Sentences with phrase «with key lawmakers»

NAR continues to watch the proposals very carefully and meets regularly with key lawmakers to discuss reform efforts.

The advocates also held private meetings with key lawmakers and their staffs, including Deputy Senate Leader John DeFrancisco, who is also a Republican candidate for governor.

Coin Center maintains a streamlined staff of only five full - time team members, yet that group consistently produces a large volume of high profile interactions with key lawmakers.

Not exact matches

Lawmakers indicated on Thursday after meeting with Gov. Andrew Cuomo they are inching toward a final agreement on the state budget, but key issues on funding education and raising revenue for taxes remain unresolved.

But the IDC has formed a noticeably tight alliance with Senate Republicans on several key votes, including a measure that would prevent independent redistricting for another decade, further frustrating Democratic lawmakers.

But the IDC has remained a key bloc of lawmakers and its leader, Sen. Jeff Klein, is included in closed - door budget negotiations with the legislative leaders from the Assembly and Senate and Gov. Andrew Cuomo.

Finding ways of funding mass transit has been a key issue for lawmakers this legislative session amid ongoing problems with the New York City subway system.

A number of lawmakers with deep ties to the embattled incumbent speaker, Sheldon Silver, have key committee chairmanships: Denny Farrell at Ways and Means, for example; Joe Lentol at Codes and Deborah Glick at Higher Education — to name a few.

Scaling back the teacher evaluation law is a key issue for the teachers unions, who have influence with lawmakers as well as Democratic voters.

Senator Jim Tedisco, who has been a lawmaker at the Capitol since 1983 and was a key figure in 2008 in demanding the resignation of then - Governor Eliot Spitzer after it was revealed he was caught up in a prostitution ring, bemoaned his experience in dealing with another Albany scandal.

Senate Minority Leader Andrea Stewart - Cousins met privately in New York City on Wednesday with Brooklyn Sen. Simcha Felder, a lawmaker who is a key linchpin for control of the narrowly divided chamber.

Child Victims Act Since 2006 Safe Horizon has taken an increased leadership role in advocating for passage of the Child Victims Act by organizing an energetic, statewide coalition of survivors and advocates, leading press conferences with key government officials, advocating directly with lawmakers in Albany, and more.

Since 2006 Safe Horizon has taken an increased leadership role in advocating for passage of the Child Victims Act by organizing an energetic, statewide coalition of survivors and advocates, leading press conferences with key government officials, advocating directly with lawmakers in Albany, and more.

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.

The Chancellor traveled to Albany today to address the Assembly Education Committee and meet with lawmakers, including Senators Flanagan and Golden, on key education policy and local school issues.

Stefanik counted the 21st Century Cures Act, national defense, combating the opioid epidemic and VA reform as key legislative initiatives she hashed out with the lawmaker.

Cuomo relayed his readiness for such a high - stakes confrontation in conversations with key aides and state lawmakers during the past two weeks as he outlined general plans to cut the state payroll and impose billions of dollars in reductions on school districts and the Medicaid program in the fiscal year beginning April 1.

Bloomberg is very unpopular among a certain segment of the Democratic conference, most notably with key African American lawmakers.

As the 2016 session of the Legislature wrapped up last week and came to a typically ugly end in the wee hours Saturday morning — with bleary - eyed lawmakers forced to vote on measures they didn't even have time to read — The Post asked several lawmakers, lobbyists and journalists to assess the first full year's performance of Democrat Heastie, a key ally of Mayor de Blasio, and Flanagan, the most powerful Republican in the state.

But the back and forth with the Assembly and others is a sign lawmakers are increasingly willing to be at odds with the governor, publicly, on key issues.

But Cuomo is under increasing pressure to push the eight - member Independent Democratic Conference — a key bloc of lawmakers who have been aligned with Republicans — to ally with mainline Democrats.

Cuomo met personally with fence - sitting lawmakers and was involved in the crafting of the religious exemption amendment, which would prove key in winning Republican support.

Key lawmakers, along with the Roswell Park Institute, are launching an all - out effort to limit vaping or electronic cigarettes in public places.

A Columbia University oncologist considered one of the key witnesses in the case against former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver testified that there «was a pattern» in which the lawmaker would ask the doctor for patient referrals whenever the physician requested help with funding for his research.

With President Obama set to deliver a prime - time address from the White House in what could be his last best chance to sway lawmakers to support military action against Syria, former secretary of state Hillary Clinton slated to give a high - profile speech in Philadelphia, and the Senate headed toward a key Wednesday test vote on Syria, there is A LOT going on in the political world Tuesday.

