Not exact matches
Ultimately if you're seeking for approval or board consensus
on an action (getting approval for a
budget, raising money, investing in CAPEX, firing a head of sales — whatever) your job is to hold a discussion in which all board members who want to voice an opinion can do so and ultimately pushing for a
vote or a
resolution.
What's more, to get legislation through Congress relying only
on Republican
votes, the majority must rely
on reconciliation instructions contained in a
budget resolution.
A coalition led by the New York State United Teachers and the Alliance for Quality Education is launching a direct mail campaign today slamming Democratic senators who
voted «yes»
on a
budget resolution that included Gov. David Paterson's proposed education spending cuts.
Democrats earlier in the day denounced the IDC and the Republican conference for not allowing
votes on their own stand - alone
budget resolution.
Updated: The Assembly will consider the ethics legislation outside of the one - house
budget resolution, but both measures will be
voted on next week.
Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie expects to include ethics legislation along with the Democratic - led Assembly's one - house
budget resolution when it is
voted on next week, he said at a Crain's New York breakfast.
The House appeared
on track to pass a stopgap continuing
resolution bill Thursday night, but Senate Democrats said they had enough
votes to block the legislation in the upper chamber, raising the possibility that the current
budget will expire without a replacement.
ALBANY — Seven of New York's nine Republican members in the House of Representatives
voted against a
budget resolution that will pave the way for a larger discussion
on tax reform.
«I think right now the
votes are not there to pass that bill collectively
on the floor of the House,» the Virginia Democrat said of the continuing
resolution to fund most federal agencies through March 23 that is to carry the
budget deal.
Antonacci asked the law department to address two main issues: The county charter appears to say that raises for county legislators should be
voted on when the
budget for that year is approved; and state Municipal Home Rule Law indicates that salary changes made during the term of an elected official, such as the county executive, should take the form of a local law, not a
resolution as passed by the Legislature.
The City Council's general welfare committee
voted unanimously to pass a
resolution this morning calling
on the state Assembly and Senate and Governor Andrew Cuomo to change state
budget language to allow New York City to use state funds to pay for rental subsidy programs for the homeless.
New Jersey Rep. Rodney Frelinghuysen was the only Garden State Republican to
vote for the
budget resolution on Thursday.
I'm waiting to see what the Autumn Statement and the
Budget will be, but I suspect I'll
vote with the Government
on the supply
resolutions.
The one - house
budget resolutions being
voted on Thursday by both chambers backs $ 45 million in funding for direct care workers, money that has been long sought for a campaign of advocacy groups pushing for the fundnig.
Serino, a county legislator,
voted against a
resolution to repeal the exemption, but Democrats have seized
on her
vote for the county
budget writ large, which included built - in revenue from the sales tax.
Democrats in the mainline conference in the state Senate
on Wednesday blasted majority Republicans for blocking their effort to have a
vote on their own
budget resolution.
WASHINGTON — Central New York's two members of Congress split with their party Thursday
on a
vote to pass a 2018
budget resolution that makes it easier for Republicans to move forward with a sweeping tax reform plan.
The House had to
vote again Thursday
on the non-binding
budget resolution because the Senate made changes to the measure last week.
Tedisco told POLITICO he worked closely with the group in crafting his legislation, and would require all spending projects to be lined out
on legislators» desks — either in a
budget bill or a spending
resolution — for 72 hours before they could be
voted on.
In addition to the public hearing
on the
budget, several
resolutions were put to a
vote and passed.
Government ethics,
voting, and campaign finance reform do not appear to be particularly high
on the list of priorities for Cuomo, the Assembly majority, the Senate majority, or the Senate's Independent Democratic Conference (a group of eight breakaway Democrats that has a coalition agreement with Senate Republicans but nevertheless put forward its own conference
budget resolution on Wednesday).
Katko said in an interview today that he shared his concerns with Republican House leaders as a
vote approaches Friday
on a
budget resolution that would begin the process of repealing the Affordable Care Act.
But last week, the House of Representatives nearly
voted to zero out its
budget for this fiscal year, settling
on $ 50 million in the so - called continuing
resolution for the rest of 2011.
Once the full House and Senate
vote on their respective
budget resolutions, a compromise hammered out by a conference committee becomes the blueprint for appropriations bills.
On Thursday, the House narrowly passed the Senate's
budget resolution by a
vote of 216 to 212.