Sentences with phrase «higher than the governor»

The Senate Finance Committee, Assembly Ways and Means Committee and state Budget Division have reached on agreement on just how much cash they've got to spend in 2011 - 2012, settling on a number that's $ 155 million higher than the governor's initial estimate.

Voters also want to raise the minimum wage higher than the governor is proposing, and think he should not exclude minority party leaders, including the only female legislative leader Senate Democratic Leader Andrea Stewart Cousins, from budget talks.

Voters also want to raise the minimum wage higher than the governor is proposing, and think he should not exclude minority party leaders from budget talks, including the only female legislative leader Senate Democratic Leader Andrea Stewart - Cousins.

Not exact matches

We prefer owning — even though, at $ 366,000, the average Canadian home today costs more than twice as much as its U.S. equivalent; even though a small increase in the lending rates will push scores of over-leveraged homeowners into crisis; even though Bank of Canada governor Mark Carney is practically guaranteeing that those higher rates are coming.

«When you do outdoor events,» says Russell, who went to high school across the river on 98th Street and played sports on Governors Island's athletic fields as a kid, «you are expected, both contractually and on a personal level, to return the park in the same condition, if not better than, it was in when you first took it over.

In his most recent outlook, Bank of Canada governor Mark Carney hinted that Canada's recovery is improving more quickly than expected, and higher interest rates may be on their way soon.

In fact the experience of the past year, as the Deputy Governor noted recently, is that while growth seems to be turning out weaker than expected at the end of last year, underlying inflation seems to be turning out higher.

In 2017, more than 1,000 people attended 36 86 for an exciting lineup of Fortune 500 decision - makers, global tech titans and high - growth startup successes, such as AOL Cofounder Steve Case, Walmart CTO Jeremy King, Sen. Bill Frist, MD, Tennessee Governor Bill Haslam, FedEx CEO Fred Smith and more.

LONDON (AP)-- The pound jumped on Friday to reach its highest level against the dollar in nearly five years after the Bank of England's governor predicted an interest rate hike might come sooner than expected.

The Fed governor also made a comparison between the current unemployment and inflation rates with the 2004 - 07 period, when the US economy was near full employment and inflation was higher than 2 percent, thereby making the point that policymakers should hold on to the current federal funds rate and remain extremely cautious when it comes to raising it.

Canada wasn't the focus of the panel discussion the governor was participating in, but Carney did hint, in passing, that the BoC is willing to put up with higher than two per cent inflation in order to avoid hurting highly indebted Canadian households by raising interest rates too quickly.

While there are plenty of legitimate policy reasons that evangelicals might support Governor Romney, their willingness to overlook their desire for a coreligionist candidate may also have at least something to do with the fact that 24 % of them — higher than any other religious group — believe Obama is a Muslim, and even more are unaware (or unconvinced?)

That same month California governor Jerry Brown signed into law AB 2127, limiting middle and high school to two full - contact practices - each no more than 90 minutes long - per a week during the 30 day period before the regular season and during the regular season itself, and banning off - season contact practices completely.

«He won't get any numbers higher than the former Madam who used to provide prostitutes to Eliot Spitzer, who's also running for governor.

As teachers returned today to a high school where a shooter killed 17 people, Florida's governor, Republican Rick Scott, proposed banning the sale of firearms to anyone younger than 21 as part of a three - point plan to prevent gun violence.

Incredibly, the governor's 2016 Executive Budget Capital Financial plan forecasts that the state's outstanding debt in 2019 will be $ 517 million higher than was projected less than a year ago in the 2015 enacted budget capital plan, before the windfall materialized.

More than a decade after the state's highest court ordered New York lawmakers to spend billions of dollars more a year on schools, Governor Cuomo and his top aides are moving further away from ever fulfilling the order, say critics.

Trump, addressing a bipartisan group of more than 30 governors at the White House, said securing the nation's schools following the Feb. 14 shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla. remains a top priority for his administration.

The governor says while New York spends more per student than any state in the nation, high school graduation rates ranks at number 38 in the country.

He said, for instance, that it's great that Cuomo wants to extend the extra tax on millionaires, but he'd like to see the governor go further and agree to a plan by Assembly Democrats to add higher tax brackets for those making more than $ 5 million and $ 10 million, topping out at $ 100 million.

Governor Andrew Cuomo says outflows are higher than they were this time last year, but it's not enough.

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo Monday announced more than $ 35 million in grants for capital projects at higher education institutions across the state.

Cuomo has a 64 - 16 percent job approval rating, which is higher than any other governor in any state where the Q poll has conducted surveys so far this year.

