Sentences with phrase «in budget battles»

Thankfully, this is just the opening salvo in the budget battles, and Congress now has the opportunity to create a spending plan that will support families and children.

But now that Cuomo has successfully neutralized the two biggest players in budget battles past — GNHYA and SEIU 199 — he only has the teachers and public employee unions to deal with.

The «McPick 2» deal bridged the gap for a while, but this new value menu is a huge step forward in the budget battles.

AG Andrew Cuomo told reporters today that he is talking «on an ongoing basis» to «many of the parties» involved in the budget battle, giving «advice» and answering legal questions and generally «talking to everyone at every level.»

Rep. Louise Slaughter, who has never been one for mincing words, particularly when it comes to women's issues, likened Republican efforts to limit access to abortion in the budget battle to «an old German Nazi move,» and accused her colleagues across the aisle of wanting to «kill women.»

The governor has so far declined to directly criticize the Senate GOP, no doubt recognizing he's going to need them as allies in the budget battle — particularly when it comes to his more conservative agenda items like the property tax cap.

Yes, the party did get Andrew Cuomo to accept its line and moved up from Row E to Row D as a result of his performance in the 2010 election, but there were a lot of strings attached to that agreement — not the least of which was the labor - backed party's silence in the budget battle over the millionaire's tax last year, which is something the WFP would normally be all over.

REBNY's Steve Spinola, who, as you'll recall, is playing a big role in the Committee to Save NY, which is backing Gov. Andrew Cuomo in the budget battle, told the Times that kind of swap would be «unacceptable,» adding:

«If you're going to be in a budget battle, you want to be with someone who can make points, who has relationships with legislators and can change minds and turn people toward public education.»

Now he's poised to potentially score additional victories in this budget battle --- most notably on a public campaign finance system, which Senate Republicans have repeatedly insisted they would not consider, but are now showing signs of considering.

With the state government deadlocked in a budget battle as the legislative calendar draws to a close, Mayor Noam Bramson is working with the four state representatives of New Rochelle in Albany to sneak through last minute legislation authorizing the City of New Rochelle to tear down the Naval Armory in New Rochelle.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo is covering all his bases in his effort to enlist New Yorkers in his budget battle.

The relationship between NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio and Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie has taken on new importance given the animosity between the mayor and the governor, with the city looking to the Bronx leader to protect its interests in the budget battle.

CSNY spent close to $ 10 million to support Cuomo in the budget battle (such as it was) earlier this year, and has pledged to raise and spend about the same in 2012.

Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie is seeking middle ground in the budget battle between Cuomo and de Blasio.

Rep. Jason Rojas, the House chairman of the finance, revenue and bonding committee, said lawmakers are looking to restore cuts in education funding, municipal aid and the popular Medicare Savings Program that has figured in a budget battle between the legislature and Malloy.

Education aid cuts — both in K - 12 and SUNY / CUNY — could be a sticking point in the budget battle, however.

The CSNY spent about half of the $ 10 million is raised to help Cuomo in the budget battle, which turned out to be fairly one - sided — thanks to the sidelining of SEIU 1199 and the GNYHA.

The padlocking of Thacher is the latest step in a budget battle that started in February, when Gov. David Paterson unveiled $ 11.3 million in proposed budget cuts that could close up to 91 of the state's 178 parks, and 14 of 35 historic sites.

From where those additional funds could come is unclear, especially at a time when lawmakers are still embroiled in a budget battle over how much to pay public school teachers — well past the hoped for end - of - session date of late June or early July.

CCSA's Government Affairs team in Sacramento is engaging daily in the budget battle and regularly meeting with budget staff and legislative leadership is an effort to ensure that all of K - 12 education is adequately funded, and that charter schools are treated equitably in all budget actions.

Meanwhile, T - Mobile isn't about to get left behind in the budget battle.

Not exact matches

The vote followed a long day of drama and discord on Capitol Hill that highlighted fraying Democratic unity and featured an uneasy alliance between President Barack Obama and House Speaker John Boehner, enemies in past budget battles but on the same side this time in pushing for passage.

This year's winners incorporated the advent of the information age and developed models of how markets can also respond to day - to - day and minute - by - minute information, such as the minutiae involved in the current budget battle and debt - ceiling talks in Congress.

Under McCall's charge, the budget airline beat its earnings target yet again in 2014, with profits of $ 957 million, up 28 %, and the stock price up 11 % even as competitors battled losses in a tough business environment.

They also have recent real - world examples to make their case: Tax cuts in Kansas made by Gov. Sam Brownback failed to deliver the expected boost, forcing the state into years of grueling budget battles and harsh spending cuts to make up the gap.

A few statehouse budget battles in recent months have been notable...

