Sentences with phrase «passing a budget deal»

In January the U.S. Congress passed a budget deal that boosts U.S. government spending, following a December tax package that slashes corporate tax rates.

At 1 p.m., the NYC Council meets and is expected to pass the budget deal reached recently by the mayor and the speaker, City Hall, Manhattan.

Schumer said the recently passed budget deal includes the extension of the Low - Volume Hospital (LVH) and Medicare - Dependent Hospital (MDH) Programs, both of which are essential to the health of rural hospitals across Upstate New York.

Lawmakers had to be called back to the Illinois State Capitol in Springfield to override the governor's veto and pass a budget deal with bipartisan support.

At the end of 2015, Congress passed a budget deal that included a surprise multi-year extension and phase - down of two key federal tax incentives for renewable energy — the Production Tax Credit (PTC) and Investment Tax Credit (ITC).

Not exact matches

The House passed a short - term budget deal Tuesday, which is separate from the Senate's agreement.

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Budget bills need to start passing today if the Legislature and Gov. Andrew Cuomo are to be able to lay claim to an «on time» deal, which is constitutionally due midnight April 1.

Atop the list is the revised revenue legislation that he tried to send to the Assembly and Senate — and saw summarily rejected — after the Senate departed the Capitol for the July 4th holiday weekend without passing the final piece of the two - way legislative budget deal.

Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver offered the following explanation for why the Assembly and Senate have included the FMAP cash in their two - way budget deal even though it appears at the moment that Congress is not going to pass legislation releasing it.

The Senate is not going to vote on that bill Monday because it deals with funds that will be distributed next month, and they hope to have budget passed by then.

The statement, which appears in full after the jump, slams the Democrats» two - way budget deal that passed last night in a party vote, saying it's not balanced, fails to create jobs, and «taxes too much and spends too much.»

The Legislature passed temporary budget extender measures to keep state government running through the end of May in the absence of a full budget deal, avoiding a full government shutdown and buying themselves some more time to keep negotiating.

Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver said he has no plans to keep his members in Albany today any longer than it takes to pass the two - way revenue bill and unidentified «substantive things,» which more or less shuts down the possibility that there will be any new budget deals.

Congress is expected this week to pass yet another short - term spending bill to avoid a government shutdown, prompting a bipartisan pair of senators to introduce a narrow bill on immigration aimed at ending the impasse that has hindered a two - year budget deal.

Chances of a budget deal seem to be slipping ever more into the realm of impossibility with each passing day, leaving even veteran lawmakers like Assembly Majority Leader Ron Canestrari questioning if an agreement will ever be reached.

Again, the both the Assembly and Senate must pass these to provide sufficient funding for the government to keep operating in the absence of an actual budget deal.

People with Cuomo's view argue that Flanagan was too weak to sell the special session deal to members, and needed second floor help last year to pass the budget.

A deal announced in November to bring the IDC and mainline Democrats together after the State budget is passed in late March or early April left many scratching their heads about the timing of both the announcement and the reconciliation date being so far away.

Heastie also backed out of a budget deadline deal to pass a bill that would have started the process of amending the constitution to prevent state convicts like Silver from collecting their pensions.

Taxpayers are spending $ 1.7 billion in the current fiscal year on the Department of Homeless Services — after twice injecting extra cash totaling $ 287 million beyond what was in the city budget passed in June to deal with the burgeoning homeless crisis.

«I think right now the votes are not there to pass that bill collectively on the floor of the House,» the Virginia Democrat said of the continuing resolution to fund most federal agencies through March 23 that is to carry the budget deal.

«You put this cap together with the budget that we just passed, it would help turn this state around,» said the governor, who later added that he believes the cap is perhaps even «more important» than the on - time budget deal he pushed through the Legislature in late March.

It's touch - and - go down at the Capitol with the Senate Democrats trying hard to maintain the 32 votes they need to pass today's pieces of the two - way budget deal.

The NYT thinks the just - announced NYC budget deal, which is expected to be passed by the Council today, will «soon need to be revised because of overly optimistic revenue projections» and merely delays difficult cuts.

In a separate statement, Cuomo condemned the «rushed, secretive approach» to the bill passing, even as some compared it to the traditional last - minute maneuvering and deal - making that typifies budget making and legislation in Albany.

