Sentences with phrase «federal lawmakers did»

If state and federal lawmakers didn't leech away that big a percentage of what teachers earn, that money could go to the teachers who earned it without having to take even more from the taxpayers who provide teacher salaries.

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He was among lawmakers critical of Comey's decision not to prosecute Clinton in the email server investigation, saying other government officials would have been prosecuted if they handled classified information like Clinton did, but federal officials disagree with that assessment.

Federal law does not prohibit the president's involvement in private business while in office, even though lawmakers and executive branch officials are subject to conflict - of - interest rules.

The federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives has ruled that bump stocks do not violate laws that tightly limit ownership of machine guns, and some lawmakers have called for them to be banned.

But plenty of (mostly old) people still don't like it, among them legions of sports fans, federal lawmakers up to President Donald Trump, and the country's top law enforcement officer in Sessions.

Boehm said Donahue's selection had nothing to do with the fact that her husband, Dan, worked on Mayor Dan McLaughlin's election campaign two years ago and her brother - in - law David Donahue was hired last year as the village's legislative liaison, a newly created position designed to foster communication between the village and state and federal lawmakers.

Reed noted, of course, raising taxes to make up for the lost revenue from the federal government is an option but he doesn't believe state lawmakers would do that to constituents already facing a heavy burden.

We're still awaiting a decision from the jury in former Senate Majority Leader Pedro Espada Jr.'s federal corruption trial, but we do have some (more bad) news to report about the embattled former Bronx Democratic lawmaker.

Despite being described by Democratic leaders as an «economic missile,» the federal tax cuts are doing precisely what congress predicted they would do: giving middle class people, like our $ 79,500 earning state lawmakers, a financial break.

«Our federal government is working to roll back so much of what we have done,» he said in his annual state of the state address to lawmakers in Albany.

Long Island Sen. Todd Kaminsky, a former federal prosecutor who was elected in 2016 running on an anti-corruption platform following Skelos» conviction (but was not involved in either the Silver or Skelos cases), released a statement saying the Silver decision demonstrates the need for state lawmakers to stop relying on the feds to bring corruption cases against state - level elected officials, and also pass more anti-corruption measures, which lawmakers declined to do this past session.

Mr. Landrieu said the conference would continue to lobby state and federal lawmakers for city priorities, as it has done for years.

That came on top of the Cuomo administration assigning the firms to manage a $ 68 million bond issue last fall, even as federal law enforcement officials were investigating allegations that New York lawmakers were doing favors for political donors.

But the Christie robocall does help Hayworth shore up a potential trouble spot for her when it comes to the Democratic push that she would support turning back federal spending for disaster relief that isn't off set by cuts, a position of top Republican lawmaker Eric Cantor.

In the wake of the arrest of Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos on federal corruption charges this morning, Westchester County Executive Rob Astorino, the 2014 GOP gubernatorial candidate, issued a statement expressing «confidence» that the Long Island lawmaker «will do the right thing and promptly resign his leadership position.»

The comptroller said he'd leave it to federal lawmakers to explain the latter's impact on residents but he did not have warm feelings for its potential impact on public finances.

While Gillibrand did not mention the district's federal representative, Rep. Elise Stefanik (R - Willsboro), she did appear to obliquely refer to the lawmaker in her comments.

In the meantime, he says his office and federal prosecutors will continue to scrutinize lawmakers whose per diem payments and other travel expenses don't add up.

It ends with a call for state and federal lawmakers to reject campaign contributions from gun rights groups like the NRA, enact stricter licensing and registration requirements for guns, a ban on «all classes of weapons that do not serve the specific uses of personal protection and sport shooting» and other gun control measures.

The mayor said that if lawmakers don't act on reforms, they'll lose a shot at redemption after a year in which leaders in both houses of the Legislature have been arrested on federal corruption charges.

As of press time, two Republicans lawmakers, David Gelfarb, of Rye Brook, and Jim Maisano, of New Rochelle, support the legislation, which would prohibit law enforcement officials from honoring requests made by federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Customs and Border Protection agents, which do not give rise to reasonable grounds for detaining individuals.

The pilot is for a five - year period, and after the third year, the federal education secretary will do a study to see how the states are doing and could then open it up to all states, according to federal lawmakers.

At noon, Democratic Reps. Joe Crowley, Steve Israel, Hakeem Jeffries and Kathleen Rice call for federal lawmakers to approve long - term DHS funding by Friday without amendments challenging President Obama's executive actions on immigration, and discuss potential consequences of failing to do so; lobby, Marine Air Terminal, LaGuardia Airport, Ditmars Boulevard and 23rd Avenue, Queens.

As federal lawmakers launch an investigation on the state's handling of a chemical contamination in the drinking water of Hoosick Falls, Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Friday insisted his administration did the best it could to deal with the situation.

