Sentences with phrase «sympathetic state senate»

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The Working Families Party, along with a host of sympathetic labor groups and officials, will hold a rally in New York City at noon tomorrow on the steps of City Hall to push for a Democratic majority in the state Senate.

At an unrelated press conference where the mayor and NYPD Commissioner Bill Bratton announced an investment of $ 7.5 million for 6,000 ballistic vests and 20,000 helmets for police officers in Brooklyn this morning, the mayor said the State Senate is «not sympathetic to the city.»

And Mr. de Blasio did himself no favors in the Republican - controlled State Senate, which is traditionally sympathetic to landlords» concerns, by trying to elect a Democratic majority last fall.

At a hearing on the issue last week, Lamar Alexander, chairman of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP), was clearly sympathetic to arguments by several witnesses that Congress should keep the testing mandate but dump the rules that prescribe how states must hold schools accountable for test results.