Sentences with phrase «leader of the group senator»
Back at the end of May, de facto leader of the group senator Jeff Klein told us he expected to have closer to $ 500k for this filing period.
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When Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell selected the group of 13 lawmakers who would work on drafting a health care bill to replace the Affordable Care Act in May, none of the five female Republican Senators were included.
Kids In Danger commends Representative Jan Schakowsky (IL - 9), Representative Bobby Rush (IL - 1) and US Senator Dick Durbin (IL) along with other congressional leaders and consumer groups who worked to pass the Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act of 2008 (CPSIA) to improve children's product safety.
He joins the IDC's founder, Sen. Jeff Klein, and six other members of the group which brokered a deal with Republican leaders in the senate to break from the Democratic senators back in 2010.
(Brooklyn, NY)-- Today, a group of elected officials including Senator Brian Kavanagh, Assemblymember Jo Anne Simon, City Comptroller Scott Stringer, City Council Speaker Corey Johnson, Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams, Senator Velmanette Montgomery, Assemblymember Robert Carroll, and Council Members Ydanis Rodriguez and Mark Treyger joined City commissioners and community and business leaders to urge Governor Andrew Cuomo to accelerate and streamline necessary construction on the BQE by authorizing «design - build» contracting.
Getting kicked out of New Visions is just the latest repercussion since he joined the IDC — a group that, according to spokeswoman Candace Giove, «conferences with fellow Democrats, but works in majority coalition with 32 senators who elected a Republican leader.»
Mr. Loeb's comment also directly hit on the long - simmering racial tensions in Albany, where Mr. Klein's group has helped block Senator Andrea Stewart - Cousins, the black lawmaker whom Mr. Loeb attacked in his Facebook post, from ascending to the post of majority leader.
Sampson's group on Thursday held a press conference with Assembly Majority Leader Joe Morelle and State Senator Ted O'Brien, both Rochester Democrats, to tout a bill that would prompt an automatic vote on repealing a list of items that are deemed to be unfunded mandates.
Senator Jeff Klein is the leader of a group of breakaway Democrats in the Senate, and is close to Senator Skelos and the GOP.
Leader of the President Muhammadu Buhari Support Group, Senator Abu Ibrahim, has stated that former Vice President, Atiku Abubajar is a «spent force» who can not win...
A diverse group of celebrities, newsmakers and elected officials including Stephen Colbert, Whoopi Goldberg, Ken Burns, Giants coach Tom Coughlin, Brooklyn Nets, New York Islanders, New York Yankees, Carson Daly, Tom Brokaw of NBC Nightly News, George Stephanopoulos of ABC News, Rosanna Scotto of Good Day New York, Harry Belafonte, former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, Senators Kirsten Gillibrand and Richard Blumenthal, New York City Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito, New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, Police Commissioner William Bratton, Former New York City Mayor David Dinkins and Rabbi Peter J. Rubinstein, are among the first to share welcome messages.
Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie, a Democrat, and Senator Jeffrey Klein, the leader of the Independent Democratic Conference, a group of renegade Democrats who often collaborate with the Republicans, also signaled their willingness on Tuesday to tighten policies against workplace sexual harassment.
The pact with the Republicans has allowed IDC members to hold committee chairmanships — and draw special salary stipends for those posts — and granted the group's leader, State Senator Jeffrey Klein of the Bronx, a voice in budget negotiations.
State Senator, and 13th Congressional District candidate, Adriano Espaillat was endorsed by a group of Mexican - American business and civic leaders in East Harlem today.
The universal group of elected officials included State Senator Andrea Stewart - Cousins, Westchester County Board of Legislators Chairman Ben Boykin, Vice Chair Alfreda Williams and Democratic Majority Leader Catherine Borgia, Assemblymembers J Gary Pretlow and Shelly Meyers (who is the Democratic nominee for Latimer's vacant State Senate seat) just to name a few.
In fact, Agudath Israel had to back - track on its lay leaders» initial endorsement of Senator Eric Schneiderman when they realized that most Jewish groups who actually move votes were supporting Donovan.