To that end, Paterson predicted state lawmakers will pass the budget extender he sent to them last week that includes furloughs for some 70 percent of the state workforce, and again attacked the unions for refusing to negotiate a deal to help close the $ 9.2 billion deficit.

Assuming this budget deal is passed, will that December 11 date still be in effect?

As the budget clock ticks down, a host of progressive / left - leaning organizations and the labor - backed Working Families Party is making what amounts to a Hail Mary attempt to stop the Legislature from passing the education portion of the budget deal.

According to a recent NY Times Editorial, the SUNY «Empowerment Plan» (which, incidentally, is explained in more detail there than I've seen here) should be severed and dealt with at a future date, and the damn budget should be passed without it already.

In April, the governor was criticized even by fellow Democrats for cutting an overly generous deal with Senate Republicans, weakening his main proposals to pass a timely budget.

Despite the tentative deal, details on specific proposals continued to be hammered out through Thursday, with the New York State Senate scheduling a rare session to pass budget bills today.

«Why not pass a two - year — rather than a one - year — budget deal, Democrats and Republicans figure, so they don't have to deal with prickly budget negotiations next fall, right before many of them are up for reelection?»

Cuomo has called the budget «the most complex piece of legislation we pass,» which is true in part because it is a way of doing business in Albany that a good deal of policy is unnecessarily included in budget negotiations.

The deal was hammered four days after the state legislature extended the deadline for passing the budget by two months as a result of the legislative body missing the original April 1 budget deadline.

Because the Senate earlier rejected the House - passed continuing resolution on a procedural step and was attempting to send back an amended version with the budget deal, the House will need to pass it to re-open government.

The modest reforms lawmakers passed as part of the budget deal earlier in the session really didn't go far enough.

If that happens, the Legislature might try to pass the extenders now and then go back and «fix» those issues on which they don't agree in the final budget deal.

He was one of the leaders who shut down the Senate for nearly four months when they couldn't pass a budget on time... and cut a deal putting Pedro Espada in charge, who's under investigation for tax fraud and money laundering.»

Perhaps, you should line up a grief counselor to help you deal with the shock of being proven wrong when the budget is passed.

The bill has been modified to try to quell concerns in the Assembly Democratic conference that prevented the measure from passing last year despite efforts by a former WNY Democratic senator, Bill Stachowski, to hold up a budget deal in hopes of getting an agreement on what morphed into a SUNY - wide proposal.

The Nassau County lawmaker, one of just two Democrats in the Long Island delegation — among whom property tax relief is a Very Big Deal (capitalization mine this time), called on Paterson to put his tax cap proposal in a budget extender bill to force the Legislature to choose between shutting down the government and passing the controversial plan.

Though he left the administration months ago, Percoco has continued to push Cuomo's agenda behind the scenes, even pushing lawmakers on the governor's behalf to pass the recent budget deal.

The two - year budget deal passed the House 332 - 94 with overwhelming bipartisan support.

Technically speaking, legislative leaders and the governor should reach a budget deal today in order to have bills printed and sufficiently «aged» to be passed by the April 1 constitutional deadline.

The move suggested a larger push to reach a deal on ethics reform measures before the budget is due to pass next week.

But Democratic Senate President Martin Looney is defending Malloy, saying that if the Republicans had wanted to avoid specific cuts, they should have written it into the budget instead of passing the buck to the governor to deal with lapses.

ALBANY — State lawmakers agreed early Monday to pass a stopgap budget to prevent a government shutdown after Gov. Andrew Cuomo and legislative leaders failed to reach a deal on a state budget over the weekend.

«Once again this year, the budget falls short on transparency, both in process and in content,» DiNapoli said, in part referring to the fact that this year, Governor Andrew Cuomo once again issued messages of necessity to waive the constitutional three - day aging period for budget bills in order to get the state budget passed before the April 1 deadline (technically, it wasn't, but Cuomo and legislative leaders had a general deal in place on March 31).

Washington (CNN)-- That warm and fuzzy feeling lawmakers had on Capitol Hill last week for doing their jobs and finally passing a budget continued into the weekend, as the architects of the deal patted each other on the back for a job well done.