Sentences with phrase «even voted on a budget»

The state Legislature has not even voted on a budget, but already an engineering firm hired by the county is filling out environmental impact documents.

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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.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Thursday shrugged off the call from New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio for an even either minimum wage increase than what is proposed in the state budget, saying it's up to the state Legislature to vote on the issue, not the mayor.

Lawmakers in the Senate began voting on budget bills Thursday evening, concluding work at around 9:30 this morning, making for a 17 - hour session.

Several noncontroversial budget bills were printed last night, and a few were even passedby the Senate — with very little discussion on the part of majority members and no opportunity for the public to see anything before it was voted on.

Lawmakers are set to vote on budget bills throughout the evening, even as others leave the Capitol for religious observances.

Several noncontroversial budget bills were printed last night, and a few were even passed by the Senate — with very little discussion on the part of majority members and no opportunity for the public to see anything before it was voted on.

But even though Faso and Stefanik voted against their party on the tax bill, in October 2017 they voted in favor of a budget bill that paved the way for the tax measure to pass the Senate on GOP votes alone — without a filibuster.

Senate Democratic Conference Leader John Sampson said his 32 - member majority conference will be voting «yes» on the budget extender bill next week — even if it includes public employee furloughs, as Gov. David Paterson has threatened — because he is «not in the business of shutting downs 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.

The issue remains open for discussion even as the Senate and Assembly begin voting on various budget bills.

Governor Cuomo and Legislative leaders said they hoped to have final agreements on the state budget by evening, and could possibly print bills Tuesday night, to begin voting on Thursday.

Rookie Democrat Lynn Archer from Rochester took a pass, explaining that she, like other legislators, had received the budget only on the evening of the committee vote.

The report states that legislators have voted on those numbers against the advice of their own consultants, even increasing the 2012 projections before passing the final budget.

Legislative leaders in Albany say they hope to have final agreements on the state budget by evening, and print bills Tuesday night, to begin voting on Thursday.

Lawmakers are set to vote through the evening on budget bills, but do expect to return Friday to take up more votes.

Even on something like the Ryan budget he said, oh I'm not going to tell you, because I'm not in Congress yet, how I would vote on that.

«The vote for the energy tax was kept separate and apart from the budget vote,» she said in an interview on Capital Tonight Tuesday evening.

Governor Cuomo and Legislative leaders say they hope to have final agreements on the state budget by evening, and could possibly print bills Tuesday night, to begin voting on Thursday.

The apparent arrival of a package brought good news for Albany Mayor Kathy Sheehan: One of the budget bills introduced for voting on Tuesday evening included the $ 12.5 million in additional state aid that the Democrat had said was the only thing standing between the capital city and a fiscal cliff.

ALBANY — Members of the state Senate said they plan to vote Tuesday evening on the «entirety» of the state budget, even though some issues about taxes and real estate subsidies have still not been resolved.

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.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo and legislative leaders say they hope to have final agreements on the state budget by Tuesday evening, and could possibly print bills Tuesday night, to begin voting on Thursday.

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.

BY MICHAEL RICONDA The Suffern Village Board met on the evening of April 1 to vote on the village budget, clearing a plan with a two percent village tax and several last - minute amendments to items such as sewer and water rates.

The only rare exception is when there is a revolt on the government benches which is backed by the opposition, and even then when the government lost a vote on that basis last year on the EU budget, it still ostentatiously dismissed the vote as merely «advisory».

Lawmakers had been expected to vote on the budget this week, saying they were close to finished, but on Wednesday evening, Governor Cuomo gave a press conference saying there was no final deal yet on the budget.

Debate in both houses of the state Legislature stretched from afternoon into evening, with the Assembly adjourning around 9 and the Senate around 10 p.m.. Both will be back to finish voting on budget bills Tuesday morning - legslation that members mostly have not had a chance to read.

They can vote in Parliament on issues like stem cell research and policy on mad cow disease, they can pass the Government's science budget without even knowing what it says, but they can not actually engage with the scientific community.

Stem cell advocates say repeated votes by Congress — even if each will attract a veto — will help their eventual cause, and some hope Senator Tom Harkin (D - IA) will follow through on hints that he might put money in the 2008 budget for NIH to support work using embryonic stem cells.

As evidenced by recent politics around the federal budget, those in Washington, DC, are stuck in debates that involve math that is not well understood even by those who need to vote on policies based on it.