Sentences with phrase «with state senate»

To comply with state Senate Bill SB X1 - 2 of 2011, by state Sen. Joe Simitian, D - Palo Alto, the California Energy Commission studied whether importing cheap hydropower from British Columbia would meet California's stringent renewable power criteria.

Gov. Cuomo proposes, along with the state Senate, an increase in state funding allotted for students, to keep pace with district public school spending.

U.S. Rep. Peter King, a Long Island Republican opposing changes to the deductibility of state and local taxes, says he has discussed the issue several times with state Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan (R - Suffolk County).

It apparently didn't matter that council candidates — and certainly not the petition carriers — have nothing to do with the state Senate.

Since 2012, the leader of the State Senate's Independent Democratic Conference has enjoyed some kind of coalition agreement with the State Senate Republicans, granting him many of the perquisites of power his former colleagues in the mainline Democratic caucus once sought to deny him.

De Blasio said he also has had «multiple conversations» with state Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie, Bronx State Senator Jeff Klein, leader of the Independence Democratic Conference, a group of breakaway Democrats that enjoys a power - sharing deal with the State Senate Republicans.

Felder, who represents several Central Brooklyn neighborhoods, stated his intentions in April to continue caucusing with the State Senate's Republican members.

Cuomo pledged to work with the State Senate's Republican majority but that its members will have to compromise with Albany Democrats to get things done.

Felder, who represents several Central Brooklyn neighborhoods, stated his intentions this week to continue caucusing with the State Senate's Republican members.

According to his official itinerary, de Blasio also plans to meet this evening with the State Senate's mainstream Democratic conference during a reception in their Capitol conference room, and attend receptions at nearby hotels for the Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity and MWBE networking.

Albany, NY — On this week's Capitol Connection, Alan Chartock talks with state Senate Minority Leader David Paterson, who was recently picked by gubernatorial hopeful Eliot Spitzer as his choice for lieutenant governor.

With the state Senate so closely divided, the IDC has become a vital swing bloc of votes for Republicans and Democrats.

The Post has previously reported that the firm landed a contract with the state Senate soon after the Independence Party formed an alliance with the Republicans who controlled it.

The opposition has emerged in both legislative chambers, with the State Senate's new majority leader saying that imposing such oversight on the district, in Rockland County, would set a dangerous precedent, and an Assembly member from Brooklyn who had supported the bill distancing himself from it while raising the specter of anti-Semitism.

This summer, in exchange for the WFP endorsement, Gov. Cuomo agreed to break off his alliance with the State Senate Republicans, and start supporting Democrats.

Upset with a state Senate Republican budget plan to boost charter schools, the powerful city and state teachers union bombarded GOP senators last week with nearly 20,000 faxes and 1,500 phone calls warning the plan would damage neighborhood public schools, a city United Federation of Teachers spokeswoman said.

With the state senate's fate still up in the air, Bloomberg said he's just hoping that one side will emerge on top.

(Given de Blasio's standing at the moment with the State Senate — to say nothing of his awkward relationship with the governor — it's not clear the mayor's support would be of much use anyway.)

Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie, who along with State Senate Leader John Flanagan represent the legislature in budget negotiations with the governor, started his tour Tuesday in Syracuse

ALBANY — The chairman of the state Independence Party suggested in an affidavit that he formed an alliance with the state Senate's breakaway eight - member Independent Democratic Conference to show a «commitment» to the needs of minority communities in New York City.

Louisiana was the only state with state senate term limits that did hold not a general election for its state senate in 2010.

The IDC has used Felder's decision as justification for continuing the power - sharing accord they first forged with the State Senate Republicans back in 2012.

In a deal with State Senate Republicans, Cuomo created a narrow program that extended a taxpayer matching system that would apply only to this year's race for state comptroller.

Earlier, negotiations placed more emphasis on Cuomo delivering a system of public campaign finance, which was looking increasingly impossible with the State Senate's current configuration.

Silver oversees a $ 102.5 million Assembly budget and shares responsibility with the state senate for a legislative budget of $ 16.7 million.

In May, at Crowley's urging, the 18 Democrats representing New York in the House signed a letter that called on State Sen. Simcha Felder and the eight members of the Independent Democratic Conference to abandon their alliance with the State Senate Republicans.

