Sentences with phrase «majority of public governors»

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Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos was more supportive of the effort to strengthen charter schools statewide as the governor wants to lift the cap on the alternative public schools by 100.

Republican Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan ripped Gov. Andrew Cuomo's executive order that would grant parolees the right to vote in New York, charging that the governor is «exchanging votes at the expense of public safety.»

While Governor - elect Andrew Cuomo is a Democrat, he ran on a fiscally conservative platform that had more in keeping with the Senate Republicans» interests — property tax cap, public employee wage freeze, spending reductions — than the majority of Democrats (particularly those who hail from downstate) in the Senate and Assembly conferences.

One day after the release of a Siena College poll showing Cuomo with sizable leads over his potential Republican challengers, Deputy Senate Majority Leader John DeFrancisco's campaign critiqued past public polls and insisted that the incumbent Democratic governor can be defeated this year.

ALBANY, NY (04/04/2016)(readMedia)-- The New York Public Transit Association (NYPTA) is thanking Governor Andrew Cuomo, Senator Majority Leader John Flanagan, Speaker Carl Heastie and members of the Legislature today for their keen recognition of the needs of transit systems across New York in the adopted state budget for fiscal year 2016 - 2017.

The average New Yorker knows a minimum wage increase would be beneficial to the state's economy; that's why two recent public opinion polls showed sizable majorities of New Yorkers — 62 % (Quinnipiac) and 59 % (Siena)-- support Governor Cuomo's proposal for a $ 15 minimum wage.

Tedisco's bill requires all member items, discretionary funds, and so - called «lump sum payments», which are controlled by the Speaker of the Assembly, Senate Majority Leader and Governor and negotiated in many instances behind closed doors, be made public and fully transparent within the state budget.

«If we are going to restore public confidence in our state government, it essential that the Republican Senate Majority join the Assembly and the Governor to pass this legislation to close the LLC loophole, one of the most egregious gaps in the laws that are intended to ensure the integrity of our campaign finance system,» said Assemblymember Brian Kavanagh, who sponsors the bill in the Assembly.

(Albany, NY) In a letter delivered today, a coalition of government reform organizations called on Governor Andrew Cuomo, Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan and Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie to hold a series of open public leaders» meetings to discuss and negotiate — in public — ethics reforms necessary to restore New Yorkers» battered confidence in Albany.

While acknowledging the Governor's high popularity ratings, they noted that majorities of the public are opposed to key elements of his agenda, including giving tax breaks to millionaires and cutting healthcare and education spending.

A. «Affected State Entities» means (i) all agencies and departments over which the Governor has Executive Authority, and (ii) all public - benefit corporations, public authorities and commissions, for which the Governor appoints the Chair, the Chief Executive, or the majority of Board Members, except for the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey.

When Governor Andrew Cuomo touts public - private partnerships as the path to NY economic development, a sizable majority of New Yorkers get starry eyed.

In 2014, the governor and legislative leaders — Silver and then - Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos, who is also on trial for selling his office — agreed to dissolve the commission in exchange for a pilot program of public campaign finance, a new enforcement office at the state's Board of Elections and changes to the bribery statute.

Members of Statewide Steering Committee U.S. Rep. Mike Simpson Lieutenant Governor Brad Little Secretary of State Ben Ysursa Superintendent of Public Schools Tom Luna State Controller Donna Jones Attorney General Lawrence Wasden Senate Pro Tempore Brent Hill Speaker of the House Lawerence Denney Senate Majority Leader Bart Davis Assistant Senate Majority Leader Chuck Winder House Assistant Majority Leader Scott Bedke House Caucus Chairman Ken Roberts

The majority leader said there have been no three - way budget talks as of yet, adding that he would be more than happy to attend a public leaders meeting if the governor calls one.

Currently, the Commission on Public Integrity — the entity charged with policing the governor and his staff — is controlled by a majority of gubernatorial employees.

Legislators currently appoint a Legislative Ethics Commission to oversee their members; the governor appoints the majority of the Commission on Public Integrity, which oversees statewide officeholders and executive branch employees.

During her press conference outside PS 13, Ms. Malliotakis unveiled her Albany reform agenda, including: Requiring a two - thirds legislative majority to pass new taxes and fees; capping the rise in spending at the rate of inflation or 2 percent, whichever is less; requiring legislators to disclose outside sources of income; requiring public authorities like the MTA to undergo an independent financial audit, and calling for a constitutional convention to address items that have bedeviled the state recently, such as appointing a lieutenant governor and breaking a Senate tie.

The governor, the Senate majority leader and the Assembly speaker each have access to about one - third of that $ 1.1 billion to award to public projects, according to Ken Girardin, of the Empire Center.

But with the conviction of the Assembly Speaker, the conviction of the former Deputy Senate Majority Leader, and the ongoing court proceedings against the former Senate Majority Leader, the governor can not hope that the public demand for action will melt away.

Even as some legislators were learning the outlines of the proposals, legislative language was still circulating — out of public view — among a small circle of people close to the governor, Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan, Senate Independent Democratic Conference Leader Jeff Klein and Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie.

«The governor is correct that the only housing authority that got direct grants to their housing authority was NYCHA,» said William Simmons, president of the New York State Public Housing Authority Directors Association, which represents the majority of housing authorities in the state.

