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She also met with lawmakers who are considering a bill to expand statewide a program offering tax - funded vouchers for private school tuition.

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Zuckerberg, who is speaking with a handful of lawmakers before his congressional hearings over the next few days, spent more than an hour in a one - on - one, closed - door meeting with Nelson.

Oregon Representative Peter DeFazio, the top Democrat on the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, who was in Trump's meeting with a dozen Democratic and Republican lawmakers, said the president also told them he would be willing to increase the amount of federal spending beyond the $ 200 billion he is seeking for the infrastructure program.

«Trump met w / lawmakers on gun control where he bullied GOP who defend the 2A & said govt should «take guns first, go through due process second,»» Fox News host Tucker Carlson said Thursday night, indicating his disapproval of Trump's conversation with lawmakers a day earlier.

State Education Commissioner David Steiner, who is under intense pressure to either grant or deny a waiver to Mayor Bloomberg's NYC schools chancellor pick, Cathie Black, is keeping a fairly low profile these days, but he did respond to a letter from minority lawmakers who hoped to meet with him prior to his decision.

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Senate Minority Leader Andrea Stewart - Cousins met privately in New York City on Wednesday with Brooklyn Sen. Simcha Felder, a lawmaker who is a key linchpin for control of the narrowly divided chamber.

President Trump on Sunday accused former Democratic presidential nominee Hillary ClintonHillary Diane Rodham ClintonTrump Jr. met with Gulf adviser who offered help to win election: report Voters Dems need aren't impressed by anti-waterboarding showboating After year of investigation, Trump can rightly claim some vindication MORE of colluding with her party to defeat her primary opponent Sen. Bernie SandersBernard (Bernie) SandersSunday shows preview: Lawmakers weigh in after Texas school shooting Voters Dems need aren't impressed by anti-waterboarding showboating Primary win gives resurgent left a new shot of adrenaline MORE (I - Vt.).

Lawmakers who support the legislation have demanded to meet with Cuomo to urge him to take a larger role in shaping the measure and fold it into the state budget.

Restructuring the state's tax code has been met with skepticism from Republican lawmakers as well as some budget observers who have questioned whether such an undertaking can be done by the end of March.

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Zebrowski, Assemblywoman Ellen Jaffee, who represents East Ramapo, and Rockland County lawmaker Sen. David Carlucci, a member of the Independent Democratic Conference, met with leaders of the Assembly and Senate in Cuomo's office Thursday afternoon.

As federal lawmakers continue to try to reach a budget deal, Sheehan and Adirondack Council Executive Director William Janeway traveled to Washington, D.C., where they met with members of the North Country delegation, including Rep. Paul Tonko (D - Amsterdam) and former army secretary and Rep. John McHugh, who now works as a lobbyist.

And it comes as they've met with several leading lawmakers who have heard complaints from constituents who are worried about the way the agency runs its investigations.

Bill sponsors insisted they had the votes available for a Friday vote on the measure, but the effort has been met with stiff resistance from racino operators, who spent much the day personally lobbying lawmakers in the Senate.

The proposal, expected to cost $ 160 million in Cuomo's $ 152 billion spending plan, is has been met with some skepticism by lawmakers, who question its estimated price tag and whether it is generous enough.

His budget requests were met with skepticism from some lawmakers, and his call for a permanent extension of mayoral control was promptly dismissed by Cuomo, who held a competing event at the Capitol.

The Feerick Commission's investigation was not viewed positively by many lawmakers, including the legislative leaders (Senate Majority Leader Ralph Marino and Assembly Speaker Mel Miller), who declined to formally testify on campaign fund - raising efforts by their respective conferences, but did say they would meet in formally with commission members.

A proposal by de Blasio to rezone parts of the city to build more housing cleared its most important hurdle, emerging from a NYC Council meeting with enough revisions to satisfy major critics and city lawmakers who had opposed the plan for not doing enough to provide housing for the poorest New Yorkers.

About 25 Wall Street executives, many of them hedge fund managers, sat down for a private meeting Thursday afternoon with two of the most powerful Republican lawmakers in Congress: Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, and John Cornyn, the senior senator from Texas who runs the National Republican Senatorial Committee, one of the primary fundraising arms of the Republican Party.

