Sentences with phrase «needs state senate»
His nomination (which stills needs State Senate and gubernatorial approval), was first reported by WNYC.
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My passion is to get the middle class back on track and I think we need a state Senate that's going to do it.»
Kerin is running for NY State Senate District 50 because she knows we need a State Senate that will work for Central New Yorkers.
While Cuomo introduced a bill to give him absolute control over the MTA board, the legislative session will end without Cuomo having appointed a permanent chairman of the board, who would need state Senate confirmation.
Not exact matches
Senators are attempting to craft their own legislation, but Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has stated he's not sure the chamber will muster the 50 votes needed to pass an overhaul, especially in the CBO report's wake.
With a Republican Congress backing him (most items need 60 % support to pass in the Senate), Trump will be in a position to reverse trade agreements, immigration policies, Roe V. Wade, the Iran nuclear deal, and any other policy the party takes issue with — including those that impact how Canadians do business with the United States.
The state's Senate still needs to approve the legislation.
Making needed fixes to Obamacare before next year may be more difficult — and expensive — than Senate leaders think, state insurance commissioners suggested at a Senate hearing Wednesday.
You need 38 states to amend the Const.itu.tion, after it passes the Senate and the House.
Additionally, in a 2009 letter to the United States Senate, the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops called on the legislative body to «place the needs of poor families and the most vulnerable in our nation and around the world first in setting priorities in the federal budget resolution.»
«We also strongly believe that it is time for the Democrats in the state senate to re-unite so that we can finally enact the progressive legislation which working people so desperately need.
«That's why we need to win two special elections at the end of this month, why we need to win primary challenges to IDC members, and why we need to elect progressive majorities in both the State Senate and Congress come November.»
That proposal is likely a non-starter with Republicans in the state Senate, but Flanagan insisted more money is needed for transit in the metropolitan region.
In a Middletown Times Herald - Record OpEd (subscription needed), Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver calls out the Senate GOP for refusing to move the state primaries to June 26 and forcing local governments to pay for a fourth election.
The results can be ludicrous at times (at least one member of Congress is reputed to hold her seat because her colleagues in the state senate so despised her that they happily tailored a Congressional district to her needs), but they can also be flat - out obscene.
And that's why we need a Democratic state senate majority.»
We need voices like Julie Killian's in the State Senate and we encourage voters in the 37th Senate district to vote for Julie Killian on April 24th.»
Gov. Andrew Cuomo made a pitch for down - ballot Democratic candidates at a local fundraiser in Suffolk County last night, singling out state Senate hopeful Jim Gaughran as being particularly needed in Albany.
Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver said he still expects the Republican - led Senate to take up an increase of the state's minimum wage, though he downplayed any need for Gov. Andrew Cuomo to lobby for the measure.
To balance the ticket you would need «LEVY THE BOLD» to run for Governor and then switch Edwards to US Senate vs Schumer, and have Townsend leave the state.
In order to get a person into a state senate or state assembly, that person needs to run in one voting district and gain the majority of votes there.
I'm running for State Senate because we need to get the MTA fixed,» Ramos said.
Westchester needs an independent voice like George Latimer in the State Senate who will stand up to his party leadership if he believes it is in the best interest of local taxpayers.
We need Bob Cohen in the State Senate.
Cuomo himself has been focused on working with Republicans in the state Senate (to the detriment of his relationship with Senate Democrats), saying that his post-partisan style of governing is what's needed in a state that has been crippled by dysfunction.
The Senate Democrats understand that for our state's long - term economic strength, we need to invest in our kids now.»
Senate Minority Leader Andrea Stewart - Cousins did not praise the constitutional amendment that would codify the Roe v. Wade decision in state law as backed by Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Monday, indicating more urgency was needed on the issue.
«We know he will be a voice for working people in the State Senate and we will work with him to stand up for workers, for immigrants and for vulnerable communities that need a voice in Albany.»
This is the Major League and you need «Top Talent» people who have «WON» a state - wide race for Senate, and not a Congressional race.
I endorse Todd for State Senate because he is exactly the kind of leadership Long Islanders need.»
«The State Senate needs reformers like Todd Kaminsky who know Long Island,» DiNapoli said in a statement.
It's April 24th and we need everyone to get out and vote to elect Shelley Mayer as our next state senator in Westchester and flip the state Senate from #RedToBlue.
«We need leaders in the state Senate who will fight for a more progressive future for New York, and I'm proud to endorse Brian Kavanagh for the 26th state Senate district,» Cuomo wrote.
«I am running to build a real Democratic State Senate majority that finally fully funds our public schools, protects tenants from being thrown out of their homes and strengthens our loophole ridden rent laws, passes badly needed ethics reforms, election reforms and real criminal justice reforms and makes Andrea Stewart - Cousins the first woman Senate Majority Leader, breaking up the so - called «three men in a room.»
The State Senate has turned its back on middle class values and the issues that matter most to our communities, and I look forward to advocating for investments in infrastructure, an increase in the minimum wage and much needed government reforms to clean up Albany.
Taxpayers could save more than $ 2 million a year if it weren't for a group of breakaway Democrats who need their own support staff in the state Senate, critics say.
Business interests and Senate Republicans have argued the state doesn't necessarily need the money that would come from hiking taxes on the wealthy.
That is why we need all Democrats in the State Senate to work together and stand united.
With Donald Trump proposal to defund the successful AmeriCorps program, we need to take bold action on the state level,» Senate Minority Leader Andrea Stewart - Cousins said.
«(Malpass) I'm David Malpass, I'm running for the United States Senate and I approved this message because I need your vote on September 14th.»
State Senate Deputy Democratic Minority Leader Michael Gianaris, who heads his conference's campaign operation, recently met with former U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder to talk about the need to flip New York to total Democratic control, and DNC Deputy Chair Keith Ellison will headline a fundraiser for the conference in June.
«New Yorkers defied expectations by rejecting a State Senate that would have turned its back on the needs of all public school students across the state,» said Executive Director Jenny SeState Senate that would have turned its back on the needs of all public school students across the state,» said Executive Director Jenny Sestate,» said Executive Director Jenny Sedlis.
We need leaders like Shelley Mayer in the State Senate.»
«And she'll bring new Democratic energy to a State Senate that needs it.»
The Working Families Party in a statement on Tuesday evening pointed to the appointment of white nationalist Steve Bannon as yet another sign Democrats in New York — the state Senate specifically — need to work together.
He predicted the candidate also will help down - ballot races in Congress and the state Legislature, where the Republican Senate needs to keep and win seats to hold the majority.
«The rationale is we really need a change of direction,» DeFrancisco (R - Syracuse) told reporters at the State Capitol during a break in Tuesday's state Senate sesState Capitol during a break in Tuesday's state Senate sesstate Senate session.
Governor Cuomo said: «We need leaders in the State Senate who will fight for a more progressive future for New York and I'm proud to endorse Brian Kavanagh for the 26th State Senate district.
After a year in which Dean Skelos and Sheldon Silver, respective legislative leaders of both the State Senate and State Assembly, were convicted for defrauding the public for personal gain, politicians in Albany have once again refused to act on preventing corruption and enacting needed ethics reform and running a more open government.
Democrats called the budget — which will be voted on by the state Senate Sunday — was a «win for unions, immigrants and progressives,» whose help Cuomo will also need for his 2018 re-election campaign.