Sentences with phrase «week after assembly»

The vote to approve nearly a half - billion dollars in new funding for the Solar City factory in Buffalo was delayed for a week after the Assembly speaker and Senate leader said they lacked information about the projects.

This was done one week after the Assembly Crime and Corrections Committee listened to testimony calling for the abolishment of this internal affairs unit, which is partly overseen by Deputy Commissioner Daniel Martuscello's younger brother, Assistant Commissioner Chris Martuscello.

The report comes a week after Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver was arrested on corruption charges.

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The United States, which in July said would take «strong and swift economic actions» if President Nicolas Maduro goes ahead with the Constituent Assembly, could also further sanction senior Venezuelan officials after acting against 13 prominent figures last week.

Before that, production at domestic assembly plants ground to a halt for a week in February after an explosion at one of the automaker's steel suppliers led to a shortage of parts.

From easing the sale of water utilities to private companies to telling transgender students which bathroom to use, many high - profile — and controversial — legislative proposals have little chance of passage after the Assembly last week completed what leaders say was the final major floor session day.

Three weeks after being selected as leader of the governing Progressive Conservative Party, Premier Jim Prentice still does not have a seat in the Alberta Legislative Assembly.

Senate Republicans, meanwhile, attacked Kaminsky for being on the hustings this week and not in his seat in the state Assembly, which is back in session this week after passing the budget.

LATFOR Co-Chairs Jack McEneny and Mike Nozzolio both told me on CapTon last night that they will immediately be returning to work on the House lines after releasing the Senate and Assembly lines last week, and should have a finished product sometime in mid-February.

The overturning of Skelos's 2015 conviction comes 10 weeks after former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver's conviction was similarly tossed by a federal judge.

The July 12th get - together is taking place two weeks after Cuomo headlined a fundraiser for the Assembly Democrats — a $ 1,000 to $ 25,000 per person affair he agreed to participate in despite his repeated claims that he's staying away from politics until after the legislative session ends on June 21.

That hope disappeared last week after Governor Paterson made a show of «delivering» the nearly 7,000 vetoes to the desks of Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver and Senate Leader John Sampson, as required by law.

A New York Senate bill to extend the striped bass season by two weeks went belly - up after it failed to make it through an Assembly committee.

Governor Cuomo has signed the Iran Divestment Act that easily passed both the Assembly and Senate earlier this week after an agreement was reached between Speaker Sheldon Silver and Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos last year.

The governor reiterated his threat to drag the Legislature back to the Capitol before the November general election — most likely in October, which is after the Sept. 14 primary — in hopes of getting the Assembly to take up the property tax cap bill passed with bipartisan support this week by the Senate (eight Democrats voted «no»).

Assembly Minority Leader Brian Kolb on Tuesday became the latest elected official to raise issues with the spending proposal, which was due to be voted on last week by the board, but the meeting was rescheduled to today after «scheduling» issues arose, according to the Division of Budget.

(New York, NY)-- A week and a half after the shooting at Marjory Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, a coalition of New York legislators and gun violence prevention advocates today urged the State Senate and Assembly to promptly hold votes on a bill sponsored by Senators Brian Kavanagh and Brad Hoylman and Assemblymember Jo Anne Simon that would empower family members and law enforcement to prevent gun violence.

Democrats who control the state Assembly quietly posted a list of pending earmarks totaling nearly $ 36 million late Friday, more than a month after POLITICO New York began requesting details of the spending and a week after filing a formal request under the Freedom of Information Law.

The 8 p.m. Far Rockaway event is taking place six hours after a more secular campaign kick - off Goldfeder will attend with another Assembly special election contender tapped by the Queens Democrats this week: Michael Simanowitz, the former chief of staff to retired Assemblywoman Nettie Mayersohn who is now running for his old boss» seat.

This had also generated ripples in the past few weeks after the issue was deliberated upon at hallowed chamber of the House of Assembly.

The call comes after lawmakers in the Assembly's Puerto Rican and Hispanic task force this week called on President Trump to bolster support services for those who are leaving the island amid the rebuilding effort.

Albany Common Councilman Frank Commisso Jr officially launched his bid in the 109th Assembly District Thursday, less than two weeks after his father — considered by some a front - runner — dropped out of the race.

The proposals come two and a half weeks after the Democratic Assembly Speaker, Sheldon Silver was arrested on corruption charges, and one week after he resigned as speaker.

The Assembly Majority filed its plan with the DOJ about two weeks after the Senate Majority filed its plan.

