Sentences with phrase «of the budget talks»

The DREAM Act, a measure that would provide undocumented immigrants with tuition assistance, once again fell out of the budget talks amid ongoing Republican opposition.

The counter to this is that upsetting the balance of power in the Senate in the middle of the budget talks would make it difficult to get a spending plan approved.

Stewart - Cousins, a Democrat from Yonkers, confirmed that issues such as voter reform measures and changes to the state's ethics laws had fallen out of the budget talks.

Cuomo is not alone in leaving minority party leaders out of the budget talks.

Lawmakers also confirmed a provision that would create a cashless bail system was out of the budget talks.

Lawrence Levy, a political analyst and executive dean at the National Center for Suburban Studies at Hofstra University, said that the program will likely be addressed as part of budget talks in Albany.

Paterson, who once admitted in frustration that he didn't ask to be governor, has said it was difficult to take over in the midst of budget talks having not been privy to them the year before Spitzer resigned.

This year the media were not notified when the meetings were taking place until the final three days of the budget talks, and many meetings were held outside of the Capitol at the governor's mansion.

This empowerment has been good for legislators — and also for lobbyists and activists who were quick to adapt to the new reality — but it has also slowed the pace of budget talks considerably, participants admitted.

But the comments are unusual ones to make amid the height of the budget talks and with a spending plan due to pass next week.

ABC / WaPo poll: Disapproval of handling of budget talks continues to climb for Obama, congressional GOP Hot Air Press

There is the expectation that lawmakers will consider changes to the state's teacher evaluation criteria that was approved as part of the budget talks.

That's once again the case this year, as both chambers on Tuesday released their revenue forecasts, which will guide how lawmakers negotiate over the coming weeks of the budget talks.

«We want to make sure that in the outer years people are protected also, but it's not going to be part of the budget talks, as far as I'm concerned.»

Sam Spokony, a spokesman for the Upstate Transportation Association, has been bombarding reporters with reasons that ride - hailing should drop out of budget talks, most of which involve recent public relations mishaps by Uber executives and its reluctance to allow fingerprint background checks.

PLATTSBURGH Months of budget talks are expected to culminate with a series of Common Council votes next week.

Ravitch contended last week that the reason he wasn't part of the budget talks was because, «I wasn't asked» to attend.

DeFrancisco speaking with reporters on Monday afternoon seemed pleased the policy issues had been taken out of the budget talks.

Having a budget done «on time» has been of talismanic significance for him during his tenure as governor, citing it as tangible evidence the state government is functioning after years of budget talks that could stretch into the summer.

The bill, known in Albany as the Child Victims Act, appears to have fallen out of the budget talks as lawmakers have disagreed over the creation of a one - year «look back» window for survivors to file claims.

The call for an economic analysis of the minimum wage in the Senate's one - house budget resolution has been seen by some in the business community as a way of pushing the issue out of the budget talks by Republican lawmakers.

The very structure of the budget talks also came under criticism.

Skelos, who makes over $ 100,000 a year in income from a private law firm, declined to name his clients, but says greater disclosure of law clients is part of the budget talks.

Washington (CNN)- After another round of budget talks with Hill leaders Tuesday, Vice President Joe Biden had this exchange with a reporter (picture above):

Discussions about amendments to the controversial SAFE Act didn't help increase the pace of budget talks, either.

Nothing has been finalized, including the amount of borrowing for transportation projects to be cut, Vos said during a briefing on the status of the budget talks.

Senate Democrats and Assembly Republicans, who were frozen out of the budget talks because they are in the minority, complained that the budget was being enacted with little chance for public scrutiny of the bills.

The suspension last week of budget talks between the White House and congressional Republicans portends a long period of uncertainty for school districts trying to plan for next fall.

Not exact matches

There is little talk of tax cuts and balanced budgets, items which form the economic lodestar of the Official Opposition; think tanks such as the Fraser Institute, the Macdonald - Laurier Institute, the Atlantic Provinces Economic Council; and almost everyone who writes a column for the Financial Post, including former finance minister Joe Oliver.

Justin Trudeau's government has talked a good game on innovation and skills development, but this year's budget looks like more of the same

This year's winners incorporated the advent of the information age and developed models of how markets can also respond to day - to - day and minute - by - minute information, such as the minutiae involved in the current budget battle and debt - ceiling talks in Congress.

The federal government talked up this idea leading up to the release of its 2013 — 14 budget.

«We talk about budgets; we talk about planning your finances; but what a lot of people don't do is plan out the next 12 to 18 or 24 months of their careers,» StumbleUpon CEO Mark Bartels told Business Insider.

The product of intensive talks before lawmakers left Washington for Christmas, the budget deal alleviates the harshest effects of automatic budget cuts on the Pentagon and domestic agencies.

In talks with fund officials over the past year, Goldman executives presented an analysis of the fund's allocations based on publicly available data and suggested areas it could improve, such as where to spend the risk budget and whether to be more active or passive in certain portfolios, said the comptroller staffers, who spoke on the condition they not be named.

The prospect of Britain blocking a deal loomed larger on Wednesday, as Cameron saw his room for manoeuvre at the budget talks shrink in the face of a parliamentary revolt.

«This government is taking the toughest line in these budget negotiations of any government since we joined the European Union,» Cameron told parliament ahead of a non-binding vote on the EU budget talks.

British Prime Minister David Cameron hopes to enlist the support of Germany and other rich north European countries in his fight to freeze EU spending at budget talks this week and is prepared to block a deal unless more savings are found.

European Union leaders reached agreement on the first ever cut in their common budget on Friday after 24 hours of talks, seeking to placate millions at home struggling through government cutbacks and recession.

That's what Minister of Finance John Rose was talking about when he stood before this assembly to deliver Canada's first budget speech in 1868.

He says advertisers tell him, ««I don't want to talk to you guys about $ 500 million worth of budgets, I want to talk about $ 5 billion worth of budgets,» which is TV money that we want to move.»

For all the talk of fostering superclusters and creating new companies, it should be noted that there's very little in the way of new financial resources to back that up in the budget — despite the big deficits.

Login to your budget system to show him where you stand as you talk through it, instead of just saying, «It's fine!

As talk about the economy has largely focused on tax cuts, the U.S. budget deficit and the potential for trade tariffs, one of the biggest things investors and the general public seem to be missing is the increased spending soon to be pumped into the U.S. economy by the government.

Enterprise sales reps typically have taken a top - down approach, talking to C - level executives since they're the gatekeepers of the budget.

I remember when I was a young lad, the talk on the Sunday morning circuit was that Ronald Reagan added $ 1.86 trillion to the debt over eight years, a 186 % increase from the $ 999 billion debt at the end of Carter's last budget.

The short take is: We are talking about trillions of dollars that aren't covered in the official budget, most of which hits the treasury market like any other form of debt.

EDMONTON — NDP Leader Rachel Notley and members of her caucus will be touring cities across the province talking to Albertans about their priorities for the coming budget.

After a response from Tony Clement about the future of the parliamentary budget officer, David Christopherson, seated directly across the way, made a silly face and a «nonsense talking» motion with his right hand.

August 2011 saw budget and fiscal talks collapse, cementing the «wasted year» of Obama's tenure.