Sentences with phrase «long speaker of the assembly»

Consider the time he waited to indict Shelly Silver, the decades - long speaker of the Assembly, a sphinx - like figure who stood as permanent pillar of power over successive governments in Albany, until the day after Silver stood on stage with Cuomo at the annual State of the State address.

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Silver also said this was not a sign he would end his tenure as speaker, which began in 1994, making him one of the longest serving Assembly speaker in the state's history.

Most if not all major policy decisions, including the direction of a $ 168 billion budget, are still decided by three men in a room: the governor; the leader of the Senate, John J. Flanagan, R - Long Island; and the Assembly speaker, Carl E. Heastie, D - Bronx.

Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver will end his long reign as the head of the Assembly on Monday, say the Democratic members of the Assembly who announced they will hold a new election for speaker on Feb. 10.

Former state Assembly speaker Sheldon Silver wants to delay Round II of his corruption trial, cynically hoping an elderly key witness might no longer be around, Manhattan federal prosecutors said Friday.

The bottom line for some in the Assembly is that A) Silver has been in the speaker's chair for far too long and B) The alleged bribery and kickback scheme that ensnared Rapfogel, the husband of Silver aide Judy Rapfogel, entered a new phase when the scope of the scandal was revealed.

California's Assembly speaker has played a classic legislative leadership role as the bridge between a Republican governor and a strongly liberal majority Democratic caucus, helping to forge and shepherd through a long list of impressive legislation over the past couple of years.

Each March, for as long as anyone can remember, the governor, the speaker of the Assembly and the majority leader of the Senate hold frequent, clandestine meetings to hammer out important policy decisions and

In the political mathematics of a speakers stakes, he has several major advantages: the chairmanship of a major county, seniority, support from the Black, Puerto Rican, Hispanic and Asian legislative caucus (Heastie is black) and a power base in New York City, whose interests the Assembly has long championed under Silver.

The traditional «three men in a room» — Mr. Cuomo; the Senate majority leader, John J. Flanagan of Long Island; and Carl E. Heastie, the Assembly speaker — has expanded to include Senator Jeffrey D. Klein, the leader of the eight - member Independent Democratic Conference, a breakaway cadre of Democrats who collaborate with Mr. Flanagan to help rule the Senate.

Heastie is the sixth Democratic speaker during the tenure of Assemblyman Dick Gottfried, the longest - serving member, who was first elected when Republicans ran the Assembly in 1970.

Lawmakers wanted cleaner restrooms on the Long Island Rail Road: «They stink,» said the deputy Assembly speaker, Earlene Hooper, of Long Island.

Timothy Cardinal Dolan said Wednesday that the credit proposal, which has been stalled in Albany for years, has a better chance of becoming law now that Sheldon Silver is no longer Assembly speaker.

It includes Kathleen Rice, a United States representative from Long Island who unsuccessfully challenged Mr. Schneiderman in the 2010 Democratic primary; Alphonso David, Mr. Cuomo's chief counsel; Michael Gianaris, a state senator from Queens and chief political strategist for the Democratic conference; Zephyr Teachout, a Fordham Law School professor who ran for governor in 2014; Carrie H. Cohen, a former federal prosecutor who handled the corruption trial of the former Assembly speaker Sheldon Silver; Representative Sean Patrick Maloney; and Benjamin Lawsky, formerly the state's top financial regulator.

Russell, a Democrat from Jefferson County, was part of the long two - day of meetings in Albany that ended with a decision to oust longtime Assembly speaker.

A jury found Sheldon Silver guilty for the second time on Friday, wrapping up the more than week - long re-trial of the former Assembly speaker on charges he was first convicted for in 2015.

Silver not only represented his district since 1977, he also served as speaker of the Assembly for just over 20 years — the second - longest tenure in state history.

But so long as Shelly Silver remains speaker of the Assembly, Cuomo's governorship will be held hostage by Shelly's corruption.

One page could have sufficed, so long as that page called for the ouster of the man who has reigned over the degradation (as Andrew referred to it) of state government: the speaker of the Assembly, Sheldon Silver.

Some looked over their shoulders as Mr. Silver, once the powerful speaker of the New York State Assembly who now faces political corruption charges, slowly walked up the courtroom aisle to his seat at a long desk that faced Valerie E. Caproni, the presiding judge.

Mr. Litwin was not charged with any crime, though he was named a co-conspirator in one case, and never appeared in a courtroom for either trial as the juries convicted Assemblyman Sheldon Silver, a Manhattan Democrat and former Assembly speaker, and State Senator Dean G. Skelos, a Long Island Republican and Senate majority leader, of bribery, extortion and conspiracy charges.

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Long since deposed from his powerful position as speaker of the New York State Assembly, convicted felon Sheldon Silver was finally disbarred this week by a state appeals court... → Read More: Now Officially Disbarred, Length of Prison Sentence Only Outstanding Question for Convicted Felon Silver