Sentences with phrase «measures come to the floor»

«But when these measures come to the floor for a vote, do we want him to do the right thing and support real reforms to clean up Albany?

Now, Klein and the IDC are in «consultation» with the Senate Republicans on bills, but have no say over which measures come to the floor for a vote.

Not exact matches

«I'm going to remain on this floor until we get some signal, some sign that we can come together on these two measures, that we can get a path forward on addressing this epidemic in a meaningful, bipartisan way,» Murphy said on the Senate floor.

We came to this value measuring from the floor to the top of the adult's mattress.

His predecessor, Sheldon Silver, supported every non-hostile measure that came to the floor during his time at the helm.

The sponsor of a Michigan internet gambling bill is attempting to build a critical mass of support for the measure ahead of a potential House floor vote on it in the coming weeks,...

They emerged with a brief statement: The bill would come to the floor for a vote, with ultimately four backing the measure.

Savino maintains there are enough votes in the Senate to approve the measure if the bill comes to the floor to vote.

In June, as a Cuomo - backed abortion - rights measure failed to come to a floor vote (and granted, it is doubtful that it had the votes to pass) and legislators adjourned without acting on any of the governor's public corruption bills, he refused, even when prompted, to single out the IDC.

But House Speaker John Boehner doesn't want that measure to come to the floor.

He called on the Republican leadership of the chamber to allow the measure to come to the floor for a vote.

Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos said last October that he thinks the bill should come to the floor for an up - or - down vote, but he has so far shown no sign of moving the measure.

32 of these members would need to be present and supportive of a vote of no confidence if it had a chance of passage, and members of the I.D.C. have been vague as to whether they would support such a measure if it came to the floor, saying only that «the burden is all on» Republicans.

The measures are expected to come to the floor for a vote in the Assembly in the next month, where it could likely pass.

Senators are starting to head to their conference room on the third floor of the state Capitol because they want to discuss some key bills expected to come up for a vote today — including Sen. John Bonacic's constitutional amendment redistricting measure — but they're pledging to walk out if Kruger shows up.

The backing of the wage floor on the federal level comes after New York's state budget in April approved a measure to increase the state's minimum wage in New York City and the suburban counties to $ 15 over the next several years (upstate hits $ 12.50 and is then subject to an economic formula with the goal of eventually hitting $ 15).

The same measure has sailed through Assembly committees and is expected to be approved by the entire house when it comes to the floor for a vote.

In a further development, the medical marijuana legislation has been transferred from the Senate Finance Committee to the Senate Rules Committee, greatly improving the measure's chance of coming to the floor for a vote.

The DA wondered aloud whether the senator «even knows» the measure is stuck in committee and said she wished he had showed up so she could have had the opportunity to ask him to join her in pushing for it to come to the floor for a vote.

Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie in a private meeting with his Democratic members said he plans to allow the measure to come to the chamber floor for a vote for the first time, sources told the NY Daily News.

Speaker Carl Heastie says the measure won't come to the floor for a vote unless there is enough support among Democrats alone to back the bill.

At least one member of the Republican conference had to join him in coming out in support of the measure during the floor vote.

The IDC noted that there are a number of right - leaning members of the larger Democratic caucus who would likely vote against the DREAM Act and other liberal measures if they came to the State Senate floor — and challenged their fellow partisans to «call the role.»

They attempted earlier this year to score term limits for the leadership and committee chairs and a measure that would allow any piece of legislation with 76 sponsors to come to the floor.

There are majority party sponsors in each house of the legislature for a bill to add greater oversight to the state's economic development contracts, but the measure failed to come to the floor for a vote.

Updegrove sounded an optimistic note that recent political changes in Albany provided an opportunity for the measures to at least receive a fair up - or - down vote on the floor of the Assembly, where former Speaker Sheldon Silver, D - Manhattan, had previously blocked Medicaid reform votes from ever even coming to a vote.

The proposal's sponsors, Councilmen Brad Lander (D - 39th) and Jumaane Williams (D - 45th), urged her to reconsider her position but said they would see that the measure got a vote regardless — an uncommon pledge in a council where Quinn generally controls what comes to the floor.

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D - Nevada, says he will bring such a measure to the floor coming weeks.

Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie said that he plans next week to allow the measure to come to the chamber floor for a vote for the first time, sources said.

«There are a number of issues the Republican - led body has not allowed to come to the floor, even though I believe the people of the state of New York want these measures enacted,» he said.

Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie in a private meeting with his Democratic members said that he plans next week to allow the measure to come to the chamber floor for a vote for the first time, sources said Tuesday.

The vote to send the measure, S 1150, to the Senate floor came after unsuccessful attempts to remove the Pell Grant provision and to replace the current system of federally subsidized student loans with a direct - loan proposal.

The Promaster City cargo model comes with a fully lined floor that is flat and expansive, measuring 87.2 feet from the seatbacks to the rear doors, 60.4 inches between the walls and 48.4 inches between the wheelwells, allowing a forklift to drop in a conventional pallet full of cargo.

So by measuring the building internally, when we come to any outward - facing junction, such as an eaves, ground floor / wall junction, external wall corner etc. there is essentially a hole in our calculations, as we're limited to a one - dimensional heat loss calculation, and our U-values are blind to the heat loss happening in the second dimension at the junction.

I'm a space planning nerd too, the first thing I do after measuring up a clients space is the floor plan and space plan, not the fabrics... they come later after I know the scale of the furniture I will be working with and the size of rug I can get into the room... Loving the Sarah Richardson red doors... way to copy a good thing and make it greater, just for you... way to go!

We recently had Lowe's come out and measure our floors to get wood and tear up the nasty carpet... my hubby is dragging his (cheap) feet and now we had to have them come out and measure again because we let the timeframe expire.