Sentences with phrase «job in the state assembly»

«John Flanagan has done a tremendous job representing his community as a senator and Mike Fitzpatrick has done a great job in the State Assembly,» LaValle said.

As for the idea that she might want to run for the state Senate seat in the future, «I'm focused on my job in the state Assembly, especially during this challenging time as we move to replace the speaker,» she said.

Not exact matches

While presenting the budget on the floor of the state House Assembly, on Thursday, Wike said the budget will consolidate and advance the state's investments in infrastructure, education, healthcare, and security, as well as in growing the economy to create jobs and empower the people.

He also served in the state Assembly before holding his current job running a county that is part New York City suburb and part country.

«If you can win the special, ultimately you have a better chance (in the general election)-- if in fact you follow through, you stick to your core principles, have integrity, and you do what's right and... are connecting with the constituents,» said state Sen. George Amedore, R - Rotterdam, who won a 2007 special election for the 105th Assembly District seat and retained the job with a win in the 2008 general.

Mr. Blake stressed that the new job passed the scrutiny of the Assembly's ethics committee, and vowed that he would not allow his work with the company to compromise his integrity in the State Legislature.

«Today, the state Assembly is poised to debate and vote on legislation (A. 6777) that only gets half the job done when it comes to ensuring parents are informed of their rights and protected if they choose to opt their children in grades 3 - 8 out of the controversial Common Core standardized tests.»

«Then he'll lay out all of those policy pieces that call for dollars in the budget and we'll get the specificity with that, but today is laying out what the condition of the state is and what his proposal is in order to remedy that and I think he did a good job with that,» said Crystal Peoples - Stokes (D) Assembly — Buffalo.

Freeman left the city to work for the state Office of Temporary Disability Assistance but now says he's headed to a job in the Assembly.

When it comes to the New York State Assembly, 26 % think it is doing either an excellent — 2 % — or good — 24 % — job in office.

The father and son are accused of using Dean Skelos» influence as one of the three most powerful elected officials in the state — alongside the Assembly speaker and governor — to pressure companies into giving Adam jobs for which he either wasn't qualified or just didn't do.

The Empire State Music Production Tax Credit, which proponents believe will attract more music production jobs across New York State, passed in both the Assembly and Senate on Thursday in Albany.

«The comptroller was in the New York State legislature and sat in that Assembly, as did members of the western delegation for many, many years, where New York and upstate and Buffalo hemorrhaged jobs,» he said.

The Empire State Music Production Tax Credit, which proponents believe will attract more music production jobs across New York, passed in both the Assembly and Senate.

Cuomo, in Buffalo to tout insurance company Geico's decision to expand in the area and bring 600 jobs — which comes with a state investment — lashed out at the Legislature after Assembly lawmakers held a hearing that took a critical view of his administration's economic development programs.

Bill Nojay has three jobs — radio talk show host, attorney and chief operating officer of Detroit's bus system — and is running for a fourth in the state Assembly.

The state Assembly released a list Saturday of applicants for the state's top law enforcement job following Schneiderman's resignation last week in the wake of allegations that he physically and psychologically abused four women.

Secondary jobs held by state legislators have come under increased scrutiny in recent years after the arrests of former Senate majority leader Joe Bruno, former Assembly speaker Sheldon Silver, Senator Carl Kruger and Assemblyman Anthony Seminerio on charges related to their outside income.

James, a licensed attorney with a law degree from Howard University, wanted her fellow pols to call Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie (D - The Bronx) and tell him they back her for the job of top law - enforcer in the state, sources said.

In court documents unsealed Friday the U.S. attorney accused the former speaker of having two affairs, one with former communications director who ran one of Albany's highest earning lobbying firms, another with a former assemblywoman who received state jobs in agencies controlled by Silver and Assembly DemocratIn court documents unsealed Friday the U.S. attorney accused the former speaker of having two affairs, one with former communications director who ran one of Albany's highest earning lobbying firms, another with a former assemblywoman who received state jobs in agencies controlled by Silver and Assembly Democratin agencies controlled by Silver and Assembly Democrats.

In 1979, when I became the director of Assembly Speaker Stanley Fink's Program Development Group, we began a research and policy development project aimed at reforming the state's Job Incentive Program.

The chairman of the State Assembly Energy Committee has asked both Dynegy executives and the leadership of IBEW Local 320 to resume negotiations and enter into at least a temporary agreement to return workers to the job at the Danskammer and Roseton electric generating plants in the Town of Newburgh.

By the time the state budget was voted on, Heastie, the 47 - year - old accountant and former budget analyst from the Bronx, elected to the Assembly in 2000, had been in his new job for less than two months.

We will continue to work with the Governor, Senate and Assembly, as well as other pro-business organizations, to encourage investment, create jobs and lower the cost of living in New York State.»

The former top ethics officer for the New York State Assembly said she wasted her time in the job because the leadership wasn't serious about reform.

In the Assembly, Brindisi led and was victorious in his fights to increase educational funding to lower income school districts in the state, bolster apprenticeship programs, increase job training, and bring high tech manufacturing and economic development to the Mohawk Valley regioIn the Assembly, Brindisi led and was victorious in his fights to increase educational funding to lower income school districts in the state, bolster apprenticeship programs, increase job training, and bring high tech manufacturing and economic development to the Mohawk Valley regioin his fights to increase educational funding to lower income school districts in the state, bolster apprenticeship programs, increase job training, and bring high tech manufacturing and economic development to the Mohawk Valley regioin the state, bolster apprenticeship programs, increase job training, and bring high tech manufacturing and economic development to the Mohawk Valley region.

