Sentences with phrase «down vote on his budget»

The Legislature left Albany for the week without heeding Gov. David Paterson's call for an up - or - down vote on his budget or taking action on his furlough bill.

Lawmakers departed Albany as scheduled yesterday without heeding Paterson's call for an up - or - down vote on his budget proposal «just to see where we stand,» as he put it this morning.

Mr. Paterson, in what appears to be an effort to shake up a nearly month - long stalemate over the state budget, also called for the Legislature to make an up or down vote on his budget proposal on Wednesday and failing that, come to work every weekday until an agreement can be reached.

Not exact matches

If the Republicans, who are holding out for concessions on the health care law — the Affordable Care Act — in exchange for a budget vote, back down or are blamed for a shutdown, they would have even less ability to push their wishes by refusing to raise the debt ceiling, analysts at DBS in Singapore wrote Tuesday.

But her nuclear option is similar to Salmond's - it depends on voting down budgets as a confidence issue to put a Tory government in.

Stewart - Cousins demurred on whether Cuomo was seeking the votes of her mainline conference or if she would not back a budget that included a deal deemed to be too watered down, saying she had not received proposed bill language.

When pressed by Gov. David Paterson today on why they won't simply vote the executive budget up or down and call it a day, Senate Minority Leader Dean Skelos replied he considered the question moot, since the Democrats who control the Legislature won't bring the plan to the floor in the first place.

Let's hope Davey's prediction on the school budget votes is as insightful as his opening a new park the same day that others were being locked down.

By introducing an alternative to Mr. Paterson's budget, Mr. Sampson and Mr. Silver are hoping to avoid the situation their members have faced a dozen times since the fiscal year began on April 1 without a budget deal: vote for the governor's emergency bill or vote to shut down the state government, an unprecedented act that officials believe would plunge the state into chaos.

Rosenberg pulled down 27 % of the vote on a $ 1000 campaign budget (he was in my sons yeshiva this past sunday collecting some last little bit for his campaign, he raised about $ 95), running a campaign that was primarily a school project.

«Yesterday the Legislature appears to have finally taken the initiative to introduce the Governor's budget so that it can be voted up or down on Monday.»

After a budget is voted down, school boards can schedule another vote on the statewide re-vote day, June 19, or the board can adopt a contingency budget that does not increase taxes.

Paterson went on to note that the Legislature could, at any time, pass a two - way budget or even give an up or down vote to his full budget proposal.

As a member of the Town Board of the Town of Hyde Park she voted in the affirmative on a number of bonding issues and then voted against the budget that provided payments to pay down the bonds she voted for.

Assuming the Legislature votes its formal approval this week, Cuomo can take credit for a rare on - time, dramatically slimmed - down budget achieved through even rarer cooperation.

State lawmakers went down to the wire Thursday night on meeting the state budget deadline and voting continued Friday, once all of the budget bills are finalized.

Demanding that Gov. Cuomo pay up on the state's long - overdue $ 2.5 billion debt to New York City public schools, two education advocacy groups at a press conference on Feb. 19 released a report that broke down the money owed by Assembly and Senate district in New York City so that each lawmaker who is going to vote on the state budget can tell exactly how much money is missing from his or her district.

Nobody is in any doubt about Cummings's brilliance: he's advertised it widely, and written thousands of words about his strategy on his blog — about how he spent 98 % of his budget online; how Vote Leave's ads received nearly a billion impressions; and how, in the end, it came down to just 600,000 people, or just over 1 % of registered votes.