Sentences with phrase «leaders behind closed doors»

Rather, deals should be made by a handful of leaders behind closed doors and rubber - stamped by the Senate and Assembly.

Molinaro addressed the GOP leaders behind closed doors before the straw poll.

«We are discussing doing something before the first round of tests, which I think is April 3, so probably within the budget,» Silver told reporters after a two - hour meeting with Cuomo and Senate leaders behind closed doors.

Since the ALP caucus chooses its leader behind closed doors, there should be no need to wash the party's dirty linen in public.

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Are company leaders accessible, or are they tucked away behind closed doors in offices?

In a supervisory setting, good leaders are able to debate and argue behind closed doors and then fully support a decision in public — even if they privately disagree with that decision.

«We have enough votes to show them never to do this again,» Democratic House Leader Nancy Pelosi told members of her party, behind closed doors, according to a source in the room.

Unfortunately, behind closed doors, the Islamic leaders have a real agenda, which is to build a shrine to the highjackers.

Leaders from GAFCON (Global Anglican Future Conference) have met behind closed doors in London, and issued... More

Leaders from GAFCON (Global Anglican Future Conference) have met behind closed doors in London, and issued a statement saying they are «particularly concerned... More

If he wants leaders, he needs to either mould them behind closed doors or sign them.

The vote for Senate Majority Leader happened behind closed doors but most Western New York Republicans told us they supported DeFrancisco, including Michael Ranzenhofer, Rich Funke, Robert Ortt and Joe Robach.

Cuomo has been negotiating behind closed doors with legislative leaders over an ethics bill for weeks now (much to the chargin of the NY Times editorial page, which called over the weekend for these talks to go public).

Three legislative leaders met with Gov. Andrew Cuomo behind closed doors at the state Capitol yesterday and hammered out a number of specifics, though a range of non-fiscal policy issues — apparently with the exception of addressing sexual harassment — have fallen off the table.

The key decisions are made behind closed doors at private meetings between Governor Cuomo and majority party legislative leaders.

On Monday, the one announced GOP candidate, Assembly Republican leader Brian Kolb (R - Canandaigua), made presentations behind closed doors with GOP officials along with a potential candidate, Senate Deputy Majority Leader John DeFrancisco (R - Syraleader Brian Kolb (R - Canandaigua), made presentations behind closed doors with GOP officials along with a potential candidate, Senate Deputy Majority Leader John DeFrancisco (R - SyraLeader John DeFrancisco (R - Syracuse).

Tedisco's bill requires all member items, discretionary funds, and so - called «lump sum payments», which are controlled by the Speaker of the Assembly, Senate Majority Leader and Governor and negotiated in many instances behind closed doors, be made public and fully transparent within the state budget.

Before the conference met behind closed doors on Monday, DeFrancisco indicated he had enough votes to succeed Senator Dean Skelos, who stepped down as majority leader amid corruption charges.

Having budgets discussed behind closed doors with just the governor and legislative majority leaders has long been a staple of Albany and a source of derision.

The German and French leaders colluded behind closed doors to foist their candidate on the whole of Europe.

After meeting with Cuomo behind closed doors late this morning, Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos and Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver both emerged — separately, with the senator coming out first — to say that they are moving toward an agreement tomorrow.

Friday was another day full of waiting at the Capitol, as reporters camped out in hallways while legislative leaders met behind closed doors.

The national leader of the All Progressives Congress, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, yesterday met behind closed - doors in Lagos with all the party's aspirants for the Ekiti State governorship election.

Governor David Paterson, Assembly Speaker Leader Sheldon Silver, and Senate Majority Leader Malcolm Smith (all Democrats) reached an agreement behind closed doors to repeal much of what is left of the draconian drug laws that govern the state — ones that were passed in the seventies during a heroin epidemic in urban areas and are commonly called the Rockefeller Drug Laws.

Currently however George Osborne is negotiating behind closed doors with Labour leaders in the conurbations for deals whose covert aim is to destroy the Labour Party in its core constituencies — something the SNP has already done in Scotland.

«Tom Watson, our deputy leader who's got his own mandate, Rosie Winterton, the chief whip, John Cryer, who's chair of the parliamentary Labour party and a friend of Jeremy's, have all been trying to get him to recognise that he can not continue in the job because he's lost the confidence of the PLP and he's hiding behind a closed door denying that this is a fact,» she said.

