Sentences with phrase «top leaders in the state»

Students who survived the Parkland, Florida, shooting met with top leaders in the state Capitol to lobby for gun control.

A gale of defection has hit the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Enugu State as three of its top leaders in the State, dumped the party for the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC).

Smith, once a top leader in the state Senate and lifelong Democrat, was convicted of bribing political leaders to back a quixotic mayoral bid as a Republican.

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One government official says that top leaders met last spring to consider the worst possible scenarios and concluded they should build new alliances with China, Persian Gulf states, and others, and begin creating their own products in order to end their dependence on the West.

Still, such history may be reflected in the fact that there are few women among State Street's top leaders, most of whom began their careers at least 20 years ago.

(CNN) US President Donald Trump's decision to meet with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un «was not a surprise in any way,» US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said Friday, less than a day after the top US diplomat said conditions were not yet ripe for negotiations with North Korea.

President Trump boasted in a fundraising speech Wednesday that he made up information in a meeting with the leader of a top U.S. ally, saying he insisted to Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau that the United States runs a trade deficit with its neighbor to the north without knowing whether that was true.

But Trudeau will try to reposition Canada as more than a petro - state this week when he meets some of the planet's top business leaders at the World Economic Forum in Switzerland.

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Three teams from this table joined Cincinnati in seeing their runs at conference perfection ended on Thursday night — the ASUN's Florida Gulf Coast (upset at home by Kennesaw State), Big Sky leader Montana (a nine - point loser at Eastern Washington) and, most interestingly for the at - large picture, New Mexico State, topped by Utah Valley in Orem.

Rawson, who lives in Roseville, Calif., has been one of the leaders of the St. Francis cross country program each of the last three seasons, helping the program garner three consecutive top - 10 state finishes.

All in all, a sad state of affairs at Liverpool, who now sit 9th in the Premier League — 12 points behind leaders Manchester City and with a top four spot surely the best they can hope for this term.

Since Gov. Andrew Cuomo included a call to do away with the Wilson - Pakula law in his second Smith - Stevenson corruption scandal reform proposal, we have heard outraged reactions from all but one of the state's top minor party leaders.

The top legislative leaders in the state Senate and Assembly confirmed Wednesday a two - tiered court system would be in place for a potential agreement on raising the age of criminal responsibility in New York to 18.

«His intimate knowledge of the Senate and his experience navigating difficult issues both as a senior leader in our Counsel and Program office and as the State Party's top lawyer will serve him extraordinarily well.

The state's top legislative leaders on Monday insisted the swirling corruption investigations would not derail the remainder of the legislative session, listing a package of top priorities they would like to tackle in the remaining scheduled days in Albany, including tackling heroin addiction.

«One of my office's top priorities is to restore New Yorkers» faith in their state government, and that means we need to arm our top ethics body with strong and effective leaders,» Schneiderman said.

Spitzer (AKA the steamroller) was hardly a shrinking violet during his brief stint as governor, and according to a report by Cuomo — who was AG at the time, having followed Spitzer into that office — he misused his executive power over the State Police in a botched attempt to smear his top political rival, then Senate Majority Leader Joe Bruno.

In recent weeks, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney has slowly built support among New York Republicans, rolling out endorsements from the party's top state - level official (Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos) along with a wide array of current and former electeds, operatives and county GOP leaders.

That's not sufficient for LGBT leaders, who say his opposition to gay marriage calls into question his ability to serve as the state's top attorney, which could possibly require him to defend something in which he doesn't believe.

After the terrorist attacks in Brussels in March, 2016, a Russian top official Zhirinovsky, Deputy Chairman of the State Duma of the Russia, the leader of the second biggest party on Russia and a five times Presidential Candidate, made the following statement:

Senate Minority Leader Andrea Stewart - Cousins is yet to receive formal word she'll be allowed to participate in the top - level budget talks, which are likely to include negotiations surrounding changes to the state's sexual harassment laws.

Unlike the top legislative leaders in both the Senate and Assembly, Deputy Senate Majority Leader John DeFrancisco is not condemning a proposal to end the state and local deduction as backed by President Donald Trump's administration.

If you believe Cuomo, the top Republicans in New York's state and federal legislative delegations, the state's mayors and leaders of both business and labor, the recently passed tax overhaul hurts the high - tax state and could crimp its economy and real estate markets.

Elia has made listening a top priority since taking office in July, traveling the State to hear from educators, parents, lawmakers and community leaders.

At a rally in Harlem, many of the state's top African - American politicians, chanting «Andrea, Andrea,» voiced their support for the current leader of Senate Democrats, Andrea Stewart - Cousins, to become the majority leader of the Senate.

