Sentences with phrase «lawmakers proposed raising»

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The Appropriation Bill as passed was raised from N7.30 trillion proposed by the president to N7.44 trillion, indicating an increase of N143 billion by the lawmakers.

It stands to reason that NO ethics reform really has any teeth unless lawmakers and the governor are willing to have the big conversation, which is banning ALL outside income and making the Legislature full time — with a significant pay raise, as good government groups have proposed.

It would not preclude the legislature or County Executive Steve Bellone, who has voluntarily frozen his salary since taking office, from proposing raises as part of the budget, on which lawmakers would have to vote.

Cuomo this week will reportedly propose a commission to consider a pay raise for state lawmakers and agency heads.

One option that's floated around for those progressive issues is tying them to the proposed pay raise for state lawmakers.

Republican lawmakers on Capitol Hill, scrambling to reach agreement on a final tax bill that they hope to pass next week, are coalescing around a plan that would slightly raise the proposed corporate tax rate, lower the top rate on the richest Americans and scale back the existing mortgage interest deduction.

The revelations about Vance's fundraising have spurred several state lawmakers to propose changes to the way DAs raise campaign cash.

On Wednesday, Senate Democrats and IDC lawmakers sought to raise the gun control issue on the floor of the chamber, proposing a series of hostile amendments to other bills that were voted down on procedural grounds that Republicans voted down.

The special commission charged with proposing pay raises for state lawmakers appeared yesterday to be headed toward potential deadlock.

During his testimony, de Blasio raised several concerns about Cuomo's proposed $ 145 billion budget and pleaded with lawmakers to, among other things, reject the governor's attempt to claw back more than $ 600 million in savings from a recent debt refinancing and his call for the city to provide more per - pupil funding to charter schools.

Cuomo has proposed a pay raise commission that would consider granting members of the Legislature and the executive branch raises, but only if the raises were tied to reforms that include caps on legislator outside income and higher salaries for lawmakers who don't have other jobs and lower ones for those who do.

Hedges added that he believed the whole intention of having a commission calculate proposed raises is to remove lawmakers from taking a politically dangerous stance.

During this year's legislative session lawmakers used teacher assistants as political footballs, lobbing them back and forth as either a group deserving of losing their jobs — Senate budget writers proposed ridding the state of half of its TAs to pay for teacher raises — or, as the House and Governor Pat McCrory preferred, saving them from the chopping block.

But House lawmakers fought back hard, with Speaker Thom Tillis (R - Mecklenberg) teaming up with Gov. McCrory to propose a teacher pay raise of 5 percent and keeping all TA jobs intact.

Unlike McCrory's plan, House lawmakers also propose giving all other teachers an across - the - board pay raise of two percent, along with state employees.

* Bipartisan group of lawmakers is behind the letter * Japan's entry into trade talks has raised concern By Doug Palmer WASHINGTON, May 30 (Reuters)- Nearly 200 U.S. lawmakers have signed a letter urging President Barack Obama to insist on new rules against currency manipulation in a proposed trade agreement with Japan and 10 other countries in the Asia - Pacific region.