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Silver — who at the time was one of the most powerful lawmakers in Albany — was found guilty on all seven counts against him that he engaged in two quid - pro-quo schemes in which used his position to benefit a cancer researcher and two real estate developers.

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Democratic lawmakers and top economists are mystified that he's being eyed for Federal Reserve chairman, the most powerful economic post in the world.

NFIB's powerful network of grassroots activists sends their views directly to state and federal lawmakers through our unique member - only ballot, thus playing a critical role in supporting America's free enterprise system.

Thus in the last year, powerful food companies, agriculture lobbies, and various coalitions of lawmakers have allied in battles over each food area that USDA sought to restrict.

The news is significant, not only as it temporarily exonerates Silver — once one of the state's most powerful elected officials — though he can be retried, and the acting U.S. attorney has indicated he will, in fact, seek to take another legal crack at the former Manhattan Democratic lawmaker.

I received an e-mail today from Paul Newell, one of two Democrats who ran unsuccessful primary challenges to Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver in the fall of 2008 — the first opponents the powerful Manhattan lawmaker had received from inside his own party in two decades.

The groundswell over the Harvey Weintein sexual harassment that has rocked Hollywood moved into California's capital as more than 140 women — including lawmakers, senior aides and lobbyists — came forward to denounce what they describe as pervasive sexual misconduct by powerful men in the nation's most influential legislature.

Already embroiled in an ethics probe now entering its tenth month, Rep. Charlie Rangel (D - N.Y.), chairman of the powerful Ways and Means Committee, received more bad news Wednesday night as the House ethics committee announced it would look into Caribbean trips taken by the veteran lawmaker and four other Democrats.

As the 2016 session of the Legislature wrapped up last week and came to a typically ugly end in the wee hours Saturday morning — with bleary - eyed lawmakers forced to vote on measures they didn't even have time to read — The Post asked several lawmakers, lobbyists and journalists to assess the first full year's performance of Democrat Heastie, a key ally of Mayor de Blasio, and Flanagan, the most powerful Republican in the state.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo's efforts over the years to consolidate power in the executive branch have been widely reported — and criticized by state lawmakers and good government watchdogs, who say the executive branch in New York is inherently powerful enough.

Tom Libous, one of the state's most prominent and powerful Republican lawmakers in the Senate, has been found guilty by jury of lying to federal agents in a case stemming from his son receiving a job at a politically connected law firm in Westchester County.

Nevertheless, he is the latest in a line of once powerful state lawmakers to be felled by corruption charges.

Anthony Bonomo, a longtime friend of former Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos and head of a medical malpractice firm, testified at the lawmaker's corruption trial that he couldn't fire the powerful politician's son, Adam, for not showing up to the cushy job he'd arranged because he feared he'd «have a problem in Albany.»

About 25 Wall Street executives, many of them hedge fund managers, sat down for a private meeting Thursday afternoon with two of the most powerful Republican lawmakers in Congress: Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, and John Cornyn, the senior senator from Texas who runs the National Republican Senatorial Committee, one of the primary fundraising arms of the Republican Party.

In the weeks following the election of Mayor Bill de Blasio, who personally lobbied for Mark - Viverito, the field of candidates for the city's second-most powerful position was whittled down to the East Harlem lawmaker and Councilman Dan Garodnick (D - Manhattan).

He dropped from the third-most powerful state senator to a back - row lawmaker in a small, breakaway political conference.

According to a 2013 report by the Center for Investigative Reporting, California State Assembly Speaker John Perez «gave lawmakers who raised the most money the best assignments in the new Legislature — posts on the speaker's leadership team and seats on the powerful «juice committees.»»

Sharkey, a Democrat from Hamden and one of the legislature's most powerful lawmakers, cited a proposal to raise the data - processing tax as an example of short - sighted budgeting decisions that are often made in the final, hectic days of the session.

Adding to Flanagan's woes, the source said, is the fact that the city's real - estate industry, long a major contributor to the Senate GOP, has become skittish about contributing to the business - friendly lawmakers in the wake of revelations involving Glenwood Management, the powerful real - estate firm owned by Leonard Litwin, at the corruption trials of both Skelos and former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver (D - Manhattan).

The tougher choices down the road could include major cuts in state education spending — the political third rail for many lawmakers; or what are euphemistically called «revenue enhancers,» also known as higher or new taxes; or a cap on state spending, which such powerful labor groups as the teachers and health - care workers unions fight against tooth and nail.

The federal prosecutor behind the convictions of several of New York's most powerful lawmakers made several stops in Albany Monday.

