Sentences with phrase «pushed by some legislators»

The initiative was the latest in what has become a yearly push by legislators to give Asian - American students a day off for the celebration, which is considered the most -LSB-...]

The idea of direct elections is already being pushed by some legislators.

The letter, sent by Cuomo's incoming counsel Alphonso David and first reported by the New York Daily News, continues the governor's strategy of going on offense to respond to a push by legislators and good - government groups to suspend an administration policy of automatically deleting emails after 90 days.

The initiative was the latest in what has become a yearly push by legislators to give Asian - American students a day off for the celebration, which is considered the most important holiday of the year in many Asian cultures.

The second explanation, pushed by some legislators, is that Cuomo actually wanted the budget to be late as part of a larger power play.

The letter comes amid a renewed push by legislators to fix the patent system and slow down so - called patent trolls — people or companies who sue others with the sole intention of winning big settlements.

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The measure includes tuition assistance for undocumented immigrants, a bill that has stalled in the Legislature, but has been pushed over the years by Democratic legislators.

State legislators led by Senator Daniel Squadron are trying to change the name of a 436 - acre park north of New York City, and Assemblyman Charles Lavine pushed Cuomo to take action in a letter.

Naparstek, who also founded the influential Streetsblog.org, will remain on Reinvent Albany's board where he will continue pushing for reforms like an end to outside income for state legislators, restrictions on the use of campaign contributions for personal use, and closing loopholes which foster corruption by allowing people who do business with the state to make enormous campaign contributions.

ALBANY — Andrew Cuomo is a governor of ends, not means, and has changed public perception of the state's notoriously dysfunctional government by pushing legislators into harmonic action and minimizing scandals.

And it was seemingly bizarre that a legislator would push to prevent his state from getting federal reimbursements — potentially hurting the state by a tune of more than $ 2 billion.

It was also advertised as a way to end the horse - trading that's been a part of pay raises for decades — in 1987, Mario Cuomo linked a salary increase to ethics reforms, and the 1998 pay hike was accompanied by the creation of the state's first charter schools, a bill pushed by dairy farmers, and an agreement to give the comptroller authority to withhold legislators» paychecks in years when budgets are late.

Perhaps he can expand upon it by urging fellow legislators to support a countywide ban on plastic bags and continue the push for affordable septic systems to improve water quality.

The push by a JCOPE commissioner appointed by Silver to legislators applying for exemptions from new financial disclosure rules — passed in the wake of Silver's corruption indictment earlier this year — to submit the paperwork seeking exemptions by hand, in person, and not just by email, could weaken future corruption cases.

The worldwide push for government entities to drop investments in fossil fuels comes home to roost in the Empire State: this week New York legislators, led by Senator Liz Krueger, introduced the Fossil Fuel Divestment Act, which would require Comptroller Tom DiNapoli to divest the Common Retirement Fund's holdings in the top 200 fossil fuel companies by 2020.

Turnbull also argued that Democrats deserve credit for saving taxpayers money by fighting to renovate, rather than replace, the county Government Center, and that Jeff Berkman — a Middletown legislator who preceded him as minority leader — had pushed with Middletown's Democratic mayor, Joe DeStefano, to extend the county's Heritage Trail through Middletown.

Maragos said he would also impose a limit of two terms for countywide office holders and four terms for legislators; consolidate the county's procurement compliance and purchasing director positions; and replace Nassau's commissioner of investigations with an independent inspector general for contracting — an idea pushed by Democratic lawmakers for years.

A Brooklyn legislator who voiced concerns about a push by the mayor and City Council speaker to shrink the horse - carriage industry was booted from two prominent committees, sources told The Post on Wednesday.

Scott has delayed the implementation of two new redistricting amendments passed by voters, released an ambitious education agenda, pushed for $ 2 billion in tax cuts in the midst of budget troubles and, most recently, inflamed state legislators by rejecting a plan to build a high - speed rail system between Tampa and Orlando.

A coalition of reform groups led by former Mayor Ed Koch were pushing for legislators to deliver a redistricting plan that better reflected the actual enrollment and population of the state.

Upstate, Gianaris said the DSCC is targeting the Rochester - area district represented by retiring Sen. Jim Alesi and is pushing Chuck Swanick, a former Erie County legislator, against freshman Sen. Mark Grisanti, a Buffalo Republican who won a close race in a heavily Democratic district.

S7722, which was pushed by the Catholic school system and Orthodox Jewish communities, passed through both houses of the state legislature, surviving a loss of support from some legislators.

The union bosses» counter-offensive would normally involve Sheldon Silver — their bought - and - paid for speaker of the New York State Assembly and perhaps the most powerful legislator in Albany — to eviscerate any reforms being pushed by the governor.

Democratic legislators, buffeted by New Jersey's largest teachers» union, were pushing for a two - year moratorium on using the standards but were satisfied with Christie's commission.

Back in the summertime, when a lone liberal Democrat state legislator funded by a local oilman was pushing to bring his tax hike proposal to the ballot, a teachers union member's question was published in the CEA Journal (the union's official «rag»):

And back in the Bay State, advocates for ending the overuse of harsh school discipline will likely leverage a report released last week by the Lawyers» Committee for Civil Rights and Economic Justice to push legislators to go their way.

Legislators in more than a dozen states, pressed by such politically connected competitors as Wal - Mart, have been pushing Amazon to collect the sales tax that their customers technically already owe on online purchases, to better repair widening budget deficits and pay firemen and school teachers.

Legislators in more than a dozen states, pressed by such politically connected competitors as Walmart, have been pushing Amazon to collect the sales tax that their customers technically already owe on online purchases, to better repair widening budget deficits and pay firemen and school teachers.