Senator Jeff Klein, the Bronx lawmaker who had headed the Independence Democratic Conference since January 2011, is being included in some of the leaders meetings, even though the power - sharing deal he brokered with Skelos in 2012 ceased to exist when the Republicans won a full majority in the 2014 elections.

The proposal was met with skepticism from state lawmakers in both parties, who worried the money could be diverted and said they weren't consulted until shortly before the administration announced its plan in late April.

«The latest revelations scream out for more reform,» said Presiding Officer William Lindsay (D - Holbrook), who met with Kennedy and said he he'll support the GOP lawmaker's proposal rather than file his own measure.

The advocates also held private meetings with key lawmakers and their staffs, including Deputy Senate Leader John DeFrancisco, who is also a Republican candidate for governor.

A proposal by Mayor Bill de Blasio to rezone parts of the city to build more housing cleared its most important hurdle on Monday, emerging from a City Council meeting with enough revisions to satisfy major critics and city lawmakers who had opposed the plan for not doing enough to provide housing for the poorest New Yorkers.

Walker said he and his administration have been in communication with at least a couple of the AWOL Senate Democrats about a deal that could bring them back, but the lawmaker who asked for the meeting, Senate Minority Leader Mark Miller, «is firmly standing in the way.»

Speaking of budget and legislative session, we're gearing up for the 13th annual Charter School Advocacy Day on Tuesday, February 7 in Albany where families and educators have a chance to meet face - to - face with the lawmakers who enact policies and laws that affect charter schools.

On Thursday morning, Republican state Rep. Larry Pittman of Cabarrus County near Charlotte told other lawmakers that he recently met with a police officer who wants to talk with lawmakers about training school personnel and allowing them to carry guns on campus.

Horn's comments came after a meeting with local school board members in Charlotte this week, who, like many districts across the state, say a looming legislative mandate to slash class sizes in the early grades would have dramatic implications without additional funding or a reprieve from lawmakers.

I recently joined several of my urban teacher colleagues, who are members of the Connecticut Education Association's Ethnic Minority Affairs Commission, and met with representatives of the Connecticut African - American Affairs Commission and state lawmakers who are members of the Black and Puerto Rican Caucus.

During the 2012 Michigan Humane Lobby Day, more than 75 citizens from across Michigan met with lawmakers at the Capitol and urged them to pass legislation to ban the euthanasia of shelter animals by gas chamber, increase protections for dogs at large scale breeding operations, and to increase protections for consumers who purchase sick animals from pet stores and puppy mills.

This article followed a press release from the South Carolina Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers responding to a shocking disclosure that Chief Justice Jean Toal has «met with an «informal working group» of several solicitors and two lawmakers who once worked as prosecutors, Rep. Tommy Pope of Union and Sen. Greg Hembree of North Myrtle Beach, to come up with a new plan» for managing General Sessions Court dockets.

Gov. Rick Scott, who has earned an «A» rating from the National Rifle Association, is making good on his promise from last week to schedule meetings and workshops with lawmakers and stakeholders on Tuesday.

Ian Kravitz, whose daughter is a junior at the school and was one of the students who went to Tallahassee last week to meet with lawmakers, carried a sign reading We Love Our Teachers, We Will Have Your Back.

Board members praised Superintendent Robert Runcie's handling of the crisis as well as the many students who have turned into activists, meeting with lawmakers in Tallahassee to call for stricter gun laws.

While the students who bused up from Stoneman Douglas were meeting lawmakers, thousands of gun - control supporters from around the state rallied outside, with hundreds of them pouring into the Capitol afterward.

MacKenzie Grayson, Supervisor for the Parents as Teachers program in the Normandy Schools Collaborative and former PAT participant, recently met with U.S. Senator Roy Blunt in Washington, D.C. MacKenzie was part of a group of PAT moms and parent educators from several states who traveled to the nation's capital last week to visit with lawmakers.

Utah lawmakers took a step Wednesday toward establishing another option for courts in divorce cases that would give noncustodial parents who meet certain criteria more time with their children.

SALT LAKE CITY — Utah lawmakers took a step Wednesday toward establishing another option for courts in divorce cases that would give noncustodial parents who meet certain criteria more time with their children.