Sentences with phrase «hour closed door meeting»

But after a four - hour closed door meeting with Republican senators, Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos said he has not decided to allow a vote in the Senate during this session, which is scheduled to end Monday.

Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos, who turned himself in to federal authorities on corruption charges Monday, will remain as the head of the Senate, his republican members announced after a more than three hour closed door meeting Monday night.

But the speaker, after a two - hour closed door meeting with his members, says there's a distinction between a pay - for - play type of deal, and mutual agreement on approving measures that all sides agree to.

Former Vice president, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar on Tuesday visited former military president, Ibrahim Badamosi Babangida (IBB) in his Minna mansion in Niger state, where the duo held more than two hours close door meeting.

Not exact matches

Zuckerberg, who is speaking with a handful of lawmakers before his congressional hearings over the next few days, spent more than an hour in a one - on - one, closed - door meeting with Nelson.

Their criminal record closed many doors for these women, their skills were often extremely limited, and the low - wage jobs they could get demanded so many hours to make ends meet that they were left with unsolvable childcare problems.

During the hour long meeting behind closed doors which was described as «cordial and clear», Justin Welby expressed gratitude for the government's efforts to protect the freedom of Christians in Israel.

«That one I think is pretty much agreed upon,» Heastie said after a hours - long closed - door Democratic meeting on Monday.

NYPD Commissioner Bill Bratton all but endorsed Hillary Clinton for president after he and several other law enforcement officials met with the Democratic presidential candidate Thursday behind closed doors in Manhattan for nearly two hours.

We still don't fully understand this bill and Republicans have been having close door meetings lasting 20 + hours.

After scheduled meetings were canceled by the governor three separate times, the family members finally got their wish, meeting with the governor behind closed doors for roughly and hour and a half.

After meeting with Gov. Andrew Cuomo for about an hour, Cardinal Timothy Dolan and his fellow bishops held a brief press conference to review their closed - door chat, while the governor himself remains behind closed doors.

The Senate was trying to take up at least a couple, but the measures need to go through many hours still of closed - door meetings by Senate Democrats, who have been cut out of the budget process and were seeing the actual budget bills for the first time.

The declaration came just hours before he convened legislative leaders in a closed - door meeting to detail plans to slash $ 10 billion in planned expenses, including aid to schools, hospitals and local governments.

State Senate leaders abruptly left a nearly two - hour, closed - door meeting with Cuomo, saying that unfortunately, they had nothing new to report.

Instead, after more than three hours behind closed doors on Tuesday with Duncan - Poitier, trustees resumed the public portion of the meeting without having nominated a candidate.

«We are discussing doing something before the first round of tests, which I think is April 3, so probably within the budget,» Silver told reporters after a two - hour meeting with Cuomo and Senate leaders behind closed doors.

The governor explained his shifts after an hour long meeting behind closed doors on an odd turf: Skelos» third - floor Capitol office.

Westchester County Executive Robert Astorino spent an hour behind closed doors with New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie and their wives at the Republican Governors Association meeting in Arizona.

ALBANY — John Flanagan will replace Dean Skelos as leader of the New York State Senate, Republican senators said Monday after a closed - door meeting that lasted more than two hours.

Mullins and his four counterparts at other city - based police unions met with the mayor behind closed doors for nearly three hours last week.

Flanagan emerged as the new leader after a three - hour, closed - door meeting with his Republicans colleagues.

The commission held a special two hour long closed door meeting, called just days after Governor Cuomo asked for an investigation of sexual harassment charges against Brooklyn Assemblyman Vito Lopez.

President Goodluck Jonathan held a closed door meeting and consultations with the governors from the South South for more than three hours over what sources say...

May 20: The school board, in an early - morning vote after meeting for hours behind closed doors, votes to seek a replacement for Superintendent Susan Johnson.

NYPD Commissioner Bill Bratton all but endorsed Clinton for president after he and several other law enforcement officials met with the Democratic presidential candidate yesterday behind closed doors in Manhattan for nearly two hours.

Embattled Albany watchdog JCOPE met for four hours — largely behind closed doors — amid controversy.

But Heastie, after a two - hour closed - door meeting with his members, said there's a distinction between a pay - for - play type of deal and mutual agreement on approving measures that all sides agree to.

Rank - and - file legislators knew little of the fiscal deliberations, which were conducted in closed - door meetings by Albany's so - called three men in a room — Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo and the leaders of the two legislative chambers — until just before 9 p.m. on Thursday, three hours before the official April 1 deadline.

Today's closed door meetings and political maneuverings come after lawmaker met for about five hours Monday to discuss leadership.

The GOP officials made the decision allowing the free - for - all after a three - hour closed - door meeting.

In a culture where lawmakers spend hours in closed - door meetings, and their activities out of the public eye are considered proprietary, Tester is a trailblazer bent on opening up the inner workings of his office.

Earlier Tuesday, state Assembly Democrats met in a closed - door conference but emerged two hours later without any kind of consensus.

But they emerged from a five - hour, closed - door meeting saying there was no consensus on who would succeed Silver, one of the most powerful politicians in New York for the past two decades.

ALBANY — Three weeks after it was given results of an investigation into how sexual harassment allegations against Assemblyman Vito Lopez were handled, members of the chamber's Ethics Committee spent two hours in a closed - door meeting.

«I told her to think of Staten Island as an incubator,» said Oddo after the nearly two - hour closed - door meeting.

Most had avoided speaking publicly after a closed door three - hour meeting Monday night, where the Republicans said they decided by a «strong consensus» to keep Skelos as leader of the Senate.

The meeting, which held at Concorde Hotel in Owerri, behind closed door and amidst tumultuous atmosphere from party faithful who had accompanied their leaders, lasted for about two hours and 30 minutes.

The New Orleans College Prep governing board — which operates Sylvanie Williams elementary in Central City and Walter L. Cohen High School — has decided to apply to run a third school, and took action on the application after a three - hour closed - door meeting that appears to have run afoul of the state's open - meetings laws, reports Joshua Johnston of The Lens.