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Lawmakers have also been working on other measures, including devising a banking plan for the industry as well as voting against allowing cannabis businesses to deliver their products via drone.

WASHINGTON, Nov 29 - Congressional Republicans scrambled on Wednesday to reformulate their tax bill to satisfy lawmakers worried about how much it would balloon the U.S. budget deficit, as the measure moved toward a decisive U.S. Senate floor vote later this week.

Lawmakers prepared to hold a Tuesday vote on a short - term government funding measure to avoid a rerun of January's three - day partial shutdown.

Lawmakers like Representative Carlos Guillermo Smith, a Democrat from Orlando, voted against the bill because it did not include a ban on assault weapons or other broad measures sought by survivors of all the shootings.

But the IDC has formed a noticeably tight alliance with Senate Republicans on several key votes, including a measure that would prevent independent redistricting for another decade, further frustrating Democratic lawmakers.

Democratic lawmakers in the Senate and Assembly on Tuesday pushed for measures that would make it easier to vote in New York, bills that fell by the wayside during the budget talks.

Lawmakers spent a lot of time talking about meaty issues, including establishing a system of paid family and medical leave, reinstituting tolls on state highways and setting up new measures to address police accountability, but in the end, a lack of consensus scuttled chances for a vote.

One day after Governor Cuomo and legislative leaders announced major changes in the state's tax code, lawmakers, who are voting on the measure, are busy portraying the deal in the best possible light.

He said the measure didn't have anything to do with religion given the exemptions (which were crafted by Republican lawmakers in order to allow a vote on the bill in the chamber) and said it was really just another name for civil unions.

Lawmakers and Gov. Andrew Cuomo had agreed last year to an amendment, but the Democratic - led Assembly balked at a vote on the measure, which came with a broader agreement on the state budget.

Not receiving up or down votes on key measures has been a perennial concern for lawmakers in the minority of either chamber.

Senate Deputy Majority Leader John DeFrancisco (R - Syracuse), who sponsored the measure in the Senate, is also pushing for a vote in his chamber before lawmakers end their annual session on Thursday.

Lawmakers next week are expected to vote on a measure that would change the state's party primaries this year from Sept. 11 to Sept. 13, Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver said this afternoon.

The Senate could vote as early as Tuesday on expanded background checks for gun buyers — a centerpiece of broad gun legislation — but leading lawmakers said today that approval of the measure remained uncertain.

A spokesman for Stefanik told The Sun the lawmaker voted to support the legislation because the measure would «restore transparency to the process of developing stream buffer zones near mining activities and require the Secretary of the Interior to work on a comprehensive study aimed at protecting streams.»

The Associated Industries of Florida on Tuesday released a report measuring how closely Florida lawmakers» votes aligned with its interests.

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.

Bill sponsors insisted they had the votes available for a Friday vote on the measure, but the effort has been met with stiff resistance from racino operators, who spent much the day personally lobbying lawmakers in the Senate.

After more than 24 hours of sitting on the House floor, Democratic lawmakers ended their sit - in without managing to force a vote on gun control measures.

Senate Republicans were deeply torn on the issue, but ultimately approved the measure (the political calculation hinged on having all Republicans vote for the bill out of solidarity, making attacks on the measure's approval for an individual lawmaker all the harder).

Senate GOP lawmakers have held votes on various aspects of the legislation, but have balked at a measure designed to codify Roe v. Wade.

A coalition of 62 Democratic lawmakers are calling on GOP House leaders to vote on a disaster relief measure that has already sailed through the Senate.

The revised health care legislation is facing a battery of skeptical lawmakers as the GOP leadership in the Senate seek a vote on the measure in the coming weeks.

Lawmakers at the Capitol during the afternoon said they expected to vote on the measures Thursday, though Heastie indicated he had not told members whether they will stay in Albany through the rest of the week.

One of the biggest legislative battles of Mayor Kathy Sheehan's first term looms today as city lawmakers are expected to vote on whether to scrap Albany's brand - new trash fee on small apartment buildings — a measure Sheehan has vowed to veto.

Horner says both Republicans and Democrats do support ending pensions for lawmakers convicted of felonies, and they will have an opportunity to take a final vote on that measure in 2017.

The IDC has formed a noticeably tight alliance with Senate Republicans on several key votes, including a measure that would prevent independent redistricting for another decade, further frustrating Democratic lawmakers.

This year for instance, Governor Cuomo and lawmakers included a phased in hike of the state's minimum wage in the spending plan, rather than vote on the measure on it's own merits, Mahoney said.

Richard Azzopardi, a spokesman for Cuomo, a Democrat, said the governor proposed a slew of measures this year, including bans on outside income of lawmakers and top officials, creating a chief procurement officer, the LLC loophole closing and enacting early voting.

Democratic lawmakers in the state Senate this past week tried pushing a vote on a package of gun control - related measures, like banning bump stocks and allowing a judge to order guns be taken away from a person if they're deemed a harm to themselves or others.

Thursday night, as the pension bill passed, many continued to voice their outrage, stunned and furious by lawmakers» quick unveiling and voting on the measure.

Lawmakers are scheduled to vote on a bill banning profiling, the first of several post-Ferguson measures.

Last week, while Pennsylvania lawmakers were taking measures to protect pets from harsh winter weather, Las Vegas city council members voted to repeal a ban on retail pet store puppy sales, 99 % of which come from puppy mills.

To break the impasse, the original bill (S - 877), which was introduced on January 9, was later split into the three measures on which lawmakers are poised to vote today.

The reform measures passed the House overwhelmingly last year by a 415 - 7 vote but got snagged in the Senate because some lawmakers expressed concern about the impact the changes could have on private lenders.