Sentences with phrase «times in the state assembly»

«Our members endorsed Luis Sepulveda because of his history of standing up for his community in the Bronx, for immigrants and for all working families in our state during his time in the State Assembly,» said 32BJ President Hector Figueroa.

In a statement, Local 1182 President James Huntley said his decision was based off of Mr. Lancman's time in the State Assembly.

During his time in the State Assembly, Chuck has established an impressive voting record in support of environmental conservation efforts.»

Brindisi, for example, earned high marks from the National Rifle Association during his time in the state assembly.

A New York based, single payer health care program has been approved numerous times in the State Assembly.

Not exact matches

As set forth above, as opposed to the stringent regulations in other states such as New York, and the bill proposed in the Assembly last year, which appear to deter companies from spending the time and money to pursue cutting - edge ideas, the Act appropriately balances the need for consumer protection with the desire to allow businesses to innovate.

* Day 1 Monday, February 22, 2016 4:00 PM -5:00 PM Registration & Networking 5:00 PM — 6:00 PM Welcome Reception & Opening Remarks Kevin de Leon, President pro Tem, California State Senate Debra McMannis, Director of Early Education & Support Division, California Department of Education (invited) Karen Stapf Walters, Executive Director, California State Board of Education (invited) 6:00 PM — 7:00 PM Keynote Address & Dinner Dr. Patricia K. Kuhl, Co-Director, Institute for Learning & Brain Sciences * Day 2 Tuesday February 23, 2016 8:00 AM — 9:00 AM Registration, Continental Breakfast, & Networking 9:00 AM — 9:15 AM Opening Remarks John Kim, Executive Director, Advancement Project Camille Maben, Executive Director, First 5 California Tom Torlakson, State Superintendent of Public Instruction, California Department of Education 9:15 AM — 10:00 AM Morning Keynote David B. Grusky, Executive Director, Stanford's Center on Poverty & Inequality 10:00 AM — 11:00 AM Educating California's Young Children: The Recent Developments in Transitional Kindergarten & Expanded Transitional Kindergarten (Panel Discussion) Deborah Kong, Executive Director, Early Edge California Heather Quick, Principal Research Scientist, American Institutes for Research Dean Tagawa, Administrator for Early Education, Los Angeles Unified School District Moderator: Erin Gabel, Deputy Director, First 5 California (Invited) 11:00 AM — 12:00 PM «Political Will & Prioritizing ECE» (Panel Discussion) Eric Heins, President, California Teachers Association Senator Hannah - Beth Jackson, Chair of the Women's Legislative Committee, California State Senate David Kirp, James D. Marver Professor of Public Policy, University of California, Berkeley Assemblyman Kevin McCarty, Chairman of Subcommittee No. 2 of Education Finance, California State Assembly Moderator: Kim Pattillo Brownson, Managing Director, Policy & Advocacy, Advancement Project 12:00 PM — 12:45 PM Lunch 12:45 PM — 1:45 PM Lunch Keynote - «How Children Succeed: Grit, Curiosity, and the Hidden Power of Character» Paul Tough, New York Times Magazine Writer, Author 1:45 PM — 1:55 PM Break 2:00 PM — 3:05 PM Elevating ECE Through Meaningful Community Partnerships (Panel Discussion) Sandra Guiterrez, National Director, Abriendo Purtas / Opening Doors Mary Ignatius, Statewide Organize of Parent Voices, California Child Care Resource & Referral Network Jacquelyn McCroskey, John Mile Professor of Child Welfare, University of Southern California School of Social Work Jolene Smith, Chief Executive Officer, First 5 Santa Clara County Moderator: Rafael González, Director of Best Start, First 5 LA 3:05 PM — 3:20 PM Closing Remarks Camille Maben, Executive Director, First 5 California * Agenda Subject to Change

Sen. Chuck Schumer paid a rare visit to the state Capitol today and spent some time reminiscing about the three terms he served in the state Assembly (from 1975 to 1980, after which he went on to the House).

