Sentences with phrase «progressive legislative agenda»

In a statement issued at 4:30 p.m., Klein said, «The State Party's assurance that our progressive legislative agenda will be advanced is a victory for the people of New York.

In a statement, Klein said the party's «assurance that our progressive legislative agenda will be advanced is a victory for the people of New York.»

«The state party's assurance [on Tuesday] that our progressive legislative agenda will be advanced is a victory for the people of New York.

Klein put out his own statement saying that «the State Party's assurance that our progressive legislative agenda will be advanced is a victory for the people of New York.

«We will not settle for a few token bills to create the illusion of Democratic leadership — we demand passage of this full progressive legislative agenda:

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Aside from the two - day speech driven sitting held last month, this will be the first time that new Progressive Conservative Premier Alison Redford and her cabinet will gather in the Assembly to present a legislative agenda and field questions from Opposition MLAs.

With the advancement of the progressive Obama agenda by legislative (as distinct from administrative) means halted, Obama, now the «conservative,» will be using every ounce of his powers to sustain the parts of his program that have been enacted, while the Republicans, as proponents of change, will be seeking to reverse many of them.

I ask because I've read progressive Christians who linked certain legislative agendas with «biblical» values, such as the 2010 health - care reform law or with a progressive tax system.

Advocates took out their anger and frustration on the Cuomo administration and leaders of the state Senate, after it became clear that a progressive agenda that includes abortion rights and public campaign financing is likely dead for the legislative session.

«We will push forward a pro-parks legislative and budget agenda in the City Council, which is part of what constituents voted for when they cast their ballot in favor of a progressive city government,» said Councilmember Levine in a statement.

John and Furnish in a statement credited Cuomo for having «championed a progressive agenda that has included significant policy and legislative progress on affordable housing, public education reform, and women's rights.»

Nassau Legislative Minority Leader Kevan Abrahams yesterday launched his Democratic campaign to succeed Rep. Carolyn McCarthy, saying he'd support a «progressive agenda.»

But he said his group, which has been under intense pressure from progressives to return to the fold since the election of President Trump, is «ready to move forward,» but only if any final agreement is based on a legislative agenda that includes passage of a bill to strengthen abortion laws, enact a state DREAM Act, create a public campaign finance system, and adopt a single - payer health care program.

The latest push comes from an unusual coalition of progressive labor interests, political (Democratic Party, that is) and environmental groups, health care interests and good government advocates who are urging Cuomo to enact a «voluntary» public campaign finance system early in the 2011 legislative session — one of the many camapign promises outlined in his «New New York Agenda» books.

Also at 3 p.m., People for New York holds a reception honoring the BPHA Legislative Caucus and its 2014 Progressive Agenda, Hilton Albany, Ballroom C, 40 Lodge St., Albany.

He shared his thoughts with Politico on the progressive / liberal backlash against Governor Cuomo's first term legislative agenda.

Williams is distributing the 17 - page agenda to the 50 other Council members, which outlines how the legislative branch of city government can build on the «progressive gains» of City Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito, who is term - limited.

There are the Independent Democrats, a breakaway group of eight legislators who control the State Senate in partnership with Republicans — an arrangement the Independent Democrats say empowers them to sway legislative priorities to the left, but that mainstream Democrats blame for blocking a more uniformly progressive agenda.

The political price of asking Americans to make real sacrifices in the service of fighting climate change would be too steep for any Congress to accept and hence would threaten other legislative agendas which progressives hold dear.