Sentences with phrase «come to the floor for»

After listening to Senate Democratic Conference Leader John Sampson explain why bills like the Farm Workers Bill of Rights should be allowed to come to the floor for a debate and eventual vote even if it's clear they don't have sufficient support to pass — «This is about democracy!»

The letter paints a potential plan that would allow the leaders — Sen. Jeff Klein of the IDC and Sen. Andrea Stewart - Cousins of the mainline conference — to choose each others» deputies and have approval over which bills come to the floor for a vote.

Flanagan needs to allow meaningful campaign finance reform and limitations on outside income to come to the floor for every member to take a position on this session or he will be sitting in the back row of the minority caucus come January!

Skelos wouldn't say whether the bill would come to the floor for a vote if Republicans had an outright majority.

Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie told reporters on Tuesday he remains personally supportive of mixed - martial arts, but said whether it comes to the floor for a vote will be up to the Democratic majority in the chamber.

Advocates pushing for passage of the Child Victims Act have begun running a digital ad campaign that largely targets those living in the district of state Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan, who has kept the legislation from coming to the floor for a vote.

It has not come to the floor for a vote in that chamber.

As co-leaders of the Senate, Klein and Skelos (R - Nassau County) each have the power to block legislation from coming to the floor for a vote.

As co-leaders of the Senate, Klein (pictured) and Dean Skelos (R - Nassau County) each have the power to block legislation from coming to the floor for a vote.

The current Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie, has said that bills will not come to the floor for a vote unless a majority of Democrats agree, even if numerically, counting Republican support, there are enough votes for it to pass.

But the IDC will no longer have a formal say on what bills can come to the floor for a vote, Senate GOP sources say.

Libous also declined to say that the decision by Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos to allow the same - sex marriage bill to come to the floor for a vote last year — where it passed, thanks to «yes» votes from Saland and McDonald, along with Sens. Mark Grisanti and Jim Alesi — was a bad idea, though he did allow the Republicans knew quite well that the vote would cost them with the conservative grassroots in this election.

They emerged with a brief statement: The bill would come to the floor for a vote, with ultimately four backing the measure.

«Plain and simple, if a majority of legislators are sponsoring and supporting a piece of legislation then that bill should be allowed to come to the Floor for a vote.

However, given the reality that the Speaker still controls which bills come to the Floor for a debate and vote, all this provision does is quicken the kill calendar for many bills sponsored by Majority and Minority members.

The marriage bill died the one time it came to the floor for a vote in the Senate, going down 38 - 24.

Rules reform is needed so Democrat - sponsored bills can come to the floor for a vote.

He called on the Republican leadership of the chamber to allow the measure to come to the floor for a vote.

Under that agreement, Klein and Skelos jointly decide on which bills will come to the floor for a vote.

Today's strategy session on gay marriage hosted at the Capitol by Gov. Andrew Cuomo focused mainly on what to do about the Senate, where the bill came to the floor for a full - house vote just once back in December 2009 and died, 38 - 24.

Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos told reporters at a Log Cabin Republicans event last October that he would recommend to his members that they let the marriage bill come to the floor for a vote and then vote their respective consciences.

But Republicans last year gained full control of the chamber and Klein lost the title, plus the ability to have veto power over which bills come to the floor for a vote.

«But when these measures come to the floor for a vote, do we want him to do the right thing and support real reforms to clean up Albany?

Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos said last October that he thinks the bill should come to the floor for an up - or - down vote, but he has so far shown no sign of moving the measure.

Yet with time running out on the 2014 legislative session, the bill has not come to the floor for a vote.

The bill's sponsor, Bronx Democrat Jeffrey Dinowitz, tells us that if the bill came to the floor for a vote, it would pass.

After reviewing the budget bills, Karen Scharff, the executive director of Citizen Action of New York and a co-chair of the Working Families Party, encouraged proponents to keep fighting until the bills come to the floor for a vote, which is expected to happen on Monday.

The measures are expected to come to the floor for a vote in the Assembly in the next month, where it could likely pass.

The same measure has sailed through Assembly committees and is expected to be approved by the entire house when it comes to the floor for a vote.

There's also a bill included from Assemblyman Marc Johns that would allow members to choose one piece of legislation to bypass committee and come to the floor for a vote.

The deal gave both men the power of the Senate presidency, requiring them to jointly decide which bills can come to the floor for a vote.

Under the new Senate rules agreed to this month, Klein is no longer the Senate co-president and lost the power to veto which bills come to the floor for a vote.

And Levi reminded me that Minority Leader Dean Skelos recently told the Log Cabin Republicans he would recommend that the marriage bill come to the floor for another vote if the GOP returns to power in the chamber.

In a further development, the medical marijuana legislation has been transferred from the Senate Finance Committee to the Senate Rules Committee, greatly improving the measure's chance of coming to the floor for a vote.

Under that agreement, both Klein and Skelos had to jointly agree on which bills come to the floor for a vote as well be part of the state budget negotiations.

The Democrats have been hammering Martins over his opposition to the 10 - point Women's Equality Act due to the abortion - rights plank that the GOP has refused to let come to the floor for a vote.

However, with 33 votes on the Republican side of the Senate chamber, Klein's power to decide which bills come to the floor for a vote and when appears unlikely to continue.

The IDC is in a governing coalition with Senate Republicans, with the agreement that both Senate leaders, Jeff Klein and the GOP's Dean Skelos, must agree on legislation before it comes to the floor for a vote.

Klein said in an interview last week that the coalition arrangement will likely undergo unspecified changes to its current status, which allows the Bronx Democrat to have say over which bills come to the floor for a vote.

It's now expected the IDC will lose the power to determine which bills come to the floor for a vote, as The Daily News» Ken Lovett reported this morning.

IDC Leader Jeff Klein, a Bronx lawmaker, is no longer the co-president of the Senate and has lost the power of being able to veto which bills come to the floor for a vote.

Martins has been under attack from his Democratic opponent, Adam Haber, for the Senate GOP's refusal to allow Gov. Andrew Cuomo's full 10 - point Women's Equality Act to come to the floor for a vote as a result of opposition to the abortion - rights plank.

The DA wondered aloud whether the senator «even knows» the measure is stuck in committee and said she wished he had showed up so she could have had the opportunity to ask him to join her in pushing for it to come to the floor for a vote.

Senate Republicans plan to meet privately later tonight to discuss whether the bill should come to the floor for a vote in what's most definitely going to be a very lengthy conference meeting.

But, Long supports the idea of letting the bill come to the floor for another vote, even though he would vastly prefer to see the whole controversial issue relegated to the back burner where he is convinced it belongs.

Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos said this morning that his GOP conference will discuss for the first time today whether to let the same - sex marriage bill come to the floor for a vote.

Speaker Carl Heastie says the measure won't come to the floor for a vote unless there is enough support among Democrats alone to back the bill.

Long is obviously passionately opposed to the legalization of same - sex marriage, but earlier this year, on April 26, he told us on Capital Tonight that the bill should come to the floor for the vote.

They say conference leader, Senator Jeff Klein, an ardent pro choice supporter, should demand that the bill come to the floor for a vote before the session ends.

Now, Klein and the IDC are in «consultation» with the Senate Republicans on bills, but have no say over which measures come to the floor for a vote.