Sentences with phrase «happy the state lawmakers»
Gov. David Paterson said during a Q&A with reporters today that he's happy the state lawmakers have woken up to the fact that he is all - powerful when it comes to the budget — lame duck, or no lame duck.
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This is not to say that lawmakers are happy about the state of affairs in which they find themselves — more or less over a barrel, thanks to the extender bill option Paterson pioneered.
«I am very happy, I am really thrilled and quite confident that he (Buhari) is very well now,» the federal lawmaker told State House correspondents on Friday at the Presidential Villa, Abuja.
Had state lawmakers agreed to pay LouAnne Berg's construction company what she claims it lost on a veterans home contract, she said, she would have walked away happy.
He also holds a safe Republican seat in his state, meaning that if he can keep the conservatives in his district happy, the freshman lawmaker should have a long career in Washington.
This poor - mouthing of his own mojo must have come as a happy surprise to the handful of state lawmakers who showed up for the event, one of the governor's periodic «Capital for a Day» showpieces.
And second, though charters» current locations are partly based on student need, they also reflect political compromises: In many states, suburban Republican lawmakers have been happy to support charters so long as they don't threaten the traditional public schools in their own leafy districts.