McLaughlin is the latest state lawmaker to face allegations of sexual harassment, a wave that began in 2012 with accusation against then - powerful Democratic Assemblyman Vito Lopez, ultimately sweeping up other lawmakers from both parties.

ALBANY — Longtime Albany lawmakers and observers were shocked Monday by the conviction of former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, one of Albany's most powerful leaders for 20 years, on all counts in his corruption trial.

Under the supervision of the governor's staff, the groups intend to raise more than $ 1 million for a media blitz, hire a powerful political consultant close to the Cuomo administration and deploy field organizers to the districts of more than a dozen key lawmakers to drum up support, according to interviews with those involved in the effort.

A powerful group of state lawmakers is helping black and Hispanic students gain entry to top city schools with $ 2 million in new state funding, the Daily News has learned.

If Albany lawmakers are looking for guidance in a time of powerful populism, they should look for policy options that promote democracy and the interests of regular people over oligarchy and the interests of the billionaires.

SYRACUSE, N.Y. — Former state Senate majority leader Dean Skelos and Adam Skelos today were found guilty by a federal jury in Manhattan on eight counts charging the once - powerful lawmaker used his political influence to force businesses to hire the son.

Moderate Republicans like Faso could be key to passing the measure in the House, after several conservative lawmakers and powerful conservative groups came out against the bill.

A day after federal agents put handcuffs on one of New York's most powerful lawmakers, U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara Friday denounced Albany's political culture that concentrates power with «the proverbial three men in a room.»

«What we're seing is a growing trend in both the number of gifts and the total value of those gifts given by powerful special interest groups to state lawmakers.»

She said she hopes the conviction will give those lawmakers and activists who still sided with the powerful pol pause in the future about «supporting someone who they know has so little integrity.»

The speaker since 1994, he has long been the most powerful Democrat in the Legislature, and he was expected to play a large role in the coming weeks as lawmakers tussle with Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo over the budget and contentious proposals regarding public schooling and criminal justice.

Even though the plan would take away some authority from lawmakers, Sheldon Silver, the most powerful Democrat in the Legislature, said it would be carefully considered by his colleagues.

In his opening remarks to the assembled lawmakers, a powerful political leader suggested the suppression of popular communication, not by arresting publishers or shuttering radio stations but by blocking online social networks.

Pro-nuclear activists want lawmakers to treat the Clinton plant and other fission reactors as some of the most powerful weapons in the fight against global warming, a rationale that would give them a new lease on life.

February 28, 2018 • In a freewheeling talk with Republican and Democratic lawmakers on curtailing gun violence, President Trump appeared to throw his support behind efforts that are opposed by the powerful gun lobby.

«It's unproven at best,» Mark Jewell, president - elect of the N.C. Association of Educators (NCAE), one of the most powerful teacher lobbying groups in Raleigh, told House lawmakers last week.

While students have been building a powerful and inspiring movement to end gun violence in schools, PA lawmakers have been laying the groundwork to vote on legislation that would militarize school buildings and allow teachers to carry concealed weapons.

The issue has long been a sticking point for the powerful New York State United Teachers union, which has thrown its support behind the bill and is hoping to convince lawmakers to act on it before the state's legislative session ends in mid-June.

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The Republican - dominated task force is composed of state Senate and House appointees, many of them among the most powerful K - 12 lawmakers in their respective chambers, although legislators opted not to include membership from local school finance leaders.

For example, the groomer standards developed by the Professional Pet Groomers and Stylists Alliance (PPGSA) have had a powerful influence in guiding lawmakers in New York and Rhode Island to make sound public policy.

In addition to providing voluntary guidelines on safety and sanitation, these measures are a powerful guide for lawmakers seeking to reassure the public that groomers are responsible and diligent professionals.

New York lawmakers have introduced bills to open up the process at least a dozen times in the last 25 years, but the measures have faced powerful opposition from the state's district attorneys.

Prompted by overtures from the politically powerful personal injury law firm of Peter Angelos, Maryland's Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee last Tuesday conducted a «briefing» for lawmakers on what plaintiffs» lawyers purport is a «backlog of civil asbestos cases» in the Circuit Court for Baltimore City... → Read More: Maryland Lawmakers Should Investigate Asbestos Claims, Not Ralawmakers on what plaintiffs» lawyers purport is a «backlog of civil asbestos cases» in the Circuit Court for Baltimore City... → Read More: Maryland Lawmakers Should Investigate Asbestos Claims, Not RaLawmakers Should Investigate Asbestos Claims, Not Raise Taxes

If Apple goes all - in pushing for reform, the iPhone maker's powerful reputation among inventors and consumers could persuade any wavering lawmakers to drive a fatal stake into the patent trolls.