All seven of those senators won their races on Tuesday — including the group's leader, Senator Jeffrey D. Klein, who represents the Bronx and parts of Westchester County.
On Thursday, a bipartisan group of 10 state lawmakers from New Jersey and 10 members of Congress — including the state's two U.S. senators — sent a letter to the city leaders who have been objecting to the terminal plans.
Backed by a broad coalition made up of labor, civil rights, and women's organizations and almost 600 faith leaders ---- what one Albany insider described as the sort of group «needed to get anything progressive done» in the Legislature ---- EPSA earlier this year launched a media drive worth more than $ 300,000 targeting specific state senators.
Some of the party leaders at the meeting were Senator Ayoade Adeseun; a former Majority Leader of the House of Representatives, Mulikat Akande - Adeola; the party's State Chairman of the Interim Management Committee, (Makarfi group), Muraina Ajibola; a former Minister of State, Federal Capital Territory, Jumoke Akinjide; Dr. Saka Balogun, Chief Jacob Adetoro, Bisi Olopoeniyan, and the immediate past Deputy Whip of the Senate, Senator Hosea Agboola, who was represented by Dayo Ogungbenro.
Shi Ge Jing, known to some as State Senator Daniel Squadron, was endorsed by a group of Chinese - American community leaders.
The controversy surrounding embattled Senator Dino Melaye is far from over as a group under the umbrella body of Okun Leaders» Forum (OLF) has began shopping...
A National Leader of Action Democratic Party (ADP), in the South - south, Senator Roland Owie, has faulted the decision by the President Muhammadu Buhari administration to declare the Indigenous Peoples of Biafra (IPOB) as a terrorist group, saying it smacks of double standard.
As Jeff Klein made his way to the entrance, the group booed the Bronx senator and leader of the Independent Democratic Conference, which maintains a controversial power - sharing agreement with GOP senators in Albany.
Mr. Loeb weighed in on behalf of Senator Jeffrey D. Klein of the Bronx, the leader of a group of Democrats that has split from Ms. Stewart - Cousins.
He is leader of the five - member Independent Democratic Conference, or IDC, a group that split from the mainline Democratic senators in 2011 and formed an alliance with Republican senators.
While Klein has made overtures to reunite the conferences in the past, as recently as May he told a bipartisan group of senators at a private dinner that «if I have anything to do with it, John Flanagan is going to be the leader for a long, long time,» according to several sources who spoke with the Daily News.
Democratic Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie, a key cog in the political wheel, took a $ 4,400 check from the group during the filing period and Queens Senator Mike Gianaris, something of a nemesis to IDC leader and Bronx Senator Jeff Klein, received $ 1,000.
Senator Gillibrand was among a group of leaders who led the discussions with Postal Officials to instill a five - month moratorium on the final decision concerning closures, allowing residents the opportunity to offer more public input, as the USPS continues to look for alternative measures to cut costs.
That two - year - old coalition, however, has recently shown signs of strain: Earlier this year, under pressure, Mr. Cuomo said he wanted the independent Democrats to rejoin the fold, something that that group's leader, Senator Jeffrey D. Klein, later said he would do if the Democrats won a majority.
For the past two years, the leader of a small group of breakaway Senate Democrats, Senator Jeff Klein, has also been allowed into the private meetings.
Activist group Queer Rising is calling on amateur paparazzi to join them at a protest of New York State Senator Ruben Diaz Sr.'s fundraiser, thrown by Senate Majority leader John Sampson.
Now my good friend, Charlie King, a surrogate to Governor Cuomo, is questioning why Senator Jeff Klein's IDC is getting stronger, and why members of the regular Democratic Conference, are abandoning their leader Senator Andrea Stewart - Cousins and the Democratic Conference to join Klein's group.
*** Photo Left to Right: Althea Williams, Founder and President of «Youth Leaders On The Move;» Loretta Masterson, President of the Sack Wern Houses Residents Council; April D. Horton, Director of External and Government Affairs at Verizon; Senator Jeff Klein; Darrin Speight, President of the Shorehaven Condo Association; Paul Moore, Principal of Moore Development Group; Debra Stern, Founder and Executive Director of the Amani Public Charter School.
