Sentences with phrase «job of assembly members»
It is the job of Assembly members to hold the mayor to account.
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That is the reason I wrote the members of the New York Senate and Assembly to join legislators from Kansas, Georgia, North Carolina, Washington and Wisconsin by sponsoring the New York Jump - Start Our Business Start - ups (NY JOBS) Act to help local small businesses raise capital through Equity crowdfunding!
In addition, the Democrats lost two members of their conference: Mark Schroeder's seat (145th AD) out in Western NY up for grabs, as the WNY Democrat (and thorn in Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver's side) stepped down to run for Buffalo comptroller; and Republican - turned - Democrat Mike Spano (93rd AD) will be giving up his seat to start his new job as mayor of Yonkers.
«I had a great relationship with the governor... and Speaker Shelly Silver really does an outstanding job, whether anybody relates or not to his politics, he does an outstanding job of leading the Democrat - controlled Assembly, which is not an easy task because there are so many members in that conference.»
Heastie joked during my last interview with him that pretty much every member of the conference wanted the job, though Assembly Health Committee Chair Dick Gottfried, the longest - serving member of the Assembly, insisted that he's perfectly happy where he has been for the past 30 years.
Assembly Members of all parties now need to get down to the job of law - making in the most efficient and effective manner to deliver for the people of Wales.
He said, regardless, Cuomo should have to answer as to why he appointed Hoyt to a state job with a six - figure salary, when he had previously had inappropriate relations with an intern as a member of the Assembly.
Mr Robinson, who remains a member of the Northern Ireland assembly and first minister, said: «I have a job to do and I have a mandate with my position in the assembly».
«It's impossible, absolutely impossible, for a member of the Assembly to do his or her job and to go out, make laws, deal with people, do the job that a person in the Assembly does and not have some form of conflict of interest,» he said.
While the job of New York state senator and assembly member is technically considered part - time, Valesky points out that Congress does severely limit outside income for its senators and representatives.
This will be a discussion now and the Assembly members will be, once again, on the hot seat for controlling the membership of the Regents And, not fer nuthin», they haven't done such a great job so far so maybe it is time to look at the structure in NYS.
«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.
Brindisi, a three - term state Assembly member, said he plans to run a campaign focused on the future of Upstate New York, particularly jobs and the economy, healthcare and education.
Cuomo, speaking to a large assembly of media Monday morning following a jobs announcement at the University at Buffalo's South Campus, admitted there were conversations between his office and commission members.
In 2015, Mr. Silver's lawyers argued his actions were not illegal, and that it was «absolutely impossible» for any Assembly member to do his or her job without «some form of conflict of interest.»
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.
«I commend NYC Parks, Assembly member Markey, all the members of the World's Fair Anniversary Committee and all of the festival's sponsors for doing such an outstanding job of organizing such a wonderful event.»
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.
Woodson is a former member of the Tennessee General Assembly, first serving in the House, then moving on to the Senate, where she served as Chair of the Education Committee and later as Speaker Pro Tem, the number two job in that body.
That's because members of the State Board of Education are expected to vote on a state official's recommendation to award the job to Achievement for All Children (AAC), a Charlotte - based organization with very limited experience and very deep ties to the North Carolina General Assembly, the state's burgeoning charter school movement and a powerful school choice lobbyist.
According to Gary Walkowicz, a member of the bargaining committee at Ford's Dearborn Assembly plant, freezing entry - level wages would erode the quality of life for workers, and flattening the skilled - trade classifications would make it easier for Ford to make future job cuts.
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