Sentences with phrase «majority members»

Neither is it my duty as the majority chief whip to go and take monies meant for majority members and pay to them.

At a board meeting shortly thereafter, one of the elected majority members left early, giving the elected minority a physical majority.

Still, some of the newly elected majority members have proposed other things that might not sit well with teachers.

The approval was done by only Majority Members of Parliament because the Minority staged a walkout during the debate on the Floor of the House.

As explained below, one bill in particular — sponsored by majority members in both the Senate and Assembly — could add $ 1 billion to property tax bills over the next few years.

Successfully represented a minority member in a Massachusetts limited liability company in a suit for emergency injunctive relief against expulsion by majority members.

Assembly Democratic majority members were scheduled to go into conference just prior to 10 p.m. and they had requested a «message of necessity» from Gov. Andrew Cuomo that would let them vote on at least two noncontroversial budget bills without the customary three - day «aging» period that is supposed to provide time for actually reading the bills members will vote for.

«It has always been, and continues to be in the Assembly, an equal number of minority and majority members on committees.

After telling reporters in no uncertain terms that his conference would be leaving Albany, not to return until next week, Senate Democratic Conference Leader John Sampson and his fellow majority members did not go home.

We've seen too many excuses from Assembly Majority members and not nearly enough action on this issue.

ICYMI: Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver told me last night on CapTon the recent retirement decisions of several majority members and rumored potential departure of at least one more does not cause him to reflect on the day that he, too, might throw in the towel.

Minority members have a much harder time getting legislation passed because majority members decide which bills make it to the floor for a vote.

«The final number is still being worked on,» Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie (D - Bronx) said Sunday night after a two - hour, closed - door conference with majority members.

«It's disappointing but life goes on,» said majority member Larry Quinn.

School Board Majority Members Carl Paladino and Patty Pierce did not attend the interview.

School Board majority members Larry Quinn and James P. Sampson, who is running for re-election in the West District, also attended.

He served as chair of both the Senate Agriculture Committee and the Rural Resources Commission, and as the ranking majority member and vice chair of the Energy & Telecommunications Committee.

That's a stark difference from the well - funded Senate GOP, whose leader, Sen. Dean Skelos, has pledged to assist majority members like Sens. Roy McDonald and Mark Grisanti, for example, who are facing tough challenges from fellow Republicans.

In fact, all IDC members raised at least $ 130,000 in contributions, a higher figure than some incumbent Senate majority members.

And their continued support came despite pressure from one influential developer, Louis P. Ciminelli, who early in the race attempted to pressure the partnership to withhold support from majority members.

Both the 43 - 79, a group of prominent business leaders, and the Buffalo Niagara Partnership, contributed to Sampson's campaign and that of fellow incumbent majority member Jason M. «Jay» McCarthy.

i.e. making the number of Immoral Majority members more like 100 million in 2012.

In recent months, several residents have called for the resignation of the three majority members including Hurtado and Commissioners Janet Silosky and Peter Steinys.

The average majority members in both houses voted with their respective leaders between 97.41 percent (Assembly Democrats) and 98.87 percent (Senate Republicans) of the time.

Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie, who met with his Democratic majority members at the State Capitol earlier this month, said he believes that a special session is probably unnecessary.

I have written several posts now about the Senate Republicans» use of their close working relationship with Gov. Andrew Cuomo — and his suggestion that he might cross party lines to endorse majority members this fall — as a key plank in their strategy to retain control of the majority.

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.

The incoming Majority members, with their numbers said to be hovering around 170 as against the governing National Democratic Congress (NDC) 115, are expected by Nana Addo, to ensure that his nominated ministers, who will be vetted by the Appointment Committee, are given the nod using their number as an effective weapon.

To the victors go the spoils, of course, which means majority members receive many times more than the minority.

A Senate Democrat insisted Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver nixed a return because he doesn't want to give the governor the opportunity to bring up the NYSUT - hated property tax cap issue again — particularly not with the September primaries looming in which he stands to lose as many as a dozen majority members.

DeFrancisco seemed to be making a «rose is a rose» argument, suggesting that it might not behoove the Senate GOP to spend a lot of money defending incumbents who face primaries in safe Republican seats when it has bigger fish to fry in protecting vulnerable majority members — like, say, Sen. Mark Grisanti — from Democratic challengers and trying to pick off incumbent members of the minority conference.

Majority members Jay McCarthy, Larry Quinn and Carl Paladino were not in the room.

Now lowering the drinking age by the Governor and the State Legislature and telling our congressional delegation majority members (the Dems in the Senate and the Gops in the House) to uncouple the drinking age from the highway funding that triggered New York to raise it from 18 to 21 will have a very positive impact upon the economy!

This secretive, clandestine process directly or indirectly preserves majority members.

All five of the new majority members elected in Tuesday's races said lower class sizes should be the top priority in the 2016 - 17 budget.

Those on the other side, however, see majority members as combative enemies of teachers who have accomplished little in their two years controlling the board besides fueling division.

Voters who were part of the effort to unseat majority members criticized them for a lack of vision and for creating acrimony in the district.

For Democrats in the state Assembly, where majority members gave Cuomo's speech high marks, the nearly $ 1 billion increase this year in education funding that Cuomo proposed was panned as not enough.

The shift comes with the ouster of majority members Sampson and Jason M. «Jay» McCarthy, who will be replaced by Hope R. Jay in the North District.

After LPCiminelli spokesman Kevin Schuler acknowledged the company wanted to oust majority members who support the legal challenge, the construction company fell relatively quiet.

In the Park District, Carl Paladino was the only majority member up for reelection who retained his seat in a narrow victory against 18 - year - old Austin Harig.

Outgoing majority members also collected fewer individual donations than their opponents, but pulled in larger dollar amounts.

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Eleven majority members of the Senate Environment Committee then sent a letter to the same groups on February 27 calling their minority colleagues» previous missive «wholly inappropriate.»

The Minority and Majority Members of Parliament also waded into the controversy taking divergent positions.

Several majority members were ousted.

While Gottfried, an Assembly Democratic Majority member, said he is comfortable with the concept of such a harm - reduction model, state Sen. George Amedore, R - Rotterdam, expressed vehement opposition.