Sentences with phrase «dozens of the state assembly»

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The Democratic - led Assembly over the next two days will take up a package of a dozen bills aimed at reforming the criminal justice system in the state.

On Tuesday, the fate of Sheldon Silver falls to a dozen jurors who have spent the last three weeks listening to competing versions of how the former Assembly speaker wielded power for the last decade: with secretive calculations to enrich himself or with the same quirks, favor - trading and inherent conflicts that is irrevocably baked into the state government.

ALBANY — As the state Assembly finished action on the 2017 - 2018 budget Saturday evening, dozens of members — cooped up in Albany for at least 13 days — rushed out of the chamber before the final vote tally was announced.

She has run dozens of campaigns throughout Queens, New York City and the state and is currently working on Democrat Steve Behar's bid for the 26th state Assembly District seat in northeast Queens and consulting for incumbent Assemblywoman Democrat Catherine Nolan, who is up for re-election in the 37th Assembly District in western Queens against Republican John Wilson.

The threat, from more than a dozen members of the Legislature's Black, Puerto Rican and Hispanic Caucus, comes as the Assembly's Democrats have decided to boost the state's Tuition Assistance Program by $ 25 million to provide Dream Act» funding, sources said.

In the decade since Eliot Spitzer resigned as governor amid reports he had solicited and slept with a prostitute, more than two dozen New York state legislators have stepped down or been convicted in a variety of corruption cases, including former Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos and former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver.

The rally, headlined by Sen. Terry Gipson, Senate hopeful Justin Wagner and Assembly candidate Andrew Falk, comes after a half - dozen candidates for state Senate failed to qualify for the Women's Equality Party, the new ballot line formed this year meant to boost the package of measures proposed by Gov. Andrew Cuomo in 2013.

The only legislator to serve as majority leader in both houses, Calderon has already secured major endorsements from Assembly Speaker John Perez and State Treasurer Bill Lockyer, a former Attorney General, as well earned support from dozens of state legislators and juState Treasurer Bill Lockyer, a former Attorney General, as well earned support from dozens of state legislators and justate legislators and judges.

By SCOTT BAUER Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP)-- Dozens of protesters camped outside the Wisconsin state Assembly chamber on Thursday in anticipation of a final vote on explosive anti-union rights legislation that whisked through the Senate after Republicans outmaneuvered...

Since it began circulating in January, the letter has gained more than 100 signatories, women and men, including dozens of Assembly members and their staff members, echoing similar efforts in other state capitals.

The Assembly passed a mayoral control two - year extension that was wrapped in a bill that also included dozens of local sales tax extenders for counties around the state.

He told reporters the Assembly has already passed a two - year mayoral control extender that was tied in with the extension of dozens of local sales and other taxes sought by localities around the state.

After months of being lobbied on congestion pricing, dozens of New York State Assembly members retreated to a conference room in Albany.

Members of the State Senate and Assembly have begun debating the half - dozen remaining measures comprising the state budget that, theoretically, must be completed before midnight, when the state's current fiscal plan expState Senate and Assembly have begun debating the half - dozen remaining measures comprising the state budget that, theoretically, must be completed before midnight, when the state's current fiscal plan expstate budget that, theoretically, must be completed before midnight, when the state's current fiscal plan expstate's current fiscal plan expires.

Albany, NY — Dozens of New York City parents joined Assembly Members Marcos Crespo and Robert Rodriguez in Albany today and called on state legislators to give public charter schools equal treatment in the state budget.

Legislators, in an all night session, took the first step to change the state's constitution to require lawmakers convicted of a felony to forfeit their pensions, in answer to public outcry over dozens of Senators and Assembly members, including the two former leaders of the legislature keeping healthy pensions even though many have been sentenced to prison.

Not much is expected of — and not many opportunities are afforded to — the roughly three - dozen GOP members of the 150 - seat state Assembly, so its permanent minority members specialize in hurling hot rhetoric and raging against the unfairness of the world.

Darr was among dozens of Republicans swept into office in 2010 in Arkansas, when his party won control of both chambers of the state General Assembly for the first time in more than a century.

The Ohio governor plunged into the heart of the state's political bubble, chatting with about two dozen Republicans from the Assembly at the stately Fort Orange Club and then walked over to the Capitol building itself to huddle privately with Republicans in the State Sestate's political bubble, chatting with about two dozen Republicans from the Assembly at the stately Fort Orange Club and then walked over to the Capitol building itself to huddle privately with Republicans in the State SeState Senate.