Sentences with phrase «last budget extender»
Paterson tried to force the tax cap issue by including it in his last budget extender bill, (much to the pleasure of both AG Andrew Cuomo, who is also a cap supporter; and Long Island Democratic Sen. Craig Johnson), which theoretically would have made the Legislature choose between accepting an unpopular (at least among Assembly Democrats and the teachers» unions) policy proposal and shutting down the government.
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In the interview, DeFreancisco indicated Cuomo himself had already started hedging on an on - time budget at the beginning of last week when he suggested the state may have to pass a temporary extender measure to fund the governor.
Last week, Paterson sent a bill separate from budget extender to the Legislature that would have provided him with power to furlough state workers.
After passing the controversial furlough budget extender last night, Assembly members from both sides of the aisle gathered with former colleagues for a little R - n - R in the form of the annual reunions known as the Pilots and Rudders dinners.
New York State Sen. Roy McDonald, R - Saratoga, defended the industry last week on the Senate floor as the Democratic majority shot down his second attempt to amend an emergency budget extender bill to include funds for NYRA.
For the first time yesterday, Cuomo talked at length about the new paradigm created by the creative use of extender bills by his predecessor, David Paterson, during last year's budget battle.
«One of the main aspects of this budget is tax policy, and this tax policy in this budget does two things,» Cuomo said, referring to the millionaire tax extender and the additional «middle class» tax cuts enacted last spring a start of the FY 2017 budget.
Cuomo has made it clear he won't be providing any messages of necessity to circumvent the three - day aging requirement, and would not hesitate to force the Legislature to choose between passing his budget and a government shutdown by using the extender method employed with great success last year by then - Gov.
Things got ugly last night on the Senate floor during the debate over the latest round of budget extenders — here's Sen. John DeFrancisco referring to Democrats as «patsies.»
To that end, Paterson predicted state lawmakers will pass the budget extender he sent to them last week that includes furloughs for some 70 percent of the state workforce, and again attacked the unions for refusing to negotiate a deal to help close the $ 9.2 billion deficit.
Lawmakers in both the Republican - led Senate and Democratic - controlled Assembly over the last several budget years have grown increasingly concerned with the power Gov. Andrew Cuomo has threatened to use via the extender process.
ICYMI: Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver suggested during a CapTon interview last night that the Legislature won't stand for this new budget dynamic in which the governor holds all the cards thanks to the extender bills method pioneered by former Gov. David Paterson.
This is getting to be like the budget last year,» said Sen. Adriano Espaillat who voted against the first extender but voted for the one on Friday.
The raise the age issue was a key policy concern for Heastie to have accomplished in the state budget, and Cuomo last week indicated he was satisfied with the passage of a budget extender bill that funded the government until May 31, but did not include the juvenile justice reform.
The former governor, who had pushed a 4 percent limit on annual property tax increases in his last year as governor, had inserted the provision in an emergency budget extender.
As pioneered by his predecessor, Gov. David Paterson, Cuomo reiterated last night that he would use his budget extenders to pass large swaths of his preferred budget or have the Legislature risk a government shutdown.
The Senate and Assembly have jointly rejected the governor's extender bills, which, as I understood it, sought to amend the amended budget bills the Legislature submitted last week.
He lauded Paterson for pushing the property tax cap in his last round of budget extenders (which the Legislature refused to accept both last night and this morning), while also noting that the cap he has proposed is more stringent than the governor's.
The first was the inclusion of up to $ 32 million in last week's budget extender, part of $ 16.4 billion in economic development funding statewide.
Paterson said last week that if a final budget plan isn't settled this week, he'll put the remainder of his budget proposal into the extender to be passed on Monday, June 28.
Last week, the governor imposed a budget «extender» to the end of May.
The length of the governor's emergency plan also troubled school advocates, who said that the extender, which effectively freezes funding at last year's levels, added a troubling wrinkle to the budgeting process of districts.
«So despite the fact that everyone knew furloughs (for state workers) were going to be in the budget extender this week, there were no three - way leaders» meetings in the last week?