Sentences with phrase «specific state senate»

But he criticized the way de Blasio helped steer large contributions from donors to county committees to specific state Senate candidates.

Federal investigators and the Manhattan District Attorney's Office are also examining whether the mayor and his associates coordinated fundraising efforts to use the county Democratic committees as straw donors to funnel money to specific state Senate candidates, circumventing limits on single donors.

Not exact matches

It's the people coming together around a set of ideas and positions, a specific reform agenda, and then getting that enacted in the New York State Legislature by the people's representatives in the Assembly and the Senate.»

A state Senate GOP budget resolution leaves the door open for a deal on legislation that would make it easier for child sex abuse survivors to seek justice as adults, but unlike Cuomo and the Assembly Democrats, state Senate Republicans have offered no specific plan.

At issue is whether the Mayor intentionally subverted state campaign finance laws by funneling money to County Democratic organizations which then wheeled that money to specific Senate candidates in the Hudson Valley.

To facilitate payments, false statements identifying the eight senators as committee chairmen were sent by Senate staff to the state comptroller's office, when in fact each served as vice chairman, a position that does not carry any pay or specific duties.

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.

I just read through both the Senate bill and the Governor's bill, and the clear difference you will see is that the Senate bill is a lot more specific, clearly stating changes that should be implemented.

Despite the tentative deal, details on specific proposals continued to be hammered out through Thursday, with the New York State Senate scheduling a rare session to pass budget bills today.

«It's a real big state, and we've got tax extenders upstate and specific issues upstate that have to be dealt with as well,» Senate Deputy Majority Leader John DeFrancisco, a Republican from Syracuse, said just after noon.

According to the Albany Times Union, all but one of the State Senate Democrats support the concept, though the specific language of the measure has not been released.

Specifically, the investigations are said to be looking into whether de Blasio accepted money from donors who had business before the city or were lobbying the city to secure specific projects and contracts, and whether a team of de Blasio aides illegally routed money to candidates in State Senate races in 2014.

«While the earned media has been dominated by Donald Trump, the paid media has been very specific to how Republican Senate candidate are out of step with their states,» said Martha McKenna, a DSCC veteran.

Mr. Laufer, however, noted that giving money to party committees in order to help elect specific candidates is a common practice — one that former Mayor Michael Bloomberg, once the largest donor to the State Senate Republicans, took part in.

It remains to be seen how Cuomo can convince Senate Republicans, who hold a narrow majority in the chamber and have generally won support from the state's business interests, to back the wage hike, which through the campaign has had a specific connotation to $ 15.

He has worked to minimize conflict with the Republicans, who control the New York State Senate, and this tone of bipartisanship is probably as responsible for Republican strength in legislative races Tuesday as any specific campaign decision that Mr. Cuomo made, senior Democratic politicians suggested.

In the ongoing dispute between developers and labor unions over the future of the 421 - a development tax incentive, the State Senate has introduced a bill to reinstate the program with specific wage requirements — a move that drew the ire of the head of the city's labor unions, who called it a giveaway to real estate.

The legislation, spearheaded by the state Senate Budget and Appropriations Committee, permits municipalities, counties or school districts to establish charitable funds for specific purposes to which New Jersey's property tax owners can contribute.

In testimony before a joint Assembly - Senate budget committee in Albany, Miner said cities need state help but did not request a specific amount of additional state aid.

State Senate Republicans proposed tax breaks for New York homeowners, but offered no specific plans to pay for them.

Topics included his reaction to Governor Cuomo's statement that he is not planning to approve a specific amount of pre-K funding set forth in the state senate proposed budget, how confident he is of pre-K funding, the status of his administration's review of the city's Sandy relief programs, his reaction to Governor Cuomo's statements on mayoral control of the city school system and charter schools, the current status of site clearing and the investigation into the cause of the East Harlem building explosion, whether New Yorkers should be concerned about gas leaks, his reaction to a tweet yesterday by Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito critical of Governor Cuomo's reaction to the East Harlem building explosion, how the church services he attended this morning for victims affected him personally and the relief efforts being led by his wife, Chirlane McCray, and the Mayor's Fund for NYC.

State Sen. Cathy Young, a Republican from Olean who chairs that chamber's finance committee, said the TIF funds infrastructure that is «important to our economic future,» but agreed with Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan that specific projects should be detailed in budget bills.

Asked if Flanagan expressed specific concerns about the effect on the state Senate, King said, «To me, it's always been implied.

Sen. Bernie Sanders, an independent from Vermont who is the top minority member of the Senate Budget Committee, announced late Friday that Senate parliamentarian Elizabeth MacDonough had ruled that such state - specific provisions, along with several others, are subject to what's called the «Byrd rule.»

The bill, expected to be taken up by the U.S. Senate as early as next week, contains specific legislative language on local governance that restores the balance between federal and local government and provides states and school districts the flexibility needed to support student learning and achievement.

State Sen. Teresa Ruiz (D - Essex), the chairwoman of the Senate education committee, said in an interview that she still hopes to get some specific changes through by the end of the calendar year, including a bill to extend the number of organizations that can approve new charters.

Things are not 100 % free and clear in Toledo, as residents still fall under the state law that deems «pit bulls» as vicious — however, that law is also up for debate when the state Senate session begins again next month (a bill removing breed specific legislation from the state law passed in the House of Representatives last Spring).

The bill and its Senate companion (SB 338) echo Arizona's Clean Peak Standard (CPS), a proposal introduced last year by the state consumer advocate that would amend the state's renewable portfolio standard to require utilities to obtain a specific portion of their peak demand generation from «clean peak resources.»

In June 2015, the Digital Privacy Act (Senate Bill S - 4) amended PIPEDA and the specific exemption in s. 7 (3)(h. 2) was repealed and replaced by a significantly broader exemption that states: