Sentences with phrase «with other state lawmakers»

Assemblyman Gary Finch along with other state lawmakers renewed their call Wednesday to end the Start - Up

Assemblyman Gary Finch along with other state lawmakers renewed their call Wednesday to end the Start - Up NY Program.

But Cuomo, along with other state lawmakers, continues to play within the current rules for campaigning funding.

Not exact matches

The idea behind the campaign is to engage and work with lawmakers in Washington, D.C. — as well as those in other states — to get them to start listening to small business owners, and do something about reversing this tide of increasing regulations.

On ethics, Cuomo wasn't able to get at some of the issues that forced, say, Sheldon Silver from power, namely the ability for lawmakers to earn as much money as they'd like at law firms or other entities with potential business before the state.

The meetings will be held on Oct. 25 in Cortland and Nov. 14 in Newburgh as state lawmakers and other policy makers grapple with how to combat addiction, which has afflicted rural, suburban and urban parts of the state.

The governor told reporters he had «no problem» declaring a state of emergency, but wanted to work with other lawmakers to ensure such a step would ease NYCHA's woes.

The online home - sharing site today will file a formal complaint with a state ethics panel charging that the ShareBetter campaign, a coalition of unions, lawmakers and other Airbnb opponents, has engaged in illegal and unreported lobbying.

Even if outside income is banned, it will remain extremely easy for deep - pocketed special interests to give large amounts of money to lawmakers via the LLC loophole, the housekeeping account loophole, and various other scurvy methods that have made Albany synonymous with corrupt state government.

This year, the governor downplayed the issue, listing it with a number of other steps he wants to take, including stricter penalties against bribery, creating an independent agency to police campaign filing violations and greater disclosure by lawmakers of their private law clients who have business before the state.

And with grim, plodding regularity, the Lower East Side Democrat has weathered each of them, outlasting four governors, five State Senate leaders and countless other lawmakers who have shuffled along the marble hallway, under the vaulted ceiling and through the glass doors to his office just behind the chamber's rostrum.

Cuomo ended his address pleading with fellow lawmakers to pass his budget plan, warning that the state «is functionally bankrupt» and has no other choice.

It ends with a call for state and federal lawmakers to reject campaign contributions from gun rights groups like the NRA, enact stricter licensing and registration requirements for guns, a ban on «all classes of weapons that do not serve the specific uses of personal protection and sport shooting» and other gun control measures.

The state already faces a projected $ 1.7 billion structural deficit, so Cuomo and lawmakers would need to potentially come up with $ 3.7 billion from other parts of the budget, if they want to enact all of the tax commission's recommendations.

He would also form a coalition with other mayors and lawmakers from Upstate New York to lobby for more state revenue sharing.

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.

Cuomo wound up getting some of what he wanted in the budget deal he finalized with state lawmakers less than three months later, while other goals fell by the wayside.

While some state lawmakers have hailed the recent passage of new ethics measures, others along with government watchdogs say the state Legislature didn't take a big enough step to address political corruption.

At the same time, the county governments need state lawmakers to extend sales taxes and other local tax issues, which had been packaged with a mayoral control bill approved by the Democratic - led Assembly in May.

Mr. Skelos is hardly alone: Other lawmakers in New York who have been charged along with their sons have also gone to trial, including Thomas W. Libous, who had been the second - highest ranking Republican in the State Senate until he was forced to resign after his conviction in July.

Mr. Cuomo boarded an El Al flight to Jerusalem at 7 p.m. Tuesday with a delegation of New York state lawmakers and other officials, a journey he said was aimed at showing solidarity with Israel in its conflict with Hamas.

After talk of a pay hike for lawmakers fizzled last month, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo on Monday proposed establishing a commission to address his salary, along with state legislators, other statewide elected officials and state - agency commissioners.

The LLC loophole is now a major issue, with increasing pressure from good government groups, newspaper editorial boards and reform - minded lawmakers - like state Senator Daniel Squadron, who, along with colleagues and other allies, just released a report on the loophole.

While FES typically held its Albany rallies late in the legislative session, close to final budget negotiations, next month's rally day will be held as other groups are flooding the Capitol to meet with lawmakers in the wake of Gov. Andrew Cuomo's State of the State on Jan. 13, when he will lay out his legislative agenda.

Cuomo announced he was breaking with the 94 - year tradition of verbally delivering a state of the state address in the Capitol complex after plans for a special session — which would have raised pay for lawmakers, among other things — fell apart when Flanagan broke off negotiations.

