Sentences with phrase «compromise budget agreements»

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Schumer stood firm in blocking McConnell's bill, a compromise that would shorten the stopgap bill to funding the government for three weeks instead of four, and demanded a full budget agreement as well as a fix for immigrants brought here illegally as children.

New York Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie says there is a possible compromise to resolve the ongoing state budget stalemate - but the leader of the Senate says there is no final agreement.

Cuomo has said he would hold up an agreement on the state budget if lawmakers fail to compromise on new ethics legislation in the spending plan.

Public financing supporters were upset by the compromise in this year's budget agreement that sets up a public financing system for the state comptroller's race only.

(CNN)- Sen. Patty Murray, co-crafter of the bipartisan budget agreement and member of the veterans affair committee, said Wednesday cuts to pension benefits for some military veterans under the spending plan was a part of a compromise to avoid billions in cuts to the defense industry.

Shortly before 2 a.m. Thursday morning, the Connecticut Senate passed a long - awaited, bipartisan compromise state budget agreement.

Lawmakers and Cuomo are working toward an agreement in the budget that aims to create a uniform policy for handling sexual harassment complaints in state government and potentially end secret settlements, as long as the survivor's identity is not compromised.

I appreciate the coverage The Courant has given in recent days to the tentative bipartisan budget agreement that Republican and Democratic legislative leaders jointly announced this week, and wanted to publicly thank my colleagues for their perseverance, resilience and most of all their courage to compromise.

But, if one assumes realpolitik has a significant presence in New York's Legislature and there's pressure to come to some sort of compromise ethics agreement in this year's budget, it's easy to imagine a scenario in which lawmakers prefer to burden their allies rather than themselves.

«Responsible budgeting requires that we be prepared to meet the unexpected and / or unanticipated needs without compromising the instructional needs of our students,» Babylon district officials said in a statement, adding that at the time of the audit, the district was negotiating collective bargaining agreements, which could have required «increased expenditures.»

He served as an honest broker among the politicians, and an agreement was reached that created the new scholarship as part of a compromise that broke the budget impasse.

Entitled, Malloy and Legislative Democrats target Regional Vo - Tech high schools for devastating cuts, the article reported that the so called «compromise» budget agreement between Malloy and Democratic legislative leaders cut the Vo - Tech High School budget by $ 7.8 million, dropping the state's investment in vocational and technical education from $ 171 million a year to $ 163 million.