Sentences with phrase «first legislative pay raise»

Many lawmakers are in no hurry to work with the governor, still holding him responsible for blocking their first legislative pay raise in nearly 20 years last fall.

Senate Republicans last year balked at returning in December for a special session that would have helped pave the way for the first legislative pay raise since 1999.

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Cuomo's office in recent days has been trying to resurrect a potential special legislative session that would pave the way for the first lawmaker pay raise since 1999, legislators on both sides of the aisle said.

The state's chief judge, Janet DiFiore, has declined to serve on a commission that will consider enacting the first executive and legislative pay raises in 20 years.

Assembly Democrats were able to insert a provision into the budget to create a legislative pay commission to examine whether to raise the legislative salary — now $ 79,500 — for the first time in nearly two decades.

A number of the governor and judiciary's appointees to a commission that will ultimately decide whether to approve a pay raise and for how much said on Thursday they will not support the first legislative raise since 1999 unless the lawmakers make their case to the panel.

But as a commission considers recommending the first state legislative pay raise since 1999 for lawmakers, Cuomo is dialing back his praise of the Senate and Assembly, citing the corruption arrests and convictions of lawmakers over the years.

Silver and Skelos have talked about the possibility of enacting a legislative pay raise — which would be the first in 16 years.

His first public comments about the Lopez and Huntley problems included a mention that all this turmoil would make legislative pay raises an even tougher lift this fall.

Where he traded a reduction in pension benefits for the ability to draw legislative districts and authorized the state's first charter schools in exchange for a pay raise.

The state's chief judge has declined to serve on a commission that will consider enacting the first executive and legislative pay raises in 20 years.

The two legislative leaders declined to attend any of the six State of the State events, expressing their displeasure at the governor for interfering in the work of an independent commission that would have given lawmakers pay raises for the first time in years and then leveraging ethics reform to consider a special legislative session in December.