Sentences with phrase «rule the state senate»

Nixon said she doesn't believe Cuomo is a true Democrat and believes that, until recently, he was too cozy with Republicans who rule the state Senate.

But Republicans who rule the State Senate are cool to the ideas, including one that creates a payroll tax instead of a state income tax.

Lipton said if Democrats also ruled the state Senate, New York would be in a stronger position, like that of the state of California, to provide a counter-vision to Trump and the Republican - led Congress.

Down the hall from the protesters, Republicans who rule the State Senate were reconvening for a pre-session strategy meeting.

It also received a positive response from Republicans who rule the state Senate.

Nixon says she doesn't believe Cuomo is a true Democrat, and says until recently he was too cozy with Republicans who rule the State Senate.

With precious little time remaining for the legislative session, which is to end on Thursday, the antepenultimate day in Albany was marked by the usual closed - door negotiations among Democrats, who run the State Assembly, and Republicans, who rule the State Senate.

Down the hall from the protesters, Republicans who rule the State Senate were reconvening for a pre - session strategy meeting.

There is, however, a significant problem for Mr. Cuomo and Mr. Heastie: The Republicans who rule the State Senate are not fond of taxes or, of late, Mr. Cuomo.

Independent Democratic Conference leader Jeffrey Klein, left, D - Yonkers, and Sen. Tony Avella, D - Queens, talk in the Senate Chamber at the Capitol on Wednesday, Feb. 26, 2014, in Albany, N.Y. Avella will become the fifth member of the IDC, which has ruled the state Senate in a coalition with Republicans since 2011.

Republicans who rule the state Senate have often argued that they need to stay in power because if Democrats control the Senate, upstate needs will be neglected.

It also received a positive response from Republicans who rule the State Senate.

Not exact matches

According to a recent Reuters report, depending on who takes a Senate seat from several of these battle ground states and who wins certain gubernatorial races could mean which of the energy topics — EPA carbon regulations, the Keystone Pipeline XL's approval, relaxing crude oil export rules, developing clean energy technology — will take priority.

Senate Bill 50 exempted industrial hemp from the state controlled substances act but also mandated that Kentucky follow all federal rules and regulations with respect to industrial hemp.

Hanging over the speech was Silver's push for increasing the state's minimum wage from $ 7.25 to $ 8.50, a move that is opposed by Senate Republicans and one that Cuomo has all but ruled out because of the difficult politics.

Similarly, it is possible to raise a point of order and state that the standard procedure of the Senate is actually different from what the current rules and precedents suggest.

Senate Minority Leader Dean Skelos has seized on today's scathing IG report on AEG as proof that state government is suffering mightily under the «arrogance» of single - party rule.

Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos, R - Nassau County, was given a big escape hatch on increasing the state's minimum wage this afternoon when he was asked if he is completely ruling out rise this year.

According to the Supreme Court's ruling in United States v. Ballin (1892), Senate rules can be changed by a simple majority vote.

Wikipedia says that the filibuster in the United States Senate is a Senate rule that allows a senator to talk as long as he does not give up the floor, unless a special vote is taken to stop debate.

The Republican - controlled Senate on Tuesday passed a bill that would enshrine its term limits rule in state law for leadership posts in the Legislature.

Eliot Spitzer, who was the target of the Troopergate investigation (remember: it all stems from the then - governor's efforts to use the State Police to track the use of state aircraft by his political nemesis, then - Senate Majority Leader Joe Bruno, in hopes of catching him breaking the rules), told the Times he was «deeply troubled» by Cuomo's treatement of this document, which he believes «would reflect upon the underlying integrity of a report that I always viewed to be fundamentally flawed.&rState Police to track the use of state aircraft by his political nemesis, then - Senate Majority Leader Joe Bruno, in hopes of catching him breaking the rules), told the Times he was «deeply troubled» by Cuomo's treatement of this document, which he believes «would reflect upon the underlying integrity of a report that I always viewed to be fundamentally flawed.&rstate aircraft by his political nemesis, then - Senate Majority Leader Joe Bruno, in hopes of catching him breaking the rules), told the Times he was «deeply troubled» by Cuomo's treatement of this document, which he believes «would reflect upon the underlying integrity of a report that I always viewed to be fundamentally flawed.»

The nuclear option exists in the Senate, which allows the majority leader to effectively alter the rules with a majority vote even though the rules state a three fifths vote is required.

When in the Course of New York State Governmental events, it becomes necessary for a Governor to dissolve the political ideas and assumptions which have connected him with Democratic and Republican Members of the Assembly and the Senate, and forced him to assume among this executive powers, the right to assemble a Mooreland Commission, to reinstitute the rule of law in NYS; keeping in mind a decent respect for the opinions of New Yorkers requires that he should declare the causes which impel him to such dramatic action:

The 2017 legislative session in the state Senate kicked off on an acrimonious note Wednesday with Democrats blasting a «Trump - style» change in the rules that bans the use of cellphones from recording video or taking photos.

Both the Assembly and state Senate reversed course, however, extending the program until 2025, eliminating the deferrals and decoupling the state and federal rules.

State Sen. Patrick Gallivan, a former county sheriff who heads Senate Crime Victims, Crime and Corrections Committee, said the Parole Board broke its own rules by freeing Bell.

