Sentences with phrase «dormant state senate»

When the new legislative session began in Albany earlier this month, there was an immediate shake - up of the long - dormant state Senate ethics committee, throwing the always - simmering chamber to a quick boil.

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Corruption charges brought against a member of the state Senate Republican majority Wednesday have provided an opportunity for Democrats to jumpstart the seemingly dormant conversation on government ethics as state budget negotiations enter their final week.

Bharara's office is also looking into how money raised by de Blasio's team was funneled through several largely dormant upstate county committees to Senate Democratic candidates in 2014, a tactic that potentially circumvented state contribution limits.

But after Democrats failed to retake the State Senate last year, and after the 2014 election season was over, with Cuomo victorious, the governor and his lieutenant governor Kathy Hochul both declared the abortion plank of the act officially dormant, if not dead.