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Empower PAC, Common Core, Bad Bills, and More January 11, 2015 by Grant Callen The 2015 Legislative Session kicked off this week as lawmakers made their way back to Jackson for the final three - month session before voters go to the polls later this year.

(Calif.) The growing struggle between charter schools and opponents within the traditional system will spill into legislative chambers this week as lawmakers consider several bills that would put new regulations on charters and their operators.

The saber - rattling intensified last week as lawmakers approved new reporting requirements.

The halls of the Capitol are relatively empty this week as lawmakers have embarked on their winter break.

NEW YORK, NY (04/04/2018)(readMedia)-- ICYMI: last week as lawmakers negotiated the final NYS budget, which ultimately exculded early voting and other election reforms, civil rights leaders issued the following statements:

Fred Thiele (I - Sag Harbor) and Sen. Kenneth LaValle (R - Port Jefferson) will kick off their effort with a State Capitol news conference next week as lawmakers head into the final three weeks of the 2015 legislative session.

Further changes are expected next week as lawmakers begin debating the measure.

The speaker since 1994, he has long been the most powerful Democrat in the Legislature, and he was expected to play a large role in the coming weeks as lawmakers tussle with Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo over the budget and contentious proposals regarding public schooling and criminal justice.

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Last week, Fox offered to spin off Sky News as an independent company or sell it to Disney to address lawmakers» concerns about having to much influence in British Media.

There are quite a few potential market movers this week, as investors will be watching out for a handful of corporate earnings reports — including some major players from the world's of tech and media — as well as U.S. Fed chair Janet Yellen's two - day stint in front of D.C. lawmakers.

U.S. President Barack Obama speaks in a rare prime - time address as polarized lawmakers failed to rally behind a plan to avert a disastrous debt default perhaps just one week away.

WASHINGTON, Nov 29 - Congressional Republicans scrambled on Wednesday to reformulate their tax bill to satisfy lawmakers worried about how much it would balloon the U.S. budget deficit, as the measure moved toward a decisive U.S. Senate floor vote later this week.

As President Trump tried to rally lawmakers around the plan this week, known as the American Health Care Act, U.S. hospital stocks plunged in their biggest drop since he took officAs President Trump tried to rally lawmakers around the plan this week, known as the American Health Care Act, U.S. hospital stocks plunged in their biggest drop since he took officas the American Health Care Act, U.S. hospital stocks plunged in their biggest drop since he took office.

BOSTON (Reuters)- Combative Maine Governor Paul LePage said on Tuesday he would consider resigning as he faces a wave of criticism from both fellow Republicans and rival Democrats after leaving a lawmaker a profanity - filled voicemail last week.

The drugmaker's stock hit a two - and - a-half year low last week as it faces mounting criticism from lawmakers on high prices for its treatments.

Republican lawmakers from high - tax states such as New York exited meetings this week with Kevin Brady, chairman of the tax - writing committee of the House of Representatives, saying there would be some sort of compromise on repealing the deduction for state and local tax payments.

Republican Representative Chris Collins of New York, a Trump ally, told reporters earlier this week that lawmakers from high - tax states, such as his own, were discussing «ways to level the playing field,» including capping the amount of the deduction or putting other limits on it.

Last week, the organization, which supports female pro-choice Democratic lawmakers, launched a series of digital ads as part of a major $ 20 million campaign partnership with Priorities USA, a major super PAC backing Hillary Clinton.

In addition to mollifying lawmakers and investors, Mr. Zuckerberg needs to impress another important audience during next week's hearings: Facebook's rank - and - file employees, who have begun to question the company's leadership as the latest crisis has spiraled.

Softwood lumber was the top issue as Oklahoma builders held several in - district meetings with their federal lawmakers this week.

Close to a million students stood up and streamed out of classrooms across the country last week as part of the National School Walkout, which honored the victims of the Parkland shooting one month ago and called on lawmakers to pass gun control legislation.

The issue is expected to be one of the first to surface in Alabama's state legislature as lawmakers there head back to session this week, and a colorful standoff is likely.

As a result of the lawmakers» actions, the final standards allow fried potatoes to constitute up to 40 percent of the vegetables served during a week.

According to a legislative source, the two Democrats settled on the first week of August as a drop - dead deadline for reaching an agreement that would enable the Senate to pass the revenue bill — the last hurdle remaining between New York and a complete 2010 - 2011 spending plan (not to mention between lawmakers and their paychecks).

It's a move that has some lawmakers privately taken aback, considering the lack of focus and attention that was paid to the measure as it quietly wound its way through the committee process this final week of session.

On what has become known as Tin Cup Day, de Blasio doubled down on the positions he has articulated many times in the past weeks and months, rebuffing lawmakers» calls for the city to spend more money on the MTA.

