Sentences with phrase «number of lawmakers»

But a growing number of lawmakers now say violence behind bars and the breakdown in security mean more oversight is needed.

But in 2011's legislative sessions (after 2010's historic Republican surge), a growing number of lawmakers enacted policies that were less in line with union priorities.

But while the company plays defense, a growing number of lawmakers and regulators around the world are promising to investigate the company.

With an increasing number of lawmakers in New York supporting marriage equality, full equality is on the horizon.»

«The people, governor, and an increasing number of lawmakers in New York support marriage equality.

In voice votes Monday with an unclear number of lawmakers saying nay, members of the Senate Education Committee approved and sent to Senate Finance a rewrite of House Bill 2934.

For one thing, each time the carbon tax idea has come up in Congress, it has been met with resistance by large numbers of lawmakers, as well as much of the domestic fossil fuel industry — especially the coal business — and politically influential organizations, including the American Petroleum Institute.

Perkins, a Manhattan Democrat, would leave the number of enrolled Democrats at 31, making for an even number of lawmakers in the narrowly divided chamber.

Lawmakers Call for Pruitt to Resign listen / download EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt is under heavy fire for alleged legal and ethical violations, and a record number of lawmakers say «enough is enough.»

A significant number of lawmakers, including Republicans and some Democrats from coal - dependent states, have indicated that they will try to fight any attempt by the EPA to crack down on existing plants.

However, Prime Minister Theresa May insists that her government will see the process through, and last week dismissed suggestions of a second referendum — supported by growing number of lawmakers in parliament (albeit still a minority)-- as a «betrayal» of last year's vote.

A number of lawmakers have recently sent letters to Trump asking him how the freeze might hamper the FDA's mission.

A number of lawmakers have also come out swinging against Mylan in recent days.

A number of lawmakers, including Senate Democratic Conference Leader John Sampson and Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, have refused to sign, earning Koch's «enemy of reform» label

A number of lawmakers with deep ties to the embattled incumbent speaker, Sheldon Silver, have key committee chairmanships: Denny Farrell at Ways and Means, for example; Joe Lentol at Codes and Deborah Glick at Higher Education — to name a few.

Klein's conference, first formed in 2011, continued to grow this year, now with seven members following the addition of Brooklyn Sen. Jesse Hamilton and incoming Sen. Marisol Alcantara, bringing the number of lawmakers in the IDC to seven.

Even this year, when a number of lawmakers threatened to disrupt his annual State of the State address with protests over the governor's refusal to go along with legislative pay raises, Cuomo didn't plead with them or negotiate.

Given the number of lawmakers who normally seek reimbursement for their meal and lodging costs, the daily cost of the extraordinary session will top more than $ 30,000 per day in per diems, not including mileage reimbursements or staff expenses and other costs not easily measured.

But generally speaking, in determining where to send the mailers a number of lawmakers use the type of micro-targeting of constituents that has become a hallmark of political campaigns.

A number of lawmakers have made clear to legislative leaders that's about the time they will be leaving to get home for the start of Passover or Good Friday.

Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos just told a gaggle of reporters down at the Capitol this afternoon that there's a «good chance» the redistricting process will add a Senate district, increasing the number of lawmakers in the upper chamber to 63.

Cuomo administration sources said the number of lawmakers backing the bill has been seesawing almost daily.

The commission investigated Monserrate's fund, to which a number of lawmakers also contributed, based on a joint complaint filed by Common Cause / NY, the NY League of Women Voters and NYPIRG, which also publicized the findings (had it not been for a press release from Blair Horner this morning, I would have had no idea this decision had even been reached).

But a deal with the Senate, where a number of lawmakers are lawyers who work for law firms that represent clients with interests before state, has been more difficult to reach for Cuomo.

The legislation has the support of Buffalo Mayor Byron Brown and Niagara Falls Mayor Paul Dyster, as well as a number of lawmakers across western New York, including Erie County Executive Mark Poloncarz, Rep. Brian Higgins, Senator Tim Kennedy, Senator Mark Grisanti and Assemblyman Sean Ryan.

And a number of lawmakers said the changes won't address what U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara called Albany's «culture of corruption.»

It will be interesting to see who actually shows up for the lame duck session considering there are a number of lawmakers who lost their seat on primary day and more are likely to be ousted one week from today.

Critics — and a number of lawmakers — have said that raises should not be awarded absent passage of reforms like banning outside income or at least significantly limiting it, which is something the governor, who received a hefty payment for authoring a poorly - selling book, has proposed.

Perez Williams was endorsed by a number of lawmakers, including Albany Mayor Kathy Sheehan, Sens. Chuck Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand, D - N.Y., New York state Gov. Andrew Cuomo and former Vice President Joe Biden.

The number of lawmakers calling for his resignation has grown since Weiner admitted to sending lewd photos of himself to women online.

A number of lawmakers believe Bharara has an eye on a future run for political office despite his denials.

At the time, a number of lawmakers and immigrant groups complained Cuomo was not putting any state money behind the effort.

The governor's comments came in the context of a conversation about donations that he and a number of lawmakers have received from Glenwood Management, the Long Island - based real estate titan that is the state's most generous political giver.

Another of Gipson's calls has widespread support from a number of lawmakers and some in the energy community.

A number of lawmakers on both sides of the aisle, as well as former astronauts and space policy experts, have criticized the Administration's plan to eliminate Constellation, which has thus far cost taxpayers over $ 9 billion.

In particular, a number of lawmakers made it plain they aren't buying the White House's plan to eliminate ARPA - E, which helps high - risk energy technologies make the leap to commercialization.

The ranking Republican on the U.S. House Education and Labor Committee, Minnesota's Rep. John Kline, is one of a number of lawmakers who have voiced concerns that tying adoption of the standards to federal funding is coercive.

The White House and a number of lawmakers from around the United States are seeking to curb violence in video games either by restricting their sales to minors through establishing a rating board - which is already done via the Entertainment Software Rating Board (ESRB)- or potentially by implementing a tax on select «violent» video games.

A number of lawmakers, foreign governments and environmental advocates had urged the administration to offer an amendment to the Montreal Protocol, the international treaty on ozone - depleting substances, calling for the rapid elimination of HFC's.

A number of lawmakers in the U.S. have called for him to testify.

A number of lawmakers from both parties believe that the social platforms had been critical to Russia's influence operations.

A number of lawmakers from both parties have already expressed concern on the emerging asset class.