Sentences with phrase «month after assembly»

«Whether it's income taxes, property taxes, business taxes, user fees, or tolls, we don't support raising taxes or asking hard - working New Yorkers to dig deeper into their pockets to pay more,» Senate Leader John Flanagan, a Long Island Republican, said last month after Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie, a Democrat, released his millionaire tax plan.

Skelos's legal troubles come only months after Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver was forced to resign his post after his own arrest on corruption charges.

The arrests come just months after Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver was arrested for an alleged kickback scheme involving real estate deals and asbestos cancer patients.

The news comes nine months after Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie announced that he would convene the workgroup to improve and strengthen the chamber's rules, operations and legislative processes and to promote better transparency and public participation.

Three months after the Assembly dealt with its biggest leadership crisis in two decades, the upper chamber in Albany is suddenly facing a similar problem: A leader under arrest, a challenge for the ruling party, and the lack of an obvious successor after Dean G. Skelos, the Republican majority leader, was arrested on Monday, along with his son, Adam, on corruption and fraud charges in Manhattan.

Not exact matches

Opposition leaders have called for a protest on Thursday, the day the assembly is to be installed, raising the possibility of more clashes after four months of violent protests that have left as many as 120 people dead.

A new statement by the World Health Organisation (WHO) released on 17th July, states that follow - up formula is not necessary, is unsuitable as a replacement for breastmilk after 6 months and is covered by World Health Assembly marketing requirements.

The Republican - controlled Senate this month approved its own version of a ride hailing expansion, while the Democratic - led Assembly is expected to follow suit with its own one - house bill when the Legislature reconvenes after the winter break.

Cuomo, however, is highly unlikely to strike the measure down, which was approved last month in the Democratic - led Assembly after the bill had stalled in the chamber for years.

This month in Albany two new Democrats took seats in the Legislature after winning special elections in the Senate and Assembly.

When the Constitutional Assembly, renamed Council, after four months of work, had delivered its bill to Parliament, the minority in Parliament used unprecedented filibuster against the bill for months.

The reform package comes a month after former Assembly Speaker Silver was indicted on fraud and extortion charges for allegedly pocketing nearly $ 4 million in improper payments from two law firms.

Former state Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, who is also awaiting sentencing on public corruption charges, has only $ 246,608 left in his campaign account after spending $ 1.5 million in the past six months.

The vote came a few months after the state's teachers unions, closely aligned with the Assembly, claimed a victory in December when the Regents, prompted by the governor and Legislative leaders, placed a moratorium on the use of student test scores in teacher evaluations.

After Molinaro said he wasn't running in January, Assembly Minority Leader Brian Kolb of Canandaigua dropped out of the race last month.

McLaughlin's final months in the Assembly were dogged by the revelation that he had used abusive language against a female aide, and he was sanctioned by the chamber's ethics committee — after election day — for allegedly asking another lawmaker's aide for nude photos.

Mayersohn, 85, retired in April after nearly 30 years in the Assembly, while Pheffer stepped down last month to fill the vacant county clerk position.

ALBANY - After spending months calling for tougher tenant protections, the Assembly Democrats are prepared to give up the fight for now.

The charges come just months after Mr. Bharara charged former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver with accepting what he described as kickbacks and bribes disguised as legitimate work done for law firms.

CANANDAIGUA, N.Y. — New York State Assembly Minority Leader Brian Kolb (R — Canandaigua) today announced he is withdrawing from the race for New York governor, less than two months after throwing his hat in the ring.

After nine months and a promised nationwide search, the commissioners selected Seth Agata, a former counsel to Cuomo and longtime Assembly staffer.

The ruling comes less than three months after the conviction of former longtime Democratic Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver was also tossed on the same grounds.

Democrats who control the state Assembly quietly posted a list of pending earmarks totaling nearly $ 36 million late Friday, more than a month after POLITICO New York began requesting details of the spending and a week after filing a formal request under the Freedom of Information Law.

That tumble came less than four months after the arrest of Democratic Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver — in another investigation conducted by Bharara's office — ultimately forced him out of the leadership position he had held for more than two decades.

Hiram Monserrate, who three months ago failed to regain the State Senate seat he had lost after being convicted of misdemeanor domestic assault, is again running for office, this time for a Queens Assembly seat.

How to «hold the Mayor to account» (the main reason for the Assembly's existence) six months after the issue has come and gone...

