Sentences with phrase «said assembly member»

Said Assembly member Linda Rosenthal, a Manhattan Democrat and chief sponsor, to the AP: «Because same sex couples can't get married and some heterosexual people don't want to get married, they were not allowed to adopt a non-related child together.

It simply makes no sense and is not a responsible use of taxpayer dollars,» said Assembly Member Barbara Lifton.

«It's disappointing that any candidate for Attorney General would believe that equal justice and equality under the law applies to some New York State citizens and not to all,» said Assembly Member Matt Titone (61st AD - Staten Island).

Dan Donovan's grudging comments about enforcing the law ring hollow,» said Assembly Member Deborah J. Glick (66th AD - Manhattan), the first openly gay legislator in NYS history.

«Women are more at risk to be unsecure in retirement, causing anxiety and fear about their financial future,» said Assembly Member Robert J. Rodriguez, Assembly sponsor of the bill (A.8332 - B).

«It would be nice to hear him say something positive about the people who are teaching our children,» said Assembly Member Deborah Glick, who chairs the Higher Education Committee.

«I am extremely pleased to see the unveiling of the Jamaica Action Plan,» said Assembly Member William Scarborough.

But it shouldn't be just our golden years,» said Assembly Member Gottfried.

I thank Mayor de Blasio for focusing on this issue and for working to make our city more equitable in so many ways,» said Assembly Member Brian Kavanagh.

«Investigation by leaking seems to be the new way of trying to discredit people without actually producing any evidence,» said Assembly member Deborah Glick (D - Manhattan).

I will continue to work with community leaders, neighbors and elected officials towards an esplanade that we can all be proud of, because parks and open green spaces are not a luxury, but a necessity,» said Assembly Member Rebecca Seawright.

Yet, due to the low qualifying income requirements, many New Yorkers who struggle with the rising cost of living are unable to participate in these beneficial programs» said Assembly Member David Weprin.

This discrepancy is unfair, it's morally wrong and it's long overdue that we correct it legislatively,» said Assembly Member Steven Cymbrowitz, Chair of the Housing Committee.

Keeping New Yorkers in their home has to be a top priority,» said Assembly Member Jo Anne Simon.

Increasing the eligibility for SCHE will also be a significant factor in giving many, many seniors the ability to continue live in homes that they have, in some cases, lived in for decades,» said Assembly Member Jeffrey Dinowitz.

«As public officials, we have a fundamental responsibility to secure New Yorkers» right to vote,» said Assembly Member Brian Kavanagh.

said Assembly Member Michael DenDekker.

We must help them stay in New York and increasing the eligibility income threshold for the SCHE / DHE exemptions programs is a step in the right direction,» said Assembly Member Brian Barnwell.

«Expanding the Senior Citizens Homeowners Exemption (SCHE) will provide much needed tax relief to many senior citizen home owners» said Assembly Member Catherine Nolan.

As housing prices continue to stretch family budgets thin here in Coney Island, it's crucial that we offer assistance to the most vulnerable members of our community,» said Assembly Member Pamela Harris.

«This MTA payroll tax is the final nail in the coffin of a state that is trending vociferously into a downward spiral,» said Assembly Member Greg Ball, the Republican and self - avowed Tea Partier running for the seat.

«He defaulted to humor, which I thought was very good,» says an Assembly member who regularly disagrees with Cuomo on policy but at that moment couldn't help liking him.

Not exact matches

Racine Mayor Cory Mason, who helped pass the compact through the Wisconsin Legislature as a Democratic member of the state assembly, said he believes the application meets the compact standards.

Democratic state Sen. Bob Hertzberg and Democratic State Assembly member Marc Levine have both introduced legislation that would require social platforms such as Facebook and Twitter to identify automated accounts — essentially, a sort of sticker that says, «I'm a bot.»

A former aide to a California legislator sued the state Senate on Thursday, alleging it failed to accommodate her emotional disabilities following what she said was a sexual assault by an Assembly staff member, and instead wrongly fired her for «pre-textual minor» work performance issues.

«I think that members of parliament and members of the legislative assembly are there to represent their constituents,» Epp said.

(Let me just say, I'm no average church member; I grew up in the Lutheran church; I attended a Christian high school and a Baptist college, and ultimately was a pastor's wife in an Assemblies of God church) What if none of them completely resonates with you?

Seeking, said their reunion plan, to create a church marked by «diversity and harmony, liberty and love,» both assemblies met in Pittsburgh in separate halls from which their members marched to opposite sides of a broad avenue.

