Sentences with phrase «state senate still»

But the power sharing coalition in the state Senate still seems a little bit less solid.

The incompetent state senate still hasn't signed off on a final budget.

After all, Gov. Andrew Cuomo and the Republicans in the state Senate still support limiting state spending increases overall to 2 percent.

Not exact matches

«[The legislation] does not take steps toward coverage and access for all Americans, and while insurers are still required to offer coverage to patients with pre-existing conditions, allowing states to get waivers to vary premiums based on health status would allow insurers to charge unaffordable premiums based on those pre-existing conditions,» wrote American Medical Association (AMA) president Dr. James Madara in a letter urging Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell to shelve the Graham - Cassidy bill on Tuesday.

At the same time, Republicans still have a decent chance to win the Senate this year, provided they have enough resources in a few crucial states.

The state's Senate still needs to approve the legislation.

The Senate's approach to state and local taxes is at odds with that of the House, where Republicans settled on a compromise — scrapping some of the state and local deductions but still allowing a deduction of up to $ 10,000 on property taxes — after GOP lawmakers from high - tax states revolted against an initial House plan to scrap the deduction entirely.

But the Labor party says Nash still has to explain why she told the Senate she had the «unanimous support» of the state ministers jointly responsible for the health star rating scheme for a new «cost benefit analysis».

The state Conservative Party's coveted nod in the US Senate race against Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand is still up for grabs.

The Senate GOP's casino plan, which is still being drafted, protects the Seneca Nation of Indians» three casino investments in the region by honoring a decade - old compact between the state and tribe to keep new Las Vegas - style casinos from locating in a large portion of the region.

The liberal Daily Kos blog this morning posted a short item pointing out that the federal court asserted in a filing that it was still very much involved in approving the state Assembly and Senate lines.

Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver said he still expects the Republican - led Senate to take up an increase of the state's minimum wage, though he downplayed any need for Gov. Andrew Cuomo to lobby for the measure.

Still, progressives have faulted Cuomo for compromises with Republicans in the state Senate, who they say have been allowed to remain in power by Cuomo.

With all the attention being paid to the GOP battles for the gubernatorial and US Senate nominations, the fact that the party still has no state attorney general candidate has gone largely unmentioned, but that might be able to change.

I still think he wants to see a Democratic controlled State Senate.

An agreement that would unite Democrats in the state Senate is premature, since Republicans would still have the backing of Brooklyn Sen. Simcha Felder, Deputy Majority Leader John DeFrancisco said on Friday in an interview.

That may still be the case, but a sharp - edged piece of politics is being wedged in the discussion this month as well in the form of a special election that could decide the future of the narrowly divided state Senate.

The impasse remains, resulting in the New York's unusual and costly arrangement of holding two party primaries, one mandated by a federal court for U.S. Senate and House party contests in June; state and local primaries still held in September.

Three years after Senate Democrats nearly went broke futilely trying to retain control of the state Senate, more than half their members are still personally on the hook for the campaign's red ink.

Some of the money given was from more than eight years ago, when Schneiderman was still in the state Senate and before Stewart - Cousins led the conference and Sen. Mike Gianaris became its fundraising chairman.

State Senator Patrick Gallivan (R, C, IP) of the 59th Senate District said some items were still overlooked.

The Attorney General, who was a long time member of the State Senate, says it's a difficult decision because he still has many friends in office who have asked for his help in their campaigns.

Then, when Democrats still won a majority, he cut a backroom deal that allowed Republicans to take over the State Senate through the Independent Democratic Conference (IDC)-- a group of breakaway Democrats who voted with the Republicans to hand them control, and with it, the power to block almost all of our key Democratic legislative priorities.

While Collins says he has House leadership support for cutting federal reimbursements to state Medicaid funding derived from counties in the sales tax, the Senate side is still debating how states would be impacted.

The Democrats still will not hold a majority in the Senate, the Republicans will still control the state budget, Simcha Felder will continue to play his own game, and New Yorkers have no guarantee that any legislation will pass.

