Sentences with phrase «door leaders meeting»

ALBANY — State Senator Jeff Klein will be joining the leaders of the State Senate, Assembly and Governor Andrew Cuomo during a closed - door leaders meeting to discuss the state budget later this afternoon.

Senate Co-Leaders Dean Skelos and Jeff Klein, after a closed door leaders meeting, say they are hopeful that up to $ 700 million dollars in tax cuts for business and the middle class could be in the state budget.

Defining a «violent» crime that would be prosecuted in criminal court versus family court are «absolutely» part of the talks surrounding raising the age of criminal responsibility in New York, Republican Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan said on Monday following a closed - door leaders meeting.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo is choosing to play his cards very close to the vest in the wake of his three - way, closed - door leaders meeting earlier today, despite the fact that legislative leaders expressed hope of reaching a conceptual budget sometime tomorrow.

Speaking with reporters after a closed - door leaders meeting, lawmakers said they haven't raised the issue of the 30 - day amendments with the governor, adding that it wasn't even discussed.

Assembly Minority Leader Brian Kolb has insisted he and his counterpart in the Senate, Democratic Minority Leader Andrea Stewart - Cousins, should be included in the closed - door leaders meetings that hash out the details of the state budget as well as the particulars of legislative priorities.

One hallmark of the budget season, the closed - door leaders meetings between the governor, Senate majority leader and Assembly speaker, are yet to be held.

Traditionally, Cuomo and majority party legislative leaders have scheduled three - men - in - a-room closed door leaders meetings, where minority party leaders are excluded.

Not exact matches

Kim Jong Un also became the first North Korean leader to ever cross over to South Korean soil before meeting with South Korean President Moon Jae - In for a number of closed - door meetings.

All three were present at a closed - door meeting in March where business and political leaders reportedly strategized how to keep Trump from reaching the White House.

The assertions of voter fraud, which Trump first made shortly after the election, gained traction this week after Trump, as president, repeated them during a closed - door meeting with congressional leaders on Monday.

State Senate President Michael Thibodeau and other Republican legislative leaders late Tuesday convened a closed - door meeting with LePage to discuss his future.

After talks with Hollande earlier in the day in Paris, Merkel said, «We say very clearly that the door for talks remains open and the meeting of euro zone leaders tomorrow should be understood in this sense.»

Leaders from GAFCON (Global Anglican Future Conference) have met behind closed doors in London, and issued... More

Leaders from GAFCON (Global Anglican Future Conference) have met behind closed doors in London, and issued a statement saying they are «particularly concerned... More

No. 6: In this story from the Book of Judges, an Israelite leader, Jephthah, makes a rash vow to God, which has to be carried out: «And Jephthah made a vow to the Lord, and said, «If you will give the Ammonites into my hand, then whoever comes out of the doors of my house to meet me, when I return victorious from the Ammonites, shall be the Lord's, to be offered up by me as a burnt - offering.»

Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos emerged from a closed - door meeting in Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver's office this afternoon and gave few details of what was discussed.

After emerging from a closed - door meeting with Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver and Gov. Andrew Cuomo, Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos told reporters he believes the trio has reached «the framework of an agreement to resolve all outstanding issues» — with the exception of same - sex marriage.

The legislative leaders — Democrats AND Republicans, minus Senate Democratic Conference Leader, due to a scheduling snafu — and Gov. David Paterson met at noon today for a quickie closed - door confab and came away with... no deal.

The e-mail slams Republican leaders for holding a «closed - door meeting with Wall Street executives» and then coming out en masse against the president's plan, adding:

After attending a closed - door meeting where Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan, of Long Isand, was re-elected as head of the GOP conference, (Felder said he did not cast a vote), the Brooklyn lawmaker suggested he might even wait until the IDC announced which conference it would be aligning with in 2017.

Three legislative leaders met with Gov. Andrew Cuomo behind closed doors at the state Capitol yesterday and hammered out a number of specifics, though a range of non-fiscal policy issues — apparently with the exception of addressing sexual harassment — have fallen off the table.

Yet minority leaders are left out of the closed door budget meetings with the governor, known around the Capitol as «three men in a room.»

