Sentences with phrase «issues as a state legislator»

In his closing remarks, Allison said that he feels that his time as a school district board member has prepared him to address education and other issues as a state legislator.

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PATS President John Moyer stated «With the recent elections, the main goal of the «Hike To Harrisburg» event was to thank those legislators who have been PATS supporters and to enlighten the freshman legislators about our Society, as well as, our role in concussion and sudden cardiac arrest management and other recent health care issues that we have supported.»

«It's outrageous that the chairman of the Democratic Party acts that way with Democratic candidates,» said Rick Montano, a former Suffolk legislator who had a similar issue with Schaffer as a State Senate nominee in 2012.

Antonacci asked the law department to address two main issues: The county charter appears to say that raises for county legislators should be voted on when the budget for that year is approved; and state Municipal Home Rule Law indicates that salary changes made during the term of an elected official, such as the county executive, should take the form of a local law, not a resolution as passed by the Legislature.

Gov. Andrew says he wants ethics reform as part of the budget or he will hold up the state's spending plan, while legislators say they want to negotiate the issue separately.

«Stripping pensions from legislators - as well as any state employee - convicted of a crime related to their public jobs is an issue that has the overwhelming support of New Yorkers,» Greenberg said.

Earlier this year, company officials took the unusual step of issuing a public statement as state legislators were discussing a proposal to increase taxes on some major corporations.

As a current Republican legislator states, «Now, people concentrate more on the issues, read the issues.

There has been speculation that the legislature would raise the minimum wage in a lame duck session after the November elections as part of a deal to raise state legislators and Commissioners salaries (an issue of concern to Cuomo).

As he makes his fourteenth appearance on the program, the legislator from the Bronx» 87th district will talk about how his district fared in the big snowfall, the anti-Muslim attack in his district, his proposed legislation to give voters a chance to recall their representatives, Bronx development issues, the state budget, and more.

Most legislators are convinced by Cuomo's efforts on paid family leave and they see the inclusion of it in his budget and the way he rolled out the issue in the State of the State as a sign of steadfast commitment.

«This is the real scandal in Albany, the alarming fact that state government has stood by and done nothing as generation after generation of students have passed through failing schools,» Cuomo said in a series of press releases he issued Thursday naming each failing school and the legislators whose districts they are located in.

At this meeting, which was also attended by assemblymen Pete Lopez and Kevin Cahill, as well as senators Seward and Bonacic, Turner said he learned that «legislators want state ed to fix the issue, or they will take the unprecedented step of creating education policy.

An important issue for the public as well as legislators, former United States Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood comments, «This special Journal of Adolescent Health supplement brings the important issue of driver distraction and young drivers into focus.

While FFF works to expand Jeb Bush's school reform agenda in Florida and other states, JMI issues positions and talking points to legislators and represents Florida as a member of the State Policy Network.

«They're the ones that have been able to define it as a civil rights issue, or as an issue to get poor kids better education,» said former Connecticut state legislator Jonathan Pelto, who's consulted for unions.

After serving a combined twenty - four years as governor, member of the U.S. House of Representatives, and state legislator, Gov. Wise has become a sought - after speaker and advisor on education issues as well as an advisor to the U.S. Department of Education, White House, and key policymakers in the U.S. Congress.

As legislators in Illinois and other states face similar dilemmas about who pays the costs of pension payments, they should keep in mind issues of fairness, equity, and transparency.

Rather than a being seen as an issue affecting students» education, pensions are often viewed as a budgetary dilemma for state legislators.

Federal and state legislators clashed over the bathroom issue in the summer of 2016 when a Texas judge blocked Obama administration guidelines that transgender students be allowed to use the school bathroom of the gender they identified as, regardless of their biology at birth.

Weeks before the legislative session the Humane Society of the United States was advised that a knee jerk reaction from certain legislators could negatively impact the bill and were asked to remain out of the issue as other national groups were doing.

Those legislators named during the vigil included state Reps. Dave Hickernell and Gordon Denlinger, who have described puppy mills as «an issue of farmland preservation».

Payne will work to increase awareness of VMFA's statewide contributions as she represents the museum before local, state and federal legislators and officials on issues that affect resources and support for the Museum's...

Payne will work to increase awareness of VMFA's statewide contributions as she represents the museum before local, state and federal legislators and officials on issues that affect resources and support for the Museum's mission.

The high cost of chronic disease is one of the most pressing issues facing the United States as legislators grapple with financial strains on Medicare and the larger issue of health - care reform, the researchers explained.