Sentences with phrase «campaign finance bill»

A new public campaign finance bill introduced in Congress is gaining support, including from Syracuse Rep. Dan Maffei.

There's speculation that Governor Cuomo could push a public campaign finance bill in a special session later this year, and perhaps trade the issue in exchange for granting law makers a pay raise.

She earned big applause for decrying the GOP's role in passing the McCain - Feingold campaign finance bill last decade.

Phil / Jane / Dave / Regular Joe... You are going to hear the same drum beaten over and over until your boss Flanagan agrees to bring a meaningful campaign finance bill to the Senate for a vote (where it will pass 60 + to zero).

Procedural votes on the abortion and campaign finance bills showed they didn't have enough Democratic yes votes to pass, and it's unclear if there are the needed 32 votes for de Blasio's tax increase.

«The litmus test for all of them, not just Senator Klein, is whether or not they pass a comprehensive campaign finance bill that covers all state offices,» said Dave Donnelly, executive director of the public campaign action fund and director of Friends of Democracy, the Soros - backed PAC.

But in the state Senate, Republicans control the chamber, along with several independent Democrats, and they successfully blocked the public campaign finance bill in the past legislative session.

The legislative leaders quietly introduced a campaign finance bill last night that is designed to strengthen enforcement at the state Board of Elections and also address the US Supreme Court's January decision that overturned a 20 - year - old ruling barring corporations from spending freely to support or oppose candidates.

Other issues that will receive the same treatment include legislation that would allow NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio to raise income taxes on the rich to fund pre-K, the public campaign finance bill and Gov. Andrew Cuomo's Women's Equality Act (assuming that it includes the abortion - rights plank, which is the piece the right finds most offensive).

Gov. M. Jodi Rell signs into law the Campaign Finance Bill in 2005.

In addition, he said he will begin focusing on the legislation he hopes to craft or support when he goes up to Albany, including term limits and campaign finance bills, as well as ethics reform and creating an independent redistricting commission that would be tasked with redrawing legislative districts.?

We will continue our campaigns to ban fracking and make New York a world leader in clean energy, fully fund public schools, enact single - payer healthcare, raise the minimum wage to $ 15 an hour, and pass a full public campaign financing bill,» Hawkins said.

And in Maryland's Senate primary, Rep. Donna Edwards has accused Rep. Chris Van Hollen of doing the NRA's bidding by exempting the organization from disclosure requirements in a 2006 campaign finance bill.

Klein, who is also fending off pressure from his left flank, has steadily pushed for a campaign finance bill beyond the pilot program enacted in this year's state budget.

The leader of the Senate Republicans recently confirmed that talks about a public campaign finance bill are on going.

Senator Eric Adams, sponsor of the public campaign finance bill, responded.