Sentences with phrase «important budget vote»

«I'm Not a Perfect Man,» said Latimer, when Astorino raised the issue of his skipping an important budget vote in the Senate last April to go on vacation in London.

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Tuesday vote was taken hard in Canada where development of the oil sands is important to Alberta's budget.
The absence of a deal on harmonized sales tax (HST) compensation — a long - festering source of tension between Ottawa and Quebec — seems to be the most important reason why the Bloc Quebecois 49 MPs plan to vote against the federal budget.
When regional and national assemblies meet to establish budgets, elect officers and vote on pronouncements, they are also doing something far more important: they are reasserting (and reinterpreting) their denominational culture.
Even if the IDC + Felder cabal vote against this budget, they still facilitate the gutting of important protections and funding that state desperately needs.
Mr. Bellone joined Legislator Bridget Fleming, Suffolk Presiding Officer DuWayne Gregory, Matt Cohen, vice president of the Long Island Association, Laureen Harris, president of the Association for a Better Long Island, Gina Coletti, co-chairwoman of the Suffolk County Alliance of Chambers, and small - business owners in Hauppauge yesterday to announce his opposition to the plan, which took an important step toward passage on Tuesday when the Senate Budget Committee voted along party lines to approve it.
«Our budget vote is an important part of the governance of schools».
Some may find it a bit hypocritical for Latimer, a Roman Catholic as is his wife and girlfriend, to raise concerns that Senate leadership did something wrong by scheduling a budget vote on one of the most important days in the Roman Catholic calendar when he left his wife back in New York to attend mass by herself while he was on vacation in Europe with another woman.
The vote marks an important step toward securing funding for the Great Lakes cleanup program in the federal budget for the next fiscal year.
It remains to be seen whether the amendment will be put to a vote on Tuesday, but the rebellion is an important reflection of the wider unease felt by Lib Dem activists over the Budget.
Only hours before a highly important vote on the new, $ 41.3 billion state budget, Gov. Dannel P. Malloy raised major questions about potential problems with the language on hospital financing.
On Monday, the governor took an important step toward addressing that problem by announcing a 30 - day budget amendment to fund voting reforms, including early voting across the state.
A month ago the Government was defeated in a vote on the floor of the House of Commons on a very important issue — the question of the level of the EU budget.
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