Sentences with phrase «senate staffers»

Senate staffers for months have been trying to forge a compromise to satisfy the lion's share of stakeholders, but even slight changes to certain sections have become battlegrounds.

Negotiations over how to appropriately address patent trolls — companies that buy up patents and then leach cash from inventors by threatening infringement lawsuits — have repeatedly bedeviled Senate staffers working on the issue.

Here's hoping some Senate staffers — or even their bosses — are listening.

In April, he organized a briefing through one of Trump's legislative aides to shore up support among White House and Senate staffers for backing out of the climate agreement, according to an internal email.

According to senate staffers, there are 28 such schools, including six high schools.

I never talked to Schumer about it, but we were hearing this from state Senate staffers who stopped work on the legislation we were working on with them.

Those changes were made with input from Senate staffers, Isaacs says, and hopes are high that the Senate will now quickly take up and pass the bill.

The most recent expenditure reports for the Senate and Assembly, running through last September, showed LATFOR employing 17 people, including two Assembly staffers, three Senate staffers and 12 joint Assembly and Senate majority staffers.

The subsidies appeared on the Public Authorities Control Board's agenda on Wednesday, but was taken off after roughly three hours of discussion between Gov. Andrew Cuomo's aides and Senate staffers, Politico reported.

And they came away not liking what they heard during three weeks of testimony from ethics lawyers, Senate staffers, senators and assorted business partners of Bruno.

The Lighthouse Point subsidies appeared on a draft agenda for Wednesday's PACB meeting, but were pulled at the Republicans» request after nearly three hours of back - and - forth between Cuomo aides and Senate staffers.

Shafran said Senate staffers and Democratic Conference Leader John Sampson worked «through the night» on the charter legislation (passed very early this morning without GOP support by the Assembly, which also pulled an all - nighter).

Sampson also falsely denied directing his Senate staffers to take certain actions relating to regulatory issues for a liquor store in which Sampson held an ownership interest.

Many Senate staffers will be getting pink slips in the New Year as Republicans take control of the chamber.

The underwhelming Gillibrand is not exactly a campaign talking point for Schumer's potential majority - leader candidacy, several Senate staffers said.

This time, Senate staffers did their homework.

As the News recalls, Bruno once referred to homosexuality as an «abnormal lifestyle» and denied Senate staffers domestic health - insurance benefits, though by 2002 he had evolved enough on the issue to push the Sexual Orientation Non-Discrimination Act through the Senate.

A lot of state Senate staffers are notaries — a designation that allows them to authenticate legal documents and gather signatures for minor political parties, with many traveling long distances to volunteer for campaigns.

Senate staffers have repeatedly sent false information to the state comptroller's office, allowing members of the Independent Democratic Conference to receive thousands of dollars in payments.

The Senate staffers who are notaries are basically indentured servants for the Republicans.

BerlinRosen Public Affairs, the eight - year - old consulting firm founded by two former state Senate staffers, Valerie Berlin and Jonathan Rosen, has been quietly shepherding de Blasio's career for years.

Democratic Senate staffers compiled the lengthy list on the so - called Candyman and separated accusations into three categories: prescription drug abuse, drunkenness and hostile workplace practices.

Senate staffers send documents to the New York State Comptroller's Office each year listing the leadership position for which each senator should be paid his or her stipend.

Four days after turning himself in to face federal corruption charges, Sen. Carl Kruger has asked to speak today to his Democratic colleagues at their closed - door pre-session meeting to deliver what has been characterized to Senate staffers as an «apology.»

One of those seats is being sought by Assemblywoman Shelley Mayer, who recently came under fire for allegedly discouraging two female Senate staffers from reporting sexual harassment when she served as the counsel to the Senate Democrats.

You are a LYING LOSER who has no credibility... you must have received a grade of A + when you attended the «Big Lie» seminar that Flanagan made all the Senate staffers attend so they could learn to lie just like Rump.

According to FBI files, Maziarz directed Senate staffers to shred records as the investigation loomed.

