Sentences with phrase «liberal lawmakers»

Originally a surcharge for those making $ 200,000 or more was due to expire at the end of this year, with liberal lawmakers pushing to have the tax extended.

Republican Councilman Eric Ulrich, a fiscally conservative, socially liberal lawmaker from Queens, is taking the first step toward running against de Blasio in 2017, filing paperwork with the Board of Elections to form an exploratory committee.

Grisanti went as far as airing a TV ad touting his opposition to the measure, which is a key agenda item for liberal lawmakers in 2015.

Still, having the wage provision not tied to inflation, a key provision for more liberal lawmakers who backed the legislation when it was proposed by Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver last year, could make things easier to pass through the GOP conference.

But with no clear outcome for a bill that is unpopular with both conservatives and liberal lawmakers alike, hospital stocks are one of the riskiest bets on the market right now.

Senate District 42: Republican John Bonacic is perhaps one of the most moderate - to - liberal lawmakers within the Republican conference in the Senate, certainly outside of New York City.

According to the New York Times, two political scientists have determined that Heastie is «the fifth-most liberal member of the State Assembly and ranks among the most liberal lawmakers nationwide.»

Cuomo, along with Senate Republicans, oppose keeping the surcharge — a position that is coming increasingly underfire by liberal lawmakers.

, who was a key backer of the public insurance option during the health - care debate, said he thinks the P Street Project can help provide resources and political cover for other liberal lawmakers.

«It's over,» one liberal lawmaker told the Daily News.

The district is being vacated at the end of the year by Republican Rep. Richard Hanna, a moderate - to - liberal lawmaker who was being challenged in a GOP primary by Assemblywoman Claudia Tenney.

If anything, the concerns advocates and liberal lawmakers are raising underscores just how much of a Rubik's Cube the issue is for Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who faces pressure from the left to push the system through the state Senate, but resistance from Republicans to attaining what would be the ideal system desired by supporters, including Working Families Party.

But from the perspective of Albany's liberal lawmakers and the hospital industry, deregulation posed a significant problem.

Liberal lawmakers had hoped that once the full impact of the $ 1.2 billion in cuts were felt to education, support would gather for the surcharge.

In 2013, liberal lawmakers were almost immediately dissatisfied with the then - agreement to phase in a hike to $ 9, saying the measure excluded tipped workers, who were later deal with through a wage board.

Cuomo sided with the majority of Senate Republicans during the 2011 - 12 budget contretemps when it came to extending the surcharge as a way of closing the $ 10 billion deficit over union and liberal lawmakers» objections.

Buoyed by outspoken environmentalists, climate change doomsayers, and liberal lawmakers, President Obama has repeatedly threatened to veto any bill that Congress might send him to authorize the construction of the Keystone XL pipeline.