Sentences with phrase «first time the legislature»

The ECPA however, was the first time the legislature passed an omnibus privacy law.

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Trump's coat - tails in Kentucky were so strong that Republicans took control of the state's legislature for the first time since 1921.

It's the first time maybe ever, Governor Cuomo couldn't pull off the grand bargain with the legislature.

Speaker Heastie was asked whether the legislature would on its own approve a pay raise for the first time since 1999, whether or not the governor approves the idea.

It's also an historic election for the Board, which will have a majority of women for the first time ever — nine out of 17 — and will become the only county legislature in New York State in which women currently comprise a majority.

Westchester voters have written another chapter in the history of the Women's Rights Movement, electing a legislature with a majority of women for the first time in the county's history.

The GOP has been picking off Southern and Appalachian legislatures systematically for the past few decades: In 2012 alone, it won both the Arkansas state House and Senate for the first time since Reconstruction; Democrats are shooting to win back the House this year.

«To me that's irresponsible that they're going to, first of all, criticize past legislatures for not taking the time to read and understand what's in the bill and then, in fact, they turn around and do the very same stuff,» Hochul said.

Governor Cuomo's Moreland Act Commission to investigate the legislature is not the first time a Governor created a penal to probe state lawmakers.

PLATTSBURGH Clinton County Legislator Harry McManus (Area 1) was reappointed as chair of the legislature, the second time he will serve in that position since first taking office 10 years ago.

The New York legislature completed an almost on time budget, around 3 AM on the first day of the state's fiscal year.

When an Espaillat supporter, after prefacing his question with a reference to «middle east... dictators... in power for such a long time, 30 years, 40 years» asked «when is too long», King first noted Espaillat's 18 years in the state legislature, but then veered off message saying that «if someone wants real change» they should consider the third candidate, Michael Walrond.

IT WAS THE FIRST TIME IN HISTORY THAT THE SUFFOLK LEGISLATURE ADOPTED A SIX - MONTH, RATHER THAN A FULL YEAR, BUDGET.»

For the first time in a long time, one party holds both the legislature and governorship in 37 states.

First, we should look at the experience of other countries where a green party or equivalent has entered the national legislature for the first First, we should look at the experience of other countries where a green party or equivalent has entered the national legislature for the first first time.

Efforts to help potential first - time home buyers save for down payments using special tax - favored accounts have been gaining traction in state legislatures.

[34][35] The first time Ball rose to speak in the Assembly chamber, he called the legislature «dysfunctional», and withstood boos from his colleagues.

The state legislature, meeting for the first time since deals were struck on pension reform and new district lines, tried to focus on their new task, agreeing on a budget.

Governor Cuomo, speaking for the first time about speculation that he might want to seek the presidency in 2016, says he finds the talk «flattering», but he says overtly political talk can be «distracting» when he's trying to govern and get along with both parties in the legislature.

Our first preference would be a full - time and higher - paid legislature in return for a ban on all outside income.

The senator is seeking a ninth term when at least five of her Republican colleagues have bowed out, opening up an opportunity for Democrats to fully control the state legislature for the first time since 2010.

In a statement Wednesday, Nassau Republican chairman Joseph Mondello alluded to the wave that elected Democrats Tuesday as a natural blowback similar to the one that gave Democrats control of the county legislature for the first time in 1999, or when Republicans retook power in 2009 after President Barack Obama's policies had energized the opposition.

The Democrats are just plain stupid for playing with the gay vote and they really should be ashamed of themselves for calling out a Republican for his stance when they cant even get their own ship in order to get a gay marriage bill passed when they had full control over the legislature for the first time in recent memory.

With the Erie County Legislature reverting to Democratic control for the first time in four years, County Executive Mark Poloncarz already has several proposals he hopes the new legislature will back.

For the first time in six years, the legislature's minority party is not offering a budget alternative to the Democrats» plans.

Former Gov. Lowell P. Weicker Jr., a veteran of protracted budget battles, including in 1991, when the legislature voted to levy a state income tax for the first time, said Malloy had gotten «pretty raw treatment» from Democratic leaders who cut him out of budget negotiations.

First - time candidates for legislature tend to fall into several broad categories.

He said further, «As a first - time Senator, Mustapha stood out for the quality of his contributions on the floor, his pragmatism and his work to strengthen the institution of the legislature.»

At the 2015 parliamentary election, PSUV lost its majority in the National Assembly for the first time since the unicameral legislature's creation in 2000 against the Democratic Unity Roundtable, earning 55 out of the National Assembly's 167 seats.

They're both gone, and for the first time in 16 years there will be no Paretes in the legislature.

«For the first time in the history of the legislature, we are going to lay a report on the PIB for consideration, it has never happened before.

The «taxpayer - first» Hein administration can move with amazing alacrity at times, especially in its dealings with the legislature.

But Wilson says that vote ties him to the legislature and he points out that this is the first time voters will get to weigh in on DiNapoli.

Talks are swirling about a special session of the legislature next week that could involve lawmakers getting a raise for the first time in almost two decades.

You mentioned that this is the first time we've had an on - time budget four times in a row in over forty years,» Mr. Glaser said, arguing that not all of the governor's priorities were included in the budget deal, which has to be negotiated with the state legislature.

It's the first time in a dozen years that the solidly Democratic legislature has had to deal with a Republican governor.

In Virginia, the Republicans took control of the legislature for the first time in more than a century, after a campaign in which GOP candidates talked a...

Only recently, teachers unions seemed to be riding high in the saddle, enjoying for the first time in more than a decade a government unified under the union - friendly leadership of a Democratic governor and a legislature controlled by the same party.

A number of states, including Massachusetts and Michigan, were hurrying to make legislative changes before the first submission deadline in January, and others, including Maine, Maryland, Nevada, and Washington, were planning to apply in the second round to give their legislatures time to pass reform laws.

The first to speak is Lieut. Gov. Buddy MacKay, who warns the crowd that time is running out and that the state can not wait any longer for the legislature to act of its own volition.

The 2005 legislative session was relatively quiet on the subject of K - 12 education, despite tension over changes to the state's school accountability system between Gov. Bill Owens, a Republican, and the Colorado legislature, which was controlled for the first time in 40 years by Democrats

Michael Petrilli: This is not the first time that a state legislature has looked at bills to pull out of the Common Core.

When former Gov. Mitch Daniels and then State Superintendent for Public Instruction Tony Bennett pushed a massive overhaul of teacher evaluation through the legislature in 2011, the promise was a bold new system that would reward the best teachers, weed out the worst and for the first time tie pay raises to student test scores.

It's time the state legislature puts the interests of our children first.

The ongoing saga of the TNReady challenges reminds me of the time the legislature pulled Tennessee out of PARCC just as we were preparing to have our first year with the Common Core aligned tests.

In September 2014, the Supreme Court got so fed up with the legislature's lack of progress that they found the legislature in «contempt of court» for the first time in the history of our State.

The passage of that bill gives the Connecticut legislature, for the first time, the authority to approve the formal funding of any proposed charter schools.

And according to research commissioned by the Education Commission of the States and the National Conference of State Legislatures, 30 percent of the chairs of education committees in state legislatures are serving in that role for theLegislatures, 30 percent of the chairs of education committees in state legislatures are serving in that role for thelegislatures are serving in that role for the first time.

Even more dramatically, the Democratic Progressive Party will take control of the legislature for the first time.

That fickle hour has been dancing to legislatures» tunes ever since — albeit sometimes reluctantly, as when the United States fairly recently decided to prolong Daylight Saving Time until the first Sunday in November and, after grumbling, Canada shuffled into step.