Sentences with phrase «lawmakers ended this year»

The state's legislative leaders announced their agreement a few hours before lawmakers ended this year's legislative session at midnight.

Connecticut lawmakers ended this year's legislative session at midnight Wednesday.

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That could prove a difficult task, as tax - writing committees have not yet introduced a bill and lawmakers face multiple other deadlines before the end of the year.

The price of the Angola 5 prosecution has figured prominently in an ongoing study of death penalty costs by a committee of Louisiana lawmakers, which is expected to conclude by the end of the year.

Also drawing the ire of lawmakers and pundits is the $ 125 million retirement payment going to Wells Fargo executive Carrie Tolstedt upon her retirement at the end of the year.

We've seen that before: The bill that averted a debt - ceiling crisis earlier this year — by temporarily suspending the borrowing limit — would have frozen Congressional pay if the House or Senate had failed to pass a budget by April 15 (lawmakers would have received their salaries anyway at the end of the current legislature).

WASHINGTON, Dec 5 - Republicans in U.S. House of Representatives began staking out their positions on final tax legislation on Tuesday, days ahead of talks with the Senate to shape the tax package lawmakers hope to send to President Donald Trump by year end.

WASHINGTON, Dec 5 (Reuters)- Republicans in U.S. House of Representatives began staking out their positions on final tax legislation on Tuesday, days ahead of talks with the Senate to shape the tax package lawmakers hope to send to President Donald Trump by year end.

In recent years, Tennessee and California lawmakers ended contracts and grants with Planned Parenthood, and Indiana Planned Parenthood employees were fired after Live Action videos were released.

Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki stated this in his welcome address read on the floor of the Senate yesterday as the lawmakers resumed plenary from the end - of - the - year break.

A pay commission appointed by the governor, state lawmakers and the judiciary will consider a pay increase at the end of this year.

Specifically, Cuomo - appointed commission members said lawmakers should back measures to limit or ban private - sector income in exchange for the pay hike, leaving open the possibility of another meeting before the end of the year.

The budget that year also ensured the end of the gap elimination adjustment for school funding, a concern Republican lawmakers had campaign on since it was put in place.

At the end of the day, during which rank - and - file lawmakers did a whole lot of not much, legislation was introduced just before midnight that included a two - year extension of NYC mayoral control as part of wide - ranging deal.

Republican Sen. - elect Jim Tedisco on Tuesday said lawmakers should resist reconvening this month at the Capitol for an end - of - year session of the Legislature.

Lawmakers will hope that the bandage they've slapped on the head wound doesn't bleed through too quickly, but few observers think the budget won't have to be re-jiggered before the end of the year.

She told lawmakers that she would like the appointment to stay in the post until the end of the year.

In recent times, the 700 - year - old chamber has been mired in conflict and embarrassment over an expenses scandal that ended the careers of dozens of lawmakers in the prelude to last year's general election.

Assembly Majority Leader Morelle says it's unlikely though that lawmakers would be open to restructuring state government in a «rushed» end of the year session.

Democratic lawmakers hope to put an end to their losing streak and retake the coveted Roll Call Cup from their Republican counterparts at this year's 14th annual First Tee Congressional Challenge.

Governor Cuomo and state lawmakers are still trying to put together a special session before the end of the year that could include a pay raise.

Notwithstanding Cuomo's suggestions to the contrary, there's no chance lawmakers will be called back to the Capitol before the end of the year to deal with the worsening fiscal problems.

Cuomo is trying to convince state lawmakers to return to the capital before the end of the year to hold a special session.

In Albany's own version of Groundhog Day, Gov. Andrew Cuomo and legislative leaders are still keeping open the possibility of a special session before the year ends that could include legalizing ride - sharing services statewide and a pay raise for lawmakers.

Greenberg says New Yorkers don't seem to be that interested in the process, they just want to see an end result, a crack down on rampant corruption that's led to multiple arrests, indictments, and imprisonments of state lawmakers in recent years.

During his confirmation hearing, he warned that if lawmakers don't do something about the capital plan gap by the end of the year, the agency might have to delay contracts for some projects.

Lawmakers voted in 2015 to extend mayoral control for one year, with an expiration date at the end of June.

Lawmakers in the Senate and Assembly have introduced legislation this year that ban confidential settlements while protecting the identity of the survivor and ending the use of taxpayer funds for settlements.

