Sentences with phrase «controversial budget measures»

He hadn't even considered another career, he says, until Gov. Scott Walker proposed Act 10 in 2011, a controversial budget measure that was widely perceived as an attack on the power of teachers unions.

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Mutually unpleasant cuts to military and social spending were a key feature of the 1985 Gramm - Rudman - Hollings budget deal during the Reagan years, although the success of these measures remains controversial.

Sean Coffey was quick to declare solidarity with the man he wants to replace, Andrew Cuomo, following the AG's call earlier today for the governor to put a property tax cap into a budget extender bill to force lawmakers to take a position on the controversial measure.

NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio isn't planning to veto a controversial measure that was sneaked into the city's new $ 85.2 billion budget this week, according to a City Hall operative — even as a group of Albany lawmakers publicly urged him to do so.

The governor's maximum leverage during the year comes during budget season and it's not unusual for him to include language in the Article VII bills that aim to see controversial measures approved with a much easier path.

The state budget has been categorized by the sides as all but done — pending agreement on some controversial measures.

He knows he couldn't get this kind of a controversial measure through the Legislature, so it quietly flies in under the radar while all eyes are fixed on the need to get the budget done.»

March's Budget could see controversial child benefit measures which punish single families tweaked by the coalition.

The Cuomo administration's state budget bill includes a measure that would expand the core Pine Barrens by around 800 acres in Shoreham, officials said, but omits a controversial parcel in Mastic favored by legislators on which a developer has sought to build a solar farm.

But then things ground to a halt, as both houses waited for the release of three final budget bills, including a revenue measure that was expected to contain the most controversial elements of the spending plan — the sort of omnibus measure known as a «big ugly.»

Mayor Bill de Blasio isn't planning to veto a controversial measure that was sneaked into the city's new $ 85.2 billion budget this week, according to a City Hall operative — ...

Mayor Bill de Blasio isn't planning to veto a controversial measure that was sneaked into the city's new $ 85.2 billion budget this week, according to a City Hall operative — even as a group of Albany lawmakers publicly urged him to do so.

Two of 10 budget bills received two - house passage shortly after 1 a.m. Those were the simplest, since most controversial items were removed and to be amended and inserted, or not, sometime Friday into an omnibus measure known in Albany as the «Big Ugly.»

In essence, the Senate Republicans pared down Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker's controversial budget bill to include only measures — including the collective bargaining provision — that spend no money.

John Kaehny, executive director of Reinvent Albany, pointed out that budgets have passed with fairly controversial measures tucked in at the last minute by lobbyists and their government allies thanks to the lack of thorough review.

Her votes against major sections of the 2015, 2016, and 2017 state budgets — omnibus bills that combined popular legislation with controversial policy and basic funding measures — may provide further ammunition for the opposition, according to Sherrill.

A controversial measure to protect teachers at struggling California schools from the full force of budget cuts has lost ground after a legal battle in San Francisco.

More bond money and more budget money are issues unlikely to cause many arguments among state education leaders, but there are other measures in the works that are likely to prove more controversial.

There are growing demands for Governor Rick Scott to veto both the state budget, and a controversial education companion measure that critics say goes too far.

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