Sentences with phrase «leader of the state assembly»

Silver, the once powerful and unquestioned leader of the state Assembly since 1994, was found guilty in November of fraud and extortion, forcing him to surrender his seat in the Assembly in the process.

The results clearly point to Morelle, the Deputy Majority Leader of the state Assembly, as the early favorite.

The Republican leader of the state Assembly is calling for the legislature to return for a special session to wrap up some unfinished business.

And Sheldon Silver, the former legendary leader of the State Assembly, is about to begin a 12 - year prison term.

For over two decades as the leader of the State Assembly's strong Democratic majority, Sheldon Silver established himself as one of New York's most powerful Democrats.

John Faso (R - Kinderhook) is former Republican leader of the state Assembly and candidate for Congress in the 19th Congressional district.

John Faso is former Republican leader of the state Assembly and candidate for Congress in the 19th Congressional district.

New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman says in a legislative session in which the leaders of the state Assembly and Senate are both indicted on corruption charges, the need for ethics reform in Albany is shockingly clear.

John Faso is a former minority leader of the state Assembly and a Republican candidate for the 19th Congressional District.

Faso is former Republican leader of the state Assembly and candidate for Congress in the 19th Congressional district running on the Republican, Conservative, Independence and Reform lines.

We sit down with Joe Morelle, the majority leader of the State Assembly, and discuss the issues around the Sheldon Silver incidents (including the indictment that came down during the program), who may be the next assembly speaker after he pulled himself out of contention, and the status of the Democratic party in Monroe County.

Four months of Albany scandal and turmoil have yielded new leaders of the state Assembly and Senate — the first time that's happened during the same legislative session in 50 years.

Spitzer will bring the fight to Faso and question many of his votes and positions he took while minority leader of the state assembly.

Tuesday's rhetoric is the same as Cuomo's position earlier this year after Silver — the longtime leader of the State Assembly — was indicted for pocketing $ 4 million in legal fees that prosecutors proved were little more than bribes for official favors.

Faso, a former minority leader of the state Assembly, was elected to his first two - year term in Congress last November.

Faso, a former minority leader of the state Assembly and the GOP candidate for New York governor in 2006, has taken heat during his brief time in Congress for voting in favor of the Republican health care bill in the House and for refusing to hold town hall - style meetings with constituents in his district.

«He worked the power, in a sense, and knew what buttons to push,» said Ronald Canestrari, the former majority leader of the State Assembly.

Faso, R - Kinderhook, is a former minority leader of the state Assembly who was elected to his first two - year term in the House last November.

But yesterday afternoon in Albany the governor and the leaders of the State Assembly and Senate staged a press conference to announce tentative deals.

Bharara this year also won indictments against Sheldon Silver and Dean Skelos, the leaders of the State Assembly and Senate.

ALBANY — The leader of the state Assembly Republicans announced Tuesday he's running for governor, becoming the first GOP candidate to jump into the race.

But during an hour of discussion Tuesday morning at a forum organized by the Albany Times Union, leaders of the state Assembly and Senate displayed no appetite to stand up to Gov. Andrew Cuomo and advance legislation — even if it has the votes to withstand a gubernatorial veto — without his quiet assent.

Additionally, prosecutors say Silver's position as the leader of the state Assembly put him in a position to force two prominent real estate developers, Glenwood Management and the Witkoff Group, to hire attorney Jay Goldberg of Goldberg & Iryami to represent them in complex legal matters.

Silver, who was the leader of the state Assembly for more than 20 years, is accused of two schemes that earned him more than $ 4 million in illicit fees over 12 years.

ALBANY — The leader of the state Assembly expects early pushes for gun control and election overhaul when lawmakers convene at the Capitol next month.

But the State Legislature has been thrown into chaos recently, with Sheldon Silver, a Democrat and the former leader of the State Assembly, being indicted on corruption charges.

Assembly members Joseph Lentol and Keith Wright have dropped their candidacies to become the new leader of the state Assembly.

Mr. Kolb, a Republican assemblyman from Canandaigua, N.Y., was elected by his colleagues on Monday as the new minority leader of the State Assembly, and pledged to bring a higher level of visibility to the position.

But the Democratic leader of the state Assembly, Carl Heastie disagrees.

His departure left Andrew Heaney of Millbrook and John Faso, a former minority leader of the State Assembly, to face off across the 11 - county 19th District, which covers the Hudson Valley and Catskills.

The proposal has support from the Democratic leader of the state Assembly and Republicans in the GOP - led Senate, a key to its chances of passage.

In synchronized statements, Democratic leaders of the State Assembly joined Republicans in the State Senate to propose that the tests, which are aligned with the new curriculum standards known as the Common Core, be excluded, for now, from the state's new teacher evaluation system, which Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo signed into law in 2012.

