours before Gov. Scott Walker's State of the State address by key Republican Senate leaders, Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald of Juneau and the chairmen of two Senate education committees, Luther Olsen of Ripon and Paul Farrow of Pewaukee.

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Concurrent to approval of SB 114 by the Senate Education Committee, the Secretary of State's office announced that proponents of a separate initiative calling for a $ 9 billion school facilities bond to go on the same ballot were cleared to begin collecting the signatures needed to put that measure before voters.