The bill's lead Assembly sponsor, state Rep. Dana Wachs, agrees in a statement attributed to the Eau Claire Democrat, saying: «We must focus on creating jobs for others, not ourselves.»

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The state Assembly is set to vote next week on a bill that pits the promise of hundreds of jobs against worries an iron ore mine would despoil a pristine area in northern Wisconsin near Lake Superior.

Syracuse, N.Y. — In Onondaga County's most - contested race for state Assembly, one candidate has been accused of sending jobs to China and the other of funneling $ 700,000 in taxpayer money to his employeIn Onondaga County's most - contested race for state Assembly, one candidate has been accused of sending jobs to China and the other of funneling $ 700,000 in taxpayer money to his employein taxpayer money to his employer.

Cohen left the state Assembly in 2005 and took a $ 150,000 - per - year job at the Health Insurance Plan of Greater New York, where he is no longer employed.

On Monday night, spokesmen for the union representing the majority of workers at the Remington Arms plant in Ilion went to Albany to lobby legislators over the potential impact on jobs before the legislation was passed by the New York state Assembly on Tuesday.

On Monday, federal prosecutors in Mr. Silver's corruption trial turned to a relatively obscure staff member on the Assembly Ways and Means Committee whose title seemed as bland as the job he held — deputy budget director for budget studies — to open a window into the seemingly impenetrable world of state finances that Mr. Silver controlled.

Republican state Assembly Minority Leader Brian Kolb says taking these food containers out of New York City takes jobs out of his Finger Lakes region in upstate New York.

Service in the state Assembly and Senate is technically a part - time job, and the state's 211 lawmakers hold a variety of outside occupations — as pharmacists or lawyers, actors or landlords.

The Skelos case featured allegations that the former state Senate majority leader had pressured Glenwood into giving his son, Adam, a job, while Silver's case detailed how the former Assembly speaker directed Glenwood to real estate tax law firm Goldberg & Iryami — only for the law firm to quietly direct $ 700,000 in referral fees to Silver.

Reacting to the judgment, counsel for the Speaker, House of Assembly and the clerk, Chief Mike Ozekhome (SAN), said the judgment had made it clear «that the EFCC is not an omnibus, rampaging policeman or guardian agent that monitors state's finances, receipts, expenditure and use of state finances and that, that is the job of the state House of Assembly in line with the doctrine of the separation of powers, horizontally and vertically.

All of those failed candidates, three Republicans and a Democrat, are still members of the state Assembly, with the exception of Scozzafava, who passed up a re-election bid in 2010 to take a job with the Cuomo adminsitration.

A bill that would put $ 25 million in state money into Wisconsin startups passed its first hurdle with approval from an Assembly committee Friday despite a recent audit that found a number of problems at the jobs - creation agency that would oversee the money.

He says he wants to run for Assembly because New York has «high taxes, a lack of good jobs and a terrible business environment» and he feels the Democratic majority in both the Assembly and the state Senate primarily represent the interests of New York City interests, and Long Island interests need to be better represented.

Canvassers will talk to thousands of New Yorkers in State Senate and Assembly districts in Saratoga, Troy, Syracuse, Buffalo, Niagara Falls, Yonkers, Poughkeepsie, Newburgh, New York City and Long Island about how extending the additional income tax surcharge on the state's highest earners could prevent more drastic budget cuts, and create opportunities to invest in job creation and infrastructure in New York SState Senate and Assembly districts in Saratoga, Troy, Syracuse, Buffalo, Niagara Falls, Yonkers, Poughkeepsie, Newburgh, New York City and Long Island about how extending the additional income tax surcharge on the state's highest earners could prevent more drastic budget cuts, and create opportunities to invest in job creation and infrastructure in New York Sstate's highest earners could prevent more drastic budget cuts, and create opportunities to invest in job creation and infrastructure in New York StateState.

Former New York Assembly speaker Sheldon Silver (D) had an extramarital affair with one woman who lobbied him about state business and another whom he recommended for a job, then tried to hide the relationships while giving his mistresses preferential access and treatment, prosecutors alleged in court documents unsealed Friday.

Manhattan Democratic Party Chairman Keith Wright, who abdicated his Assembly seat last year to unsuccessfully pursue retired Congressman Charles Rangel «s job in Washington, confirmed over the weekend that he is interested in returning to Albany — by running for the position of Harlem State Senator Bill Perkins, who is expected to win a special election to fill the City Council vacancy created when Assemblywoman Inez Dickens left her local post to assume Wright's old role in the State Legislature.

Taking one million people off welfare and putting them into jobs, in a state where the Democrats control the state assembly.

Delegates to the 52nd annual Wyoming Education Assembly have unanimously approved a resolution asking the state to prohibit public - school students from holding jobs that require them to work during the school day, except in the context of the school curriculum.

On another front, legislation introduced in the state Assembly proposes a pilot program to encourage African - American, Hispanic and Asian men to leave their private - sector jobs, earn alternate - route certification and teach in disadvantaged school districts.

Overton took issue with the argument from some lawmakers in the General Assembly who say that districts simply need to do a better job managing the funds they have been allocated by the state.

FCA told the state that the 700 jobs at Sterling Heights Assembly would be in addition to the current work force.

The job listing states that they are looking for someone with «Proficiency in Unreal», as well as «Proficiency in optimizing ARM assembly.»

The company was also awarded approximately $ 106 million for its Hamtramck assembly plant in state credits to retain jobs.