Sentences with phrase «legislature meeting for»

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It is Artie who is most eager for a visitor to meet Uncle Jim Rooney, who after World War I served as one of the youngest men ever elected to the Pennsylvania legislature, and who went on to give away all the money he ever made to people who said they needed it more than he did.

De Blasio, meanwhile, stormed out of a town hall meeting in Lower Manhattan last night, just as the state legislature was about to adjourn for the summer without renewing mayoral control.

Gov. Cuomo held a not - so - secret meeting today with same - sex marriage advocates to discuss their strategy for moving a same - sex marriage bill through the legislature.

The New York State legislature is back at the Capitol for three weeks of meetings before the session ends later in June.

Nearly 2,000 workers from Transit Workers Union Local 100 (TWU Local 100) traveled to Albany on March 27th to meet with members of the state legislature in the Senate and Assembly for the organization's annual «Lobby Day.»

Following last night's meeting, legislature chairman Jay Gould (R - Ashville) said the 19 lawmakers will have their work cut out for them because of all the committee work that will need to be shared amongst 19 lawmakers.

The termination of Crist, 49, who has been a legislative liaison with the legislature's GOP majority for more than 20 years, followed a closed - door meeting late Friday by Republican members of the county legislature who agreed to authorize his termination, according to a person familiar with the matter.

The executive - friendly Ways and Means Committee met Tuesday night and unanimously voted to send the legislation to the full legislature for consideration at its January 22 regular meeting.

As taxpayers struggle to make ends meet — including affording the ever - increasing MTA fares — and the governor and legislature are working to control state spending and make our state fiscally solvent, the MTA just disregards reality,» said Rabbitt, who has been a vocal and leading advocate for reforming the MTA, and was a driving force behind the repeal of the MTA payroll tax, having called for a fiscal audit of the authority and its board.

In a statement, Christie — whose appointees were responsible for Bridgegate — urged «New Jersey's legislature to introduce and pass this bill as well so that we can finally meet the standard for reform laid out by Governor Cuomo and me last year.»

BY MICHAEL RICONDA New City — In a unanimous decision, the county legislature's budget & finance committee approved a memorializing resolution calling on the state legislature and governor to resolve problems with the state's chargeback system for community colleges at its March 12 meeting.

He said the committee may ask the legislature to vote on procedural motions at their Aug. 3 meeting to fund the counsel position and authorize subpoena power for the committee.

A few years ago when he began making his annual appeals for donors at the April legislature meetings, the mere thought of somebody plucking organs from my carcass, was well, repulsive.

Such an argument fundamentally states that the Legislature — which will meet only a handful of times in the months of January and February 2012 — can resolve an impasse that beset it such that it had to seek a second waiver from DOD simply because the legislature could not agree on resolving the issue for the entire session of 2011.

Six new ethics laws were proposed Friday, the deadline to get on the agenda for the legislature's Sept. 5 meeting.

Fabiano, who was unopposed for re-election two years ago, said he doesn't attend town board meetings, but is available «anytime they have a problem that deals with the legislature.»

For example, state legislators packed a session on modifying public employee pensions at the recent meeting of the National Conference of State Legislatures in Louisville, Ky..

LEGISLATURE»S AUDIT AND CONTROL COMMITTEE MEETS TODAY MAYVILLE - The committee responsible for overseeing spending and revenue in Chautauqua County will meet this morning in Mayville to go over the first week of deliberations for the 2012 county... [Read more...]

The state legislature, meeting for the first time since deals were struck on pension reform and new district lines, tried to focus on their new task, agreeing on a budget.

The mayors says they planned meetings with several key legislators to hope to convince them to adopt the governor's plan, though Bloomberg had harsh words for the legislature's policy on pensions over the years, which he called a «charade».

The county's e-911 emergency communications system on Golden Hill in Kingston is not only antiquated, charged members of the volunteer Fire Safety Advisory Board at a meeting of the county legislature's Law Enforcement and Public Safety Committee this week, but vendors are now telling the county they won't be making parts for it much longer.

He said Hein could have separately vetoed the Auerbach action, which the legislature could have dealt with at its Dec. 17 meeting, and sent the rest of the budget to Albany for review.

Following a state legislature leadership meeting, Assembly Speaker for Life Sheldon Silver told reporters that «Right now I support [Paterson] for governor, yes.»

