Sentences with phrase «lot of assembly members»

«There are a lot of Assembly members who are supportive of charters.

RACHEL JACKSON: Yes, actually I found out about the federal bill and they knew about Mikael's bill on the assembly floor and so I drafted a mirror bill and gave it to senator Kennedy, New York State Senator Kennedy and he really ran with it and introduced it to the senate and so together where Tim and Kennedy have been working with him to get approval for that, so I was lobbying in Albany and that's where I got to meet Mikael and spoke with a lot of the assembly members, a lot of the senators and there was real overwhelming support for it.

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Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver told me during a CapTon interview yesterday that he has also encouraged members of his conference who are facing primary challenges to consider skipping what's essentially a three - day junket that features a lot of partying with some politics squeezed in.

For starters, as one Assembly member points out, it's a lot of new members who may have a totally different take on congestion pricing especially if the money it raises goes toward improving mass transit.

«A lot of our members in both houses on both sides of the aisle feel that he is usurping the independent role of not only the New York State Assembly but the New York State Senate,» Flanagan said in an interview on WCNY's The Capitol Pressroom.

BY PAUL SCHINDLER Incumbency means a lot in the New York State Legislature, so it's not often that voters encounter a serious primary election challenge to a sitting member of the Senate or the Assembly.

«A lot of members are looking for a reset,» one current Assembly Democrat says.

«A lot of the younger members in particular from the Senate and Assembly have said to me, «Yeah, we actually like this idea,»... we've got to hermetically seal them off, to the extent we can, from money in government and from money in politics.»

The Buffalo Democrat says as a member of the majority in the Assembly he's been able to accomplish a lot of good things for Western New York.

A lot of the initiatives were ideas from assembly members, LaLonde said.

«The governor is trying to kill the mayor, the Senate wants to punch him, and the Assembly has to stop it even though a lot of members don't particularly like him,» said one frustrated city Assembly Dem.

«For years, former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver was the target in a lot of Republican campaigns against Democratic Assembly members.

He said that before he decided to reveal the actual salary and allowances of members of the Senate, there had been a lot of allegations and insinuation against the National Assembly.

Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver had a lot to answer for in breakfast with female members of the Democratic conference.