Sentences with phrase «of state assembly»

The state Senate voted 61 - 0 to approve the indigent defense bill, which came on the heels of the state Assembly's unanimous approval last Friday.

In synchronized statements, Democratic leaders of the State Assembly joined Republicans in the State Senate to propose that the tests, which are aligned with the new curriculum standards known as the Common Core, be excluded, for now, from the state's new teacher evaluation system, which Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo signed into law in 2012.

A former member of the state assembly and the LA City Council, she said, «I came after reading about the attempt of what I see is to privatize and destroy public education.»

The speaker of the state Assembly says fellow Republicans might expand school vouchers statewide regardless of whether they agree to a new school accountability system.

He also supports California's pioneering «parent trigger» law, which Torlakson voted against when he was a member of the state Assembly.

Jensen, as speaker of the state Assembly from 1997 to 2002, was «one of the most influential and divisive figures in Wisconsin political history,» the Associated Press noted earlier this year.

With a new twist coming out of the state Assembly, Democratic legislators continued this week to fine tune language and negotiate compromises in an effort to come up with a teacher tenure reform bill by the end of June.

The proposal has support from the Democratic leader of the state Assembly and Republicans in the GOP - led Senate, a key to its chances of passage.

Members of the State Assembly's education and higher - education committees roundly criticized Mr. Kean and Commissioner of Education Saul Cooperman during a joint public hearing on a pair of bills sponsored by the committees» chairmen.

«In budget meetings [last fall], members of state assembly directly questioned President Atkinson on his handling of the union issue,» says Connie Razza, spokesperson for the Student Association of Graduate Employees (SAGE) at UCLA.

Schneider's bill is knocking on the doors of the state Assembly Committee on Workforce Development, but, so far, state Rep. Barbara Toles, committee chairwoman, refuses to answer.

Horner has called this Albany's «Watergate» moment following the high - profile corruption convictions of the state Assembly and Senate's previous leaders, Sheldon Silver and Dean Skelos.

Tenney is among the most conservative members of the state Assembly.

On April 19, New Yorkers will vote in their party primaries for president; on June 28, it will be primaries for all 27 New York members of the House of Representatives, with Senator Chuck Schumer on the ballot, too; and on September 13, primaries for all 63 seats of the State Senate and all 150 seats of the State Assembly.

It appears Buffalo may have a powerful friend in Albany in Speaker of the State Assembly Carl Heastie.

Cuomo told reporters that DiNapoli's audits on his economic development programs are invalid partly because DiNapoli is a former member of the state Assembly.

Speaking in Downtown Manhattan today, Cuomo also declined to comment on Paladino's comparison of State Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, an orthodox Jew, to Adolf Hitler.

Brian Meara, a lobbyist representing Glenwood Management, a real estate developer, received a phone call from Mr. Silver in 2011 in which the speaker of the State Assembly indicated he was receiving fees from Glenwood.

Democrat James Skoufis, the youngest member of the State Assembly when he was elected in 2012 at age 25, faced a challenge from an even younger Republican, Colin Schmitt.

Mr. Fuleihan was a longtime chief fiscal adviser to the speaker of the State Assembly, Sheldon Silver, a Manhattan Democrat, and he is known in political circles for an encyclopedic knowledge of the labyrinthine byways of the state budget.

Katz, a former member of the state Assembly and City Council, is facing Republican Tony Arcabascio in November.

David DiPietro, a Republican lawmaker from the Buffalo area, said he and Mr. Nojay were on the floor of the State Assembly that June, lamenting the corruption in Albany, when they first hit on the idea of encouraging Mr. Trump to run for governor.

Tenney, a two - term conservative member of the State Assembly, has picked up national endorsements and support in the past few weeks from conservative media figures in New York City and Washington, D.C..

DiNapoli's audits fueled a legislative hearing last week during which members of the state Assembly — from both parties — attacked the Start - Up NY program of tax - free zones.

Rafael Espinal, Jr. (D)- D37 - Cypress Hills, Bushwick, East New York, City Line, Ocean Hill, Brownsville - Two years ago, Espinal, then 27, became the youngest member of the State Assembly, representing District 54.

The chairman of the state Assembly Social Services Committee has begun quietly pushing a plan he says would reduce reliance on homeless shelters by creating a new rent subsidy to keep people in their homes.

Kaloogian, a controversial former member of the state Assembly, had a 15 percent favorable rating and an 8 percent unfavorable score.

Tenney, R - New Hartford, a two - term member of the State Assembly, had hoped to catch an anti-establishment wave in the wake of House Majority Leader Eric Cantor's stunning upset loss to a Tea Party candidate in a Virginia GOP primary earlier this month.

His departure left Andrew Heaney of Millbrook and John Faso, a former minority leader of the State Assembly, to face off across the 11 - county 19th District, which covers the Hudson Valley and Catskills.

The All Progressives Congress Publicity Secretary in Ondo, Mr. Abayomi Adesanya, on Wednesday called on the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission to arrest the principal officers of the state Assembly for interrogation.

But the Democratic leader of the state Assembly, Carl Heastie disagrees.

And yet, in 1996, as a member of the state assembly, Scott Stringer was one of only nineteen lawmakers who voted against stripping NAMBLA of its tax - exempt status, which it had received two years earlier using an innocuously named front group.

He said, «May God bless our members of the State Assembly for their support and pay them back in returns, and may God return them back to their seats.

Mr. Kolb, a Republican assemblyman from Canandaigua, N.Y., was elected by his colleagues on Monday as the new minority leader of the State Assembly, and pledged to bring a higher level of visibility to the position.

Margaret M. Markey, D - Queens, is a member of the state Assembly.

All of those failed candidates, three Republicans and a Democrat, are still members of the state Assembly, with the exception of Scozzafava, who passed up a re-election bid in 2010 to take a job with the Cuomo adminsitration.

Zimet questioned those contributions, as Cahill serves as chair of the state Assembly's insurance committee.

«The rules of the state Assembly centralize power so that individual members are virtually powerless to move legislation.

Silver was convicted on Nov. 30, 2015 of charges that included honest services fraud, money laundering and extortion, after serving as the head of the state Assembly since 1994.

Voters are torn when it comes to the current members of the State Assembly.

Assembly members Joseph Lentol and Keith Wright have dropped their candidacies to become the new leader of the state Assembly.

Tenney, a member of the state Assembly until she won the 22nd Congressional District election last year, has been a frequent critic of Gov. Andrew Cuomo's spending on discretionary projects and the lack of public input into the decision - making process.

Jonathan FickiesBrooklyn Assemblyman Félix Ortiz (right), the assistant speaker of the state Assembly, talks to UFT member lobbyists

Brooklyn Assemblyman Félix Ortiz (right), the assistant speaker of the state Assembly, talks to UFT member lobbyists

With the conviction of Sheldon Silver, the former speaker of the State Assembly, all that seemed left for the judge was a defense motion for a new trial and Mr. Silver's sentencing, both of which are pending.

With Sen. John Sampson (D - Brooklyn) on board, all that awaits is the blessing of state Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver (D - Manhattan).

But the State Legislature has been thrown into chaos recently, with Sheldon Silver, a Democrat and the former leader of the State Assembly, being indicted on corruption charges.

ALBANY — A senior member of the state Assembly said he expects his colleagues will pass an amended bill to legalize medicinal marijuana that has now been reconciled with legislation pending in the state Senate.

He was first elected as a member of the state assembly in 1811.

The proclamation said a special election will be held on April 19, 2016 to fill the now empty seats of State Assembly and Senate.