Sentences with phrase «respective legislative houses»

Westchester Assemblywoman Amy Paulin and Manhattan Senator Brad Hoylman, both Democrats, have both sponsored the bill in their respective legislative houses.

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«If you make a recommendation today,» Reiter said, «then we've lost any chance of still trying to reach some kind of agreement and giving the Legislature the chance to come back before the end of the year and do what I believe would be the right thing for them to do, which is to recognize the needs of their members, of their respective house members, to recognize the need to do away with outside salaries, or at least cap them substantially as other legislative bodies have done, for exactly the same reasons.»

And yet despite all of the acclaim for bipartisanship, the legislative process requires both the House and Senate to pass respective bills in order to establish a conference committee to hash out a final House - Senate bill that could be enacted.