Sentences with phrase «during budget talks»

Nixon, during the budget talks in late March, accused Cuomo of leaving the lone female legislative leader, Senate Democratic Leader Andrea Stewart - Cousins, out of the private budget talks conducted by the Governor and three male legislative leaders.

Deputy Senate Majority Leader John DeFrancisco, who had been sharply critical of Cuomo during the budget talks, said the bill being considered today by Finance Committee is a basic reform he says is needed.

After major issues slipped off the negotiating table during budget talks and federal prosecutors charged Dean Skelos, the second legislative leader in six months, Cuomo's approval ratings sunk to a record low.

Heastie argued, in private meetings, against a plan to leave Assembly majority leader Joe Morelle, a Rochester Democrat who is a rival for the speakership, as the chamber's interim leader during budget talks.

During budget talks last month, NY1's statehouse reporter Zack Fink tweeted that Senate Republicans were open to passing modest voting reforms if Sugarman were fired.

Advocates for the issue during the budget talks had pointed to the case of Kalief Browder, a 16 - year - old Rikers inmate who spent three years in the facility without being charged.

Democratic lawmakers in the Senate and Assembly on Tuesday pushed for measures that would make it easier to vote in New York, bills that fell by the wayside during the budget talks.

Yet, it remains to be seen how this new coalition will exert negotiating authority during the budget talks with the governor and Democratic - led Assembly and whether «three men in a room» will become four.

And, as always during budget talks, there's potential for legislative horse trading: Senate Republicans want to remove the Cuomo administration's ability to raise the minimum wage for a specific industry, which it used to approve a major hike for fast - food workers last year.

The Senate approved an agreed - to pension forfeiture amendment last year during the budget talks, only to have Assembly Democrats balk at the provision.

DiNapoli said more information is needed to address concerns raised during the budget talks, such as potential cuts to federal aid, a premise that drove the governor to successfully receive power over making changes to the budget after it is approved.

Aides to County Executive Edward Mangano, a Republican who is not seeking re-election, have said they're studying an ambulance privatization, while the Youth Services office has come on the chopping block repeatedly during budget talks.

At that meeting, Cuomo predicted the Buffalo Billion II stood only a 50 - 50 chance of getting through the Legislature during the budget talks.

However, lawmakers in both chambers have chafed at the play, and so far have refused to introduce the budget amendments, a maneuver that allows them to retain some leverage over the governor during the budget talks.

But he still had a foot in the door during budget talks and is likely to be needed in two years when Democrats will probably regain the Senate.

His biggest scoop of all came in December 1989, when he received a tip that Evelyn Murphy, Dukakis's lieutenant governor, who was running to succeed him, was vacationing on Sanibel Island in Florida during budget talks.

Asked if he felt that taking over now during the budget talks was problematic, Heastie again turned to the people who just elected him speaker.

Flanagan insisted a deal was not cut to keep Felder in the conference during the budget talks.

The stance is the same Cuomo held during the budget talks, when the mayoral control discussion fell out of the negotiations.

He plans to continue pushing for a non-taxpayer-funded alternative — several of which were floated to no avail during the budget talks.

David Friedfel, director of state studies at the Citizens Budget Commission, a private group that monitors state financial matters, noted the see - saw effect on the deficit number as various spending and revenue - raising actions took place during budget talks.

Including the measure in the budget could provide more leverage against Senate Republicans, who have blocked passage of the bill for a dozen years, by allowing it to be tied to issues the GOP is seeking during the budget talks.

The Senate GOP will maintain its majority in the Senate during budget talks because Brooklyn State Senator Simcha Felder, a conservative Democrat, will continue to caucus with them.

But with the Assembly and Senate both thumbing their noses at Cuomo's proposal during the budget talks, it's unclear if political will power exists to actually get legislation passed before lawmakers bug out for the year in late June.

Cuomo continues to push for ethics reform, a topic he dropped during budget talks.

Cuomo was forced to detour during budget talks and negotiate another package of ethics reforms (the third in five years), and jettisoned many of the same items that are currently languishing.

The Moreland Commission to Investigate Public Corruption folded in April after Governor Andrew Cuomo agreed during budget talks to disband it.

He has a perfect bludgeon to do so — a pay commission will determine the first pay raises for rank and file lawmakers in nearly two decades at year's end — which he showed he was willing to wield during budget talks.

After the measure died during the budget talks, advocates hoped the Democrats would clinch a Senate majority in two special elections last week and take the Child Victims Act up before the end of the legislative session in June.

Senate Finance Chair John DeFrancisco, a Republican, noted the «refreshing» lack of rancor during budget talks, and says the budget has «incredibly» remained essentially flat, with no significant spending increases, for the past two years.

The Council gave $ 6.7 million to bolster the beeps» payrolls during budget talks that finished last month.

Former Assemblyman Richard Brodsky, who is now a senior fellow at the Demos think tank, says Silver was a master negotiator and often delivered for his members during budget talks.

Even then, Cuomo and Klein spoke of the need to win more seats in November to guarantee a «functioning majority» in which one member can't hold issues hostage like Felder did during the budget talks.

State Comptroller Tom DiNapoli also said Paterson should step aside during the budget talks, the News reported.

Most Lieutenant Governors don't have a seat at the table during budget talks.

All nine state senators from Long Island are Republicans, as was the leader during budget talks — Dean Skelos — and current majority leader John Flanagan.

But during the budget talks in March, Cuomo used funds from the state committee to promote his spending plan in TV ads, as well as ads celebrating the state's diversity and efforts to oppose the federal health care bill to replace Obamacare.

Nearly three - quarters of New Yorkers said they most trusted Cuomo during the budget talks, compared to seven percent for Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver and five percent for Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos.

Cuomo did not specify what he thought those workers should be paid, but he sought (unsuccessfully) during the budget talks to increase the minimum wage to $ 11.50 in New York City and $ 10.50 in the rest of the state.

It's a knife - twisting comment and is in many ways vintage Silver, who has confounded Republicans, especially Gov. George Pataki, during budget talks in previous years.

Known as a master negotiator, Silver is one of the «three men in the room» during budget talks, along with Cuomo and the leader of the Senate.

Meanwhile, despite de Blasio publicly calling on Albany to authorize the city to add more speed cameras around schools, Cuomo said neither the mayor nor legislative leaders brought the issue up to him during budget talks.