Smith — one of the state's top Democrats — was busted last year in a failed scheme to secure a spot on the Republican line for the mayoral race allegedly through the bribery of Halloran and two other GOP leaders.

Republican leaders have failed to secure their top - choice candidate in eight of the 10 Senate races in states that Trump won in 2016, and Florida Gov. Rick Scott has yet to commit to his expected run for Sen. Bill Nelson's seat.

Top Democrats from New York City and its suburbs rallied in support of Minority Leader Andrea Stewart - Cousins, calling on Democrats to unify and allow her to lead the deeply divided state Senate.

Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos continued his ongoing effort to remain thisclose to Gov. Andrew Cuomo during a a radio interview this morning, informing WOR's John Gambling that he and the state's top Democrat have made a mutual «commitment» to continue treading the path of fiscal conservatism and keep Albany from getting mired in gridlock.

«Mother ship» is the Albany term for the top Assembly and Senate leaders to meet briefly in public and assign subcommittees to try to negotiate compromises for the state budget due by April 1.

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In a letter to Gov. Andrew Cuomo and the top legislative leaders in the Senate and Assembly, a coalition of organizations, including the New York Housing Conference and New York State Association for Affordable Housing are urging a reconsideration of the provisioIn a letter to Gov. Andrew Cuomo and the top legislative leaders in the Senate and Assembly, a coalition of organizations, including the New York Housing Conference and New York State Association for Affordable Housing are urging a reconsideration of the provisioin the Senate and Assembly, a coalition of organizations, including the New York Housing Conference and New York State Association for Affordable Housing are urging a reconsideration of the provision.

The agreement came after Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan, who replaced Dean Skelos as the top GOP conference member in May, pledged to enact changes to the gun control law after some upstate Republicans were disappointed that yet another Long Islander would lead the last vestige of Republican power in the state.

The state's top leaders are being urged to use money from a proposed tax on opioids to fund treatment programs in New York.

For the first time in Republican history, most of the party's top legislative leaders came from former Confederate states, where resistance to minority and worker rights was an established tradition.

The top two leadership posts in the State Senate has changed hands due former Majority Leader Dean Skelos being forced to step down after being indicted by federal prosecutors on bribery and extortion charges a few months ago.

Around the table sat Mr. Cuomo; the leaders of New York's most powerful labor unions; Joseph Crowley, the top - ranked New York Democrat in the House of Representatives; and the two rival Democratic leaders of the State Senate — Andrea Stewart - Cousins, who leads the main group of Democrats, and Jeffrey D. Klein, who leads the breakaway group — among others.

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP)-- A top leader of the New York Democratic Party on Tuesday called on Democrats in the state Senate to set aside their «intramural politics» in order to seize control of the chamber from Republicans.

But in a year when the state's top two legislators were arrested, and as New York remains one of the nation's highest - taxed places, many voters on Syracuse's east side want leaders to address the growing population of deer.

The Senate majority leader, Joseph L. Bruno, the state's top Republican, said that the public did not care about campaign finance reform, and that the governor's plan favored the incumbent governor's party — in this case, the Democrats.

Queens, NY — Independent Democratic Conference Leader State Senator Jeff Klein (D - Bronx / Westchester) and State Senator Diane Savino (D - Staten Island / Brooklyn) will release, «Road to Credit Danger: Predatory Subprime Auto Lending in New York,» an investigative report exposing the top deceptive subprime auto lending and advertising practices currently happening in New York City.

Monroe has been meeting with environmental leaders and Cuomo's top environmental staff, advocating for changes to the Adirondack Park State Master Plan, to bring the document that was drafted decades ago in line with issues facing the park today.

In the state, there are no doing business (pay to play) restrictions, and millions of dollars of political donations to the governor and top legislative leaders are made using LLCs.

«Ed Cox is either a hypocrite, or was tied up at the country club when the highest elected Republican in the state was convicted of corruption charges and top New York City GOP leaders were sent behind bars for selling their endorsement to the highest bidder,» the Dem said.

Looming in the background is Preet Bharara, the former United States attorney for the Southern District of New York whose tenure included multiple investigations of state officials for corruption, indicting a top aide to Mr. Cuomo and the top two legislative leaders in Albany.

ALBANY, NY (09/12/2013)(readMedia)-- The top leaders of the New York State Public Employees Federation (PEF) walked through the corridors of the Attica Correctional Facility in Wyoming County this week.

The union's targeting of Miner - who spoke at a Fight for $ 15 rally in February at a Syracuse church - shows the no - holds - barred fight going on over the proposed minimum wage hike as the state's top political leaders are negotiating whether it will be included in the state budget.

Bill O'Reilly, a top consultant to Astorino, referred in a tweet to state Senate GOP Leader Dean Skelos as Cuomo's «prisonpunk.»