For an amendment to be placed before the voters as a referendum, a state constitutional convention, a joint meeting of both houses of the legislature sitting as one body, in each of two successive two - year legislative sessions, must provide the required number of votes.

Cahill took Hein to task for suggesting that Cahill had refused to seek a special meeting of the state legislature this year in order to extend the county's sales - tax surcharge another two years.

Aviation Commissioner Russell Stark wanted to thank Oneida County Executive Anthony Picente Jr., and the Oneida County Board of Legislatures for their continued support because without it, this and the other achievements met this year would not have been possible.

New City — In a unanimous decision, the county legislature's budget & finance committee approved a memorializing resolution calling on the state legislature and governor to resolve problems with the state's chargeback system for community colleges at its March 12 meeting.

After learning at its first meeting in July that it might only have one or two meetings to help develop a plan for Suffolk County to stem the tide of a growing presence of tick - borne illnesses, the county legislature's Tick Control Advisory Committee may be around for another year, at least.

New Paltz county Legislator Ken Wishnick, a Democrat, took umbrage with Republican legislature Chairwoman Terry Bernardo for spending $ 1,200 in public monies to rent Kingston's cavernous UPAC Theater for last week's (pro-gun) legislative meeting.

It's not good news for the American Chemistry Council, which had sent a representative to a Putnam County legislature meeting to lobby against the ban.

The resolution will appear on the agenda for the upcoming meeting of the full legislature on December 18, 2012.

But after the legislature meeting started Monday evening, Democrats were called into another caucus and when they came back to the floor, only Joyce was nominated for the seat.

County legislature chairman Jay Gould (R - Ashville) says he's expecting a large turnout tonight from residents interested in offering their thoughts on the sale of the skilled nursing facility, meaning it could make for a long meeting.

Hein posed for photos with firefighters and their trucks the day the legislature met — the better to apply pressure.

In addition to the state of the county address, the legislature's regular meeting for April will also take place at the school.

Hizzoner stormed out of a town hall meeting in Lower Manhattan Wednesday night, just as the state legislature was about to adjourn for the summer without renewing mayoral control of New York City's school.

The reason for these mid-season emergency meetings is a hole in the current - year budget, which Malloy's budget office and Comptroller Kevin Lembo peg at about $ 120 million, and the legislature's nonpartisan Office of Fiscal Analysis pegs at $ 254 million.

Parete, now the mother of two pre-schoolers, was a teacher in the Saugerties district and ran for county legislature in Saugerties four years ago, where she met her future husband.

Squadron expects the panel to begin meeting later this year and issue recommendations that would go to the legislature for approval next spring.

The Assembly had met in secret to approve a loan request of N3bn from the executive to buy cars for the legislature and other political office holders.

As for his own future plans, Hawkins said, «All I know is that in the coming months I will be meeting with our campaign supporters around the state to help local organizing and I will be speaking out on the issues before the legislature.

Maryland would have been the first state in the country to take over schools for NCLB restructuring, but Grasmick's efforts met with intense political opposition from Baltimore's mayor and other political leaders, and the state legislature passed a bill blocking the takeover.

No one passed a peace pipe, but judges and lawmakers last month set aside their traditional enmity on school - finance issues for a few hours of frank talk here at the annual meeting of the National Conference of State Legislatures.

The Davidsons paid the full cost of the school — for 35 kids the first year, 44 the second — until the legislature met again, two years later, and included the academy in the state funding formula.

States will continue to see fiscal challenges in the coming years, a prospect that does not bode well for increasing their K - 12 budgets, analysts from the National Conference of State Legislatures said at a post-election meeting here.

In New York City, Mayor Bill de Blasio announced (under pressure from the state legislature) changes that will make it easier for special - needs students to attend private school at public expense when their parents believe that public schools are not meeting the needs of their children.

To guarantee that right, legislatures are often required to ensure a certain level of funding to public schools and to provide a realistic opportunity for students in those schools to meet certain academic goals.

In a unanimous opinion, the Supreme Court ruled that the State's plan to fully fund basic education will provide enough resources to meet its constitutional responsibility, but the Court also ruled that the legislature's timeline for achieving full funding takes too long.

In New York City, Mayor Bill de Blasio announced (under pressure from the state legislature) changes that will make it easier for special - needs students to attend private school at public expense when their parents believe that public schools are not meeting their needs.

The possibility that the legislature might return for a special session before January faded this month when Assembly Democrats met and reaffirmed their opposition to student fees.