State Assembly candidate Aravella Simotas will face no challengers in her bid for Assemblyman Michael Gianaris's (D - Astoria) seat after John Ciafone dropped out of the race last week.

Calls have been mounting for Lopez to give up both his party post and his Assembly seat in the wake of last week's announcement by Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver that he had censured the veteran lawmaker after a bipartisan ethics committee found he had sexually harassed two female staffers.

Carl Heastie was elected unanimously by Democrats in the New York State Assembly to be the next Speaker on Tuesday, less than two weeks after former Speaker Sheldon Silver was arrested and charged with running a massive multimillion dollar corruption scheme.

The legislation comes 18 years after the first medical marijuana bill was proposed in the state Assembly and after a week of push - and - pull between legislators and New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo about the details of the program.

Carl Heastie was elected unanimously by Democrats in the Assembly to be the next Speaker, less than two weeks after former Speaker Sheldon Silver was arrested and charged with running a massive, multi-million dollar corruption scheme.

The proposals come two - and - a-half weeks after the Democratic Assembly Speaker, Sheldon Silver, was arrested on corruption charges, and one week after he resigned as speaker.

In an email made public last week, Assembly lawyer William Collins indicated the decision to seek mediation was made after «extensive dialogue» with attorneys for the accusers.

Kolb had said earlier this week — after the Democrat - led Assembly rejected his proposed ethics - law changes — that he would seek to invite the prosecutor to Albany.

Lopez's Assembly Republican colleague Steve McLaughlin announced nearly two weeks ago he would not seek the nomination after floating his name for months.

Meanwhile, Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver announced over the weekend that he'll send the members of his legislative bodies home after the official end of the session next week.

The Skelos verdict came about two weeks after former State Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver was found guilty on seven counts of corruption in his own federal trial.

Three weeks after the Moreland Commission — which Governor Cuomo founded in 2013 — was due to release its report on public corruption in New York State, Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver was arrested by federal authorities on charges of taking millions in bribes and kickbacks.

The Newburgh forum comes a few weeks after state Senate and Assembly hearings on the fallout from PFOA - contaminated water in Hoosick Falls, where officials and residents expressed anger and frustration.

A committee of state senators and Assembly members is set to interview candidates for attorney general starting Tuesday, a week after Schneiderman resigned following a report in The New Yorker that he physically and psychologically abused four women.

And that explains why Silver, after saying quite clearly last week that he doubted there would be support for extending the temporary PIT increase on wealthy New Yorkers in either the Senate GOP or in the governor's office, revealed he planned to include a proposal to do just that in the Assembly's budget.

Cuomo's last - minute effort to name the new Tappan Zee Bridge after his late father failed in Albany this week after the Senate unanimously passed the measure, but the Assembly took a pass on passing it.

Senate President Bukola Saraki and his House of Representatives counterpart, Hon. Yakubu Dogara alongside principal officers of the National Assembly penultimate week met with President Muhammadu Buhari where they disclosed after the meeting that the budget will be passed in less than a week.

This year, Cuomo took weeks to set a date for a special election to replace resigned Rep. Michael Grimm (the bill would not cover congressional special elections) and did so after Karim Camara resigned his Assembly seat to join the administration.

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio initially this year sought a permanent extension of mayoral control; the Assembly this week approved a bill that would have it expire after three years.

The government wrapped up nearly three weeks of testimony and evidence in its corruption case against former Assembly speaker Sheldon Silver, resting its case after calling two witnesses who testified in support of the money - laundering charges against the assemblyman.

Weeks after both the ex-Senate majority leader and former Assembly speaker were forced from office following their corruption convictions, a combined 89 percent of voters told Siena that corruption remains a serious problem in Albany.

I've spoken to sources in both the Assembly and Senate today, and have been told that an agreement on FMAP is possible, particularly since it appears very clear now after last week's vote by the US Senate on the unemployment benefits bill that the $ 1.7 billion worth of Medicaid funding expected by NYC and the state in this budget cycle won't be coming any time soon.

Now the victory has resulted in unintended and negative consequences, the chairman said, after Assembly Democrats appear ready to shun Bohen when he reports to Albany next week.

The New York State Assembly, after rejecting legalized MMA for the past seven years, voted this week to legalize it.

Just more than two weeks after Election Day, a New York State assembly race in the Hudson Valley has an unofficial winner.

The 68th Assembly District female district leader, Gina Smith, filed the complaint against Lilly this week after she began looking into where he lives while collecting signatures for the race.