Sentences with phrase «session as lawmakers»

With time running out, the Senate and House of Representatives scrambled to vote on the final day of the regular session as lawmakers...

The state Legislature is in session as lawmakers try to wrap things up before the scheduled end of their work year next week.

An agreement would come in the final days of the legislative session as lawmakers are scheduled to depart the Capitol on Wednesday.

With time running out, the Senate and House of Representatives scrambled to vote on the final day of the regular session as lawmakers also passed myriad bills on the session's busiest day.

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Gov. Scott had urged public calm, even as he and Sen. Marco Rubio (R - FL) pleaded with the federal government to provide more resources and called on Ryan and McConnell to summon lawmakers into a special session to break the impasse over the Zika funding bill.

Texas is looking at a budget shortfall projected between $ 11 to $ 17 billion as lawmakers head into the 2011 session.

Ahead of Mr. Zuckerberg's trip to Washington, Facebook has hired a team from the law firm WilmerHale as well as outside consultants to coach him on questions lawmakers may ask, and on how to pace his answers and react if interrupted, according to people close to the preparations, who would speak only anonymously because the sessions were private.

The issue is expected to be one of the first to surface in Alabama's state legislature as lawmakers there head back to session this week, and a colorful standoff is likely.

Advocates, lobbyists and even some state lawmakers privately fear this could become one of the least productive legislative sessions in years as «scandal fatigue» pervades the Capitol and criminal allegations dominate the headlines and deflate the desire to get things done.

It's a move that has some lawmakers privately taken aback, considering the lack of focus and attention that was paid to the measure as it quietly wound its way through the committee process this final week of session.

Negotiations continued today at the Capitol as lawmakers convene for an extraordinary session of the Legislature on Tuesday as talks continue over a potential broader deal beyond the extension of mayoral control for New York City schools.

While other measures lacked the same urgency or drama as mayoral control, which did not get done this session, lawmakers did approve scores of bills in recent days, like a provision that would make it easier for cancer patients to sue for malpractice, and a ban on e-cigarettes in bars and restaurants.

The investigation threatens to hijack what was expected to be a quiet end to the legislative session, due to wind down at the end of June, in which lawmakers were considering a rather light menu of issues such as mayoral control and Gov. Andrew Cuomo was largely leaving to the Legislature.

He has not made any public appearances in Albany as lawmakers struggled to land deals before the session's scheduled end, though he did participate in closed door negotiations with legislative leaders.

Heastie, meanwhile, insisted lawmakers were working to conclude the session on a productive note, with a number of outstanding issues on the table ranging from expanding ride - hailing apps like Uber and Lyft to upstate New York as well as mayoral control of schools in New York City.

In a move likely to infuriate Republicans as well as Democrats, GOP gubernatorial hopeful Rob Astorino will pledge Monday to end the Legislature's sessions in April, halt the lawmakers» scandal - ridden «per diem» payment system, and make new lawmakers join a less - costly state pension system, The Post has learned.

As the final days of the current state Legislature's session wind down, there's growing calls for lawmakers and the governor to do something about ethics reform.

As the sun rose over the Capitol Saturday morning, state lawmakers put the finishing touches on the 2016 legislative session.

As lawmakers begin their dash to the end of session in about a month, it is important that expanding the state's availability to college financial aid must be approved.

The fantasy sports legislation is among a number of outstanding issues still facing lawmakers in Albany as the legislative session extends beyond the scheduled end date.

As lawmakers return for a post-budget legislative session push Tuesday, the state Conservative Party reiterated its call for term limits of elected officials.

Ms. Quinn, who has emerged as a leading surrogate for Mr. Cuomo, promised to deliver the pledge — which asks lawmakers across the state to support the passage of all 10 points of the controversial Women's Equality Act, which has died in two consecutive sessions — to Mr. Astorino in Midtown, where he is fund - raising with retired business executive Carly Fiorina.

It's another sign Republican lawmakers in the Senate won't budget on their own mayoral control extension bill as the legislative session is scheduled to end next week on June 16.

Pleban and Ward are hoping they won't have to go through the same range of emotions this week as New York lawmakers enter the final days of the legislative session, with the prospect of approving same - sex marriage looming yet again.

As the legislative session draws to a close and Hartford edges closer to bankruptcy, lawmakers say they remain committed to sending tens of millions of dollars more to the troubled capital city, but not before handing at least some control over to the...

