Sentences with phrase «majority leader of the chamber»

Dean Skelos insisted on Monday that he did not personally lobby his colleagues to pick John Flanagan as the new majority leader of the chamber, even as he personally supported his bid.

A Democratic win would be both significant and symbolic: The Long Island 9 — a bloc of Republican lawmakers who hold all the seats in Nassau and Suffolk counties — would be broken up, while the seat once held by the majority leader of the chamber would be flipped.

He added that it's important the next majority leader of the chamber be someone from the upstate region.

Independent Democratic Conference Leader Jeff Klein in a private dinner last week pledged to continue to bolster Senate Republicans, saying he wants to keep John Flanagan the majority leader of the chamber for a «long, long time.»

Not exact matches

The idea of Democrats gain a governing majority in the state Senate is a «moot point» considering Republicans have a working majority in the chamber already, Republican leader John Flanagan wrote in an op / ed to State of Politics.

Western New York Rep. Chris Collins said he would love to see the House get an opportunity to weigh in on this proposal, too, but he's acutely aware Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell & Co. need 50 of 52 GOP senators» support to get it through their chamber.

Retiring Assembly Majority Leader Ron Canestrari said he believes Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver when he says he has no intention of following any of the chamber's senior members into retirement.

In a sign that Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan's comments critical of Gov. Andrew Cuomo's executive action on transgender rights will continue to reverberate, one of the state's most prominent LGBT rights groups plans to make a splash in the coming fight for control of the chamber.

«As the former Chairman of the Senate's Education Committee and now the chamber's Majority Leader, I am extremely disappointed the Mayor doesn't believe this hearing is significant enough to attend.»

After the Democrats lost control of the chamber, he founded the New Roosevelt Initiative and helped topple former Senate Majority Leader Pedro Espada Jr., whom Samuels says the Democrats should never have accepted back into the fold after the 2009 coup.

As deputy majority leader, Libous was the leader of the GOP conference's floor operations, including the infamous 2009 coup in which two Democratic lawmakers switched to the Republican side, stalling any activity in the chamber for a month.

Klein, a one - time deputy majority leader in the Democratic conference, is now in a position of serious power in the chamber.

Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan in a statement Monday accused Gov. Andrew Cuomo of having «already thrown in the towel» on the end of the legislative session and insisted the Republican - controlled chamber has a busy agenda between now and June 20, the final scheduled end to the legislative session.

In an op / ed submitted to Capital Tonight's State of Politics, Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan insisted Republicans will hold control of the chamber and even grow its narrow majority in the chamber in part by targeting seats held by members of the defunct Independent Democratic ConMajority Leader John Flanagan insisted Republicans will hold control of the chamber and even grow its narrow majority in the chamber in part by targeting seats held by members of the defunct Independent Democratic Conmajority in the chamber in part by targeting seats held by members of the defunct Independent Democratic Conference.

Morse again would not commit to supporting Senate Minority Leader John Sampson for majority leader if he's elected and the Democrats re-take control of the chLeader John Sampson for majority leader if he's elected and the Democrats re-take control of the chleader if he's elected and the Democrats re-take control of the chamber.

Upstate Democrats had tried — without success — to win some additional clout in the downstate - dominated chamber by backing Assembly Majority Leader Joe Morelle, of Rochester, to replace Silver after the Manhattan assemblyman was toppled by a federal corruption scandal.

Paterson was replaced as minority leader by Queens Sen. Malcolm Smith, who made history in 2009 when the Democrats wrested control of the majority from the GOP and he became the chamber's first black majority leader.

In an about face on Friday, Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan announced his chamber will hold public hearings in the village of Hoosick Falls next month to discuss water contamination concerns.

Frustrated public officials and community leaders on Monday will hold a Harlem rally in support of making Stewart - Cousins the chamber's first black woman majority leader.

The median grant in this tranche of requests was $ 125,000, but the largest single earmark went to Assemblyman Joe Morelle, the chamber's majority leader.

State Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan (R - LI) is pushing for elimination of Cuomo's wage board, which has the power to set salaries for certain industries, in return for his chamber's approval of the plan that the governor has dubbed «Fight for $ 15» by 2021.

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The worry for both sides, however, is one chamber pulling the strategy employed famously by Senate Majority Leader Joe Bruno of simply passing their preferred version of a bill and going home.

Senate Democratic Minority Leader Andrea Stewart - Cousins, one of the featured speakers at the convention this morning, noted the Democratic conference has a «numeric majority» in the chamber.

The CEO of the unnamed medical malpractice firm — like Anthony Bonomo, a former NYRA official — was afraid that if Adam Skelos lost his job at the company he would lose access to the elder Skelos, who just ascended to the majority leader post in the chamber.

It's not clear whether the Senate GOP would be able to instill any of the «Trump agenda» at the state Capitol given the narrow divide in the chamber and the likelihood Majority Leader John Flanagan will need to keep the IDC close should a vacancy arise.

Skelos is a longtime lawmaker who became Senate majority leader for several months in 2007 before the Democrats took control of the chamber last year with a slim 32 - to - 30 margin.

Assemblyman Joe Morelle, the chamber's majority leader, sponsors the MMA bill and said he has a majority of the chamber's Democratic members behind him.

Dean Skelos is a longtime lawmaker who became Senate majority leader for several months in 2007 before the Dems took control of the chamber last year with a 32 - 30 margin.

The Deputy Majority Leader, Sarah Adwoa Safo, has assured her colleagues Members of Parliament that the leadership of the House is committed to improving security within the precincts of the chamber.

Under the bill, which passed the chamber 40 - 18, eight of the 17 - member education policymaking board would be chosen by the governor, three by the Senate majority leader, and three by the Assembly speaker.

Senate Majority Leader John J. Flanagan appointed Central New York Senator John DeFrancisco as Deputy Majority Leader of the New York State Senate, thus restoring regional balance in the leadership of the upper chamber.

------ Assembly Majority Leader Joseph Morelle is trying to whip votes in his chamber to legalize the controversial sport of mixed martial arts.

As leader of the five - member breakaway faction that allied with Republicans to form the chamber's governing coalition (and keep Democrats from assuming the control that should have accompanied their mathematical majority), Klein has been justifying the partnership since it formed in 2012 as a win for progressives, rather than as a means of self - empowerment.

Then - deputy majority leader Klein, the chamber's biggest recipient of real estate contributions, refused to co-sponsor the repeal bill.

Stringer made the comment at a Harlem rally calling for fractured state Senate Democrats to unify and make Sen. Andrea Stewart - Cousins majority leader of a house where the Dems come November are expected to again have the majority but not control the chamber because nine breakaway Dems are aligned with the Republicans in a leadership coalition.

Deputy Senate Minority Leader Neil Breslin said the chamber needs to «move on» from Parker's assault case and again sought to differentiate it from Monserrate's conviction on a misdemeanor charge of abusing his girlfriend and ex-Senate Majority Leader Pedro Espada Jr.'s alleged corruption.

ALBANY — Two days after the arrest of then - Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos last May, the chamber's Democrats attempted to force a vote to suspend the rules in order to oust him from power.

Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan thinks that the GOP will enter 2017 still in control of the chamber, despite everything that's happening with Trump.

Though Deputy Senate Majority Leader Tom Libous, R - Binghamton, didn't exactly close the door on a millionaires tax in a radio interview last week (Libous said he would be open to other sources of revenue if the high - volume version of the controversial but potential lucrative natural - gas extraction process known as hydrofracking isn't allowed) DeFrancisco said GOP lawmakers in his chamber would continue to oppose any tax increases or attempts to sustain a surcharge.

It has bipartisan support in that chamber, where Assembly Minority Leader Brian Kolb and several of Gottfriend's colleagues in the majority have signed on as co-sponsors.

Kaminsky in April won a special election to replace the disgraced former Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos in the chamber, flipping a Long Island Senate seat that had long been in GOP hands and breaking up the Long Island 9 voting bloc of Republican lawmakers.

The Senate has on Tuesday confirmed its rejection of Mr. Ibrahim Magu as the Chairman of Economic and Financial Crime Commission, EFCC, by rejecting the submission of its Majority Leader, Ali Ndume, that the upper legislative chamber did not reject his confirmation.

IDC Leader Jeff Klein no long holds the power of Senate co-president in the chamber after Republicans gained a full majority.

Flanagan's the majority leader of the NYS Senate and he's gets a budget to run the chamber and can allot that anyway he wants is what I'm saying.

The seat itself is only opening up since Libous, the former deputy majority leader in the chamber, was convicted on a charge of lying to the FBI and removed from the Senate.

John Flanagan, the newly elected majority leader of the state Senate, told reporters on Monday he had stepped down from his law firm as he takes on the new post in the chamber.

Restive upstate advocates who supported Syracuse Sen. John DeFrancisco's bid for majority leader where disappointed to see another downstate member ascend to the majority leader post in a chamber that is the last lever of power controlled statewide by Republicans.

Onondaga County Republican Chairman Tom Dadey called the appointment of Syracuse Sen. John DeFrancisco to the number two post in the Senate a «smart move» by Majority Leader John Flanagan after upstate Republicans grumbled about their representation in the chamber.

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