Sentences with phrase «recent budget talks»

Lieut. Gov. Pierre Howard last week demanded written explanations from legislative staff members after The Associated Press broke a story on the existence of the fund, which allegedly is hidden in the budget bill and was not discussed during recent budget talks.

If the Democrats win the majority, Stewart - Cousins — who complained about being frozen out of the recent budget talks and negotiations over an anti-sexual harassment package — stands to become the state's first black woman to lead a legislative conference.

Not exact matches

In recent weeks, as Nixon began her upstart campaign, Cuomo has been talking about a budget proposal that would require school districts within cities with a population of more than 125,000 people — New York City, Buffalo, Syracuse, Yonkers and Rochester — to submit an annual plan detailing the allocation of local, state and federal funds by school building.

A female announcer then talks about the number of people New York has lost in recent years and says there's «hope» in the form of Cuomo's budget — «a plan to move New York forward» without raising taxes.

Sam Spokony, a spokesman for the Upstate Transportation Association, has been bombarding reporters with reasons that ride - hailing should drop out of budget talks, most of which involve recent public relations mishaps by Uber executives and its reluctance to allow fingerprint background checks.

And the way Cuomo wins his battles — strong - arming and horse - trading; a mastery of talking past inconvenient questions and facts — tends to antagonize enemies and allies, as in the most recent round of budget wrangling, in which he managed to chafe both liberals and business fat cats.

Tuesday marked the first joint, bipartisan budget talks - since the recent votes in both chambers - in an attempt to break the budget logjam.

Indeed, he spent a lot of time in his campaign talking about participatory budgeting, an innovation introduced by Council newcomers from recent election cycles who invite constituents to help plan the allocation of member item dollars each district receives.

Republicans backed out of Jan. 17 talks after demanding that President Clinton revise his most recent balanced - budget proposal, and they are threatening to single out some programs for full appropriations while funding for other programs lapses or continues at low levels.

Finally, after years of talking, the Canadian government killed the penny in its recent budget.