Sentences with phrase «for an early voting program»

Beyond the payroll tax and charitable donation programs, Cuomo offered up ideas to reduce traffic congestion in New York City, expand availability of flu vaccines for children, impose restrictions on sex offenders, provide funding for an early voting program, ban synthetic marijuana sales and target physicians who engage in medical misconduct.

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In early January, Walden Asset Management, a corporate client who uses Vanguard for their 401 (k) program, wrote Vanguard about its proxy voting practices with respect to social and environmental issues like political spending and climate change.

It seems bizarre that the most reasonable understanding of why the 2008 bank crisis did not require a vast public subsidy for Wall Street occurred at Monday's Republican presidential debate on June 13, by none other than Congressional Tea Party leader Michele Bachmann — who had boasted in a Wall Street Journal interview two days earlier, on Saturday, that she voted against the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) «both times.»

Because everyone knows that, rationally, Congress will vote to increase the debt ceiling in the last stage of the game, that affects how the earlier stages of the game are played: Congress votes for new programs, anticipating that funds for the new programs will be paid for by borrowing.

Village trustees voted to award the contract for Orland Park's fixed - rate electricity program to a new supplier, FirstEnergy, at a board meeting Monday, as long as the village can reach an agreement with current provider Nordic Energy Services to end its contract May 1, a month early.

Providing funding in the Executive Budget would prove to New Yorkers, who have waited long enough for simple voting reforms, the Governor is serious about implementing early voting in New York State,» said Ethan Geringer - Sameth, Public Policy and Program Manager for Citizens Union.

The Brennan Center urges Governor Cuomo to provide funding for early voting in this year's budget,» said Joanna Zdanys, Counsel for the Brennan Center's Democracy Program.

The Democratic election commissioners have formed a working group that would aid in developing an early voting program for the state's 62 counties.

In the latest interview, on Aug. 28 on the New York 1 program «The New York Times Close Up,» Mr. Spitzer was asked whether, in light of his earlier doubts, he was now certain to vote for Mr. Cuomo.

«The League has supported early voting for several years and we are thrilled to see that the governor recognizes the importance of this program by providing seed funding and thereby avoiding passage of an unfunded mandate,» the league said in a statement.

The Brennan Center supports early voting as a crucial way to help more New Yorkers exercise their right to vote, and urges the New York State legislature to include early voting in the state budget,» said Joanna Zdanys, Counsel for the Democracy Program at the Brennan Center for Justice.

Maternal and Infant Home Visit Program — Vote Passed (214 - 209, 10 Not Voting) The House passed the bill that would authorize, through fiscal 2022, $ 400 million a year for the Maternal, Infant and Early Childhood Home Visiting pProgram — Vote Passed (214 - 209, 10 Not Voting) The House passed the bill that would authorize, through fiscal 2022, $ 400 million a year for the Maternal, Infant and Early Childhood Home Visiting programprogram.

Mr. McCain's advisers said they had put far less effort into the early voting program, instead sticking with what has worked for Florida Republicans for a decade: building up their margin with absentee ballots.

State lawmakers could start voting as early as today on a bill that Governor Andrew Cuomo calls a «major victory for Upstate communities,» the START - UP NY tax - free program.

The good news for the research community is that the 211 - to - 198 vote by the House largely rejects deep cuts to science programs proposed by President Donald Trump earlier this year — and even calls for spending increases at a few agencies, including $ 1.1 billion more for the National Institutes of Health (NIH).

The measure, which was scheduled to be brought to the Senate floor for a vote early this week, would fund education programs during the 1982 - 83 school year at approximately $ 13 billion.

Today the charter school movement achieved an important win: the State Board of Education voted to give qualifying charter schools earlier access to the recent increase for Permanent School Fund bond guarantee program.

By voting to support the LPP for at least another few years (and strengthening its sustainability by spreading the financial cost of the program more equitably across the profession), the law society's Benchers can start a brand - new narrative: of a governing body that's willing to show courage and vision in the face of challenging early returns, that won't abandon ship at the first sign of trouble ahead.

The Obama administration is urging senators to vote as early as this week on an expansion of the Home Affordable Refinancing Program, and Democratic leaders are considering adding the expansion to their agenda for the two - week Senate session that starts today, Bloomberg reports.