Sentences with phrase «leadership of the chamber»

He called on the Republican leadership of the chamber to allow the measure to come to the floor for a vote.

He's voted w your blessed Republicaners on numerous key issues... Just not for continuing your corrupt leadership of the chamber.

If Felder and the IDC do flip, it could lead to chaos in the final session weeks reminiscent of the 2009 Senate coup, when leadership of the chamber remained divided 31 - 31 for a month.

Democrats currently are involved in an internecine fight over leadership of the chamber.

The New York State Senate is not likely to meet again until next January, but the fight for leadership of the chamber has already begun.

But Democrats also re-elected State Senator John Sampson, who is facing federal indictment on a variety of corruption charges and provides a ready link to the party's dysfunctional leadership of the chambers.

The Senate President said the lawmakers also resolved that the leadership of the chamber would make further considerations on the matter.

A second source said that there was much focus on strategy, but that Cuomo also asked Democrats to pipe down with charges that he has hitherto done little to dislodge Republicans from the leadership of the chamber.

And then there is this, after seven years of elections and corruption scandals that remade the leadership of both chambers: The Legislature is a different place than when Cuomo was first elected.

ALBANY — The New York State Assembly was thrown into chaos by the arrest of Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver this morning, raising immediate questions about the leadership of the chamber and how it might move forward in the new legislative session.

Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan is turning to two recently elected lawmakers to take up the leadership of the chamber's Joint Task Force on Heroin and Opioid Addiction.

There's also a small parliamentary issue that could make for an awkward scene even if the mainstream Democrats, the I.D.C. and Mr. Felder unite: Under Senate rules, the leadership of the chamber, currently held by John J. Flanagan, a Long Island Republican, could be changed only by a vote of 38 senators, a half - dozen more than Democrats could hold in 2018.

Senate Democrats, who took over leadership of that chamber this year, after Bruno's retirement, say they want broader reforms.

The decision, announced late Monday night by the leadership of each chamber, was made primarily for the safety of legislative staff, including those who would have otherwise had to fight their way on treacherous roads to the seat of state government and then home again at the end of the day.