They were shut out in statewide races, and it's unclear what will happen with the State Senate, but they did manage to flip five Democratically held congressional seats.

The governor's office favored SL Green, but said he picked Aqueduct Entertainment Group to break a deadlock with the State Senate.

U.S. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, along with state Senate Minority Leader Andrea Stewart - Cousins on Friday participated in a roundtable discussion to address how to crack down on gun trafficking.

Cuomo, with state Senate Independent Democratic Conference Leader Jeffrey Klein in tow, last week visited three cities to tout the signing of a bill to hold banks responsible for the upkeep of abandoned properties.

Governor announces an agreement with state Senate and Assembly leaders on amendment giving patients 7 years to sue after a misdiagnosis.

Cuomo announced Sunday he had reached an agreement with state Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan (R - East Northport) and Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie (D - Bronx) on amendments to the proposed law, which would give patients up to seven years to sue after a misdiagnosis.

Bronx State Senator Jeff Klein leads the Independent Democratic Conference, a group of breakaway Democrats allied with state Senate Republicans.

The city's real estate stakeholders got a fresh dose of uncertainty on Wednesday following the four - member Independent Democratic Conference's announcement that it would end its alliance with state Senate Republicans, which has paved the way for pro-business legislation since 2012.

This was before Spitzer got into an all - out war with State Senate majority leader Joe Bruno, before Bruno called Spitzer «a rich spoiled brat» and his staff «thugs» and «hoodlums,» before Spitzer may or may not have called Bruno «senile,» before the machinery of government seemed to skid to a halt.

Louisiana is the only state with state senate term limits that will not have a general election in 2018.

Louisiana is the only state with state Senate term limits that did not have a general election in 2016.

It's an interesting move for two reasons: The state party has been largely adrift since Eliot Spitzer resigned as governor two years ago, a dangerous thing especially now, with the State Senate up for grabs.

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo's office says a moratorium on Internet sales of ammunition won't be lifted under a deal with state Senate Republicans that modifies gun control laws enacted after the 2012 Connecticut school massacre.

Paterson has been at odds with the state Senate, whose members, heading into an election year, have been resisting his call to cut education aid.

During the primary, Mr. Cuomo's longshot challenger Zephyr Teachout called the Women's Equality line «a sham party,» pointing to reports that the governor had colluded with the State Senate's breakaway Independent Democratic Conference to allow the GOP to continue to control the upper house of the state legislature — which led to the failed effort to pass the complete Women's Equality Agenda.

De Blasio further emboldened them last week when he accused Cuomo of being vindicative, transactional, and having worked with the state Senate GOP this year to thwart much of the mayor's progressive agenda for the city.

At 11:30 a.m., students, parents and advocates meet with state Senate Minority Leader Andrea Stewart - Cousins to discuss the need for after - school programs and to restore $ 22.3 million for Advantage After School in the state budget, state Capitol, Room 315, Albany.

Upset with a state Senate Republican budget plan to boost charter schools, the powerful city and state teachers union bombarded GOP senators last week with nearly 20,000 faxes and 1,500 phone calls warning the plan would damage neighborhood public schools.

«As a condition for support in the Primary from Governor Cuomo, Mayor de Blasio, and the Working Families Party Jeffrey Klein issued a statement on June 25th conveying that the IDC would form a new coalition with State Senate Democrats to achieve unfinished «core Democratic policy initiatives.»

With state Senate Independent Democratic Conference leader Jeff Klein facing allegations of sexual misconduct, Albany is once again facing the question of how to respond when a conference leader is accused of bad behavior.

Connecticut Senate Minority Leader Len Fasano, R - North Haven, center right, talks with State Senate President Martin Looney, D - New Haven, center left, in a huddle with other legislators in the Senate Chambers at Capitol on the final day of session, Wednesday, June 3, 2015, in Hartford, Conn..

She carried on her quixotic bid in the Democratic primary race, appealing to liberals exasperated with the governor's fiscal conservatism and his coziness with State Senate Republicans and with Wall Street firms.

Women who have reported sexual harassment by lawmakers, along with state Senate Democrats and some attorneys, say the package to be included in the state budget accomplishes little, save for a significant provision extending protections to contractors and other non-employees in a workplace.

There are more substantive complaints, too: chiefly, that Cuomo's redistricting dance with State Senate Republicans will end up costing New York's Democrats seats in Washington.