Sentences with phrase «office after assembly»

Of the 150 current members of the lower house, 124 were first elected to office after Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver became speaker.

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But shortly after the General Assembly passed the budget bill over Gov. Bruce Rauner's veto, the Governor's Office of Management and Budget found that the budget resulted in a $ 1.5 billion deficit.

According to the report, Senate suspended the consideration of the bill which sought to amend Section 308 (2) of the 1999 Constitution to allow for the prosecution of the affected leaders on matters relating to economic and financial crimes even when in office, because it was introduced to the Senate after the constitution review committee had submitted a report on the key amendments to be effected in the life of the Eighth National Assembly.

The New York Civil Liberties Union chose a busy corridor in the Capitol between lawmakers» offices and the Senate and Assembly chambers to hold a contest featuring a brightly colored wheel styled after the one on the iconic television show.

«We're happy that we look like we're coming to an agreement on a buy American bill, a three - way bill, that was something that was very important to myself and I know Sen. (John) Flanagan's conference,» Klein said after emerging from the governor's office with Flanagan, the Republican majority leader, following an early evening meeting with Cuomo and Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie.

Simanowitz won the special election for the seat in September after his former boss and predecessor, Nettie Mayersohn, 86, announced her retirement from the Assembly after 28 years in office.

No formal agreement has been reached for the Senate to approve the Assembly's version of an amendment for corrupt officials to lose their pension benefits, Senate IDC Leader Jeff Klein on Friday said after leaving Gov. Andrew Cuomo's office.

The WFP sent an alert earlier today to its supporters with a link that enables them to call Paterson's office and express support for the bill, which the Senate sent to the governor on Wednesday — about 24 hours after the Assembly passed it.

Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie (D - Bronx) walks through the Assembly Chamber after leaving Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo's office at the Capitol on Monday, March 28, 2016, in Albany.

Vito Lopez served in the Assembly from 1985 to 2013, when he resigned ahead of a vote of the chamber to expel him after the state ethics commission had released a bombshell report that showed he had routinely sexually harassed young staffers in his office.

The same goes for Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, who has long balked at the idea of revealing his client list, but had a change of heart on the subject after Gov. Andrew Cuomo came into office pledging to clean up Albany.

After learning furloughs were no longer an option to move budget talks along, Assembly Democrats staged a sit - in at the governor's office.

That tumble came less than four months after the arrest of Democratic Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver — in another investigation conducted by Bharara's office — ultimately forced him out of the leadership position he had held for more than two decades.

Talking to reporters at the Crowne Plaza after his meeting with Assembly Democrats, Cuomo said that task will likely have to wait until after he takes office Jan. 1.

«There's an agreement to keep talking,» Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie said after emerging from Cuomo's suite offices Wednesday afternoon.

After opening statements that alleged «bribes and kickbacks, illegally conducted,» prosecutors from U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara's office used Paulin's testimony to establish how the Assembly operated under then - speaker Silver.

Hiram Monserrate, who three months ago failed to regain the State Senate seat he had lost after being convicted of misdemeanor domestic assault, is again running for office, this time for a Queens Assembly seat.

Paulin said that negotiations over high - profile legislation, such as the state budget, was largely done by the speaker's office, with members typically learning about the fate of the chamber's priorities after the Assembly leader had finalized deals with the state Senate and Governor's office.

Carlucci said, «After lengthy discussions with Rockland County officials, representatives from the governor's office, the state comptroller's office, and the Finance Committees in the both the Senate and Assembly, I have decided not to support the sales tax increase at this time because there is little evidence that it would solve Rockland County's fiscal crisis.

Shady, red - meat - loving Brooklyn power broker Vito Lopez is being inundated with demands for his resignation after a State Assembly committee declared that Lopez sexually harassed two women in his office this summer.

After graduating, he worked as a budget analyst in the city controller's office until he was elected to the Assembly in 2000.

That was what Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie's office had to say today after the legislative leader got sideswiped in the latest confrontation between Gov. Andrew Cuomo and Mayor Bill de Blasio.

More than two months after Dan Losquadro left office to run the Brookhaven Town Highway Department, local Republicans have finally identified their choice to replace him in the New York State Assembly.

The New York Civil Liberties Union chose a busy corridor in the Capitol between lawmakers» offices and the Senate and Assembly chambers to hold a contest, featuring a brightly colored roulette wheel styled after the one on the iconic television show.

