Sentences with phrase «of majority conference»

Though Flanagan is a veteran lawmaker, Wednesday marked the first time he sat on the stage on a State of the State address as the leader of a majority conference.

Assembly Majority Whip Dov Hikind (D - Brooklyn) and Vice Chairwoman of the Majority Conference Sen. Toby Stavisky (D - Queens) released the information; neither has an outside job.

The speaker said yesterday that there's a «long way to go» to achieve the Tier 6 reform Cuomo is seeking, but a number of his majority conference members (quoted without attribution by the DN) and Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos have said they believe a deal will be reached on pension reform before the end of the legislative session.

It's not clear if Felder plans to leave the Republican fold, where he has enjoyed the perks of the majority conference, including a committee chairmanship.

Stewart - Cousins would become the first female leader of a majority conference in Albany if Democrats do end up taking control.

But Cuomo's political math could work out: Democrats who dominate the state Assembly have been pushing for tighter rent regulations but many members of the majority conference have deep concerns about the tax credit.

Here's the letter sent to Assembly Democrats by the «senior member» of the majority conference, Manhattan's Richard Gottfried, inviting them to a 6 p.m. meeting «to nominate the Assembly majority's candidate for speaker» in the 2011 - 2012 session.

A spokesman for the Senate Democrats informed YNN's Kaitlyn Ross all 32 members of the majority conference will be heeding Gov. David Paterson's call to remain in Albany for five days next week in hopes of finally getting a budget deal.

The fact that members of the majority conference will be sicking around in Albany on a Friday night is worth noting as yet another example of just how much things have changed in the post-Sheldon Silver era.

For example, Senator Carl Marcellino holds the post of majority conference vice chairman.

At 1 p.m., Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie, joined by advocates and members of his majority conference, holds a press conference regarding the DREAM Act, Speaker's Conference Room (342), state Capitol, Albany.

The speaker noted he has endorsed Assemblyman Hakeem Jeffries, who is running against NYC Councilman Charles Barron for the NY - 8 seat being vacated by Rep. Ed Towns, even though Barron is the husband of another majority conference member, Assemblywoman Inez Barron.

As Knickerbocker noted earlier today, this comes on the heels of the Senate Democrats» efforts to create so - called «councils» of labor, business and LGBT leaders, offering exclusive access to members of the majority conference for the low, low price of $ 50,000 to $ 25,000.

But the legislative selections brought a few eyebrow - raisers, including a host of «no endorsements» for freshmen Assembly Democrats and Senate Republicans who had the temerity to vote — along with many more seasoned members of their majority conferences — «yes» on creating a sixth tier in the state pension fund.

Not exact matches

«A majority of my work in attending a conference is done before I even leave home,» notes conference - goer Dennis Yu, co-founder and CEO of BlitzLocal.com, which provides Facebook advertising for brands and local businesses.

He is proud of what this majority has accomplished, and his Speakership, but for the good of the Republican Conference and the institution, he will resign the Speakership and his seat in Congress, effective October 30.

The majority of the students had not previously discussed the conference topics in their schools.

Companies in this sector help organize and manage conventions, conferences, and other business events, with the majority of their revenue coming from business - to - business (B2B) and business - to - consumer (B2C) events.

«If you look at President Obama and other presidents, most of them didn't make calls,» Trump said during the 40 - minute news conference with Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell.

The majority of executives at the conference explained how robots are here to rescue us from manual labor and will help to make our companies leaner, more profitable, more consistent, and more competitive.

Although a majority of HR professionals say their companies already employ video conferencing and conference room booking software, 22 percent of respondents admit that more advanced video conferencing tools would be beneficial both internally and externally.

We need the consumer being confident and strong, having those extra dollars to go out and have a set of wine glasses or buy some extra dinnerware,» said Walt Rowen, owner of Susquehanna Glass Co. in Columbia, Pa., at the press conference Small Business Majority, an advocacy group based in Washington, D.C.

During a conference call last year, chief financial officer Grant Isaac justified the European office by claiming the majority of its customers reside outside Canada.

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of Ky., right, and House Speaker Paul Ryan of Wis., speak during a news conference.

