Sentences with phrase «deal with the state legislative»

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A complex modern democracy is at a serious disadvantage in dealing with autocratic states as well as in expeditiously conducting its own internal affairs, unless it possesses strong executive powers which are not hedged about in matters of detailed policy and administration by legislative and judicial agencies.

Then, when Democrats still won a majority, he cut a backroom deal that allowed Republicans to take over the State Senate through the Independent Democratic Conference (IDC)-- a group of breakaway Democrats who voted with the Republicans to hand them control, and with it, the power to block almost all of our key Democratic legislative priorities.

ALBANY, N.Y., March 28 (Reuters)- The merger of New York state's banking and insurance departments might not create the powerful agency first advertised, according to Governor Andrew Cuomo's recent budget deal with legislative leaders.

State Comptroller Tom DiNapoli just released a statement taking his former legislative colleagues and Gov. David Paterson to task for raising the specter of a government shutdown, calling on them to «get to work» to reach a deal instead of «playing games with extender bills.»

Cuomo pledged as part of an endorsement deal with the Working Families Party to help give Democrats full control of the state Senate last month, though in recent weeks has adjusted the rhetoric to tout his bipartisan credentials as the legislative session winds down.

ALBANY — Sen. Jeff Klein (D - Bronx) emerged from a meeting with legislative leaders and Gov. Andrew Cuomo saying more funding for mass transit and crumbling public housing in New York City are part of a «tentative deal» on the state budget.

A deal on the 2014 - 15 state budget is expected at some point this afternoon, legislative leaders said after meeting with Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Thursday morning.

With just three weeks and one day to go before a state budget deadline, Governor Cuomo and legislative leaders met to assess how far they have to go to reach a deal.

With just a few more weeks to go in the legislative session, the New York Bar City Association is calling on state lawmakers to re-enact the revised 421a deal Albany hammered out last year, but this time without the prevailing wage requirement that ultimately killed the program.

Similarly, 78 percent thought that Governor Cuomo's decision to shut down the Moreland Commission, which was investigating corruption in the state legislature, was a political deal struck with legislative leaders, rather than a «decision based on good government.»

In the two years leading up to Cuomo's book deal with HarperCollins, those records list News Corporation lobbying on a state legislative proposal to create a tax exemption for electronic publications that charge access for content.

In the final budget deal, Cuomo agreed with legislative leaders to a pared down public campaign finance system that would apply only to the State Comptroller's race, and sunset after this year.

At the Red Room press conference where Gov. Andrew Cuomo and Democratic legislative leaders — minus Skelos — had announced the med - mar deal, Klein said a vote would be held Thursday evening on the bill, along with bills that would create a 25 mph in New York City and adjust the state's teacher evaluation law.

Some state legislative leaders have said they'd prefer to wait to fix the program until mid-January so they can also deal with Connecticut's budget deficit.

Advocates for the homeless were urging the governor and legislative leaders to sign an agreement that would release millions of dollars in state funding for 20,000 supportive - housing units statewide, saying that with lawmakers headed home to campaign for re-election this fall, there was little chance that the deal would materialize after the session ended.

Late in the just - ended state legislative session, Lynch had been working on a possible deal with City Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito to create a statewide minimum disability standard for cops.

ALBANY — With the April 1 state budget deadline in their sights, Gov. Andrew Cuomo and legislative leaders have been closing in on a deal this week, but it is likely to exclude a number of the policy proposals the governor originally demanded.

In the final budget deal, Cuomo agreed with legislative leaders to a pared - down public campaign finance system that would apply only to the state comptroller's race, and sunset after this year.

Democratic legislative leaders, who control the General Assembly, reached a budget deal with the State's Democratic Governor Dannel Malloy late Tuesday night but said they did not have time to get the bill to all members before the end of the regular session at midnight on Wednesday.

Cuomo, in a budget deal with state legislators, recently disbanded an otherwise independent unit charged with investigating legislative corruption.

Early in his first term in office, Cuomo gave up overhauling the redrawing of legislative districts, in favor of a deal with state lawmakers that put off reforms for another decade.

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP / CBSNewYork)-- Gov. Andrew Cuomo said a tentative $ 132.5 billion state budget deal he struck with legislative leaders Sunday was nothing less than historic for its spending cuts as well as its timeliness.

City Councilwoman Vanessa Gibson (D - Bronx), who is in talks with the parties to ink a deal, said officials are trying to resolve the issue before the end of the state legislative session next week.

HARTFORD — State lawmakers arriving for the start of the 2016 legislative session Wednesday have just 13 weeks to deal with a slew of complex proposals, from regulating and taxing home - sharing services such as Airbnb to establishing a system of paid leave for new parents to dealing with opiate...

With just three weeks and one day to go before a state budget deadline, Gov. Andrew Cuomo and legislative leaders met to assess how far they have to go to reach a deal.

The legislative delegation has been «great at advocating for us» as the district dealt with challenges related to the fall enrollment survey, state appropriations, and the anticipated influx of additional students says Orange County's Howat.

With a deadline looming, Gov. Jerry Brown and legislative leaders have cut a deal for the 2014 - 15 state budget that, at the governor's insistence, keeps his revenue projections but still makes room for additional money for the Local Control Funding Formula and other programs.

We benefitted a great deal from the state Humane Society's connections with local legislators, but we also pulled in a large group of animal advocates who had not previously been organized to try to tackle legislative approaches to animal advocacy.

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Figueres told Bloomberg that the Communist Party despots, among other supposed achievements, are able to implement UN-backed «climate» schemes more efficiently because the regime does not have to deal with «legislative hurdles» such as those in the United States and other nations where citizens are supposed to have a say in government.

A four day emergency legislative session to secure a deal for an in - state factory with electric automaker Faraday Future will end up costing the State of Nevada a quarter of a million dollars on top of the $ 335 million in tax incentives and public funding that resulted from the meestate factory with electric automaker Faraday Future will end up costing the State of Nevada a quarter of a million dollars on top of the $ 335 million in tax incentives and public funding that resulted from the meeState of Nevada a quarter of a million dollars on top of the $ 335 million in tax incentives and public funding that resulted from the meeting.

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