At the time, Cuomo did not include any contingency plans for action on the federal level, such as a repeal of the Affordable Care Act or cuts in spending that would impact the state, save for a desire to have expanded powers over the budget without the consent of the Legislature — a non-starter with lawmakers.

I don't try to interfere in what goes on in other geo - political zone, except in the course of performing my constitutional duty as a federal lawmaker.

Rep. Tom Reed became the second House member from New York to back Trump for the Republican presidential nomination, prompting Democrats to say he was merely reacting to a threat from Buffalo developer Carl Paladino to attack federal lawmakers who don't endorse the GOP frontrunner.

Bratton, airing his well - known frustrations with federal lawmakers, added, «So if Congress really wants to do something to help the American law enforcement community and the American public, well, let's start getting serious about doing something that they can actually do something about.»

The judges in the redistricting case, Reena Raggi and Gerard E. Lynch of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and Dora L. Irizarry of Federal District Court in Brooklyn, noted that the magistrate judge they assigned to draw the new map managed to do in just two weeks what lawmakers «have been unable, or unwilling, to provide New York State voters in more than a year.»

New York State lawmakers did not retreat from their commitment to public schools in spite of the cap on state and local tax deductions in the federal tax overhaul.

Lawsky argues that if New York does not act, the federal government will create a health exchange for the state instead, and lawmakers might not like their plan.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo in a conference call with reporters on Monday afternoon was not impressed with mere votes against the bill, saying the lawmakers ought to do more to bring federal money back to the state to be more in in with what the state's residents pay in taxes.

The federal lawmakers had also called on Buhari to find time to address a joint session of the National Assembly on what are being done to tackle recession.

It responded aggressively to legislators who advanced bills that would require the state to keep emails for at least seven years, like the federal government does, by wondering why the lawmakers exempted themselves from the state's Freedom of Information Law.

At Tuesday's state Senate hearing on the water contamination in Hoosick Falls, the federal EPA came in for criticism from some state officials who blamed the agency for failing to lead, and from some lawmakers who said they were disappointed the EPA did not send a representative to the hearing.

«I'm not even sure what they did is legal or constitutional and that's something we're looking at now,» Cuomo added, referring to federal lawmakers.

«She seems very sincere to do more about the air and water in the Adirondacks,» said Janeway, citing a long record of bipartisan action from New York's federal lawmakers to protect the environment.

Citing the continual delays with the Yucca Mountain project, which the Obama administration mothballed in the face of Nevadans» opposition, Perry said in a letter to state lawmakers, «The citizens of Texas — and every other state currently storing radioactive waste — have been betrayed by their federal government... because a federal solution still does not exist.»

When they didn't immediately receive one, the lawmakers threatened to pull federal support for the agency, which has received more than $ 48 million from the U.S. since 1985 (Greenwire, 8 December, 2017).

When the dust settles from the midterm elections, federal lawmakers — the re-elected and losers alike — will head back to Washington for a lame - duck session with a long to - do list that could have broad implications for education policy over the next year.

And since it took Congress eight years to pass ESSA, it doesn't seem likely that lawmakers will reopen the debate over the federal role any time soon.

The automatic cuts to education and many other federal programs, known as «sequestration,» were intended as an incentive for lawmakers to reach an agreement on lowering the federal budget deficit by $ 1.2 trillion, but were triggered when Congress failed to do so in late 2011.

Although opponents were not able to muster the votes in Congress this time to overtime the policy, lawmakers did include requirements that the U.S. Department of Education begin collecting state, local and federal data about the distribution of teachers in training who are working in classrooms.

«When state and federal lawmakers sanctioned charters, they typically did not discuss or anticipate that introducing the profit motive and deregulation would foster a business model encouraging financial corruption and self - dealing.»

Sen. Luther Olsen, R - Ripon, said Wednesday that state lawmakers and education officials did not take seriously the charge of the 2001 federal law known as No Child Left Behind.

The House Education Committee passed a GOP bill on a party - line vote, but it was yanked from floor debate in February after conservative GOP lawmakers said it didn't go far enough to shrink the federal role in education.

Lawmakers did agree to one change, reinstating the right to sue for employment discrimination in state court, but have retained the anti-LGBTQ bathroom provisions that have spurred lawsuits from transgender residents, the ACLU of N.C. and the U.S. Department of Justice, which Tuesday asked a federal judge to block the law's implementation in the state.

There had been growing pressure from some lawmakers, state officials and many people harmed by the unfolding disaster to do so, and presumably federal lawyers and investigators were sifting for clues already.

The Associated Press reports that although the NTSB doesn't have the power to impose such a ban, «its recommendations carry significant weight with federal regulators and congressional and state lawmakers.»

Even as state and federal lawmakers have begun to investigate, the damage has already been done to hundreds of families who...