Sentences with phrase «ranking member of the assembly»

Assemblyman Dave McDonough, Ranking Member of the Assembly Transportation Committee, said, «I salute Governor Cuomo's vision and progress which has begun here on Long Island on our transportation and infrastructure network.»

For the past six years, he has served as ranking member of the Assembly Ways and Means Committee, the powerful tax - writing committee with influence over the state's $ 168 billion budget.

Not exact matches

Case in point: The selection of former Assemblyman Tom DiNapoli to replace scandal - scarred ex-state Comptroller Alan Hevesi, which spurred Spitzer to denounce rank - and - file Assembly members in their home districts.

Based on numerous conversations around the Capitol the last few days, here is part of the problem: Some of the rank and file members of the Democratic Assembly wanted to hold up the budget in exchange for a better deal on Raise the Age — an issue that is deeply important to them.

He will remain a rank - and - file member of the Assembly as he fights the federal corruption charges lodged against him by US Attorney Preet Bharara.

According to the New York Times, two political scientists have determined that Heastie is «the fifth-most liberal member of the State Assembly and ranks among the most liberal lawmakers nationwide.»

Oaks was first elected to the Assembly in 1992 and rose through the ranks of the GOP, eventually becoming the ranking minority member of the Assembly's Ways and Means Committee that oversees fiscal policy.

Wabara, a ranking member of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Board of Trustees, stated this yesterday when a delegation of the board led by its Chairman, Senator Walid Jibril, paid a solidarity visit to the PDP Senate Caucus at the National Assembly Complex.

In 2009, then rank - and - file Assembly Member Carl Heastie was the lead sponsor of a bill designed to weaken then Mayor Michael Bloomberg's ability to determine education policy in New York City.

The highest - ranked Assembly members were two freshman Republicans, Claudia Tenney, (115th AD), and Donald Miller, (121st Ad), both of whom clocked in with a whopping 92 percent.

Silver had floated the idea of temporarily giving his speaker powers collectively to five senior Assembly Democrats but that idea did not go over well with many rank - and - file members of the majority.

And by stuffing so many substantive decisions into budget bills — which he and the legislative leaders will inevitably hash out as Albany's infamous three men in a room — Cuomo is enabling the Assembly and Senate's bad habit of never allowing rank - and - file members to act like real legislators.

He is perceived to have close ties to Governor Andrew Cuomo, which has prompted a sour reaction from many of the Assembly's rank - and - file members.

Valesky, a former Assembly aide and public broadcaster, is the third - ranking member of the state Senate.

Kevin Byrne is the current Assembly Member for the 94th District of the New York State Assembly and serves as the ranking member on the Aging CommMember for the 94th District of the New York State Assembly and serves as the ranking member on the Aging Commmember on the Aging Committee.

To begin with, Corwin is not Scozzafava, who was ranked as the most liberal member of the state Assembly.

This is the first time a former speaker will be serving as a rank - and - file member of the Assembly while a member of his own party has assumed its leadership since Irving Ives was forced from power by Oswald D. Heck in 1937.

Some rank - and - file Assembly members despise Mr. Cuomo and may be wary of Mr. Heastie, who Bronx Democrats are pitching as a bridge - builder between the Assembly and Mr. Cuomo.

He previously ran a company supplying IT services and served as a London Assembly member for Bexley and Bromley, soaring up the ranks at City Hall, going on to be appointed by Mayor Boris Johnson as chair of the Fire and Emergency Defence Authority..

«As the 2nd most conservative member of the New York State Assembly in rankings by the New York State Conservative Party and the # 1 Legislator in scoring by Unshackle Upstate, a New York reform organization, I know we need to slash federal spending, balance the budget, end the bailouts, take leftover money from the Obama stimulus package to pay down the deficit and support repealing Obamacare.

Though Stavisky is not free from her own controversy, as the Observer found the incumbent and ranking member of the Committee on Higher Education to have taken tens of thousands of dollars in contributions from for - profit colleges, including one that's been involved in a bribery scandal that implicated an Assembly member from Queens in 2009.

Part of the project included a survey of NEA's board of directors, state affiliate officers, Representative Assembly delegates and rank - and - file members.