Not exact matches
As lawmakers prepare to
pass the third
consecutive state
budget with no new pork - barrel spending, Cuomo said yesterday he doesn't believe legislative «member items» should ever return.
For the third
consecutive year, lawmakers and the governor were able to
pass an on - time
budget.
It is the fourth
consecutive year the
budget was
passed «on time.»
Amid much back - slapping and chest - thumping, state lawmakers
passed a third
consecutive «on - time
budget» last week.
Following debate that began Monday morning, the Senate
passed the
budget around 10:30 p.m. and the Assembly followed suit 45 minutes later, tempering fears that Gov. Andrew Cuomo and legislative leaders might not achieve a fourth
consecutive on - time
budget before the new fiscal year started Tuesday.
In beating the deadline of April 1, Albany leaders were able to
pass an on - time
budget for the third
consecutive year.
«During my tenure as Temporary President and Majority Leader of the Senate, we've
passed five
consecutive on - time
budgets and ended the dysfunction and chaos that existed when New York City Democrats ran our entire state government,» he said.
The
budget includes no property tax increase for the tenth
consecutive year, and Brooks says if it's
passed it will reduce the county's structural deficit for the second year in a row.