Earlier, the congressman, while his party was debating how to destroy the Affordable Health Care Act, proposed the Faso - Collins amendment altering property taxes in the
midst of state budget negotiations.
The Democratic governor used his 12 - minute speech at a Harlem fundraiser for Mayer to call for Democratic unity, pointing the finger at the Senate GOP for standing in the way of progressive policy issues that fell
out of state budget negotiations.
Raising the state's minimum wage to $ 15 an hour is a top priority for Assembly Democrats heading into the final
days of state budget negotiations, Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie said.
Andrew Stewart - Cousins, the State Senate Minority Leader, took to the airwaves this morning to argue that she should be part
of the state budget negotiation process if the leader of the Independent Democratic Conference, Jeffrey Klein, negotiates the budget too.
Gov. Andrew Cuomo and the state Legislature struck a deal as
part of state budget negotiations that will toughen gun - control laws for people convicted of domestic abuse.
Miner, a former state Democratic Committee co-chair, is not part
of the state budget negotiations, and has no say in whether $ 15 an hour becomes the minimum wage statewide.
Under that agreement, both Klein and Skelos had to jointly agree on which bills come to the floor for a vote as well be part
of the state budget negotiations.
That entity was created by Cuomo in July 2013 and mothballed nine months later — midway through its planned lifespan — as part
of a state budget negotiation.
Though Cuomo has been relatively quiet on the publicly funded and privately run schools for most of his time in his office, he declared last week that charter - school protections are an essential part
of the state budget negotiations.