Lawmakers could vote for Heastie to succeed Silver as early as tomorrow, though some members — including Manhattan Assemblywoman Deborah Glick, who was once named as a potential Silver successor herself, are now pushing to stick to the Feb. 10 vote on which they agreed last week.

As state lawmakers and Gov. Andrew Cuomo close in on a potential agreement for a $ 15 minimum wage and a 12 - week paid family leave program, the National Federation of Independent Business in raising an alarm over the likely compromise on the measures.

Days before Cuomo delivered his State of the State address last week, nearly a dozen upstate lawmakers quietly pushed him to put a tunnel back on the table as a potential replacement for Interstate 81 in Syracuse.

On Capitol Hill, lawmakers are pushing a one - week funding bill to prevent a government shutdown as leadership continues to negotiate a larger agreement.

A new round of financial disclosure forms released last week has resparked a decadeslong debate over whether state lawmakers should be constitutionally recognized as full time and if they should be able to hold other jobs.

Even if this latest peace deal between Senate Minority Leader Andrea Stewart - Cousins and IDC Leader Jeff Klein holds when lawmakers return to Albany after the Easter / Passover break next week, and even if the Democrats win both the April 24 special elections (the Westchester County race is really the deciding factor there, since the Bronx seat seems a safe bet), the Republicans will still have control of the chamber as long as Felder, a conservative Democrat, continues to caucus with them.

NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio isn't planning to veto a controversial measure that was sneaked into the city's new $ 85.2 billion budget this week, according to a City Hall operative — even as a group of Albany lawmakers publicly urged him to do so.

Spectrum News reported on Wednesday lawmakers who have received thousands of dollars as vice chairs have missed committee meetings in recent weeks.

Gov. David Paterson said earlier today that he will ask state lawmakers not to depart Albany midweek as planned and instead remain at the Capitol in hopes of hammering out a deal on the 2010 - 2011 state budget, which is now almost two full weeks late.

The lawmaker, first elected to the Senate in 1992, announced earlier this week that he was suspending his campaign for governor after Dutchess County Executive Marc Molinaro emerged as the front runner for the GOP nomination.

State lawmakers insisted this week in Albany a bill to expand ride hailing remains on track, potentially as part of a deal in the state budget, due March 31.

The next two weeks at the New York State Capitol are going to be very busy as lawmakers face the deadline for a new budget.

The contest was in full gear Wednesday as Gov. David Paterson and lawmakers argued, threatened and cajoled each other regarding a bill that must be approved Monday to keep the state operating for yet another week in lieu of a final 2010 - 11 budget.

The next two weeks at the state Capitol are going to be very busy as lawmakers face the deadline for a new budget.

The bill has been championed by The Daily News in recent weeks, with the tabloid's wood seeking to shame Albany lawmakers into passing the bill that would eliminate the criminal statute of limitations for child sex abuse as well as the civil statute of limitations.

None of these issues are expected to be taken up this week, as lawmakers and Gov. Andrew Cuomo continue to grapple with the disclosure of teacher evaluations, the last outstanding issue that is yet to be locked down.

But with Heastie locking up the support late last week, Democratic lawmakers appeared ready to hold a leadership vote as early as Tuesday even as Queens Assemblywoman Cathy Nolan stays in the race.

ALBANY — A proposal to end cash bail for lower - level crimes will likely not be considered as part of the state's estimated $ 170 billion budget, top lawmakers said Sunday as they continued closed - door talks less than a week before the budget deadline.

It's another sign Republican lawmakers in the Senate won't budget on their own mayoral control extension bill as the legislative session is scheduled to end next week on June 16.

Pleban and Ward are hoping they won't have to go through the same range of emotions this week as New York lawmakers enter the final days of the legislative session, with the prospect of approving same - sex marriage looming yet again.

Days before Gov. Andrew Cuomo delivered his «State of the State» address last week, nearly a dozen Upstate New York lawmakers quietly pushed the governor to put a tunnel back on the table as a potential replacement for Interstate 81 in Syracuse.

Supporters of Wisconsin Democrat Russ Feingold's Senate campaign plan to welcome their candidate back to D.C. next week with a fundraiser at 201 Bar — a spot the former lawmaker once cited as a key place where influence is bought and sold.

Lawmakers hinted this week that they would be willing to support a short - term continuing resolution as long as its aim was to give negotiators more time to work out a larger agreement.

Two state lawmakers have emerged as the front - runners in the backroom battle to be tabbed as the Democratic candidate to replace disgraced former Rep. Anthony Weiner — but they were also warned this week not to get too comfortable in the seat if they win.