Bharara had Cuomo in his crosshairs, after indictments pierced the highest echelons of the governor's world, including his enforcer and right - hand - man, Joe Percoco, who was charged with taking more than $ 300,000 in bribes.

The poll finds the governor's popularity has dropped to 64 percent — still higher than most politicians in the country — but an eight point slide from a 72 percent approval rating in December.

ALBANY — Governor Andrew Cuomo argued Wednesday that a state - funding mechanism for pre-kindergarten is more equitable for districts across the state than a competing proposal from New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio to fund his program with a tax on the city's highest earners.

The Governor has proposed allocating $ 300 million for the State's Environmental Protection Fund — the highest amount ever for the fund and more than double the fund's level when the Governor first took office.

Under the governor's budget proposal, two of the top items on his wish list — covering state college tuition for hundreds of thousands of low - and middle - income New Yorkers, and a package of tax cuts aimed at the middle class — would be made possible in part by a three - year extension of a higher tax on people who make more than $ 1 million a year, another policy favored by liberals.

Two polls in upstate Congressional Districts conducted just before the primary showed Hawkins at 12 % — higher than third party candidate Jessie Ventura was when he was allowed to debate and ended up being elected Governor of Minnesota.

He is underfunded, and has less than $ 3 million dollars, compared to Governor Cuomo's high point of $ 35 million dollars earlier this year.

One suspects that if it were a stronger part of MTA culture, riders — rather than unions or bureaucrats or governors — would be higher on the priority list.

But Paterson apparently isn't planning to challenge the Legislature to do anything truly difficult, like reopen this year's budget, the one in which the governor went along with an increase in state spending higher than the rate of inflation.

This rate is a higher turnout than the 2010 general election that first put Walker in place as Governor, but not as high as the 69.2 percent turnout in the 2008 Presidential election.

Many Democrats believe that Cuomo, who is widely disliked in high - level party circles, could be beaten in the 2018 primary by a more popular vote - getter than Zephyr Teachout, the little - known and virtually unfunded leftist Fordham law professor who received a remarkable 34 percent against the governor in 2014.

The governor's office estimates the Excelsior program would bring new students into higher education, and that fewer than 2 percent would be transfers from private institutions.

McMahon, a former aide in the administration of former GOP Governor George Pataki, has been a long time advocate of lowering New York's spending and taxes, which are higher than most other states.

«While we believe the state Legislature will view an increase to more than $ 13 as a non-starter, we will continue to push for the aggressive proposal the governor outlined last month that also accounts for the higher cost of living that workers experience in New York City.»

Cuomo's job approval rating is 63 - 28, which is higher than the current scores of any governor in all nine of the states where Quinnipiac polls.

During a news conference at Glens Falls Hospital Wednesday, Governor Andrew Cuomo said that the environment is one of the factors they'll look at, as they study why Warren County and three other regions of the state have higher cancer rates than the rest.

Senators and state governors receive slightly higher honesty ratings than members of Congress do, as is typical.

Both proposals are more than Gov. Andrew Cuomo's plan of a $ 1.1 billion spending hike for education aid, with much of that money tied to approving the governor's policy proposals, including bonus pay for high - performing teachers and a strengthening of charter schools.

«Governor Cuomo crafted and got passed a progressive taxation plan that included taxes on such high - earners rather than just allowing the Millionaires tax to expire,» wrote then - Director of Communications Richard Bamberger.

Former Utah governor and 2012 presidential candidate Jon Huntsman Jr. has been chosen by Trump to be the U.S. ambassador to Russia — a high - profile post at a time when relations between the two nations have become even more complicated and political than usual.

McDonnell was convicted in September of trading access to the power of the governor's office for more than $ 165,000 in loans and high - end gifts.

«With a tax plan where the ultra-rich continue to get tax breaks, I pay a higher percentage of my salary in income taxes than the governor does and I don't make anywhere near what he does,» Newell said.

While we believe the State Legislature will view an increase to more than $ 13 as a non-starter, we will continue to push for the aggressive proposal the Governor outlined last month that also accounts for the higher cost of living that workers experience in New York City,» Ms. DeRosa said.

A spokesman for Governor Cuomo says New York «spends three times as much per pupil in high needs districts than it does on low needs districts, and that funding has only increased over the past four years».

ALBANY, N.Y. (CBSNewYork / AP)-- With a new book, an appearance on David Letterman, high - profile trips overseas and a bigger campaign account than any other governor, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo might look like someone running for president.

But the governor says New Yorkers» anxiety level is higher than the probability of the deadly virus arriving here.

«While we believe the State Legislature will view an increase to more than $ 13 as a non-starter, we will continue to push for the aggressive proposal the Governor outlined last month that also accounts for the higher cost of living that workers experience in New York City,» DeRosa said in a statement.