Sentences with phrase «most powerful lawmakers»

«It doesn't seem like there's any movement planned,» says Sen. Floyd McKissick, a Durham Democrat who sits on the state Senate's Rules and Operations Committee, a panel that includes some of the chamber's most powerful lawmakers and sets the agenda for future committee talks.

A federal prosecutor responsible for the convictions of some of New York's most powerful lawmakers has agreed to stay on at President - elect Donald Trump's request.

A day after federal agents put handcuffs on one of New York's most powerful lawmakers, U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara Friday denounced Albany's political culture that concentrates power with «the proverbial three men in a room.»

Silver — who at the time was one of the most powerful lawmakers in Albany — was found guilty on all seven counts against him that he engaged in two quid - pro-quo schemes in which used his position to benefit a cancer researcher and two real estate developers.

Lynch was a former top aide to Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, one of the Capitol's most powerful lawmakers.

Sheldon Silver, former longtime speaker of New York's Assembly and once one of the state's most powerful lawmakers, was convicted of all counts after his retrial on public - corruption charges.

«The Justice Department did not oppose vacating Bruno's conviction but they argued he should face a new trial on allegations he sold his political muscle as one of New York's most powerful lawmakers.»

The federal prosecutor behind the convictions of several of New York's most powerful lawmakers made several stops in Albany Monday.

State Senator Pedro Espada, Jr., who has spent the past year boasting of the «millions» of dollars he has brought into his Bronx district as one of the state's most powerful lawmakers, appears to have left the vast majority of that money on the table.

Sharkey, a Democrat from Hamden and one of the legislature's most powerful lawmakers, cited a proposal to raise the data - processing tax as an example of short - sighted budgeting decisions that are often made in the final, hectic days of the session.

Together, the cases put New York's political culture on trial and brought about the downfall of the state's two most powerful lawmakers.

-- SILVER IS GUILTY AGAIN — Wall Street Journal's Corinne Ramey: «Sheldon Silver, former longtime speaker of New York's Assembly and once one of the state's most powerful lawmakers, was convicted Friday of all counts after his retrial on public - corruption charges.

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Democratic lawmakers and top economists are mystified that he's being eyed for Federal Reserve chairman, the most powerful economic post in the world.

The news is significant, not only as it temporarily exonerates Silver — once one of the state's most powerful elected officials — though he can be retried, and the acting U.S. attorney has indicated he will, in fact, seek to take another legal crack at the former Manhattan Democratic lawmaker.

Interestingly, most New Yorkers — 51 percent — think the AG's office is plenty powerful when it comes to fighting Albany corruption, which runs counter to the positions of several of the candidates, who say the office needs to be beefed up so they can adequately go after bad lawmakers.

The groundswell over the Harvey Weintein sexual harassment that has rocked Hollywood moved into California's capital as more than 140 women — including lawmakers, senior aides and lobbyists — came forward to denounce what they describe as pervasive sexual misconduct by powerful men in the nation's most influential legislature.

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP)-- The arrest of a powerful New York lawmaker on federal corruption charges threw one of America's most powerful statehouses into disarray, destabilizing the state's Senate while complicating an already contentious legislative agenda.

A lawmaker who was one of New York's most powerful politicians has been convicted by a federal jury of charges that he used the power of his office to earn $ 5 million illegally.

As the 2016 session of the Legislature wrapped up last week and came to a typically ugly end in the wee hours Saturday morning — with bleary - eyed lawmakers forced to vote on measures they didn't even have time to read — The Post asked several lawmakers, lobbyists and journalists to assess the first full year's performance of Democrat Heastie, a key ally of Mayor de Blasio, and Flanagan, the most powerful Republican in the state.

At a time when two Democratic lawmakers stand accused of bribery and public corruption, California's most powerful labor unions have kicked back more than a million dollars to the California Democratic Party.

Tom Libous, one of the state's most prominent and powerful Republican lawmakers in the Senate, has been found guilty by jury of lying to federal agents in a case stemming from his son receiving a job at a politically connected law firm in Westchester County.

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.

According to a 2013 report by the Center for Investigative Reporting, California State Assembly Speaker John Perez «gave lawmakers who raised the most money the best assignments in the new Legislature — posts on the speaker's leadership team and seats on the powerful «juice committees.»»

State disclosure reports released Tuesday independently confirm what CalNewsroom.com first reported last December: the names of 18 state lawmakers who relaxed on the beaches of Maui with Sacramento's most powerful special interest groups.

ALBANY — Longtime Albany lawmakers and observers were shocked Monday by the conviction of former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, one of Albany's most powerful leaders for 20 years, on all counts in his corruption trial.

Silver might have been the most powerful, but more than 30 New York state lawmakers have left office facing criminal charges or allegations of ethical misconduct since 2000, according to The Associated Press.

The speaker since 1994, he has long been the most powerful Democrat in the Legislature, and he was expected to play a large role in the coming weeks as lawmakers tussle with Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo over the budget and contentious proposals regarding public schooling and criminal justice.

Even though the plan would take away some authority from lawmakers, Sheldon Silver, the most powerful Democrat in the Legislature, said it would be carefully considered by his colleagues.

Pro-nuclear activists want lawmakers to treat the Clinton plant and other fission reactors as some of the most powerful weapons in the fight against global warming, a rationale that would give them a new lease on life.

«It's unproven at best,» Mark Jewell, president - elect of the N.C. Association of Educators (NCAE), one of the most powerful teacher lobbying groups in Raleigh, told House lawmakers last week.

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The Republican - dominated task force is composed of state Senate and House appointees, many of them among the most powerful K - 12 lawmakers in their respective chambers, although legislators opted not to include membership from local school finance leaders.