In a Middletown Times Herald - Record OpEd (subscription needed), Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver calls out the Senate GOP for refusing to move the state primaries to June 26 and forcing local governments to pay for a fourth election.

The New York Hotel & Motel Trades Council, which is firmly in the «progressive» camp of the state's many labor unions, has issued a trio of Assembly endorsements — including a first - time nod for Staten Island Republican Nicole Malliotakis.

As he raised concerns over the sweeping changes to state government through a pair of constitutional amendments proposed by Gov. Andrew Cuomo, Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie in a statement pointed to the relative short window of time debate would be held over term limits and creating a full - time Legislature that bans outside income.

Back in 2003, for example, the Assembly and Senate overrode the governor's budget vetoes for the first time in two decades, increasing state taxes over Pataki's opposition to restore billions of dollars in spending on schools, hospitals, nursing homes and localities.

Cuomo, along with Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie and Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan agreed relatively early in the budget negotiations that ethics and campaign - finance reform would not be a threat to the passage of the state budget on time.

That's why I have dedicated my career as a prosecutor and time in the Assembly to rooting out corruption and have a clear, detailed, 5 - point pledge on how I will continue my efforts in the State Senate.

In the mean time thank the good lord for the NY State Assembly.

He was no longer in the state Assembly at the time of its passage in 2013.

During my time as County Clerk and prior to that in the State Assembly and local government I have worked across the aisle to get results and accomplish any task at hand.

At the time of his election in 2012, Skoufis was the youngest member of the state Assembly.

At the same time, Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie has insisted such sweeping changes to state government should not be rushed through in a matter of weeks.

As New Yorkers prepared to «spring ahead» this weekend, Assemblyman Angelo Morinello's bill to end the state's participation in daylight savings time is slumbering in an Assembly committee for the past two years.

The Child Victims Act has been adopted in the Assembly four times in various forms since 2006, a statement from Markey's office said, but has never made it to the floor of the State Senate.

Cuomo said he wants to include major reforms in his State of the State agenda after federal juries lost no time finding former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver and former Senate Leader Dean Skelos and his son guilty of multiple corruption charges late in 2015.

He also referenced his time in the Assembly where he worked with both sides of the political aisle and pushed proposals that led to real balanced budgets — including the first reduction in state spending in decades while closing a $ 5 billion deficit.

For some time, Cuomo has appeared to have a feud with the Democratic mayor of New York City, but in recent weeks, the governor has directed scathing comments toward state Assembly Democrats.

The attorney, Gary Klein, said on Tuesday that after Mr. Silver, then the New York state Assembly speaker, complained about delays between the time a check was signed and when it was mailed, Mr. Klein took to depositing them himself in Mr. Silver's HSBC account, a duty...

Times Ledger: This time around civic leaders in eastern Queens are saying they have learned the lessons from past battles and are planning to make their message loud and clear: The neighborhoods of Glen Oaks, Floral Park, New Hyde Park, Bellerose and Queens Village should be joined in one state Assembly district.

Frank Mauro, executive director emeritus of the Fiscal Policy Institute and a onetime secretary of the Assembly Ways and Means Committee, argued against Proposal One, writing at the time that it would have made the state budget process «even more of a mess than it has been in many recent years.»

Tony served as Assembly member beginning in 1978 but finally resigned in 2009 after pleading guilty to a single count of fraud, saying he had wrongly advanced the interests of a consulting client in connection with state business, according to a report in the New York Times.

A version of the Child Victims Act has passed several times over the past decade in the New York State Assembly including last year.

The New York State Assembly passed versions of the bill several times over the past 12 years, including most recently in 2017; it has never been passed by the New York State Senate.

The General Assembly has 253 members, making it the second - largest state legislature in the nation (behind New Hampshire) and the largest full - time legislature.

She was endorsed by the Times in her 2002 run for State Assembly, but endorsements since then appear not to have come her way.