State Comptroller Tom DiNapoli's office has threatened to reject future requests for lucrative stipend payments — AKA lulus — worth tens of thousands of dollars from the Republican - led state Senate as a result of its continued use of false committee titles to draw down payments for senators who are part of its ruling coaliState Comptroller Tom DiNapoli's office has threatened to reject future requests for lucrative stipend payments — AKA lulus — worth tens of thousands of dollars from the Republican - led state Senate as a result of its continued use of false committee titles to draw down payments for senators who are part of its ruling coalistate Senate as a result of its continued use of false committee titles to draw down payments for senators who are part of its ruling coalition.

A campaign to unseat eight state Democratic senators, members of a renegade group that has helped empower Republicans to rule the Senate in Albany, received a significant boost from the NYC comptroller, Scott Stringer.

And it also comes after Cuomo would not rule out supporting Republicans for elected office this fall, including candidates running for the closely divided state Senate.

The reporter, Daily News Capitol Bureau Chief Ken Lovett, who has been covering state government for decades, was arrested by the State Police for talking on his cell phone in the lobby of the Capitol outside the state Senate, in violation of a Senate state government for decades, was arrested by the State Police for talking on his cell phone in the lobby of the Capitol outside the state Senate, in violation of a Senate State Police for talking on his cell phone in the lobby of the Capitol outside the state Senate, in violation of a Senate state Senate, in violation of a Senate rule.

Despite Gov. Andrew Cuomo not ruling out supporting Republicans this year, Democratic Senate Campaign Committee Chairman Mike Gianaris remains upbeat, telling Liz last night on the show that Cuomo will ultimately settle with the minority conference given their agreement on bread - and - butter party issues such as women's» health and increasing the state's minimum wage.

The smallest faction in the divided state Senate, the Independent Democratic Conference, has been permitted by the ruling party Republicans to issue its own alternate spending plan.

For Cuomo, a united Democratic Senate majority is a nightmare scenario: a centrist at heart, he belittled raising the minimum wage before it came back into vogue, ridiculed the idea of hiking taxes on wealthy people, and still won't comply with a ten - year - old court ruling to fork over state cash to underfunded city public schools.

The state Democratic Party, led by Gov. Andrew Cuomo, is offering carrots and sticks to two rival factions of Democrats in the state Senate in an effort to get them to reunite and potentially rule the chamber.

There is growing pressure on a group of breakaway Democrats in the New York State Senate to reunite with the mainstream Democrats and form a majority to rule the Senate.

A state supreme court justice in Albany has ruled that the Senate Republicans must comply with subpoenas issued by the state Board of Elections chief enforcement counsel looking deeply into potential violations of state election law.

Who cares if John (business as usual) Flanagan is in charged of the Senate, rules are rules, the law is the law, you can not, ON PAPER, make a claim on State taxpayer resources that are false, inaccurate, not true and wrong.

With just an hour before the governor's third State of the State address, the state Senate is debating unprecedented rules changes that would establish a coalition government of the GOP and the Independent Democratic ConferState of the State address, the state Senate is debating unprecedented rules changes that would establish a coalition government of the GOP and the Independent Democratic ConferState address, the state Senate is debating unprecedented rules changes that would establish a coalition government of the GOP and the Independent Democratic Conferstate Senate is debating unprecedented rules changes that would establish a coalition government of the GOP and the Independent Democratic Conference.

The state Senate is currently ruled by Republicans, with the help of several breakaway Democrats.

He referred to the ongoing investigation into allegations that New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio orchestrated a scheme to circumvent campaign finance rules in sending money to Democrats running for state Senate.

The proposal came shortly after the State Senate passed a bill backed by Bloomberg that would reverse a rule protecting veteran city teachers from layoffs regardless of their effectiveness.

The new organization — which would be empowered by the US Supreme Court's controversial 5 - 4 «Citizens United» ruling in June, which gave corporations the green light to run «issues advertising» targeting specific candidates on TV and radio — would initially focus on state Senate races in hopes of seeing the Legislature's upper house return to Republican control, said a source familiar with the planning for the group.

However, the Republican Party was part of a ruling coalition in two additional state senates (New York and the State of Washington), giving it the partisan edge in 59 chambers, with the Democratic Party having partisan control istate senates (New York and the State of Washington), giving it the partisan edge in 59 chambers, with the Democratic Party having partisan control iState of Washington), giving it the partisan edge in 59 chambers, with the Democratic Party having partisan control in 39.

Per Section 3.6 of the Senate Rules, committees of the New Jersey State Senate are appointed by the President of the Senate.

Last month, the Republican - controlled Senate passed highly technical legislation that would tweak the state's tax rules to separate it from the federal tax code.

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The IDC, as a body, still remains alive per the rules of the state Senate.

If the Senate majority wants to show it means to clean up, it should also demand tighter ethics rules on Cuomo's use of the Dormitory Authority's State and Municipal Facilities program.

Recall that last Friday, former governor of old Anambra State, Chief Jim Nwobodo and a former member of the House of Representatives, Uche Ekwunife, who later represented Anambra Central at the Senate, before her election was annulled by the appeal court, defected to the ruling APC.