With just over one week left until the session is scheduled to end, lawmakers seem far apart on many key issues.

With less than three weeks to go before Indiana lawmakers sine die, Indy Politics presents some perspectives from key lawmakers and other figures on where...

Under the supervision of the governor's staff, the groups intend to raise more than $ 1 million for a media blitz, hire a powerful political consultant close to the Cuomo administration and deploy field organizers to the districts of more than a dozen key lawmakers to drum up support, according to interviews with those involved in the effort.

The IDC has formed a noticeably tight alliance with Senate Republicans on several key votes, including a measure that would prevent independent redistricting for another decade, further frustrating Democratic lawmakers.

In the House, key lawmakers have made headway with the notion that the social sciences and climate research contribute less to the nation than «pure» disciplines, such as physics, biology, engineering, and computing.

The labs «provide essential capabilities for university and industrial researchers» and have made important contributions to America's economic and military might, Moniz reminded a room packed with science policy heavyweights, including 15 lab directors, National Cancer Institute chief Harold Varmus, former White House science adviser Neal Lane, and lawmakers and staffers who serve on key committees overseeing federal research agencies.

Mitchell sits on the N.C. Charter School Advisory Board, which is tasked with reviewing charter school applications and monitoring their progress, and he has also contributed thousands of dollars to the campaigns of several lawmakers, including Sen. Jerry Tillman, a key proponent of charter schools who sat on the conference committee tasked with crafting the final version of SB 793.

With the exit of the speaker — a key supporter — lawmakers» plans were again jeopardized.

Not long after Ryan became speaker, in mid-November, and with little time left to wrap negotiations before lawmakers hoped to bring a bill up in the House, the four key lawmakers dialed in for a conference call.

«It's time to look at the assessment regimen and look at what we need to do to allow teachers to teach to the subject and not to the test,» added Horn, who was a key lawmaker behind the creation of the review commission tasked with reviewing the Common Core.

While this could create a tight squeeze for lawmakers who are already considering bills that would spend much more than that amount, two key Assembly leaders signaled Thursday (Feb. 4) they will go along with the governor.

Sen. Luther Olsen, R - Ripon, chairs the Senate Education Committee, making him a key lawmaker to sway in order to change the state's course with Common Core.

The bill Litzow and a bipartisan raft of lawmakers sponsored would essentially restore most of the state's original law, but with one key difference: instead of receiving general fund dollars, charter schools would be funded out of a separate account made up of state lottery proceeds.

Get tips for scheduling a meeting with your lawmakers in the story below and access ASCD's updated sequestration page, which shares estimated cuts and their timing for key education programs.

Word on the street is that Bryan's bill is being met with pushback and key Republican lawmakers haven't been converted on the idea.

Beyond saving homeowners struggling with foreclosure, this program is recognized by federal and state lawmakers as a key strategy for rebuilding efforts post-disaster.

Even so, Mr. Obama had consistently backed carbon caps and carbon trading markets, and his advisers say he has had discussions with key Congressional lawmakers, «including one key moderate House Democrat whose support will be critical to passage of any carbon legislation,» wrote N.E.F.

The acting CEO also downplayed the role of Christopher Wylie, a key source for recent reports in The New York Times and The Observer on Cambridge Analytica who plans to speak with British and American lawmakers.

Equipped with compelling brain research and strong economic and evaluation findings, lawmakers are working to improve access to and quality of early childhood services that are key to children's development, school readiness, life success and family well - being.

In May, they'll join thousands of REALTORS ® for NAR's annual Capitol Hill visits, where they'll talk directly with lawmakers and their aides about these key issues.

This year REALTORS ® will have more opportunities for advancing key issues with lawmakers on Capitol Hill.

REALTORS ® have flown in from all over the country to target key lawmakers; a series of state association delegations have met individually with their members of Congress; and phone calls, letters, and E-mail have been generated through NAR's Call for Action systems.

We held several meetings with House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Kevin Brady, along with other committee members and staff, while builders engaged with key House and Senate lawmakers in their home districts and at their offices on Capitol Hill.

A key concern for some lawmakers, however, is that tinkering with corporate taxes without also providing relief to individuals would be unfair to small business owners such as real estate professionals, who often operate their businesses as limited liability companies (LLCs) or S corporations, meaning that income they generate passes through to their owners, who pay tax on it at their individual rate.

Members of The Real Estate Roundtable work closely with Washington lawmakers and regulators to produce meaningful results on key national issues in the tax, capital and credit, environmental and energy, and homeland security policy arenas that affect the industry.