Sentences with phrase «stripped in a conference committee»

But Rep. Marcus Brandon asserted that the LGBT community is not a protected class in North Carolina, prompting the need for a previous amendment that drew on language from federal law, but was stripped in a conference committee.

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The four senators in the IDC who chaired committees were stripped of those leadership posts, just two days after their conference decided to dissolve and rejoin the Senate's mainline Democrats.

In the wake of state Sen. Malcolm Smith's (D - Hollis) bribery scandal, Independent Democratic Conference leader Sen. Jeffrey Klein (D - Bronx) stripped the embattled lawmaker of his committee assignments and leadership position within the state's coalition government and in a final blow suggested Smith step down from the perch from which he had long coveted positions of -LSB-..In the wake of state Sen. Malcolm Smith's (D - Hollis) bribery scandal, Independent Democratic Conference leader Sen. Jeffrey Klein (D - Bronx) stripped the embattled lawmaker of his committee assignments and leadership position within the state's coalition government and in a final blow suggested Smith step down from the perch from which he had long coveted positions of -LSB-..in a final blow suggested Smith step down from the perch from which he had long coveted positions of -LSB-...]

Suffolk County Legislature's Presiding Officer, DuWayne Gregory, announced the establishment of an ad hoc committee to investigate potential spots for a drag racing strip at a news conference Tuesday in Hauppauge.

Independent Democratic Conference Leader and Senate Co-President Jeff Klein announced this afternoon in a statement he has stripped Sen. Malcolm Smith of his various leadership posts and committee assignments as the result of his arrest on bribery charges this morning.

Smith, a Democrat, who had chaired the Independent Democratic Conference, has been stripped of the committee assignments and coalition leadership post he held in Albany, and state Sen. Daniel Squadron has called on him to resign.

Syracuse, N.Y. — New York state Sen. Malcolm Smith, who was charged this morning in a political bribery case, has been stripped of his Senate committee assignments and leadership position in the Independent Democratic Conference.