Sentences with phrase «returning to the state assembly»
Spano switched his party affiliation in December 2007 — the same year he returned to the state Assembly after a stint in the private sector.
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When Democrats in the state Assembly return to Albany to decide whether or not Sheldon Silver will continue on as speaker, a Buffalo Democrat will not be among them.
The state Senate returned to Albany yesterday, about 24 hours after member of the Assembly finished passing the deal announced by Gov. Andrew Cuomo late Friday night, and passed the 2017 - 18 spending plan.
The Assembly Democratic conference, which is poised to release its one - house budget proposal, is upping the ante in the abortion rights debate in light of President Donald Trump's effort to overturn the landmark Roe v. Wade decision and return this controversial issue back to the states.
The Republican leader of the state Assembly is calling for the legislature to return for a special session to wrap up some unfinished business.
The Republican Leader of the New York state Assembly is calling for the legislature to return for a special session to wrap up some unfinished business.
It's hard to say definitively what will be in the bill, since it hasn't been introduced, and leaders of the State Senate and Assembly did not immediately return a request for confirmation that they have agreed on specifics of the deal.
ALBANY — Members of the state Assembly had been told to prepare for a return to the Capitol on Friday for a session to take up legislation regarding mayoral control of schools and local tax extenders, members said, only to have the plans canceled several hours later.
NEW YORK CITY — New Yorkers are set to return to the polls again on Thursday to cast their votes in the state's Senate and Assembly primaries.
Long Island Democrats appeared to lose one open seat in the State Assembly but maintained another, while incumbent Assembly members in both major parties Islandwide appeared headed toward victory, according to precinct returns Tuesday night.
A Cuomo campaign spokeswoman, Abbey Fashouer, challenged Molinaro to release 10 years of tax returns to show details of his outside income when he was a member of the state Assembly.
Caution may have been warranted after last June when, after NYRA was nearly returned to private nonprofit control, Gov. Andrew Cuomo and state Assembly and Senate leaders extended the state's oversight for a fifth year.
John Duane, brother of former state Senator Tom Duane, was an assembly one - termer back in 1982, and is seeking his grand return to elected office now.
Mr Ugonna Ozuruigbo, Deputy Speaker, Imo State House of Assembly, said on Thursday that a new management team would be contituted for relegated Heartland FC, to return the club to the premier league.
Members of the state Senate and Assembly are returning to Albany this week in a new year that also comes with new political terrain.
Meanwhile, Libous returns to the Capitol while state lawmakers in both the Republican - led Senate and Democratic - controlled Assembly sort out an extension of rent control laws for New York City as well as an extension of mayoral control of New York City schools and the creation of an education tax credit.
Gov. David Paterson, who threatened to call the Legislature — especially the Assembly — back to Albany this fall in hopes of getting a deal on a property tax cap, said this morning both houses must return earlier than expected if lawmakers want the state to benefit from the $ 26 billion aid bill passed this week in Washington, D.C.
The Democratic - led Assembly, which left the state Capitol Sunday night, plans to return on Monday morning.
The counties, though, are also pushing the state to spend most of the money on infrastructure upstate, putting the issue under a «must» for the coming legislative session, which begins on Wednesday with the state Assembly and Senate returning to the Capitol.
Cuomo will be delivering his eighth State of the State address tomorrow, returning to the traditional (for him) approach of giving a single speech in the Empire State Plaza convention center, rather than the Assembly chamber, as has been his MO since he took office.
As lawmakers returned to the state Capitol for the first time since the convictions of Sheldon Silver and Dean Skelos, it was Assembly Minority Leader Brian Kolb who perhaps best summed up what 2015 did to the term «state legislator.»
«Detaining Nigerians for weeks without trial is a clear return of Decree 2, with which President Buhari hounded Nigerians in detention when he was a military dictator and we in the Ekiti State House of Assembly will continue to support our leader and Governor, Peter Ayodele Fayose in his fight against tyranny.
It is imperative that we return to Albany and work toward ensuring the Assembly functions as the People's House, and that we take a hard look at further reform including a ban on outside income for our state legislators.»
«I am hopeful that the Assembly and State will repeal the law this year, returning much - needed funding to school districts.
The Assembly should heed the call of the governor and return to Albany immediately to pass the nine vital points already adopted by the state Senate.
The chairman of the State Assembly Energy Committee has asked both Dynegy executives and the leadership of IBEW Local 320 to resume negotiations and enter into at least a temporary agreement to return workers to the job at the Danskammer and Roseton electric generating plants in the Town of Newburgh.
We invite him to join Council Member Chin, State Senator Squadron, Assembly Member Niou and Manhattan Borough President Brewer to fight alongside us for the return of Rivington House.»
«I applaud the Democrats in the Assembly for earnestly debating this bill and urge their counterparts in the state Senate to return to work and do the same,» Assembly Speaker Jeff Fitzgerald, R - Horicon, said in a statement issued moments after the vote.