(a) Within thirty days after each election of the County Committee, each Divisional Assembly District Committee shall hold an organizing meeting upon the call of either of the District Leaders of such part (or in the event that both District Leader offices are vacant, on the call of the Chairperson of the County Committee who shall designate a temporary chairperson), who shall mail notice to each member at least three days before such meeting; provided however, that if such meeting is not held within such time, the Chairperson of the County Committee, the County Leader or either District Leader may at any time thereafter call such meeting by mailing notice at least seven days before such meeting and may designate a temporary chairperson thereof.

Besides Ms. Davila and Mr. Levin, Lopez helped usher a number of politicians into office after he entered the Assembly in 1985 — including State Senator Martin Dilan, former councilman and now - Assemblyman Erik Dilan and former assemblyman and current Councilman Rafael Espinal.

Two veteran Assembly members and an official from the governor's office said they expect a deal will be struck on the popular ethics measure this legislative election year after an unprecedented string of corruption convictions within the last 12 months.

He noted the case after World War I when the Assembly refused to seat three socialists elected to office.

And that explains why Silver, after saying quite clearly last week that he doubted there would be support for extending the temporary PIT increase on wealthy New Yorkers in either the Senate GOP or in the governor's office, revealed he planned to include a proposal to do just that in the Assembly's budget.

There are currently 11 vacant seats — nine in the Assembly and two in the state Senate — due to legislators leaving office after being elected to different state and local positions in November.

Host Alan Chartock is joined by New York state Comptroller Tom DiNapoli, a Democrat who has held office since 2007 after two decades in the Assembly.

Former Assembly legislative aide Elizabeth Crothers revealed that she received a threatening letter from Silver's office in 2003 — two years after she accused the speaker's counsel, Michael Boxley, of rape.

The state attorney general's office and lawyers for the Assembly and Senate agreed to adjourn the legal challenge to April, or until after the budget process is presumably finalized.

Weeks after both the ex-Senate majority leader and former Assembly speaker were forced from office following their corruption convictions, a combined 89 percent of voters told Siena that corruption remains a serious problem in Albany.

There are eight new vacancies in the Legislature — seven in the Assembly and one in the Senate — after sitting lawmakers were elected to other offices yesterday.

A day after his office charged Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver with five counts of corruption and fraud, U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara mocked the power structure that Silver has been a part of for the last 21 years.

After 13 years in elected office (first in the state Assembly and then on the City Council's powerful land use committee), Melinda Katz, 44, is now settling into private - sector life.

One day after Gov. Andrew Cuomo arranged a meeting with some state lawmakers and Catholic Church leaders to promote the education tax credit, the measure seems to be losing support among Assembly Democrats, with some Democrats saying they are angered by tactics used by backers, which has included picketing their offices.

Assembly Speaker Heastie is followed by the press after a budget meeting in the governor's office Wednesday.

After the report drew the interest of Moreland Commission staff in their investigation of legislative corruption that was later picked up by U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara, both former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver and former Majority Leader Dean Skelos were indicted on federal corruption charges brought by Bharara's office.

Lopez, once a highly regarded Democratic party leader in Brooklyn and head of the chamber's coveted housing committee, had been censured by the Assembly the year before, after he was accused of sexually harassing two women who worked in his district office.

After being convicted of federal corruption charges, Silver automatically loses his Assembly seat representing his lower Manhattan district, an office he had held since 1977.

His colleagues had forced him to resign as Assembly speaker days after he was arrested in January, though he had maintained his elected office.

Three months later, after necessary bureaucratic rigamarole and the downfall of a Senate leader after federal corruption charges, the job posting for the executive - director position of the new Assembly Office of Ethics & Compliance is now on Monster.

Addressing a press conference at Binguri, spokesperson of the group, Abanga Daniel Anoyah, accused the Regional Minister Rockson Bukari, and some NPP gurus of scheming to cause chaos after a Legislative Instrument (L.I) 2146 was successfully used in citing the assembly office at Binguri.

Vos said if a Democrat - controlled Legislature could not muster the votes to pass the sales tax increase, it would be even less likely if Republicans gain control of the governor's office, Senate or Assembly after the November elections.

The Assembly Ethics and Guidance Committee has recommended sanctions after finding Kellner violated Silver's order not to have interns in his office, attempted to obstruct a survey about his workplace climate, and engaged in additional sexual harassment.

The Democrats who control the legislature are hoping to get a quick fix and leave the heavy lifting to the next General Assembly that will take office after the November elections.

The committee recommended the construction of the Binduri District Assembly Office at Binguri after stakeholder consultations out of eight communities.»

On ethics reform — a policy area that has proven to be thorny for Cuomo — the governor repurposed several items that were first floated by his office at the end of November as possible elements for a special legislative session that was contemplated but ultimately collapsed after negotiations with leaders of the Senate and Assembly.