Sentences with phrase «of progressive items»

Governor Cuomo is seeking a number of progressive items, and Skelos ruled out agreeing to several of them, including public campaign financing, and college aid to children of illegal immigrants.

But, even if Felder had rejoined the Democrats, the conservative leaning Democrat from Brooklyn was not on board with many of the progressive items, and so they might have ultimately failed to pass anyway.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who's failed to achieve a number of progressive items over the last two years, including public campaign finance reform and a Women's Equality Act, told the Democratic Rural Conference that he'll try to get them passed in the state legislature in the next eight weeks, before the session ends in June.

Even with the Democrats reunited, passage of the progressive items is not a sure thing in the Senate.

Even if Felder rejoins the Democrats, he holds conservative views and would likely not vote for many of the progressive items remaining in the session's agenda.

Governor Cuomo, who's failed to achieve a number of progressive items over the last two years, including public campaign finance reform and a Women's Equality Act, told the Democratic Rural Conference that he'll try to get them passed in the state legislature in the next eight weeks, before the session ends in June.

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Dimitri Cavalli, source of many WWAI items over the past few years and author of the Washington Examiner story from which these quotes are taken, explains the change this way: Back then, Lynn was defending progressive causes, but now that «the so - called Religious Right has eclipsed the influence of the Religious Left in American public life,» it's time to shut down religious influence.

May 12, 2015 (Paso Robles, CA) The already - progressive menu, wine list and craft cocktail programs at Paso Robles» La Cosecha Bar + Restaurant recently kicked up a notch with the addition of several new items including barrel - aged cocktails designed by Mixologist Andrew Brune.

The governor promised to help deliver a higher minimum wage, support campaign finance reform and a handful of other progressive wish list items.

She said if the governor had announced the unification just a couple of weeks earlier, he might have succeeded in getting several progressive items into the state budget, which was approved on March 31.

In exchange, Cuomo agreed to address the WFP convention and to commit to helping Democrats take over the state Senate, and promised to push for a rash of progressive agenda items.

She says if the Governor had announced the unification just a couple of weeks earlier, he might have succeeded in getting several progressive items into the state budget which was approved on March 31.

Timing is everything in politics: The day before a special election is expected to result in the addition of a 32nd Democrat to the state Senate, the eight members of the Independent Democratic Conference have released a video calling on all of the chamber's Democrats to declare their support for a set of progressive agenda items.

Cuomo, to chants of «four more years», promised to deliver in his next term on a mostly progressive agenda, including enacting a number of items that were stalled in the State Senate over the past couple of years, like an abortion rights provision as part of a women's rights agenda and public financing of political campaigns.

The IDC has maintained that Klein uses that voice to advance progressive policy items that would otherwise have no chance of passing in a Republican - run State Senate.

Since the formation of the IDC in 2011, mainline Democrats have howled that the IDC's partnership with the GOP has blocked consideration of key progressive agenda items such as the development of a single - payer health care system, campaign finance reforms, abortion protections and more.

The thinking is that passage of GENDA could give a much needed progressive win to IDC Leader Jeff Klein & Co. at a time when the breakaway Democratic conference is under intense pressure from the left for (so far) failing to force a vote on some of Gov. Andrew Cuomo's top agenda items, including the all - inclusive 10 - point Women's Equality Act and the campaign finance reform bill.

«The Senate has been a problem on many of these [progressive] items,» Cuomo said in the video address to the W.F.P., citing a desire for a higher minimum wage, a system of public campaign finance and college tuition assistance for undocumented immigrants.

The state budget that Gov. Andrew Cuomo gave to lawmakers to consider ahead of April 1 includes progressive items including paid family leave and a $ 15 minimum wage.

On Monday, the IDC released a video of its members calling the roll for Democratic votes for progressive agenda items.

Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders made the second stop in his «Where Do We Go From Here» tour in Albany Friday afternoon, where he told a small but loyal group of supporters that he'll fight to get key items into the national Democratic Party platform, including a nationwide $ 15 minimum wage, and has been in talks with Hillary Clinton's campaign over a greater focus on progressive issues.

Each item became a bona fide — along with the 2011 passage of same - sex marriage and the 2013 gun control law — during the speech, repeating for the umpteenth time this week that «progressive government works, and we proved it.»

While it was billed as an educational forum, the event had the flavor of a progressive rally, with songs, chants and action items.

The governor has the potential to go either way this year, telegraphing in the details released so far that he intends to focus on business development while still pushing for a number of items still important to progressives.

In an interview Wednesday evening, Klein said that the central problem with trying to come together before November's elections was more basic: a lack of votes on the unaccomplished progressive agenda items.

Ms. Mark - Viverito's three years as speaker have been notable, said those in the Council, for progressive legislation and for changes in rules that have given members more freedom to introduce bills and that have reformed the system of so - called member items to increase fairness.

Orbih, while displaying letters allegedly addressed to Obaseki by the NCS on the relief items, claimed that over 4,000 bags were diverted by the governor for himself and members of the All Progressives Congress.

(Cuomo at the beginning of this month proposed a program aimed at providing free college tuition to a majority of New York students, a progressive policy item unveiled alongside former Democratic presidential candidate and current U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders)

A contributor to The Progressive Parent blog notes in a post related to Paleo parenting: «Hospital births, infant formula, strollers and other commonplace items in the lives of most American infants are conveniences parents have done without since the dawn of time — until the last century.»

The learning journey is clear and progressive, following a pathway of progressively more difficult tasks, including: - An engaging memory game task to recognise and remember items and ideas that are related to the character of Lennie; - A worksheet that enables students to demonstrate understanding of key quotations about Lennie, and to link Lennie to key themes and ideas.

Redirecting school budget line items to better reflect progressive priorities will no doubt be a critical aspect of discipline reform.

It's something you get used to, but we'd prefer a more progressive action, as it will reduce the risk of loose items in the load bay falling over or flying around.

Being that your ship is a hybrid fighter, it has a «progressive weapon acquisition and upgrade system,» which is basically just a fancy way of saying that as you destroy alien enemies, they drop items that your ship can pick up and use as weapons, and these weapons can be upgraded with additional pick - ups.

The four worlds and fifteen levels that form the six - hour quest of Snake Pass, which can be greatly extended if players aim to collect all items scattered around the stages, are set up in a way that makes difficulty perfectly progressive.

The Hidden Object Scenes are varied with Interactive List finds, Multiples of the same item finds, Keywords in sentence finds, Fragment finds, and one of my personal favorites, Interactive, Progressive Silhouetted Shape finds where you find the first item that matches the Silhouetted Shape, and then use that item back in the scene logically, which exposes the next item and so forth.

CAREER HIGHLIGHTS • 7 + years progressive experience in diverse restaurant and food service settings • Demonstrated ability to develop resourceful products and menu items to meet both timelines and resources • Post-certification training in cuisines and food systems • In - depth knowledge of safe food handling