Sentences with phrase «on budget bills»

By request (from the comments section), here's a list of the senator who cast «no» votes on the budget bills.

Lawmakers in the Senate began voting on budget bills Thursday evening, concluding work at around 9:30 this morning, making for a 17 - hour session.

As Tuesday wore on, it became increasingly clear that lawmakers were not going to meet their self - imposed deadline of finishing the budget by March 21, and said they were likely to continue voting on budget bills into the weekend.

Lawmakers are set to vote through the evening on budget bills, but do expect to return Friday to take up more votes.

The mainline Democratic conference in the state Senate on Sunday urged the eight - member Independent Democratic Conference to block any votes on budget bills until a concrete agreement on raising the age of criminal responsibility is in place.

There was intermittent voting on budget bills today in the Assembly, which followed the lead of the Senate, approving legislation that the upper house took up late yesterday.

Lawmakers are set to vote on budget bills throughout the evening, even as others leave the Capitol for religious observances.

To achieve that, Cuomo may have to issue a «message of necessity» allowing legislators to vote on budget bills without waiting the normally required three days after the bills are printed.

Based on a budget bill that surfaced this week, state lawmakers were ready to agree on a more constrained approach providing limited additional tuition aid, including a share for students at private colleges.

Before they were to finally finish acting on budget bills Thursday, the Assembly did pause the proceedings — for a 90 minute church break.

The Senate and Assembly are expected to begin voting on budget bills as soon as Thursday.

The Republican Governors Policy Committee, a wing of the Republican Governors Association, will launch a new television ad Tuesday defending Walker's rigid stance on his budget bill.

In order to get everything done by Thursday night, the governor may need to issue «messages of necessity» removing the three - day aging period on the budget bills.

Room 328, a cramped hearing space where members of the public can speak on the budget bill, was packed full of eager but bleary - eyed protestors.

He elaborated Monday saying he's been disappointed with how Gibson has voted, particularly on budget bills.

Without specifically denying the relationship or that he went with Kettner for a week vacation to London after telling Senate leadership and his fellow Democrats that he had to skip three major budget votes on April 9th because he was taking his wife to London, Latimer grew increasingly combative over the issue after the debate when Talk of the Sound asked Latimer why he was excused by leadership from voting on the budget bills on April 9th and where he was when the vote took place.

«It's a tremendous step forward in this process, but nothing is done until there is a signature on the budget bill,» said State Senator Brad Hoylman, whose district runs from 72nd Street to the West Village and from river to river in Manhattan.

Members of the New York State Assembly vote on budget bills while in session at the Capitol Wednesday, April 5, 2017 in Albany, N.Y. (Lori Van Buren / Times Union)

Following Monday's passage of a two - month «extender» designed to keep government operating following the failure to craft a 12 - month budget deal by the March 31 deadline, Tuesday had seen a sudden late - night rush of action on budget bills in the Republican - controlled state Senate.

ALBANY — Political considerations, a top Senate Republican explained, weighed heavily in the run - up to last week's vote on a budget bill containing a minimum - wage increase some GOP lawmakers had been openly opposing just days before.

The ink is still drying on the budget bills, but lawmakers expect them to be voted by Friday at the latest.

To vote on budget bills by the midnight Thursday deadline, the bills have to be printed by 11:59 p.m. Monday.

Debate in both houses of the state Legislature stretched from afternoon into evening, with the Assembly adjourning around 9 and the Senate around 10 p.m.. Both will be back to finish voting on budget bills Tuesday morning - legslation that members mostly have not had a chance to read.

Nevertheless, at a 17 June subcommittee meeting on the budget bill covering DOE, Senator Lamar Alexander (R — TN), the ranking member on the Energy and Water Subcommittee, said that ITER hasn't shown the progress it should.

During a lengthy debate on a budget bill, state Rep. Russ Jennings offered what at first appeared to be just another in a series of amendments.

Assembly Democrats will be returning to the Capitol today and staying through tomorrow — their effort toward trying to get agreed - on budget bills into print before midnight Saturday in order to meet the three - day aging requirement and hit the April 1 deadline.

As lawmakers planned late - night votes on budget bills, Cuomo had this to say about a final agreement on a $ 156 billion spending plan:

The Senate is expected to vote on a budget bill this week.

Statement on the 2014/15 Budget from Assemblyman Kieran Michael Lalor (R, C, I — Fishkill) «I voted no on each budget bill because Governor Cuomo and the legislature continue to take New York down the wrong road.

«I voted no on each budget bill because Governor Cuomo and the legislature continue to take New York down the wrong road.

The number - two House Democrat, Steny Hoyer, made the case Tuesday that Republicans have no right to criticize Wisconsin Democratic state senators for fleeing the state capitol to avoid voting on a budget bill, because Republican efforts to block bills from votes in the U.S. Senate amount to the same thing.

The group has been staunch in its criticism of the decision to allow a vote on a budget bill that eventually increases the minimum wage in parts of the state to $ 15, which was unanimously backed by the Republican conference.

Krueger did note that a quorum of 38 of the 62 senators in needed in the chamber to vote on budget bills.

The announcement came as both houses of the Legislature took a break from voting on budget bills that had already been introduced, yet neither legislative majority leader joined Cuomo for the press conference.

Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver just told reporters that he expects votes on budget bills to begin as early as Wednesday — well before the state's April 1 deadline.

State Senators will convene at 5:00 Sunday afternoon to vote on budget bills.

Instead, both chambers waited until Monday and voted on budget bills that addressed neither issue.