You need to laser focus your efforts on getting the right message in front of the right people at exactly the right time — an uphill battle on the best of days, to say nothing of how tricky things can become if you're on a budget.

The steep fall in 2012 - 2013 has many possible causes, including the heated presidential elections and the knockdown, drag - out budget battles that culminated in last year's government shutdown.

One of the casualties of the latest round of budget battles in Washington may be the U.S Commission on International Religious Freedom, which has from time to time done invaluable work in highlighting threats to this basic human right.

In last week's down - to - the - wire budget battle between the White House and Republican leaders, for example, it was a GOP effort to defund Planned Parenthood — a longtime enemy of Christian conservatives — that emerged as a final stumbling block.

Filmed entirely on location in Morocco on a relatively modest budget of $ 20m, major challenges included filming large - scale battle sequences using a stunt team, and recreating the fall of Jericho with powerful explosives.

in Monday's edition of Politico, the opening salvo in what the leaders say will be a broader campaign to prevent cuts for the poor and international aid programs amid the budget battle raging in Washington.

In spite of this startling statistic and the 40,000 children currently battling cancer nationwide, less than 4 % of the National Cancer Institute's $ 4.6 billion federal budget goes to pediatric cancer research.

Mazzarri himself is no stranger to struggle, particularly when coaching at then Serie A club Reggina, in which he produced some admirable results including battling a ten point deduction to secure safety on a limited budget.

We're unlikely to see him poring over dense regulations, struggling to meet an underfunded budget, lamenting the lack of a real school kitchen in which to cook and store food, dealing with a cafeteria too small to accommodate his students, competing with fast food outlets because of an open school campus, or, most importantly, battling an unyielding Congress for more school food funding.

Battling the interference of 658 MPs, plus Peers, press and Royalty; coaxing and soothing his collaborator Pugin; fending of the mad schemes of a host of crackpot inventors, including Dr Reid and his Ventilator, and assaults from the egos of countless busybodies intent on destroying his reputation and coming in three times over budget and 17 years behind schedule, Barry eventually succeeded — after countless setbacks and rows which contributed to his death in 1860.

Donohue has been very outspoken during this budget battle, issuing some memorable zingers directed at Gov. David Paterson in response to the governor's efforts to get the public employee unions to agree to concessions such as furloughs or a wage freeze that he says would help close the budget deficit.

Recall that during the furlough battle, Silver made it clear he felt the day - without - pay plan was unconstitutional, but then his house passed it anyway (they didn't really have a choice, since it was embedded in a budget extender).

Hence, the Committee to Save NY and his post-campaign appeals for ammunition in what is widely anticipated to be a bruising budget battle.

Keep in mind, the former governor wasn't trying to husband resources to do budget battle with the labor unions.

But Schneiderman also acknowledges he was hamstrung by the never - ending budget battle, which required him to be in Albany while all but one of his rivals worked donors and hit the campaign trail (Assemblyman Richard Brodsky was in the same boat).

Gov. Andrew Cuomo is under pressure from the left to call the election ASAP, but he has suggested the race won't be held until after the April 1 budget deadline, leaving the GOP in charge of the chamber for what is shaping up to be a difficult budget battle.

They were engaged in the unavoidable battles of politics, internal and external scheming, framing arguments to ensure wider support for a policy, preparing budgets that facilitated the urgently needed investment.

In fact, the senator told me he was not at all happy to see Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan predicting during an interview on WCNY's The Capitol Pressroom that Felder would be staying put, and also downplaying his obviously outsized role in determining the budget outcome — not to mention the battle over the majoritIn fact, the senator told me he was not at all happy to see Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan predicting during an interview on WCNY's The Capitol Pressroom that Felder would be staying put, and also downplaying his obviously outsized role in determining the budget outcome — not to mention the battle over the majoritin determining the budget outcome — not to mention the battle over the majority.

This is really a big win for unions (and they need one, considering the battle they're facing with Cuomo in the next budget cycle) and also for Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, who stood right next to DiNapoli early this morning during victory speech.

Sen. Charles Schumer (D - NY) is calling on the federal government to release the funding that was included in Congress» recently passed budget to battle the opioid epidemic.

Andrew also benefited from watching his father in office; he saw how badly he was hurt by those budget battles, by failing to set priorities, by resisting sacrificing in one area to gain in another.

While Democrats start behind in the vote in the second - tier districts, a balanced battle on the Ryan budget and tax cuts erodes the Republican advantage by two - thirds, getting Democrats to within 3 points in these districts.

Cuomo has also made it clear organized labor — particularly the public employee unions, but also the health care sector — will be in the crosshairs during the budget battle, so WFP isn't going to have the easiest time of it next year.