For example, in her 2013 campaign for office, Gibson (who was at that time a member of the state Assembly) accepted contributions from 26 individual donors employed by SCAN New York.

Consider the time he waited to indict Shelly Silver, the decades - long speaker of the Assembly, a sphinx - like figure who stood as permanent pillar of power over successive governments in Albany, until the day after Silver stood on stage with Cuomo at the annual State of the State address.

Governor Cuomo has been in support of the measures de Blasio is now pushing, as has the Democrat - controlled State Assembly, which has time and again passed such bills, which fail in the Senate.

Assemblyman Dennis H. Gabryszak's seat is empty during the opening prayer at the New York State Assembly opening session Wednesday, Jan. 8, 2014, at the Capitol in Albany, N.Y. (Skip Dickstein / Times Union)

Meanwhile, the Assembly outlined in broad strokes for the Times Union budget plans that include a freeze of SUNY and CUNY tuition rates at their current levels and a $ 75 million addition to the governor's proposal on state - subsidized child care.

Also, a one - time Buhari's running mate in the 2011 presidential election and Serving Overseer of the Latter Rain Assembly, Pastor Tunde Bakare, has also at some point in time pointed a finger at the President for the poor state of the country's economy.

A government reform group is considering filing a complaint with a New York state ethics panel over a story in the New York Times that says the Assembly Speaker is under federal investigation for failing to disclose pay he received from a law firm.

People mill around outside the New York State Assembly chamber as legislators worked inside at the Capitol on Wednesday, March 29, 2017, in Albany, N.Y. (Paul Buckowski / Times Union)

A government reform group is considering filing a complaint with a state ethics panel over a report in the New York Times that the Assembly Speaker is under federal investigation for failing to disclose pay he received from a law firm.

For the first time in a decade, the bill passed the state Assembly this month by a resounding 139 - 7 margin.

Carlucci said, «After lengthy discussions with Rockland County officials, representatives from the governor's office, the state comptroller's office, and the Finance Committees in the both the Senate and Assembly, I have decided not to support the sales tax increase at this time because there is little evidence that it would solve Rockland County's fiscal crisis.

Mr. Cuomo declined to criticize Mr. Schneiderman's ideas, but noted that the legislature often takes considerable time to pass bills, given that the Assembly is in the hands of the Democrats while the Republicans hold the reins of the State Senate.

Democrats in the State Assembly support public financing of campaigns and Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver is a long time proponent..

In a stunning development, the New York Times reported late Wednesday night that Sheldon Silver, the speaker of the New York State Assembly, would be arrested on federal corruption charges.

This morning, Sheldon Silver, the speaker of the State Assembly, was arrested on corruption charges, hours after the Times broke the story — and barely half a day after Silver sat smiling onstage as Governor Andrew Cuomo delivered his 2015 State of the State address and was featured by the governor in humorous slides as one of the «Three Amigos» atop state governState Assembly, was arrested on corruption charges, hours after the Times broke the story — and barely half a day after Silver sat smiling onstage as Governor Andrew Cuomo delivered his 2015 State of the State address and was featured by the governor in humorous slides as one of the «Three Amigos» atop state governState of the State address and was featured by the governor in humorous slides as one of the «Three Amigos» atop state governState address and was featured by the governor in humorous slides as one of the «Three Amigos» atop state governstate government.

He spent time on the Syracuse Common Council in the 1980s and 1990s and on the state Assembly in the 1990s.

From the Department of Good Timing, Gov. Andrew Cuomo released his top line campaign finance figures the same afternoon his expansive gun control package cleared its final hurdle in the state Assembly.

In New York state government news, Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo is once again slamming talk in Washington of a repeal of the Affordable Care Act, and a woman will lead the Assembly's budget committee for the first timIn New York state government news, Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo is once again slamming talk in Washington of a repeal of the Affordable Care Act, and a woman will lead the Assembly's budget committee for the first timin Washington of a repeal of the Affordable Care Act, and a woman will lead the Assembly's budget committee for the first time.