Sentences with phrase «legislative leaders of both chambers»

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Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan in a statement Monday accused Gov. Andrew Cuomo of having «already thrown in the towel» on the end of the legislative session and insisted the Republican - controlled chamber has a busy agenda between now and June 20, the final scheduled end to the legislative session.

ALBANY — Sen. Neil Breslin has been tapped as deputy leader of the 26 - member Democratic Conference, a post that requires him to coordinate the legislative flow on the chamber floor and serve as the second - in - command to Minority Leader John Sampson, D - Broleader of the 26 - member Democratic Conference, a post that requires him to coordinate the legislative flow on the chamber floor and serve as the second - in - command to Minority Leader John Sampson, D - BroLeader John Sampson, D - Brooklyn.

Over on the Senate side, the Republican leaders of that chamber say they'll soon unveil a comprehensive legislative package including measures to help schools improve security.

The Senate has on Tuesday confirmed its rejection of Mr. Ibrahim Magu as the Chairman of Economic and Financial Crime Commission, EFCC, by rejecting the submission of its Majority Leader, Ali Ndume, that the upper legislative chamber did not reject his confirmation.

Also at 11 a.m., AARP will deliver 10,000 postcards to state legislative leaders and Cuomo urging them to include «Secure Choice» in the state budget to provide millions of private sector employees an effective way to save for retirement at work, outside the Senate chamber, 3rd floor, state Capitol, Albany.

Republican legislative leaders in Connecticut once again urged Governor Dannel Malloy to sign the budget that cleared both chambers of the legislature earlier this month.

State Senator Jeff Klein, a leader of the breakaway Democratic conference that governs the upper legislative chamber, was also cool today to Mr. de Blasio's minimum wage push.

Legislative leaders reached a new, two - year budget agreement Tuesday that could come up for a vote in both chambers of the General Assembly as early as Wednesday.

«I think the budget that was passed in both chambers is a terrible budget for the state of Connecticut,» House Speaker Joe Aresimowicz, D - Berlin, said Thursday after emerging from closed - door talks with Malloy and legislative leaders from both parties.

Rank - and - file legislators knew little of the fiscal deliberations, which were conducted in closed - door meetings by Albany's so - called three men in a room — Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo and the leaders of the two legislative chambers — until just before 9 p.m. on Thursday, three hours before the official April 1 deadline.

Legislative leaders from both sides of the aisle hailed the plan as a historic step toward bipartisan cooperation, but the debate also exposed deep ideological rifts within the chamber: 23 lawmakers from the far reaches of both parties cast «no» votes, rejecting the centrist approach that led to the deal.

Major state business is conducted in private negotiations between Governor Andrew Cuomo and leaders of each legislative chamber.

ALBANY — After corruption allegations threatened to stall the chamber's business for the last few weeks of the legislative session, newly elected Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan said on Monday he is ready to start working with a unified conference behind him.

The protest began when unruly Democrats — with Connecticut Rep. John Larson at the helm — took control of the chamber late Wednesday morning, vowing to stay and disrupt normal legislative activity until Republican leaders agreed to hold a vote on gun control legislation.

Before the two legislative chambers took up the so - called one - house budget resolutions, good - government groups decried what some have seen as a silence on ethics reforms in the first session following the conviction of the two former legislative leaders.

In a span of only 16 weeks, the leaders of both legislative chambers have been arrested and replaced as a result of separate corruption cases, a head - spinning change in a capital known for its inertia.

The opposition has emerged in both legislative chambers, with the State Senate's new majority leader saying that imposing such oversight on the district, in Rockland County, would set a dangerous precedent, and an Assembly member from Brooklyn who had supported the bill distancing himself from it while raising the specter of anti-Semitism.

And by tradition, the leaders of the majority in each legislative chamber get to draw the lines of their members; the Democrats draw the Assembly lines and the Republicans draw the Senate lines.

The Liberal Democrat leader will next week publish a Commons Bill which will propose replacing the Lords with a largely elected second chamber — to the fury of many Tory MPs, who describe the move as «legislative vandalism».