Sentences with phrase «sweeping gun control law»

Gallagher likens the situation to the recently enacted sweeping gun control law, where lawmakers could not pick and choose which parts of the comprehensive plan that they wanted to support, but had to approve or reject the entire package.

Seante Republican Leader Dean Skelos said that while he found Assemblyman Steve McLaughlin's comments on Gov. Andrew Cuomo's legislative tactics «inapporpriate» he did say that the chamber may have acted too quickly on the sweeping gun control law last month.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo is saying «thank you» to the state lawmakers who backed his sweeping gun control law in letter that's being sent to members today.

Nojay took office as a vocal critic of Gov. Andrew Cuomo and the sweeping gun control law known as the SAFE Act.

Senate Republicans had taken political heat from its conservative base over passing Cuomo's sweeping gun control law in January.

But Grisanti lost in 2014 to Panepinto, a Democrat early on staked out a position of being against the SAFE Act, a sweeping gun control law Cuomo pushed lawmakers into accepting.

With Cuomo, Skelos allowed votes on a host of long - sought Democratic measures ranging from the legalization of same - sex marriage to a sweeping gun control law in 2013 that was passed in the wake of a school shooting in Connecticut.

Republican lawmakers in the Assembly and Senate on Wednesday unveiled a push to change the state's sweeping gun control law known as the SAFE Act.

A large rally of protestors opposed to the sweeping gun control law approved in January has clogged the Capitol's security entrances and is filling the park on the building's west side this morning.

The event comes on the heels of a sweeping gun control law that passed last month in Albany that updates the state's assault weapons ban and limits the number of rounds in a high - capacity magazine.

Cuomo has bristled at implications his progressive bona fides don't stack up and his supporters have pointed to a raft of accomplishments during his time as governor, including the passage of a minimum wage hike that eventually grows to $ 15 in the coming years in the New York City area, paid family leave, a sweeping gun control law, the legalization of same - sex marriage and regulations that bolster the rights of transgender New Yorkers.

Panepinto has broken with his party and co-sponsored four pieces of legislation that would adjust the sweeping gun control law.

After an eventful four years as governor, Cuomo is running on his record of accomplishments: A property tax cap, the legalization of same - sex marriage, a sweeping gun control law and enacted budgets that have kept spending increases under 2 percent.

Indeed, Cuomo could be a victim of his early and highly consequential successes — the history making legalization of same - sex marriage, a cap on property tax increases, a sweeping gun control law, an ongoing effort to restrain Medicaid growth — from his first term.

Lawyers for Skelos tried to focus the judge on the senator's accomplishments, which they included as his help in getting passed — over considerable GOP opposition over the years — sweeping gun control laws and the 2011 same - sex marriage statute.

Not exact matches

The students plan to hold a rally Wednesday in hopes that it will put pressure on the state's Republican - controlled Legislature to consider a sweeping package of gun - control laws, something some GOP lawmakers said Monday they would consider.

Senate Republicans and Gov. Andrew Cuomo administration's agreed to key changes in the sweeping 2013 gun control law known as the SAFE Act, according to a memorandum of understanding released on Friday afternoon.

They were protesting his enactment of a sweeping new gun control law.

Dubbed the «Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School Public Safety Act,» or SB 7026, the sweeping proposal provides for stricter gun control laws, including a three - day waiting period to buy any firearm, and a new age limit — 21 (up from 18)-- for firearms purchases, along with an all - out ban on bump stocks.

Cuomo reached back even further in his remarks to his first - term accomplishments, including the passage of the 2013 SAFE Act, a sweeping and controversial gun control law, as well as the approval of the legalization of same - sex marriage in 2011.