To be sure, Sunday Assembly members in the United States say they've long wanted to join atheist congregations.

8 Sept To Members of The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe: A more explicit, not to say blunt, version of his above Westminster Hall speech nine days earlier.

There was some agitation in the WCC to find a new site for the assembly, but general secretary Konrad Raiser says that a change «would mean almost total loss of credibility» for the WCC among African churches (over seventy member churches are in Africa).

Maduro vows the assembly will strip opposition politicians of their constitutional immunity from prosecution, while members of congress say they will only be removed by force.

Decisions had to be made from time to time as to where or when services of the church would be held; the church needed to be told of the impending visit of an apostle, or of some prophet or teacher from abroad; a question has been raised as to the good faith of one of these visitors, and there must be some discussion of the point and a decision on it; a fellow Christian from another church is on a journey and needs hospitality; a member of the local congregation planning to visit a church abroad needs a letter of introduction to that church, which someone must be authorized to provide; a serious dispute about property rights or some other legal matter has arisen between two of the brothers and the church must name someone to help them settle the issue or must in some other way deal with it; a new local magistrate has begun to prosecute Christians for violating the law against unlicensed assembly, and consideration must be given to ways and means of meeting this crisis; charges have been brought against one of the members by another member, and these must be investigated and perhaps some disciplinary action taken; one of the members has died, and the church is called on for some special action in behalf of his family in the emergency; differences of opinion exist in the church on certain questions of morals or belief (such as marriage and divorce, or the resurrection), differences which local prophets and teachers are apparently unable to compose, and a letter must be written to the apostle — who will write this letter and what exactly will it say?

«We were really appalled and shocked when it came down,» said Moore, who was an independent member in the ACT Legislative Assembly and a former health minister.

Water cannon are no substitute for a visible uniformed presence on our streets,» Assembly member Joanne McCartney said.

«I'm not talking to Assembly members at all,» the mayor said.

Retiring Assembly Majority Leader Ron Canestrari said he believes Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver when he says he has no intention of following any of the chamber's senior members into retirement.

«Unfortunately, the Governor and the Assembly Speaker care more about keeping teenage drug gang members, murderers and rapists out of jail than they do about funding our public schools, providing tax relief for our families and rebuilding our infrastructure,» said Sen. Tom Croci, a Long Island Republican.

(Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, who has said furloughing state workers would be an illegal breech of their contract, told me yesterday that the bill arrived after his members had already gaveled out for the day).

The Millennium Dome is the first venue to come under scrutiny, and local campaign groups, the police, religious groups and members of the Greater London Assembly will have a chance to have their say.

Sampson said last night that he had decided to let his members go for the holiday weekend because he wanted to re-open three - way negotiations with the Assembly and Paterson — particularly when it comes to the FMAP contingency plan the governor has been harping about.

Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver said he has no plans to keep his members in Albany today any longer than it takes to pass the two - way revenue bill and unidentified «substantive things,» which more or less shuts down the possibility that there will be any new budget deals.

Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie called the effort to strengthen oversight of economic development programs «an admirable goal» but said a measure aimed at expanding the authority of Comptroller Tom DiNapoli will first be aired with his Democratic conference members.

Legislation that would require members of the Regional Economic Development Councils to disclose their finances is «no different» than the transparency requirements state lawmakers have approved for themselves in recent years, Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie said on Wednesday.

The Republicans got $ 4.4 million to split, Kolb said, while some members — including Assembly Majority Leader Joe Morelle, a Rochester Democrat who battled Heastie for the speakership — received many times more than that for just a single project.

Last night during Democratic Assembly conference one of the members was texting either Governor Cuomo or a member of his staff and telling him exactly what Carl Heastie was saying.

He'll soon launch a two - week tour of upstate, aides said, paying a visit to ever district represented by a Democratic Assembly member.

He said though it was the duty of assembly members to maintain close contact with the electoral areas, consult their people on projects and meet the electorates before and after each assembly meeting, majority of them had failed to do so.

Assembly Member Mike Cusick (D)-- Staten Island said Monday that he believes he has enough support in the full Assembly to pass the bill right now.

«It's a separate thing being a public servant in terms of doing budgets and constituent work,» said Sen. Jim Tedisco, a Republican from the Capital Region, who as a member of the Assembly tangled infamously with Eliot Spitzer, a governor who failed to overcome the hard - charging attitude he carried as the state's popular attorney general.