Sentences with phrase «parties as state lawmakers»

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The Republican tax bill hurtling through Congress is increasingly tilting the United States tax code to benefit wealthy Americans, as party leaders race to shore up wavering lawmakers who are requesting more help for high - earning business owners.

As lawmakers return for a post-budget legislative session push Tuesday, the state Conservative Party reiterated its call for term limits of elected officials.

Howie Hawkins, the recent Green Party candidate for Governor, issued the following statement today in response to the announcement that Governor Cuomo would require state lawmakers to adopt a 5 point ethics reform plan as part of the state budget process.

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Those on the shortlist include Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren, a favorite of progressives who has emerged as a blistering critic of presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump; Virginia Sen. Tim Kaine, a well - liked lawmaker from an important general election battleground state; and Housing and Urban Development Secretary Julian Castro of Texas, a rising star in the Democratic Party.

But individually, state lawmakers from both parties are frustrated with Cuomo, who they view as mercurial at best and dictatorial at worst.

The state Conservative Party has now codified its threat that any lawmaker who votes «yes» on gay marriage will be politically punished, passing a resolution that states «any elected official or potential candidate who does not support marriage as defined between one man and one woman» won't get Row C «in any election».

MacKay's personal endorsement of the legislation was cast as a counterweight to state Conservative Party Chairman Mike Long's pledge to yank the endorsement of any Republican who voted «yes» on the bill, even though MacKay stressed this issue would not be a litmus test for support no matter how a lawmaker voted.

At the very least, the value of the New York State Conservative Party as a stable platform - based wake up call to Republican lawmakers is very healthy and very realistic.

The governor's absence has fueled suspicion among Democrats that Cuomo, the de facto head of their party, is siding more closely with Republicans in the State Senate as lawmakers negotiate the renewal of rent regulations in New York City.

While he described the return of former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar to the PDP as a good omen for the party, the BoT chairman added that the likes of the Senate President, Bukola Saraki; a former governor of Kano State, Musa Kwankwaso; Sokoto State Governor, Waziri Tambuwal, and other lawmakers would soon return to the party.

Speaking with journalists in Port Harcourt, the state capital, on Sunday, the state Chairman of the APC, Dr. Davies Ikanya, said his party viewed the burning of the former lawmaker's house as the actualisation of the boast by the PDP in the state that it (PDP) would teach the APC a lesson.

WASHINGTON — That part of the GOP tax reform package that would end state and local tax deductions is a non-starter for New York lawmakers from both parties, as well as Gov. Andrew Cuomo.

Rep. Park Yong - jin, lawmaker of ruling Democratic Party of Korea, presided over the public hearing, about two weeks after he unveiled a plan to propose a set of revisions to build regulatory frameworks for virtual currency, such as bitcoin and ethereum, to call for the state protection.