Sentences with phrase «majority conference first»

Heastie would not confirm that a tentative deal had been reached, and said he needs to go over the details with his Democratic majority conference first.

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but as soon as they had a for profit conference business, they put a majority of women on the stage for the first time!!

Flanagan also said that as part of the «overall transition, he has elevated James Curran, who recently serviced a special counsel to the majority leader and advised the conference on education issues, to the position of first Deputy within the office.

But the wage debate opened fissures within the conference that were first exposed last year, Dean Skelos stepped down as majority leader and was replaced by a fellow Long Island lawmaker, John Flanagan.

«Since this vacancy first occurred, the position of our entire Senate Majority conference has been clear and I will reiterate it now: No one who intends to seek this office in November should be a candidate to fill the position in the short - term,» he said.

«New York is on the cusp of making history, Andrea Stewart - Cousins should be the first woman, and first African American woman, to ever lead a Majority Conference in the New York Legislature.

Steawart - Cousins would be the first African - American woman to lead a majority conference in state government.

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The agreement would put the Democratic conference on track for Senate Minority Leader Andrea Stewart - Cousins to become the first woman to lead a Senate majority conference — provided the Democrats pick up two Senate seats in special elections later this month, and the conference can secure Felder's loyalty.

ICYMI: Assemblyman Mickey Kearns — now officially a man without a country since he left the Democratic conference to protest Speaker Sheldon Silver's handling of the Vito Lopez scandal — was reluctant during a CapTon interview to suggest a replacement for the speaker, whose resignation the freshman Buffalo lawmaker is the first majority member to publicly call for.

ALBANY - Senate Republicans Tuesday pledged full support for Majority Leader Dean Skelos before and after their first closed - door conference since he was identified in news reports involving a federal corruption probe.

The visit to the region, part of a summer - long tour of the state, was an opportunity for Heastie to see first - hand the issues he has heard about from the area's Assembly Democrats, who represent a small chunk of the 100 - plus members of the Democratic Majority Conference.

With Simcha Felder now backing the GOP conference (as first reported by Liz yesterday), Senate Republicans are now at 31 votes, putting them within reach of keeping their majority.

Democrats could potentially gain control of the state Senate for the first time since losing power after a two - year stint in the majority between 2009 and 2010, assuming the two competing Democratic conferences can work together after being at odds for seven years.

Stewart - Cousins would become the first female leader of a majority conference in Albany if Democrats do end up taking control.

For the Senate, Republicans are returning with their first numerical majority since 2012, calling into question the conference's power - sharing alliance with the Independent Democratic Cconference's power - sharing alliance with the Independent Democratic ConferenceConference.

Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan is scheduled to attend an Onondaga County GOP event tomorrow in Syracuse — his first upstate trip since he ascended to replace his fellow Long Islander, Dean Skelos, as head of the GOP conference earlier this month.

Bloomberg's comments came after his sit - down with the first Republican to announce he would break with the majority conference and vote «yes» on the bill: Rochester Sen. Jim Alesi.

First on his plate is to negotiate the state budget, and lawmakers in the majority conference are eager to move forward on the process with a new speaker.

Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos said this morning that his GOP conference will discuss for the first time today whether to let the same - sex marriage bill come to the floor for a vote.

In his first year as mayor, Mr. de Blasio tangled with a senate that is governed by a coalition of breakaway Democrats and the Republican Party — even with an ally in State Senator Jeff Klein, the leader of the Independent Democratic Conference, a Republican majority still looms to potentially stifle a leftist, urban platform that polls poorly in many GOP strongholds throughout the state.

Though Flanagan is a veteran lawmaker, Wednesday marked the first time he sat on the stage on a State of the State address as the leader of a majority conference.

Kearns chose to conference with the Democratic majority in the Assembly when he first took office in 2012.

ALBANY — State Senator John Bonacic, a Republican from the Hudson Valley, became the first member of his conference to call on Majority Leader Dean Skelos to resign from his leadership post, following Skelos» arrest on federal corruption charges on Monday.

Bronx Sen. Pedro Espada's return to the Democratic conference gives Democrats a 32 - 30 majority for the first time since the June 8 coup.

I am overwhelmingly grateful for the patience, persistence and commitment of the members of the Assembly Majority Conference for their support in delivering on our promise to put and keep families first in New York,» said Heastie.

Eventually Espada and Monserrate rejoined the Democratic conference but the damage had been done - rifts in the Senate Democrats were made public, and they were painted as dysfunctional during their first shot at the majority in decades.

Skelos, who was first elected to the Senate in 1984, had the rare distinction of serving as both the chamber's minority and majority leader, shepherding his conference to electoral wins in 2010 and cutting a deal in 2012 with the five - member Independent Democratic Conference that kept him holding the chamber's reins — in conjunction with Bronx State Senator Jeff Klein — even as Democrats won a numericalconference to electoral wins in 2010 and cutting a deal in 2012 with the five - member Independent Democratic Conference that kept him holding the chamber's reins — in conjunction with Bronx State Senator Jeff Klein — even as Democrats won a numericalConference that kept him holding the chamber's reins — in conjunction with Bronx State Senator Jeff Klein — even as Democrats won a numerical majority.

An important first step in the process occurred this week when the Independent Democratic Conference that formed a coalition majority with Senate Republicans dissolved and rejoined regular Democrats.

Cuomo held his first «leaders meeting» of the session on Monday at the Capitol with Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie, Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan, and Independent Democratic Conference (IDC) Leader Jeff Klein, which could be a sign that Cuomo is engaging and ready to broker some deals among the now «four men in the room.»

If the Democrats win the majority, Stewart - Cousins — who complained about being frozen out of the recent budget talks and negotiations over an anti-sexual harassment package — stands to become the state's first black woman to lead a legislative conference.