Sentences with phrase «governors rejected the bills»

The legislation to reduce political interference and patronage at the Port Authority won unanimous approval in Albany and Trenton following the Bridgegate scandal and toll hikes, but the governors rejected the bills, and instead endorsed the changes recommended by the special bi-state panel they appointed, Langford reported.

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Sports Betting — New Jersey Governor Chris Christie continues to display a great deal of hypocrisy by now rejecting a bill that would have helped the state's efforts for legalized sports wagering, something he once fought for.

Sports Betting - New Jersey Governor Chris Christie continues to display a great deal of hypocrisy by now rejecting a bill that would have helped the state's efforts for legalized sports wagering, something he once...

Silver submitted a stand - alone bill to deal with the shortfall, but the governor rejected it.

The governor rejected an unusually high number of bills, and some supporters of the vetoed measures aren't pleased.

Neustadt said the decision rejecting the bill for the private jet will be sent to the new governor's office for review.

Thursday's City Council schedule will include a meeting of the Committee on Governmental Operations for its preliminary budget oversight hearing; a meeting of the Committee on Veterans to consider a resolution «calling upon the New York State Legislature to pass and the Governor to sign S. 752, the Veterans» Education Through SUNY Credits Act»; and a meeting of the Committee on Education to consider multiple resolutions, including one «calling upon the New York State Legislature to reject any attempt to raise the cap on the number of charter schools,» one «calling upon the Department of Education to amend its Parent's Bill of Rights and Responsibilities to include information about opting out of high - stakes testing and distribute this document at the beginning of every school year, to every family, in every grade,» and one «calling upon the New York State Legislature to eliminate the Governor's receivership proposal in the executive budget for New York City.»

The governor predicted the Senate GOP will «say Amen» after having a chance to read the tax cap bill, pointing out it would be difficult for them to reject this cap when they passed a four percent cap several years ago — not to mention his bill (although he didn't mention that).

NYPIRG rejects this claim as «bogus,» noting the governor's bill creates a three - step appointment process and goes out of his way to ensure that no one political party dominates.

Savino, who has already amended the Compassionate Care Act to limit smoking pot to those over the age of 21, rejected Cuomo's call to ban smoking altogether, and insisted that the Senate would move forward to vote on a bill before the session's end — with or without the governor's approval.

Although the bill was rejected by the Senate on Wednesday, Governor Akinwunmi Ambode insisted that the state deserved special status.

The governor is putting the plan directly into his budget proposal, instead of a stand alone bill, making it harder for the GOP to reject the measure if it's part of a larger spending plan.

Supporters of the bill say they now fear that the governors will reject the bill because it would erode the control they share evenly over everything the Port Authority does — whether running airports and bridges, hiring politically connected officials or awarding billion - dollar contracts to benefit political allies.

We write today to urge you to use your one house budget bills to either substantially improve or reject two proposed changes to the Freedom of Information Law contained in Governor Cuomo's Article VII budget bills.

Megna said that while the governor was currently seeking approval for that plan as a separate bill — something Paterson was not willing to do for the furlough measure — he would not rule out including it in a future budget extender if it's rejected.

The Senate and Assembly have jointly rejected the governor's extender bills, which, as I understood it, sought to amend the amended budget bills the Legislature submitted last week.

Silver has continued pushing the idea despite the Democratic governor and the Senate Republicans flatly rejecting his bill to further tax New Yorkers earning over $ 1 million a year.

On September 1, the Alaska Democratic Party rejected Mallott as their gubernatorial nominee and voted to support a newly - formed Alaska First Unity Party ticket with Bill Walker for governor and Mallott in the lieutenant governor slot.

But Skelos said he would hold firm on the cap and rejected the governor's statements the other day suggesting their would be some room to alter his bill.

NARAL members will not stand by as our basic freedoms are attacked, and we urge Governor Bryant to reject this bill.»

A: To uphold («approve») or overturn («reject») a bill passed this spring by the Legislature and signed by the governor that legalizes charter schools in Washington state.

Governor Malloy's original «education reform» bill included language that mandated that when the State of Connecticut takes over a school system, the education commissioner will have the authority to approve or reject the local board's choice for superintendent.

Yesterday, Trumbull teachers and their Trumbull Education Association rejected ConnCAN's award as a way to protest Governor Malloy's education reform bill and ConnCAN's work to get it passed.

In the meantime, SI&A reports that Governor Brown has vetoed AB 1765, which would have created a «master teacher» program, and that SB 885, which would promote agencies collecting and sharing student date has been revived (see: Brown rejects master teacher bill, measure to link student data advances).

«I read with no small measure of disappointment the letter of the Trumbull Teacher's Association rejecting the prestigious recognition the high school received from ConnCAN... through an obvious display of ignorance of the goals of ConnCAN and an undertone of an elitist attitude, the authors of the letter have managed to alienate trusted allies and provided the missing ingredients that will sway those who were on the fence with the education reform legislation to side with the Governor and give wholesale support to the reforms proposed in Senate Bill # 24.»

For example, just two years after signing the compact, then - mayor Karl Dean, who's now running for governor of Tennessee, roamed the halls of the legislature pitching lawmakers on a bill to strip local elected school boards in Memphis and Nashville of our ability to reject charters, which drain resources from existing schools.

A bill making it illegal for a landlord in California to require their tenants to have their pets declawed or devocalized has been rejected by Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger.