Sentences with phrase «lawmakers go along with it»

So why did the lawmakers go along with it?

In exchange, the governor's appointees on a pay commission said they were willing to approve a substantial salary increase, if lawmakers went along with Cuomo's proposal.

Not exact matches

An additional 109 among about 310 conservative lawmakers indicated reservations, although they went along with the vote.

Cuomo said he's optimistic state lawmakers will go along with the proposals, suggesting that they, too, find fundraising distasteful.

But the governor has not shown much interest in going along with that state lawmakers and good government groups are pushing on this issue in the way of the Buffalo Billion scandal — even though it touched his own inner circle — saying he would like to see an independent procurement officer that he would appoint, and not a restoration of pre-contract auditing power to the state comptroller's office.

It's unlikely Cuomo would go along with alterations to the cap, even as state lawmakers last year approved modest changes to the measure that allow for some growth in certain instances.

Even this year, when a number of lawmakers threatened to disrupt his annual State of the State address with protests over the governor's refusal to go along with legislative pay raises, Cuomo didn't plead with them or negotiate.

Four days later, an anonymous Cuomo aide was quoted in the Daily News saying that his appointees wouldn't go along with a raise unless lawmakers agreed to «offer real ethics reform.»

After Cuomo announced his intention to address everything from the grand jury process to police training and practices, the Senate Republicans made clear they would not be going along with any significant changes to a system that — at least according to Sen. Marty Golden, a Brooklyn lawmaker and former NYPD officer — «is not broken.»

Pataki was the last governor to achieve a budget reduction — which came in 1995 — before Cuomo was able to convince lawmakers to go along with his spending plan that aloso reduced spending.

Mr. Skelos is hardly alone: Other lawmakers in New York who have been charged along with their sons have also gone to trial, including Thomas W. Libous, who had been the second - highest ranking Republican in the State Senate until he was forced to resign after his conviction in July.

But Onondaga County Executive Joanie Mahoney isn't quite so quick to call for Skelos to go, and says she will go along with state lawmakers who have agreed to let Skelos keep his post.

Crafting a plan will be daunting enough, but convincing lawmakers from both parties to go along with it likely will prove even harder.

In the end, while the Senate might not go along with such a plan, there are some who don't see how lawmakers could just let the tax expire.

As promised, Gov. Mark Dayton vetoed the legislature's measure that would have conformed Minnesota's tax code with the new federal changes, because lawmakers wouldn't go along with his school funding plan.

While this could create a tight squeeze for lawmakers who are already considering bills that would spend much more than that amount, two key Assembly leaders signaled Thursday (Feb. 4) they will go along with the governor.

And would there be likely to be instances where a mistaken text led to such an accepted «wrong» understanding of the law that lawmakers have been compelled to go along with it once the error was discovered?