Sentences with phrase «lawmakers receiving a raise»

Any amount would need to be approved by at least one of Gov. Andrew Cuomo's three appointees to the commission, and several of them expressed skepticism about lawmakers receiving any raise at all.

Lifton was another one of those who responded in full, and in an interview made a strong case for lawmakers receiving a raise.

Assembly member Barbara Lifton, seen here at an Assembly hearing in 2013, made a strong case for lawmakers receiving a raise in a recent interview.

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State lawmakers have not received a salary increase since 1999, and now an Albany commission is considering a proposal to raise their pay by up to 47 %.

Niccoli and a group of fellow Democratic candidates have penned separate letters to members of the state Commission on Legislative, Judicial and Executive Compensation urging them not to bump the current $ 79,500 base salary of state lawmakers, who haven't received a raise in roughly 17 years.

Speaker Heastie and other lawmakers are wary of a quid pro quo deal that might make it look like legislators are voting for certain bills in order to receive direct monetary gain, in the form of a raise.

It must make its decision by mid November, and lawmakers would then have the final say on whether they actually will receive a raise — if they so choose.

Political horse - trading led to a deal that set up a panel that is currently considering whether or not state lawmakers should receive a raise.

And, the Governor says, a pay raise for the governor, his staff and state lawmakers is in the works, in the form of a pay commission that would decide whether they should receive a salary increase for the first time in nearly 20 years.

Lawmakers speaking privately and on background say they back Silver, though many fear this could hurt their chances of receiving a legislative pay raise later in the year — a prospect that was already deeply opposed by voters.

Lawmakers last received a pay raise in 1999, while many earn more from legislative leadership stipends.

On Monday, the New York Post reported that Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver (D — Manhattan) announced support for state lawmakers raising their salaries, which are now set at a base of $ 79,500 - a-year, with many receiving stipends for chairing or serving on committees, which takes them up to an average between $ 90,00 to $ 100,000 per year.

And not surprisingly, there is widespread opposition to a pay raise for state lawmakers: 63 percent of those polled do not believe the Senate and Assembly should receive their first salary increase since 1998.

A Hofstra adjunct history professor and political reform and civic education non-profit founder is suing a state commission considering whether lawmakers and top executive chamber staff should receive raises, calling the panel's powers unconstitutional.

There's also little desire among voters to see lawmakers receive a pay bump from their base $ 79,500, with opposition to the proposal registering at 55 percent to 42 percent (pay raises for lawmakers and cabinet officials is now before a panel that could decide on salary increases at the end of this year).

Heastie and other lawmakers are wary of a quid pro quo deal that might make it look like legislators are voting for certain bills in order to receive direct monetary gain in the form of a raise.

The proposal, subject to state lawmakers» approval, would also raise teacher retirement ages for new hires and eliminate a $ 12,000 yearly payment received by many current police and fire department retirees.

The Legislature last received a raise in 1999, when lawmakers cut a deal with then - Gov.

He says lawmakers have not received a pay raise in 18 years, that came as a result of a larger political deal.

NEW YORK, N.Y. — Members of a commission tasked with determining legislative salaries decided Tuesday that state lawmakers will not receive a raise despite nearly two decades without one.

Lawmakers have not received a pay raise in a dozen years, and they are eager to approve one after this fall's election, giving Mr. Cuomo another «point of mutuality.»

Republican lawmakers in the U.S. House of Representatives are raising objections to a U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) plan to lift a 1983 ban on Libyan nationals receiving pilot training or studying nuclear science in the United States.

While Iowa lawmakers raised per - pupil funding for schools, widespread declines in enrollment mean that most of the Hawkeye State's school districts will receive few of those new dollars.

The statewide private school voucher program — which is for students outside of Milwaukee and Racine — will expand after lawmakers raised the household income limits for families to be eligible to receive a voucher.

Indiana lawmakers asked the board to re-open the lengthy rulemaking process in April, months before the release of emails from former state superintendent Tony Bennett «s time in office raised concerns about how schools received their grades in 2012.