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Fox tells the story from beginning to end: childhood in the German - American parsonage; nine grades of school followed by three years in a denominational «college» that was not yet a college and three year's in Eden Seminary, with graduation at 21; a five - month pastorate due to his father's death; Yale Divinity School, where despite academic probation because he had no accredited degree, he earned the B.D. and M.A.; the Detroit pastorate (1915 - 1918) in which he encountered industrial America and the race problem; his growing reputation as lecturer and writer (especially for The Christian Century); the teaching career at Union Theological Seminary (1928 - 1960); marriage and family; the landmark books Moral Man and Immoral Society and The Nature and Destiny of Man; the founding of the Fellowship of Socialist Christians and its journal Radical Religion; the gradual move from Socialist to liberal Democratic politics, and from leader of the Fellowship of Reconciliation to critic of pacifism; the break with Charles Clayton Morrison's Christian Century and the inauguration of Christianity and Crisis; the founding of the Union for Democratic Action, then later of Americans for Democratic Action; participation in the ecumenical movement, especially the Oxford Conference and the Amsterdam Assembly; increasing friendship with government officials and service with George Kennan's policy - planning group in the State Department; the first stroke in 1952 and the subsequent struggles with ill health; retirement from Union in 1960, followed by short appointments at Harvard, at the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions, and at Columbia's Institute of War and Peace Studies; intense suffering from ill health; and death in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, in 1971.

The top legislative leaders in the state Senate and Assembly confirmed Wednesday a two - tiered court system would be in place for a potential agreement on raising the age of criminal responsibility in New York to 18.

At the 7:30 - minute mark Paladino talks about putting Silver «in one of those Roman cages, OK, so that people can see the guy who has tormented New York State for the last 15 years while he's been the majority leader of the, the speaker of the Assembly.

All Progressives Congress National Leader, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, has expressed grief over the sudden deaths of the Speaker of the House of Assembly Oyo State and the Media aide to Governor of Sokoto State.

Former Town of Greece Democratic Leader Dave Garretson replaced State Assembly Majority Leader Joe Morelle as county chairman last year, and has never seemed to be in a rush to find a county executive candidate.

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Cuomo, along with Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie and Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan agreed relatively early in the budget negotiations that ethics and campaign - finance reform would not be a threat to the passage of the state budget on time.

But Cuomo so far hasn't shown any signs of weakening his opposition to the state - level millionaire's tax (the federal level is OK, he says), and today he got some extra back - up from Assembly Minority Leader Brian Kolb, who said he wouldn't go along with a veto override, in the unlikely event that things get that far next year.

At 10 a.m., Assembly Majority Leader Joseph Morelle holds a press conference on the local impact of the proposed state budget for health programs, Finger Lakes Health System Agency, 1150 University Ave., Building 5, Rochester.

Representatives of Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie and Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan both have votes on PACB, a relatively obscure state entity that has power over broad swaths of spending.

Paladino is not backing off of his promise to challenge Astorino if he doesn't call for the removal of Republican State Senator Dean Skelos and Assembly Minority Leader Brian Kolb.

Even before the effort to «Draft Trump» was launched, Paladino threatened to challenge any GOP candidate on the Conservative line if they didn't call for the removal of the State Senate's top Republican, Dean Skelos, and Assembly Minority Leader Brian Kolb.

The leaders in the Republican - led Senate and Democratic - controlled Assembly on Monday indicated they would push to change Gov. Andrew Cuomo's plan to require local governments to develop ways of sharing services and scale back his efforts to expand his office's powers over the state budget.

The U.S. attorney was also asked if he believes that the corruption problem in Albany is getting better as a result of all the cases he has brought in recent years — including the successful prosecution of two men who were once among the state's most powerful political players, former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver and former Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos.

Also at 11 a.m., more than 25,000 letters will be delivered to state leaders demanding action this year to address decades of inconsistent and unreliable state funding which has placed New York State's system of mental health - housing at its financial breaking point, Assembly chamber public entrance, 3rd Floor, state Capitol, Alstate leaders demanding action this year to address decades of inconsistent and unreliable state funding which has placed New York State's system of mental health - housing at its financial breaking point, Assembly chamber public entrance, 3rd Floor, state Capitol, Alstate funding which has placed New York State's system of mental health - housing at its financial breaking point, Assembly chamber public entrance, 3rd Floor, state Capitol, AlState's system of mental health - housing at its financial breaking point, Assembly chamber public entrance, 3rd Floor, state Capitol, Alstate Capitol, Albany.

After going nuclear on the Patrerson administration yesterday, effectively blaming the governor for the city's budget cuts, Mayor Bloomberg this morning was full of praise for a state leader with whom he has often been at odds: Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver.

At 1:15 p.m., Assembly Minority Leader Brian Kolb, Assemblyman Andrew Raia and members of the GOP conference will call for legislation to reduce Medicaid costs in New York, back of the Assembly chamber, 3rd floor, state Capitol, Albany.

State legislative leaders and Gov. Andrew Cuomo agree on the concept of passing a package of measure designed to curb heroin addiction in New York and are working out the details, Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie on Wednesday said.