Ryan Deitsch, 18, and other students from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School meet with lawmakers on the House floor at the Florida State Capitol in Tallahassee on February 21.

In addition, according to the Post, Justice Department lawyers «found that Republican lawmakers and state officials who helped craft the proposal were aware it posed a high risk of being ruled discriminatory compared with other options».

The New York Republican said Trump was emphatic about his support for the bridge when he met several months ago with Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D - N.Y.), New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo and other Empire State lawmakers.

Along with other powerful state lawmakers, Perkins has benefited from the teachers union's largesse.

At the same time, rank - and - file Republican and Independent Democratic Conference lawmakers scampered for political cover, with one Republican now saying she won't take the money, another refusing to comment, and still others saying that the state comptroller has allowed the payments so they must be OK.

While a handful of state lawmakers will be conducting interviews this week with candidates interested in the attorney general post, there are others who say acting AG Barbara Underwood should be allowed to stay in that capacity until voters ultimately decide in the fall.

She joined with dozens of other local officials to ask state lawmakers to reject Cuomo's proposal to freeze property taxes for two years.

McLaughlin is the latest state lawmaker to face allegations of sexual harassment, a wave that began in 2012 with accusation against then - powerful Democratic Assemblyman Vito Lopez, ultimately sweeping up other lawmakers from both parties.

New York State's minimum wage, currently $ 8.75 per hour, will increase to $ 9 for all workers at the end of 2015, as Cuomo, along with other lawmakers and advocates for low - wage employees, continue to champion a future increase to $ 15 for all workers.

But others — council members and state lawmakers — reportedly required a little bit more convincing, with funding for their pet projects placed on the line if they dared to turn their backs on Cuomo and Hochul.

Robb returns to Albany with her sister Dorothy Robb Farrell, 50, and other activists to lobby state lawmakers.

Some had left their Staten Island and Queens homes as early as 4 a.m. to make departure on time, others had taken the day off work or school, all were there for the same reason: to meet with state lawmakers and convince them to modernize New York's antiquated election laws.

Regardless, we must pressure state lawmakers to act to insure we do not remain behind other cities in the world when it comes to providing both our citizens and our guests with reliable, convenient and affordable transportation options.

The conservative firebrand is also planning to meet with several state lawmakers and other Republican activists amid reports that she is weighing a presidential bid.

A group of state lawmakers is teaming up with environmental groups to ask Governor Cuomo's administration to ban the use of wastewater from hydrofracking and other oil and gas extraction from being spread on public roadways.

«Although there will still be significant gaps in the available information about the outside activities of lawmakers and other officials, this database will ensure that going forward the public, the media, and policymakers will be better able to discern whether an officeholder or their business partners are representing clients with state business before state agencies, an important part of the overall picture.»

One of three task forces recently assembly by a top Republican state lawmaker will be charged with encouraging the young to consider careers in the construction industry, as well as in various other trades and professions.

Rep. John Faso, the Kinderhook Republican who teamed with Collins on the amendment involving Medicaid and county property taxes, is the only other New York State lawmaker targeted.

Following her vote last month, the lawmaker said she would continue to work closely with her colleagues from other highly taxed states to ensure that the final tax reform package in Conference addresses those concerns.

State lawmakers push to pass a bill requiring companies to tell you exactly what personal data they've shared with other companies

Citing the continual delays with the Yucca Mountain project, which the Obama administration mothballed in the face of Nevadans» opposition, Perry said in a letter to state lawmakers, «The citizens of Texas — and every other state currently storing radioactive waste — have been betrayed by their federal government... because a federal solution still does not exist.»

Other Puerto Rico - born lawmakers, like Rep. Nydia Velázquez (D - N.Y.), have spent the past week emphasizing Puerto Rico's bond with the United States — and the responsibility that entails.

Last week, it became clear in House and Senate education committees» meetings that not all lawmakers were on board with the move to these grade - level learning expectations that would have brought Pennsylvania public school instruction more in unison with the standards that 44 other states and the District of Columbia were in the process of implementing.

It's an experiment that — while proven successful in at least two other states — has its origins in a Democratic President's administration and comes fresh off of lawmakers» brush with Common Core state standards, a broad - reaching education policy that blew up into a toxic political football among conservatives because it de-emphasized local control.

With California's fiscal outlook worsening, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger last week called state lawmakers into a special session to balance the current budget, while governors in Mississippi, New York, and several other states sounded alarms about their own revenue problems.