On Wednesday, as lawmakers returned to the state Capitol for the first time since the convictions of Sheldon Silver and Dean Skelos, it was Assembly Minority Leader Brian Kolb who perhaps best summed up what 2015 did to the term «state legislator.»
ALBANY - Assembly Democrats rallied behind Speaker Sheldon Silver after he was arrested last week, but they will return to the State Capitol Monday with lingering questions about whether he can lead them in upcoming budget negotiations, experts and lawmakers said.
He said, «May God bless our members of the State Assembly for their support and pay them back in returns, and may God return them back to their seats.
The state Conservative Party sent a memo today to senators poised to return to Albany next Tuesday, urging them to rejected the NYC OTB bailout passed by the Assembly during this week's lame duck session.
Manhattan Democratic Party Chairman Keith Wright, who abdicated his Assembly seat last year to unsuccessfully pursue retired Congressman Charles Rangel «s job in Washington, confirmed over the weekend that he is interested in returning to Albany — by running for the position of Harlem State Senator Bill Perkins, who is expected to win a special election to fill the City Council vacancy created when Assemblywoman Inez Dickens left her local post to assume Wright's old role in the State Legislature.
This year, select leaders have returned to call for reform — specifically from Governor Andrew Cuomo, Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan, Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie and Senate IDC Leader Jeffrey Klein — to finally pass legislation against underage incarceration in the state.
Thirty - nine Assembly Members and eighteen State Senators who held office on January 1, 2007 will not return to the State Legislature for the 2011 Session.
The governor, Assembly and Senate in last year's budget had agreed to divvy up a $ 385 million pot for capital projects as part of the State and Municipal Facilities Program, which critics have derided as the return to pork - barrell spending that Cuomo vowed to eliminate.
According to her, SIECOM was currently waiting for the Kaduna State House of Assembly to return from their recess to pass the law that will enable the commission to conduct the election.
The statistics for some West Bronx candidates: 78th Assembly District: Jose Rivera (Dem) received 15,870 votes (90.25 %) 80th Assembly District: Naomi Rivera (Dem) received 17,482 votes (77.23 %) 81st Assembly District Jeffrey Dinowitz (Dem) received 25,522 votes (95.96 %) 86th Assembly District Nelson Castro (Dem) received 16,865 (95.43 %) 28th State Senate District Jose M. Serrano (Dem) received 56,368 (93.74 %) 32nd State Senate District: Ruben Diaz (Dem) received 66,001 (98.68 %) 33rd State Senate District: Pedro Espada (Dem) received 45,625 (97.39 %) 16th Congressional District: Jose E. Serrano (Dem) received 112,204 (96.58 %) For a more detailed report, see NY1's 2008 Election Return Politics aside, Bronx - based health - food restaurant, 4Food, is currently receiving «Corporate Social Responsibility» consulting help from IBM who agreed to assist the business in developing a company that is both financially successful and also beneficial to the community.
The New York State Assembly will return Thursday to vote on the bulk of the $ 141.2 billion budget for the state's fiscal year, which starts AprState Assembly will return Thursday to vote on the bulk of the $ 141.2 billion budget for the state's fiscal year, which starts Aprstate's fiscal year, which starts April 1.
1912: NEA endorses Women's Suffrage 1919: NEA members in New Jersey lead the way to the nation's first state pension; by 1945, every state had a pension plan in effect 1941: NEA successfully lobbied Congress for special funding for public schools near military bases 1945: NEA lobbied for the G.I. Bill of Rights to help returning soldiers continue their education 1958: NEA helps gain passage of the National Defense Education Act 1964: NEA lobbies to pass the Civil Rights Act 1968: NEA leads an effort to establish the Bilingual Education Act 1974: NEA backs a case heard before the U.S. Supreme Court that proposes to make unlawful the firing of pregnant teachers or forced maternity leave 1984: NEA fights for and wins passage of a federal retirement equity law that provides the means to end sex discrimination against women in retirement funds 2000s: NEA has lobbied for changes to the No Child Left Behind Act 2009: NEA delegates to the Representative Assembly pass a resolution that opposes the discriminatory treatment of same - sex couple
With the General Assembly returning to the Capitol to adopt legislation needed to implement next year's state budget, it would be nice to believe that Connecticut's elected officials won't fold under the pressure to back off the demand for transparency on the part of the privately owned, but publicly funded charter schools and their holding companies.
The Connecticut General Assembly is returning to Hartford for a special session to pass the statutory language needed to implement the state budget that the Democratic controlled legislature passed earlier this month.
Dealers will install a steel reinforcement bar into the pedal assembly, which will reportedly ensure that the pedal returns to its idle state.
The blockchain - friendly Senate Bill 398 was introduced by State Senator Ben Kieckhefer in March and unanimously approved by the full Senate in April before moving before the Nevada Assembly in May, where it was amended (under Assembly Amendment 681), approved, and returned back to the Senate who concurred in those amendments.