No person shall serve as a member of the legislature unless he or she is a citizen of the United States and has been a resident of the state of New York for five years, and, except as hereinafter otherwise prescribed, of the assembly or senate district for the twelve months immediately preceding his or her election; if elected a senator or member of assembly at the first election next ensuing after a readjustment or alteration of the senate or assembly districts becomes effective, a person, to be eligible to serve as such, must have been a resident of the county in which the senate or assembly district is contained for the twelve months immediately preceding his or her election.

Current Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver will step down late tonight after being arrested last month on corruption charges.

During that time, JCOPE's significant enforcement actions against legislators have been limited to a fine against former assemblyman Dennis Gabryszak for sexual harassment that was issued two years after he resigned and a critical examination of former assemblyman Vito Lopez's own sexual harassment violations that was released nine months after he was censured by the Assembly.

Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver's longtime fiscal ad viser, Dean Fuleihan, who earlier this month «retired» after 33 years working for the Assembly to take what many expected would be a private - sector job, wound up landing a cushy government job that pays about $ 30,000 more, records show.

More than two months after Dan Losquadro left office to run the Brookhaven Town Highway Department, local Republicans have finally identified their choice to replace him in the New York State Assembly.

The stunning revelation that one of the three most powerful men in Albany is caught up in yet another federal probe comes months after the corruption convictions of the state Assembly and Senate leaders, Sheldon Silver and Dean Skelos.

A grand jury today handed up a three - count indictment against Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver on charges of mail and wire fraud and extortion, a month after U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara shook the city's political class with a criminal complaint against the longtime Manhattan legislator.

«Because we can not conclude that the (instruction) error was harmless beyond a reasonable doubt, we are obliged to vacate the convictions,» the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals wrote, less than three months after reversing former state Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver's separate corruption conviction on the same grounds.

Lopez's Assembly Republican colleague Steve McLaughlin announced nearly two weeks ago he would not seek the nomination after floating his name for months.

Five months after he was expelled from the Assembly for his corruption conviction, Sheldon Silver is still driving a car with government parking placards.

A month after former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver's conviction on corruption charges, Assembly Republicans on Tuesday tried a parliamentary maneuver to weaken Albany's rules that assure absolute control by the Democratic majority party over legislation.

His arrest comes just more than three months after the former Assembly Speaker, Sheldon Silver, was arrested and charged with running a multimillion dollar corruption scheme.

Two veteran Assembly members and an official from the governor's office said they expect a deal will be struck on the popular ethics measure this legislative election year after an unprecedented string of corruption convictions within the last 12 months.

Akunyili, in the suit No CA / E / EPT / 2011 which she filed at the appeal, is challenging the decision of the National / State Assembly Election Tribunal Awka, which last month upheld the election of Senator Chris Ngige of the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) as the winner of the election after striking out her petition.

After doing a round of hearings earlier this month, two Assembly Democrats say their preliminary findings suggest that shutting down the Indian Point Nuclear Power Plant could be done with little impact on rate payers.

Sherman Jewett, a longtime Democratic operative and former staffer for the Assembly majority, has resigned his post as chief spokesman for SUNY just three months after taking the job.

on charges of extortion, fraud and bribery, barely four months after former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver resigned over federal charges that he had taken millions of dollars in bribes and kickbacks.

The measures are being pushed for nearly two months into the legislative session, which comes after a year in which both the former speaker in the Assembly and ex-Senate majority leader were convicted in separate corruption cases.

This has become almost routine in the state Legislature: In early 2015, state Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos was arrested on charges of extortion, fraud and bribery, barely four months after former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver resigned over federal charges that he had taken millions of dollars in bribes and kickbacks.

Six months after Richard Matt and David Sweat escaped from the Clinton Correctional Facility, lawmakers in the state Assembly held a hearing on the escape and oversight of the state's prison system.

Five months after he was expelled from the Assembly for his corruption conviction, ex-Speaker Sheldon Silver is still driving a car with government parking placards.

«In the last three months, three Assembly members have been kicked out of the Assembly after being convicted of felonies or ethical violations.

Another, Dean Skelos, was indicted in May — just months after longtime Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver's arrest.

His comments angered survivors since they came just two days after he introduced a Child Victims Act of his own that was identical to a bill passed earlier this month by the Assembly.