The two Bronx Democrats have bonded as two - thirds of the dissident group of three legislators, along with State Senator Carl Kruger, who have refused to back their party's pick for the Senate majority leader.
Senator Jeff Klein, the leader of a group of breakaway Democrats who lead the Senate in a governing coalition with the Republicans, is under intense pressure from the left over the campaign finance issue.
Gov. Andrew Cuomo, the Bronx Democratic Party and Bronx State Senator Jeff Klein, leader of the Independent Democratic Caucus — a group of breakaway Democrats in a power - sharing agreement with Senate Republicans — endorsed him for the seat, which covers areas such as City Island, Throggs Neck, Silver Beach and Pelham Bay.
De Blasio said he also has had «multiple conversations» with state Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie, Bronx State Senator Jeff Klein, leader of the Independence Democratic Conference, a group of breakaway Democrats that enjoys a power - sharing deal with the State Senate Republicans.
But on Monday, that group's leader, Senator Jeffrey D. Klein, was sharply critical of Mr. Skelos, calling the charges «serious and disturbing.»
Leader of the President Muhammadu Buhari Support Group, Senator Abu Ibrahim, has stated that former Vice President, Atiku Abubajar is a «spent force» who can not win any election in Nigeria.
Bronx Senator Jeff Klein, the leader of the IDC, which had been aligned with Republicans in the Senate to form a majority coalition over the past two years, said the past four years of the group's existence had resulted in «a strong, stabilizing, sensible force for governing in New York State.»
In November 2017, top state Democratic officials sent a letter to Senate Democratic Leader Andrea Stewart - Cousins and Bronx State Senator Jeff Klein, leader of the Independent Democratic Conference (IDC), a group of breakaway Democrats in a power - sharing agreement with the Senate GOP, unveiling a plan to bring about Democratic unity in the state SLeader Andrea Stewart - Cousins and Bronx State Senator Jeff Klein, leader of the Independent Democratic Conference (IDC), a group of breakaway Democrats in a power - sharing agreement with the Senate GOP, unveiling a plan to bring about Democratic unity in the state Sleader of the Independent Democratic Conference (IDC), a group of breakaway Democrats in a power - sharing agreement with the Senate GOP, unveiling a plan to bring about Democratic unity in the state Senate.
Senator Kehoe met with a small group of about a dozen charter leaders representing six different charters.
Additionally, a small group of students who are identified as thought leaders from this forum will meet and present the results to our United States Senators — Amy Klobuchar and Tina Smith.
After months of inaction and relative silence from Senate education leaders about fixing NCLB, two groups of senators recently offered divergent proposals for improving the law.
on Prop B — a coalition of individuals and animal welfare organizations supporting the statewide ballot measure to stop puppy mill cruelty — is pleased to announce that former U.S. Senator Jack Danforth has endorsed Proposition B. Sen. Danforth is the latest prominent Missourian to join the broad list of Prop B supporters, which includes veterinarians and vet clinics, businesses, elected officials, animal protection groups and religious leaders from across Missouri.
«We commend the bipartisan group of leaders including Senate Environment and Public Works Chairman Barbara Boxer (CA), and Senators Joseph Lieberman (CT) and John Warner (VA) among others, and we stand behind them in their efforts to initiate and drive this critical piece of legislation that addresses one of the most important issues facing our nation today.»
The center hosted governors, senators, mayors business leaders, a bipartisan group of 11 states, and attendees from around the world, reflecting the openness that has always characterized the American spirit.
Whereas it is desirable that a bipartisan group of Senators be appointed by the Majority and Minority Leaders of the Senate for the purpose of monitoring the status of negotiations on Global Climate Change and reporting periodically to the Senate on those negotiations: Now, therefore, be it
Subsidies and tariffs to promote domestic ethanol production are «fiscally irresponsible and environmentally unwise» and should be ended, a bipartisan group of United States senators declared in a letter to the chamber's leaders on Tuesday.