Conservative Party members will gather in Manchester next week for the party's annual conference, against the backdrop of Mrs May having lost her parliamentary majority in a snap election and continued questions about cabinet unity over Brexit.

Speaker of the House Paul Ryan, House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy and Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers hold a news conference Nov. 7 on the House tax plan.

The majority of states (37) have «specific statutes that allow for payday lending,» reports the National Conference of State Legislatures.

♦ Readers concerned about church - state relations (and we assume that is the great majority of our readers) will want to pay special note to an extremely important conference planned for Philadelphia, May 30 to June 1, 1991.

Americans make up the vast majority of General Conference personnel; funds, personnel and theology proceed outward from America; and translations of American hymns dominate international hymnals.

but as soon as they had a for profit conference business, they put a majority of women on the stage for the first time!!

«The majority of those that have left seem to indicate a desire to remain within the continental US rather than return to the island,» said Tony Suarez, vice president of the National Hispanic Christian Leadership Conference (NHCLC).

As bishops» conferences from all over the world are electing their representatives for this year's synod, it becomes clearer that the conservative line will be upheld by a wide majority of the participants.

The National Conference of Catholic Bishops in 1980 published a predominantly negative statement on capital punishment, approved by a majority vote of those present though not by the required two - thirds majority of the entire cConference of Catholic Bishops in 1980 published a predominantly negative statement on capital punishment, approved by a majority vote of those present though not by the required two - thirds majority of the entire conferenceconference.

I watched President Obama's news conference last night, and he established beyond any question that the truest test of post partisanship is not whether one receives support from the other side, but whether the majority «listens» to what the other side says.

After writing a blog post last week urging Christian conference leaders to pursue diversity in their speaker lineups, I've been so encouraged by the response, and in particular by the number of majority - culture leaders who have added their voices in support.

The conference finally adopted several arguably peripheral constitutional amendments such as forbidding acquisition of new U.S. territory without approval by a majority of both slave - state and free - state senators, guaranteeing federal compensation for fugitive slaves when failure to return them was due to anti-slavery violence or intimidation, and restoring and perpetuating the Missouri Compromise line that once satisfied both regions but had been struck down by the Dred Scott decision.

After two days» debate and a subsequent telephone conference call, a majority of the panel voted not to nominate the film, and the silence was like a rifle report across the industry.

Although a majority of a special committee on theological education supported the proposal, the minority was able to rally Conference support to its position.

Unfortunately, as Daisy Khan of the controversial Park51 project in Lower Manhattan said in an August 25 conference call, «the voices of the moderate, mainstream majority Muslims have been drowned out by the actions of extremists.»

«Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, a Democrat from Nevada and a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter - day Saints, made the remarks in a conference call Monday, according to the Salt Lake Tribune.»

Is it possible that the majority of the members of General Conference were just plain limited to a tight, legalistic conception of clergy morality because of their stage of moral development?

Indeed, when I look around the Craft Brewers Conference (13,000 strong in 2016), the majority of faces looking back at me are white and male.

There has been a lot of discussion about what we mean by biotechnology, and yet the majority of the focus of the conference has been on GMO products.

For a discussion about a «gentleman's agreement», there was a surprising majority of men profusely disagreeing with each other in the Team Principal press conference on Friday.

FOX will pay $ 240 million a year to the B1G to get the majority of the broadcast rights for the conference.

Often times, ranked teams receive the majority of bets, but this isn't a smart move by the public in games against a conference opponent.

Besides, the conference championships in football only take the top two teams in each division, so a great majority of the conference teams aren't even eligible to win.

The next morning a majority of SEC officials agreed that going ahead with the nine football games involving conference teams would be an opportunity to, as Florida athletic director Jeremy Foley put it, «celebrate the strength of our country.»

For Game 6 of the Western Conference Finals this evening, a majority of bettors are expecting a high - scoring affair as 79 % of spread wagers have taken over 202.

Arsene Wenger gave his final Premier League press conference on Friday morning and, as usual, the journalists spent the majority of it trying to get him to answer a question that he's refused to answer all season.