Sentences with phrase «to pass a budget on time»

Fifty - three percent of voters said passing the budget on time is more important, while 37 percent opted for the ethics reforms — even if that means the budget is late.

They can't go back to the people in their district and say I failed to pass the budget on time which is my one constitutional obligation but you should give me a raise.

«So performance matters - if they don't pass a budget on time obviously that is a failure of performance.»

A new Siena College poll finds that while New York voters support efforts to rein in state government corruption, they're more concerned about whether lawmakers pass the budget on time.

Although Republicans place greater importance on passing the budget on time, a majority of Democrats agree.

[19] Since 1984, New York State has only passed a budget on time once, in 2005, leading Paterson to call for an «end to the dysfunction in Albany» in his speech, echoing a 56 - page study from the nonpartisan New York University School of Law's Brennan Center for Justice, which referred to the legislature as «the least deliberative and most dysfunctional in the nation.»

While the proposal must undergo an environmental review, the E-ZPass system reprogrammed and the Legislature pass the budget on time, sources told the Advance the toll relief is expected to be effective April 1.

Poloncarz said the biggest favor state legislature can do for Erie County is pass the budget on time so there are no delays moving forward.

E.J. McMahon of the fiscally conservative Manhattan Institute said passing a budget on time after decades of mostly late passages doesn't mean much.

«It's an exceptionally big deal when the state passes a budget on time under these circumstances,» said Cuomo, who got the majority of his priorities into his first budget for the state.

«I have said, if they don't pass a budget on time, there should be no conversation about a pay raise,» Cuomo said.

The governor, in a play tried before, dangled the prospects of a pay raise for legislators — if they pass the budget on time before the March 31 deadline.

«If the Legislature fails to pass a budget on time, the government will not have the funds to operate and it may be forced to shut down.

«If the Legislature fails to pass a budget on time, the government will not have the funds to operate and it may be forced to shut down,» Cuomo says in the video.

The clock is ticking to pass the budget on time.

«And you might say «so what, you're supposed to pass a budget on time, that's no big deal»,» Cuomo said.

The state's new fiscal year begins April 1, and lawmakers will have to scramble to pass a budget on time.

«If the legislature fails to pass a budget on time, the government will not have the funds to operate and it may be forced to shut down,» he continued.

There was a budget passed on time; I firmly believe it's your job to pass a budget on time.»

Gov. Paterson also vetoed member items last year in retaliation for the legislature's failure to pass a budget on time, and this year, Congress also banned federal earmark funds.

He was one of the leaders who shut down the Senate for nearly four months when they couldn't pass a budget on time... and cut a deal putting Pedro Espada in charge, who's under investigation for tax fraud and money laundering.»

When Cuomo came in he worked with Skelos to pass budgets on time and imposed five very hurtful years of the GEA even while bragging he had ended the state's structural budget deficit.

«We'll have it out and we'll pass the budget on time.»

«If they don't pass a budget on time, obviously that is failure of performance.»

After State leaders failed to pass a budget on time, advocates and homeless New Yorkers returned to call on them to release the supportive housing funds immediately.

«So I have said if they don't passed budget on time, there should be no conversation about a pay raise.

«I've always said the number one constitutional duty is passing a budget on time.

You certainly have to perform at your job if you want a raise and a fundamental indicator of the job the legislature does and the governor and the executive is passing a budget on time,» Cuomo said in a December conference call.

«A fundamental indicator for the job the Legislature does and the governor... is passing the budget on time.»

«Does anyone other than the governor really think it is more important to pass a budget on time and unscrutinized, than a few days late and fully examined?

«If the Legislature fails to pass a budget on time, the government will not have the funds to operate, and it may be forced to shut down,» Cuomo said in a videotaped warning distributed over the Internet.

Greetings from Day 58 of the... WHO KNOWS HOW LONG THE SESSION WILL BE BECAUSE OH MY GOD THEY FAILED TO PASS A BUDGET ON TIME.