Sentences with phrase «equality bill last»
Those Republicans include «Kemp Hannon of Nassau County, Charles Fuschillo of Suffolk County, Betty Little of Glens Falls, Andrew Lanza of Staten Island, Greg Ball of Putnam County, James Alesi of Rochester, and Roy McDonald of Rensselaer County» — all senators who voted against a marriage - equality bill last time it came before the body, back in 2009.
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The focus of this morning's breakfast at the big tent in the Doubletree parking lot is a celebration of marriage equality and passage of the same - sex marriage bill last summer in New York.
Gay rights advocates ramped up their demonstrations in support of the bill over the weekend, with roughly 300 demonstrators gathering in Union Square for a «Last Day of Marriage Inequality» action on Sunday, a rally at Rumsey Playfield in Central Park and a «kiss - in» for marriage equality at Herald Square on Saturday.
Last week, Governor Cuomo announced that he and his senior staff would tour the state in order to speak directly to the people of New York about, among other issues, creating a property tax cap, cleaning up Albany by passing ethics reform and passing a marriage equality bill.
Baroness Thornton, who played a high profile role in the Lords» strong opposition to the controversial NHS reform bill in the last session of parliament, will move from health to equalities.
Afterward, the speaker did not rule out returning to act on the nine other bills that make up the women's equality act separately at some point in the future, but said it would not occur on the session's last officially scheduled day.
Kruger is a reported closet case, and cast a vote against marriage equality last year when the bill came up.
As you may recall, Monserrate is a Democrat from Queens who voted against the marriage equality bill when it came up late last year.
Called the Disability Forward Fund, the program is part of CreateNYC, the city's first comprehensive cultural plan, which was first announced by Mayor Bill de Blasio last July as part of an effort to extend greater equality, accessibility, diversity, and opportunity in arts funding.