Those negotiations continue to take place behind closed doors, with leaders typically offering brief, largely inconsequential updates to members of the media and announcing details only when final deals are settled.

State Senate Republicans have been huddling behind closed doors, trying to resolve a leadership crisis now that Majority Leader Dean Skelos has lost the support of his GOP members, after being charged with six federal counts of corruption.

Mr. Klein and Mr. Cuomo, along with Mayor Bill de Blasio and labor leaders, have met behind closed doors in the past few days to discuss the possibility of reconciliation.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo and legislative leaders continue to meet behind closed doors to hash out a budget deal, while outside the governor's offices dozens of angry protesters were arrested.

ALBANY — After hours behind closed doors Monday, Republican members of the State Senate said they were sticking by Majority Leader Dean Skelos as he fights federal corruption charges.

Kolb also took aim at the «three - men - in - a-room» negotiations behind closed doors by the governor, the Assembly speaker and the Senate majority leader, but which excludes Assembly Republicans and Senate Democrats.

The reminder from Bharara comes as legislative leaders and Gov. Andrew Cuomo are quietly discussing possible ethics reforms behind closed doors — reforms none of them have appeared interested in discussing publicly since Cuomo outlined his platform in his State of the State address last month.

The Naples Republican released a scathing statement Tuesday, scolding legislative leaders for passing a budget that «was done largely behind closed doors.»

The governor and legislative leaders make key budget decisions behind closed doors — a system that's become known as «three men in a room» — which allows neither the public nor most lawmakers to provide meaningful input.

Right now the turmoil over whether and how to keep the promises made by Westminster's three party leaders to the people of Scotland is being kept firmly behind closed doors.

Indeed, Senate GOP Leader Dean Skelos» conference has worked well with Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who has frequently urged them behind closed doors to support his agenda because Republicans in New York tend to be in the mold of Nelson Rockefeller, not Ted Cruz.

Leaders of the Commonwealth have been discussing the issue at a meeting behind closed doors at Windsor Castle.

Mr. Cuomo has been in Albany, but if he has exerted any influence, it has been behind closed doors: He remained hidden from sight, offering no comment on the state of negotiations, leaving legislative leaders to offer periodic, and largely uninformative updates.

As budget negotiations — which are conducted behind closed doors among the governor and three top legislative leaders, out of sight of even other lawmakers — unfolded over the past week, it became increasingly clear that the Legislature would punt policy issues such as gun control or bail reform to after the budget's April 1 deadline, in favor of financial considerations.

This comes as the state's Democratic and Republican legislative leaders continue to meet behind closed doors in an effort to reach a budget agreement that Malloy would be willing to sign.

In the 48 hours or so before the April 1 deadline, the governor and the legislative leaders go behind closed doors and hammer out a deal — to be rubber - stamped by the rest of the Legislature.

As the protest proceeded in the Capitol hallways, Cuomo and legislative leaders hunkered down behind closed doors just yards away in an effort to hash out their 2014 - 15 budget, due for completion April 1.

The national leader of the All Progressives Congress, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, on Friday, met behind closed doors in Lagos with all the APC aspirants for the Ekiti State governorship election.

Dean Skelos and Silver were among a group dubbed the «three men in a room» in Albany, a nod to the long - standing practice of legislative leaders and the governor negotiating key bills behind closed doors.

Leaders of APC in Imo State on Thursday met with Vice President Yemi Osinbajo at the Presidential villa behind closed doors without Gov. Rochas Okorocha.

Along with the leader of the state Senate and the governor, Sheldon Silver was one of the «three men in a room» who negotiated the state budget and important legislation behind closed doors.

This system of making laws behind closed door may result in greater corruption; the most recent Senate leader and Assembly speaker were both sentenced to prison last year for taking bribes.

She said she believes her lawsuit is the first to challenge the state's decades - old process of allowing the governor, Senate majority leader and Assembly speaker to negotiate a budget behind closed doors.

The powerful position meant Mr. Silver was one of Albany's «three men in a room» — along with the governor and the senate leader — who set the state budget and hammer out deals behind closed doors.