While Boyle says he might still run for Sheriff as a Democrat (the Democratic County leadership would have to give him permission), State Republicans are breathing a momentary sigh of relief since they might not have to fight a special election for his swing Senate seat.

The Voter Empowerment Act, the most recent attempt, is still stalled in committee in the state Senate.

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 bill has been approved by the state senate and still needs to be approved by the state assembly.

The saga of state Sen. Hiram Monserrate's (D - East Elmhurst) assault case is out of the courtroom for the time being, but although the first - term legislator avoided any jail time on his misdemeanor conviction for recklessly injuring his girlfriend while dragging her out of his apartment building, he still faces censure from his Senate colleagues and -LSB-...]

Still serving his first term in the State Senate, Brad Hoylman has already emerged as a leader on street - safety issues.

And in 2008, Mayor Michael Bloomberg, after lavishing campaign funds on state Senate Republicans, still failed to get his coveted congestion pricing plan for New York City to help reduce emissions and limit vehicular traffic in Manhattan.

Senate Democrats are still defending 10 states that President Donald Trump won in 2016, but six months out from Election Day, the most vulnerable senator remains a Republican.

Although state legislation authorizing mayoral control of the Buffalo Public Schools still lacks a Republican sponsor in the GOP - dominated Senate, that hasn't stopped city power brokers from quietly plotting what a takeover of the troubled district would look like.

Republicans still control the state Senate.

If the intra-party warfare is still going on by the state's presidential primary date of April 19, it could be good for the GOP as it battles to retain former Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos» seat on Long Island in a special election that will also take place on that day.

However, Republicans in the state Senate say all three items still need to be negotiated.

«We've agreed we're going to get it done on time, and we're still finalizing a whole bunch of fiscal and appropriation matters — education and higher ed,» state Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan (R - East Northport) said Sunday.

The make up of the state Senate has not changed from last year, and the GOP still opposes public financing of campaigns, calling it a waste of the taxpayer's money.

As the former New York State Senate Majority Leader goes to trial and his former counterpart Assembly Speaker is still in court, it has become clear that whatever the outcome, Albany's ethics is on trial.

While there are two Long Island races still being counted that could change things, it appears that Republicans will continue their hold on the state Senate, putting a dent in de Blasio's hopes for voting reform and other priorities, like a lengthy extension of mayoral control of city schools.

Still, Cuomo today continued to not do much to temper that speculation when asked if he's supporting a full - bore Democratic takeover of the state Senate.

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

After falling heavily last year on the two most powerful legislators in the state, ex-Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver and former State Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos, it seemed to pass over Gov. Andrew Cuomo — though the prosecutor is still reportedly peering into potential sweetheart contracts for donors in Bufstate, ex-Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver and former State Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos, it seemed to pass over Gov. Andrew Cuomo — though the prosecutor is still reportedly peering into potential sweetheart contracts for donors in BufState Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos, it seemed to pass over Gov. Andrew Cuomo — though the prosecutor is still reportedly peering into potential sweetheart contracts for donors in Buffalo.

Still, Senate GOP Leader Dean Skelos earlier this month at the state Republican convention said he was open to a compromise on publicly financed political campaigns as long as it did not use direct taxpayer dollars, otherwise known as «off - budget funds.»

Tuesday features intriguing Republican and Democratic primaries at the House and Senate levels across six states, including a still - unpredictable Georgia GOP Senate race and an open - seat Democratic House contest in Philadelphia.

Still, Astorino also voiced support for term limits for state lawmakers and statewide elected officials, adding he plans to press legislators today on passing a broader term limits plan than what Senate GOP lawmakers embraced last month.

Still, rank - and - file advocates remain unconvinced, especially over whether Cuomo will make a good - faith effort to create a system of public financed political campaigns, which is part of a tricky set of negotiations with the state Senate, divided between a coalition of Democrats and Republicans.

YNN's figures show Democrats and Republicans in a dead heat (29 - 29), but four districts are still in play and Republicans are leading most of them — making the GOP gitty there is a real chance they could take back control of the state Senate.

We're still feeling the after effects of a brutal five - way GOP state Senate primary in the Finger Lakes region.