She was in talks with another former political consulting firm started by former Democratic Senate staffers, Red Horse Strategies, but the firm ultimately declined to work with her out of fear that to do so would pose a conflict with another client, LG and Senate President candidate Bill Samuels.

But there are one or two others — elected officials and former Senate staffers — who must be pretty darn concerned these days.

According to Senate staffers working for the Senate bill, Nickles believed that the Wolf - Specter bill's provisions for automatic sanctions against the worst persecuting countries would lead to fruitless confrontations, negative fallout on indigenous Christians and missionaries, and an America isolated from its allies.

Senate staffers also questioned Cohen extensively about the Trump Tower Moscow deal, according to a Congressional official familiar with the interview.

During his roughly 15 years in government, he's been a Senate staffer and worked at the FCC and the Justice Department.

A Democratic Senate staffer irate over the GOP's claim of censorship at the hands of the majority when it comes to taxpayer - funded mail sent this photo of a piece recently dropped on behalf of Sen. Ken LaValle.

Erica Vladimer, the former state Senate staffer who accused IDC Leader Jeffrey Klein of forcibly kissing her, said Albany's «insidious» culture of sexual harassment kept her from reporting the incident.

A former state Senate staffer is accusing Independent Democratic Conference Leader Jeff Klein of sexual misconduct, who in an extraordinary conference call Wednesday afternoon denied the incident occurred.

Maziarz is accused of playing a role in a «multilayered pass through scheme» that had him using campaign funds and the Niagara County Republican Committee to funnel payments to a former Senate staffer who had been accused of sexual harassment.

He was charged with funneling secret campaign payments to a former Senate staffer who had left government service amid charges of sexual harassment.

Maziarz is alleged to have funneled funds through his own election campaign and the Niagara County Republican Committee to make secret payments to a former senate staffer who left his post amid sexual harassment claims.

In March, Cuomo also announced the hiring of Robert Gibbon, a former state Republican Senate staffer and an attorney.

A top - level state Senate staffer scurried out of the corruption trial of former Majority Leader Dean Skelos on Monday after being accused of coaching a witness on the stand.

«This employee then revealed the information to two other Assembly minority conference employees, and later discussed it with another person (who is not an Assembly employee) and a high - level Senate staffer.»

In the course of my reporting, one former senior Democratic Senate staffer had said of McCain, «The only time I saw him trying to be cooperative during the Obama years was with the Gang of Eight on the immigration bill.»

A top - level state Senate staffer, Welquis «Ray» Lopez, left the Skelos corruption trial courtroom after being accused of coaching a witness on the stand and warned by the judge that he would be expelled.

Maziarz, in an indictment unsealed in Albany County Court on Thursday, is accused of playing a role in a «multilayered pass through scheme» that had him using campaign funds and the Niagara Conuty Republican Committee to funnel payments to a former Senate staffer who had been accused of sexual harassment.

She pointed to the impact the policy would have on Erica Vladimer, a former state Senate staffer who has accused Bronx State Senator Jeff Klein, who heads the IDC, of sexual misconduct.

The long - time Niagara County Republican power - broker is accused of funneling campaign funds through the county committee to pay a former Senate staffer who had been accused Maziarz of sexual harassment.

Yet, even as the bill's two sponsors — Chelsea Democratic Assemblymember Dick Gottfried and Lower Manhattan / Brownstone Brooklyn Democratic Senator Daniel Squadron — appeared in Albany the same day with Pride Agenda executive director Nathan Schaefer to talk about GENDA, no Senate staffer attended the City Hall event.

Alexis Grenell, a former Senate staffer and public relations consultant noted in the online journal NY Slant, that condoms — purchased largely by men — are exempt from the sales tax.

The Attorney General's office has accused him of playing a role in a «multilayered pass through scheme» that had him using campaign funds and the Niagara County Republican Committee to funnel payments to a former Senate staffer who had been accused of sexual harassment.

Later, U.S. District Judge Kimba Wood admonished Welquis Lopez, a Skelos senate staffer and a former Hempstead highway commissioner.