Sentences with phrase «legislative agenda items»

«When you roll out major legislative agenda items like energy policy, timing is crucial,» Mayer said.

Indianapolis Public Schools released a list of legislative agenda items they'd like to see this session.

On two key Democratic legislative agenda items, Sen. Jon Kyl suggested Sunday that Senate Republicans may not support measures backed by leading Democrats on Capitol Hill.

On two key Democratic legislative agenda items, a jobs bill and a comprehensive health care reform bill, Sen. Jon Kyl, R - Arizona, suggested Sunday that Senate Republicans may not support measures backed by leading Democrats on Capitol Hill.

Not exact matches

Negotiations look set to be fraught, as Republicans and Democrats alike will attempt to resolve a series of legislative issues by attaching other agenda items to the must - pass bill.

Yet one of the niggling items from his heralded pre-election agenda that remains conspicuously undone is reforming legislative and congressional redistricting.

In the legislative session that recently ended, Governor Cuomo saw the state legislature reject a number of agenda items he'd been pushing.

Despite that, Cuomo and legislative leaders say they are trying to achieve some agenda items in the closing weeks of the legislative session.

Cuomo may also be playing a more coy legislative game with his endorsement plan, given that lawmakers may yet return this year to take up a number of his agenda items.

White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders essentially drove a dagger through the other items Friday, listing only an immigration bill when asked to lay out the White House's 2018 legislative agenda.

But as it fights to secure a substantial renewal of mayoral control this legislative session, City Hall is trying to show that support for the governance system should transcend support for a particular politician or set of agenda items.

In the legislative session that recently ended, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo saw the state legislature reject a number of agenda items he'd been pushing.

The Localism Act received Royal Assent on 15 November, marking the passage into law a key item on the government's legislative agenda.

Now, with three months remaining in the legislative session in Albany, de Blasio will have a number of agenda items that he is likely to pursue.

There's three weeks to go in the legislative session, and advocates are pushing hard for two of Gov. Andrew Cuomo's agenda items — translating the federal abortion rights in the Roe v. Wade decision into New York state law, and enacting public financing of statewide political campaigns.

The Raise the Age proposal is one of many agenda items still lingering unresolved as a legislative session overwhelmed by corruption arrests draws to a close.

During her press conference outside PS 13, Ms. Malliotakis unveiled her Albany reform agenda, including: Requiring a two - thirds legislative majority to pass new taxes and fees; capping the rise in spending at the rate of inflation or 2 percent, whichever is less; requiring legislators to disclose outside sources of income; requiring public authorities like the MTA to undergo an independent financial audit, and calling for a constitutional convention to address items that have bedeviled the state recently, such as appointing a lieutenant governor and breaking a Senate tie.

Midway through the afternoon on what was supposed to be the final day of the 2016 legislative session, lawmakers began to receive word that they should plan to remain at the Capitol on Friday — partly due to the steady crush of last - minute voting, but mainly because agreements on a handful of top agenda items remained elusive.

Cuomo has long been a supporter of public campaign financing, it was one of his top agenda items in the 2013 legislative session.

He insisted for months that he would veto lines that were gerrymandered, but in the end let stand the products of legislative electioneering in exchange for a slew of other agenda items and a constitutional amendment that somewhat wrested the redistricting pen from legislators» hands.

As New York state lawmakers finish up this legislative session, state Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli hopes one item he's been pushing for years makes it to the top of the agenda.

Lastly, we discuss agenda items that will be debated in the legislative session.

Why: Ty leaves her current post as legislative counsel to Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver — seen by many observers as a possible center of resistance to several items on the governor - elect's agenda.

On Monday, April 18th, Republican members of the Congressional delegation and key legislative Republicans sequestered themselves for a meeting in which resolving lingering difficulties over maps and making sure party leaders were on board were thought to be top agenda items.

The introduction of the Golden bill, which would amend domestic relations law, is largely symbolic: The Democratic - controlled Assembly supports same - sex marriage, and Cuomo has made it one of the top three items on his agenda for the rest of the legislative session.

This has been a long - term agenda item of the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), the corporate funded bill mill and many State Policy Network «think tanks» and advocacy groups funded by Bradley.

These items were important priorities on our legislative agenda.

This year, more than two dozen paid lobbyists are running around the State Capitol and Legislative Office Building working to divert more money to charter schools, while supporting the Common Core SBAC testing scam and other «education reform» agenda items.