A Queens state Assemblyman's efforts to crack down on staged car accidents kicked into high gear as the lawmaker prepared his final push before the current legislation session ends in June.

And he noted in a question - and - answer session that state lawmakers have a role to play in placing casinos around the state as well.

Croci and Klein released the report as lawmakers make a final push to pass a bill cracking down on zombie homes before the state Legislature ends its session on Thursday.

The proposal largely mirrors what Gov. Andrew Cuomo had initially proposed and continues to back in the closing days of the legislative session, as state lawmakers have pushed legislation that would re-empower the state comptroller's office to review spending related to major economic development projects.

Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, who has said lawmakers can choose to clean up their acts or face repeated prosecutions, said Cuomo's package was «welcome news,» but hoped lawmakers would «use today's announcement as another clear sign that Albany must pass comprehensive ethics reform before the end of session.»

Cuomo and lawmakers have been discussing the issue as one of several that could be addressed part of a special December session that would include a pay raise for the governor and legislators.

Fred Thiele (I - Sag Harbor) and Sen. Kenneth LaValle (R - Port Jefferson) will kick off their effort with a State Capitol news conference next week as lawmakers head into the final three weeks of the 2015 legislative session.

Maryland lawmakers on Wednesday braced for challenging tax and health care matters posed by last month's federal tax overhaul, as they gathered for their annual 90 - day legislative session.

It's not clear what the governor's comments mean for the hot - ticket budget items yet unresolved as lawmakers arrive at a pre-scheduled 18 - day break from the legislative session.

State lawmakers go back to work in Albany this week as the second half of the legislative session gets underway.

The modest reforms lawmakers passed as part of the budget deal earlier in the session really didn't go far enough.

ALBANY — As the legislative session winds down at the Capitol, lawmakers have yet to reach a deal on a bill to legalize medical marijuana, though advocates said ongoing discussions between Governor Andrew Cuomo and the legislative leaders have been «productive.»

As part of the push to end the legislative session by Thursday, state lawmakers representing the PFOA contaminated village of Hoosick Falls want to extend the statute of limitations to bring lawsuits against polluters.

Voters identified passing new anti-corruption laws as the most important issue for Cuomo and lawmakers to tackle before the legislative session ends in mid-June.

State lawmakers have a heavy agenda as they work to end the legislative session by June 19.

The legislative session ended with a thud earlier this month, as lawmakers settled on a budget plan that didn't have the dramatic policy changes and spending reductions Paterson was looking for to put the state on a more sound fiscal footing after he leaves office — and presumably politics — at the end of this year.

SPECTRUM NEWS VIDEO: State Sen. Neil Breslin says changing sexual harassment policies in the state to make them tougher will be one of the big policy decisions facing lawmakers as the session gets underway.

As the 2016 session of the Legislature wrapped up last week and came to a typically ugly end in the wee hours Saturday morning — with bleary - eyed lawmakers forced to vote on measures they didn't even have time to read — The Post asked several lawmakers, lobbyists and journalists to assess the first full year's performance of Democrat Heastie, a key ally of Mayor de Blasio, and Flanagan, the most powerful Republican in the state.

Fall for lawmakers means more hearings as the Senate and Assembly begin to prepare for next year's session.

State lawmakers and Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Thursday neared the end of a legislative session with likely agreements on the first step for a constitutional amendment stripping corrupt officials of their pensions as well as a greater oversight of super PACs formed in the wake of the Citizens United decision.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo insisted lawmakers still have plenty of time left in the legislative session to rack up accomplishments ranging from ethics reform to combating heroin abuse as well developing a plan to fight breast cancer.

As is being widely reported today, the breakfast meeting on Thursday was meant to be a session for the female lawmakers to vent their concerns over the Lopez scandal, with Assemblywoman Amy Paulin telling NY1's Zack Fink that it was a «cathartic» moment for them.

In his TU op / ed, Gov. Andrew Cuomo listed «campaign finance reform» as one issue in his litmus test for support of Senate lawmakers in the coming 2013 legislative session.

Still, Cuomo is rolling out the endorsements from federal lawmakers just as the budget season is expected to pick up this week with the conclusion of the mid-winter legislative session break.

As the legislative session begins to wind down this month, lawmakers have a number of outstanding issues to take up, and a mini «big ugly» could be in store at the Capitol.