«This budget agreement was hard - fought and we deeply appreciate the tenacious commitment of Governor Cuomo, Majority Leader [John] Flanagan and Coalition Leader [Jeffrey] Klein to treat public charter school students fairly,» said James Merriman, CEO of the New York City Charter School Center.

During recent public appearances, Bharara went out of his way to mock Albany's «three - men - in - a-room» governing style in which the governor, Senate majority leader and Assembly speaker negotiate most budget and major policy decisions behind closed doors.

The governor limited the majority of his public appearances to upstate over the summer, offering aid and support to flood victims, appearing at a wine tasting contest, and organizing a white water rafting race.

So on Wednesday, Citizens Union, Reinvent Albany, Common Cause NY, the League of Women Voters of New York State, and the New York Public Interest Research Group sent a letter to Governor Cuomo and the two new legislative leaders, Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie and Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan, urging them to come together to enact comprehensive and significant reforms in five ethics categories.

«The agreement worked out among the governor, Speaker Silver and Majority Leader Skelos — a stark contrast with the political deadlock in Washington — will bring more fairness to the state tax code and help ensure that children in our public schools will begin to see restorations from the devastating education cuts of recent years,» he said.

Governor Andrew Cuomo says the recently enacted state budget included the majority of the priorities he named in his January State of the State message, including raising the age for adult criminal responsibility from 16 to 18, providing free public college tuition for some middle - class families, and allowing ride hailing services to operate upstate.

Most of the other commissioners, the majority appointed by Governor Cuomo, remained silent, but voted against Commissioner Jacob's motion to discuss the next phase of the investigation in public.

New York Governor David Paterson appeared to dial back his rhetoric yesterday on New York's marriage equality bill, which has been full - throttle since he announced he was reintroducing it, in a public gesture of handover to Senate Majority Leader Malcolm Smith.

Governor Andrew M. Cuomo, Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos, Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, and the New York Racing Association (NYRA) Tuesday announced an agreement to establish the NYRA Reorganization Board that will place NYRA under temporary public control in order to reform the association and transform oversight and management of horse racing in New York State.

Governor Donald Carcieri, Speaker Gordon Fox and Mayor Daniel J. McKee cut the ribbon at Blackstone Valley Prep Mayoral Academy's 2009 opening, surrounded by (from left to right) Cranston mayor Allan Fung, R.I. attorney general Peter Kilmartin, former senate majority leader Daniel Connors, R.I. commissioner of education Deborah Gist, former president of the National Alliance of Public Charter Schools Nel - son Smith and former R.I. representative Mary Ann Shallcross Smith.

5 Governor's Committee Report 48; Texas Research League, Texas Public School Finance: A Majority of Exceptions 31 - 32 (2d Interim Report 1972); Berke, Carnevale, Morgan White, supra, n. 29, at 680 - 681.

To: Speaker Carl Heastie Assembly Majority Leader Joseph Morelle Assembly Minority Leader Brian Kolb Assembly Education Committee Chairwoman Catherine Nolan Majority Leader John Flanagan Senate Democratic Leader Andrea Stewart - Cousins Senate Education Committee Chair Carl L. Marcellino Governor Andrew Cuomo Educators for Excellence - New York (E4E - New York), a teacher - led organization of over 13,000 New York City public school educators, believes that a multi-measure system of student achievement and a fair system of teacher evaluation is essential to supporting, developing, and retaining high - quality educators.

Then, he reverses the cherry picking process, «In fact, a majority of those polled (52 percent) side with teachers unions and educators who have been under attack as a new crop of governors — Wisconsin's Scott Walker, Florida's Rick Scott, New Jersey's Chris Christie, Ohio's John Kasich — declared war on public employees and the middle class.»

Outspoken liberal politicians, including some aspiring Presidential candidates, like New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, want to divest their respective public pension funds from fossil fuel companies for ideological reasons, while the vast majority of fund managers from both sides of the aisle disagree.

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59 and 60) between «private» and «public» place, the majority held that these deal with enforcement only and do not touch upon, or otherwise limit, the scope of the regulatory powers granted to the Lieutenant Governor by s. 66 (1)(s), nor do they purport to define the terminology used in the PHA.

Thus, at the end of the day, the majority held that rental accommodations, whether occupied by a tenant or not, are «public places» for the purpose of the regulatory powers conferred on the Lieutenant Governor in s. 66 of the PHA.

(a) Every such reorganization plan shall be referred to an appropriate committee, to be determined by the Clerks of the Senate and the House of Representatives, with the approval of the President and Speaker, which committee shall not later than thirty days after the date of the Governor's presentation of said plan hold a public hearing thereon and shall not later than ten days after such hearing report that it approves or disapproves such plan and such reorganization plan shall have the force of law upon expiration of the sixty calendar days next following its presentation by the governor to the general court, unless disapproved by a majority vote of the members of either of the two branches of the general court present and voting, the general court not having been prorogued within such sixGovernor's presentation of said plan hold a public hearing thereon and shall not later than ten days after such hearing report that it approves or disapproves such plan and such reorganization plan shall have the force of law upon expiration of the sixty calendar days next following its presentation by the governor to the general court, unless disapproved by a majority vote of the members of either of the two branches of the general court present and voting, the general court not having been prorogued within such sixgovernor to the general court, unless disapproved by a majority vote of the members of either of the two branches of the general court present and voting, the general court not having been prorogued within such sixty days.