Sentences with phrase «from budget extender»
Last week, Paterson sent a bill separate from budget extender to the Legislature that would have provided him with power to furlough state workers.
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Sen. Ruben Diaz Sr. was released from the hospital this morning and plans to be in the chamber tomorrow to vote on the budget extender bills, despite having received permission from Senate Democratic Conference Leader John Sampson to remain home.
After passing the controversial furlough budget extender last night, Assembly members from both sides of the aisle gathered with former colleagues for a little R - n - R in the form of the annual reunions known as the Pilots and Rudders dinners.
GOP gubernatorial designee Rick Lazio took some time out from campaigning in Rochester today to take a swipe at AG Andrew Cuomo for semi-panning Gov. David Paterson's creative use of budget extenders as «intriguing» but not optimal, YNN's Mark Gruba reports.
Another set of big - ticket Cuomo priorities was already baked into this week's budget «extender» bill: nearly $ 15 billion in capital appropriations for purposes ranging from basic infrastructure (highways, transit) to a $ 400 million second phase of Cuomo's Buffalo Billion initiative, a $ 700 million «community healthcare capital investment» in Brooklyn, and more 8 - figure allocations to the kind of «economic development» programs that have failed to rejuvenate Upstate.
The budget is turning from stalemate to brinksmanship on Tuesday, a day after lawmakers approved an eight - week temporary extender measure that funds state government until May 31.
For AQE, which is pushing for education spending on par with a decade - old court ruling, the problem for them was Cuomo suggesting a short - term extender may be a viable option for the state budget considering the uncertainty emanating from Washington over the federal government's budget cuts.
Canestrari, an Albany - area Democrat, admitted the «my way or the highway» budget extender threat from Cuomo is an «added incentive» to get an on - time deal.
Mr. Cuomo's blithe declaration was no doubt calculated to spur action from lawmakers — who will not be paid with the so - called extender budget that was passed on Monday — as well as to continue an effort to shift blame for the delay to the Legislature.
That's the message from Gov. Paterson's emboldened administration, which is vowing to escalate its new and unprecedented tactic of putting major spending cuts into the weekly «extenders» that have kept the state functioning without a completed budget since April 1.
As state lawmakers await a potential budget extender from Gov. Andrew Cuomo this evening, Senate Democrats are calling on the governor include a package of left - leaning legislation that would force Senate Republicans to either accept it or potentially risk a shutdown of state government.
The next round of budget extender bills will include nearly $ 440 million dollars in projected revenue from cigarette taxes and the collection of taxes on tobacco products on Native American reservations.
Despite all the positive talk from legislative leaders yesterday about movement on an actual budget deal (to the extent there's much left that hasn't already been passed in an extender bill), Gov. David Paterson didn't sound too optimistic this morning, suggesting another extender showdown is likely in the offing.
DeFrancisco, a Republican from Syracuse, says if no agreement is reached on some of the unrelated topics by the budget deadline, lawmakers will likely oppose any attempt by the governor to force through the policy changes in the form of extender bills to keep the government running.
So why is it missing from the two month budget extender?
Greenberg said that while governors usually lose the most poll standing when the budget is late, but that the effects this year should be minimal: «They passed an extender, nothing stopped, so from the average New York citizen's point of view, nothing happened.»
«Picking a number now, and saying this is going to be the number, and not knowing what's going to happen next week and next month and when the federal government passes the budget or when they don't pass the budget, or when they do the next continuing resolution, is very hard,» said Cuomo, who again mentioned that everyone will know a lot more from Washington by the end of May, which is when the state «extender» runs through.
A Cuomo aide dismissed the possibility and instead raised the specter of using short - term budget extenders until the revenue picture from the feds becomes clearer.