Sentences with phrase «governor and legislature want»

«I see myself and the Board creating policies that the Governor and the legislature want,» said Cobey.

In this guest blog from Minnesota businessman Dirk Bak, he contends the state's governor and legislature want to destroy the business climate.

Not exact matches

Assemblyman Andrew Hevesi joined a group of homeless activists who want the governor and legislature to move on Cuomo's promised 20,000 new units of supportive housing.

A Paterson administration source tells NBCNew York the Governor distanced himself from the Ravitch planl, and has since distanced Ravitch from the budget process because he saw the legislature seizing on the borrowing idea and did not want to enable them to make irresponsible decisions.

«The City Council wants to work with the legislature and the governor to achieve results,» said Council Speaker Corey Johnson.

Assemblyman Andrew Hevesi (D - 28) joined a group of homeless activists who want the governor and legislature to move on Cuomo's promised 20,000 new units of supportive housing.

The governor had also wanted a voluntary public campaign financing system for statewide races, including the governor and all 263 seats in the legislature, but the deal limits the program to the state comptroller's race.

«I want the governor and my colleagues in the legislature to understand our issues in upstate, and that's my intention during the next session.»

Top State University of New York officials say they want a tuition freeze at the state's colleges and universities, and are asking Governor Cuomo and the state legislature to adequately fund SUNY in the budget so that they don't have to raise rates for students.

Governor Cuomo says he wants ethics reform and campaign finance changes passed if the legislature does return to Albany for a special session this year.

The governor is entitled to his wish list about how he wants to see the world, but the legislature is a co-equal branch of government and must be respected,» the speaker said.

Greenberg says the numbers matter, because when a politician is falling in the polls, he loses political capital and other elected officials, like those in the legislature, no longer believe they have to go along with what the governor wants.

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.

You certainly have to perform at your job if you want a raise and a fundamental indicator of the job the legislature does and the governor and the executive is passing a budget on time,» Cuomo said in a December conference call.

For the second month in a row, the Siena College poll reports that nearly 100 percent of those surveyed want something done about the corruption in Albany that's led to both former leaders of the legislature sentenced to prison and the U.S. attorney's investigation of Governor Andrew Cuomo's economic development programs.

The governor wants the reform package he put forth last year passed, and the legislature's position then and now is to resist the need for reform.»

But most Republicans in the legislature want the governor to resign and several are ready to begin the impeachment process, even as the results of a state Ethics Commission investigation into the governor's travel expenses are still pending.

«So he made his statement in terms of universal pre-kindergarten and how it all eventually comes out is another question once we in the legislature get our hands on the budget because we have different ways of wanting to spend money let's say than the governor does and that's what the budget process is all about, negotiation, compromise and having an on time budget by April 1.»

GOP candidate for governor and Deputy Senate Leader John DeFrancisco says he wants the legislature to hold hearings into the 514 tourism signs posted along numerous highways in the state.

Blankenhorn claims there is only one reason that Governor Cuomo and the legislature want the gambling expansion.

The governor wants the legislature to step back and leave fixing Common Core to teachers and experts.

«Because education is a state - level responsibility, Secretary DeVos would need to get state legislatures and governors to support the changes she wants to make.

While making record cuts to public schools and human services the Hartford Courant is reporting that Connecticut's Democratic legislative leaders have caved in to Governor Malloy and agreed to force their follow Democrats in the legislature to vote in favor of giving two more charter school companies the money they want to open schools in Bridgeport and Stamford.

Or could it be that Verizon wants to be a pal and help New Yorkers access up to $ 3400 in federal tax credits and (if the state legislature approves Governor Pataki's plan) more than $ 5,400 in savings through discounted highway tolls and state tax credits?

We are hopeful that Nevada wants to pursue the goal of being a decentralized blockchain - friendly state, and that the legislature did not realize the full import of its eleventh hours change to the blockchain definition.Thus, if Governor Sandoval signs the bill, we plan to reach out to Nevada state legislators to discuss a bill in the next session that amends the law amend to only exempt blockchain activity on decentralized systems that rely on verification by independent parties using multiple machines that promote the honesty, integrity, validity, and immutability that blockchain represents.

Tennessee Association for Marriage and Family Therapy wants to announce to our membership that the legislature has passed and Governor signed our state job classification bill into law.