Sentences with phrase «dysfunction in state government»

He said the state had made great strides since he took office, turning a $ 10 billion deficit into a $ 5 billion surplus, expanding health care to cover 1.5 million more people and reversing gridlock and dysfunction in state government by getting Republicans and Democrats to work together.

«Given the dysfunction in state government, it makes sense to rally around someone and build a coalition government and get things back on track in Albany,» McKeon said.

Part of the dysfunction in state government is that the state legislature does very few oversight hearings.

«Given the dysfunction in state government, it makes sense to rally around someone and build a coalition government and get things back on track in Albany,» McKeon told me.

Not exact matches

At the Brennan Center in 2004, Creelan wrote what has become an ur - text of state government dysfunction, which was especially withering of the arrangement in which state lawmakers receive «lulus» or stipends for leadership and committee posts.

Asked whether it would be better for New York to have an all Democratic state government, Cuomo referred to the chaos and dysfunction the last time the Dems controlled the state Senate in 2009 - 10.

He says legislative dysfunction reached a peak in the 2009 - 2010 legislative period, marked by a five - week coup that shut down much of state government.

One new senator isn't going to fix the dysfunction, of course, yet Peralta's path is depressingly typical of what helps keep state government mired in this mess.

As federal «dysfunction» forces them to step up regulatory efforts, state and local governments need to develop new policies for the growing tech sectors in order to balance the need for protecting public interests and supporting innovation, AG Eric Schneiderman told a NY Tech Meetup event.

Supporters defended Cuomo's liberal credentials throughout the campaign, noting his work to pass same - sex marriage and gun control measures while also working to cut state government dysfunction and boost the economy through business - friendly tax policies and initiatives designed to spur economic development in western New York.

It was similar to his welcome to delegates Tuesday night in which he talked of the governor «turning around a government» that was in «dysfunction» (This was hours before Cuomo named his predecessor, former Gov. David A. Paterson, as the new state party chairman).