The key decisions are made behind closed doors at private meetings between Governor Cuomo and majority party legislative leaders.

Parent leaders met last month with lawmakers and the NYPD to discuss school safety, including locking doors, according to Community Education Council District 31 President Mike Reilly.

Trump's account, in a thread of morning Twitter posts, of his lengthy and closely scrutinized closed - door meeting with Putin was an attempt to move beyond the controversy after Moscow characterized the election discussion as a meeting of minds rather than a showdown between the two leaders.

Before the conference met behind closed doors on Monday, DeFrancisco indicated he had enough votes to succeed Senator Dean Skelos, who stepped down as majority leader amid corruption charges.

Facebook's chief will attend a closed door meeting with European Parliament leaders in Brussels.

The ECOWAS leaders who meet in a closed door meeting at Aso Villa in Abuja on Monday had ruled out the use of force in resolving the Gambians issue.

It emerged in closed - door meetings between Cuomo and legislative leaders, and was announced just days before the budget vote.

Most of the decisions on the budget were made by Cuomo and major party legislative leaders in closed door three - me - in - a-room leaders meetings.

The legislative leaders — Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, GOP Leader Sen. Dean Skelos and IDC Leader Jeff Klein — emerged from the second closed - door meeting in as many days with Gov. Andrew Cuomo Wednesday afternoon.

After meeting with Cuomo behind closed doors late this morning, Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos and Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver both emerged — separately, with the senator coming out first — to say that they are moving toward an agreement tomorrow.

Friday was another day full of waiting at the Capitol, as reporters camped out in hallways while legislative leaders met behind closed doors.

The Senate will not vote on a bill that would expand the statute of limitations that would make it easier for sexual abuse victims to file lawsuits, Majority Leader John Flanagan said after a closed - door meeting with legislative leaders and Gov. Andrew Cuomo.

Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos emerged hopeful from a closed door meeting with Republican Senators.

The national leader of the All Progressives Congress, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, yesterday met behind closed - doors in Lagos with all the party's aspirants for the Ekiti State governorship election.

Skelos spoke after a closed door meeting between the governor and legislative leaders.

Assembly Democrats held two days of closed door meetings and then issued a brief statement, short on details, that the Assembly will vote on Monday to appoint Assembly Majority Leader Joe Morelle as acting Speaker, with an election on February 10th for a permanent new speaker.

I now believe that chambers must democratize, hold more public hearings on major legislation and use joint conference committees to hammer out agreed upon legislation, instead of relying upon closed door meetings between their leaders and the governor.

The tentative deal was not announced by Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who spent his day in closed - door meetings with leaders of the Legislature who then updated their restive flocks — some of whom complained openly about being called back to the Capitol simply to spin their wheels.

The declaration came just hours before he convened legislative leaders in a closed - door meeting to detail plans to slash $ 10 billion in planned expenses, including aid to schools, hospitals and local governments.

Mr. Klein and Mr. Cuomo, along with Mayor Bill de Blasio and labor leaders, have met behind closed doors in the past few days to discuss the possibility of reconciliation.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo and legislative leaders continue to meet behind closed doors to hash out a budget deal, while outside the governor's offices dozens of angry protesters were arrested.

Now, budget meetings between the governor and majority conference leaders are being conducted with cloak - and - dagger - like secrecy, without input from Minority conferences, and neither the public nor press are alerted to when the closed - door meetings are taking place.

The New York Public Interest Research Group, Citizens Union, the League of Women Voters, and Common Cause, are calling for an end to the long Albany tradition of closed door meetings between the governor and legislative leaders where they make key decisions on the budget and other issues, known as three men in a room.

As the protest continued, the governor and legislative leaders resumed their meetings behind locked doors.

Barbara Bartoletti, with the League of Women Voters, says even the closed door, three men in a room leaders meetings, criticized for their secrecy, are no longer even announced.

State Senate leaders abruptly left a nearly two - hour, closed - door meeting with Cuomo, saying that unfortunately, they had nothing new to report.

Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos, who turned himself in to federal authorities on corruption charges Monday, will remain as the head of the Senate, his republican members announced after a more than three hour closed door meeting Monday night.