WAMC's Alan Chartock speaks with Ken Lovett of the New York Daily News about the end of the year and what it means for state lawmakers.

The New York legislature was closing down on an end - of - session deal that would strip convicted lawmakers of their pensions, extend mayoral control of New York City schools for one more year, and legalize daily fantasy sports gambling.

Any pay increase would likely have to be considered in a special session of the current lame - duck Legislature before the end of the year and newly elected lawmakers take their seats.

Two warring factions of Democratic lawmakers have agreed to reunite and end seven years of infighting, a significant political realignment that ends an arrangement that had helped give Republicans a foothold of power in Albany.

When lawmakers once again turned away from his proposals — including closure of the notorious LLC loophole — at the end of last year's legislative session, Cuomo told The New York Times that a convention seemed to be the only way to achieving them: «The people are going to have to do it.»

The mayor also urged lawmakers on Saturday to renew the state's so - called millionaire's tax, which is set to expire at the end of the year.

And with the Assembly passing a bill to extend both mayoral control and local sales taxes, and the Senate tying mayoral control to various charter school provisions, Cuomo was betting lawmakers would return toward the end of the year to meet a different deadline — the one to re-authorize local taxes before they expire.

While Governor Paterson has warned lawmakers that the state may not be able to pay its bills by the end of the year, the Legislature has spurned his attempts to slash education and health care.

Lawmakers are not happy with the idea that they might have to return later in the year to pass expiring tax extenders as well as deal with the mayoral control issue if it's allowed to expire at the end of the month.

In Albany's own version of Groundhog Day, Governor Andrew Cuomo and New York legislative leaders are still keeping open the possibility of a special session before the year ends that could include legalizing Uber statewide and a pay raise for lawmakers.

It's looking less and less likely that state Senators and Assemblymembers will get a pay raise as a holiday present this year, but Governor Andrew Cuomo and lawmakers still have a number of issues they need to resolve before the year ends, ranging from the siting of gambling casinos to how to close a Thruway deficit and whether to go ahead with hydro - fracking.

Cuomo could actually do an end - run around lawmakers as he did for fast food workers earlier this year when they received an increase.

Lawmakers approved a series of minimum wage increases in 2013, the last of which will take the wage to $ 9 at year's end.

The state legislature was closing in on an end - of - session deal that would strip convicted lawmakers of their pensions, extend mayoral control of New York City schools for one more year, and legalize daily fantasy sports gambling.

Among the many provisions in the bill: end outside employment for lawmakers, ban per diem limits and dramatically tighten campaign contribution limits, restrict contributions by lobbyists, create a public financing system, and provide for a substantial salary increase for legislators while extending their terms from two years to four years.

While there's still a last - minute dispute over school curricula, top lawmakers expect the budget will be passed before the state fiscal year ends on Saturday.

The legislative session ended with a thud earlier this month, as lawmakers settled on a budget plan that didn't have the dramatic policy changes and spending reductions Paterson was looking for to put the state on a more sound fiscal footing after he leaves office — and presumably politics — at the end of this year.

As the 2016 session of the Legislature wrapped up last week and came to a typically ugly end in the wee hours Saturday morning — with bleary - eyed lawmakers forced to vote on measures they didn't even have time to read — The Post asked several lawmakers, lobbyists and journalists to assess the first full year's performance of Democrat Heastie, a key ally of Mayor de Blasio, and Flanagan, the most powerful Republican in the state.

At the end of the legislative session last year, Cuomo was annoyed that lawmakers had rejected his ethics reform package, even after several lawmakers had been indicted, jailed, or found to be wearing wires in ongoing FBI probes.

City & State magazine published on Tuesday an op / ed from a former top aide to Gov. Andrew Cuomo that, in essence, issued a subtle warning to lawmakers who may want to hold up the budget process this month: Do so and risk a scuttling of a pay increase at the end of next year.

The lack of a pay raise at the end of the year led to hostilities between Cuomo and lawmakers — long below the surface — boiling over in public during the start of the year.

In addition, the report from the Hedge Clippers says that last year, as part of Cuomo's tax reform package, lawmakers ended the «corporate minimum tax,» which might «result in some very large corporations paying a minuscule amount of tax relative to the volume of business they conduct in New York.»