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Rep. Carolyn McCarthy (D-NY4) is urging House Speaker John Boehner and other House leaders to allow... Read Full Article Author:... ...

Rep. Carolyn McCarthy (D-NY4), the first and only woman to represent a part of Long Island in Congress,... Read Full Article Author:...

... backed by a bipartisan group of the state's election commissioners and several good-government groups, are urging a date in late June. Senate Republicans favor a date in August, and have filed court papers ...

... the Capital Region's House delegation are urging that the next spending bill contain hundreds of millions of dollars for programs that would help farmers reeling from the effects of tropical storms Irene ...

... Tuesday urging them to make fuller use of a program that allows most state workers to voluntarily reduce their hours (and pay). The bulletin says agencies should "aggressively promote" the program, approve ...

WASHINGTON, DC (Nov. 4, 2011) – While American soldiers serve in military deployments around... Read Full Article Author:...

... urging of Gov. Andrew Cuomo -- is another despicable broadside on working people," CSEA spokesman Stephen Madarasz said. A Cuomo spokesman said the governor was not involved in Let NY Work's efforts to ...

... Tonko is also circulating a letter urging funding to the same programs backed by Gibson, on which Gibson and Rep. Bill Owens, D-Plattsburgh, are signatories, Duffy said. The fInal decision on whether and ...

... urging a positive vote. The union also spent approximately $7,000 to rent a billboard along Interstate 787, scheduled to come down Thursday, urging a "yes" vote. The mailed ballots are due by 9 a.m. Nov. ...

... the first week of November, his allies said. His financial backers include New York Jets owner Woody Johnson and, more recently several two men who had been urging New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie to enter ...

... the executive board's 91-to-18 vote to move forward. "We are urging our membership to approve," Brynien said. While the changes to the contract that members shot down in September are relatively minor, ...

... It gave no details. State Sen. Daniel Squadron, a Democrat who represents lower Manhattan and Brooklyn, said he had conversations late into the night urging Brookfield's CEO to wait. Over the past month, ...

ALBANY -- Senate Republicans are urging a federal judge to schedule the state primary in August, walking away from what Assembly Democrats said was an agreement to ask for a waiver that would have kept ...

... with no additional cost to the state. Brynien arrived at PEF's headquarters during a rally by about two dozen union members who are urging another vote to avoid layoffs; they held signs reading "Save Homes" ...

ALBANY --- The president of the Public Employees Federation is urging the Cuomo administration to tweak the defeated contract proposal to make it palatable for a new vote of the 56,000-member union. The ...

... and the need to get some damaged roads back on line. Brian Sampson, executive director of Unshackle Upstate, last month wrote to Cuomo's State Operations Director Howard Glaser, urging him to allow the ...

... for retirees from the now-defunct New York City OTB. In addition to the union Local of District Council 37, officials from their parent union, AFSCME, as well as the AFL-CIO, are urging Cuomo to sign the ...

... groups that oppose the drilling technique coordinated a social media campaign on Tuesday urging supporters to ask Gov. Andrew Cuomo to order the comment period be extended to 180 days. Hydrofracking relies ...

... others Wednesday urging "a strong settlement to the legal actions under discussion, and one that leaves open the path for further needed actions to hold lawbreakers accountable." In a message to supporters, ...

ALBANY -- Independent pharmacists are urging Gov. Andrew Cuomo to sign a bill that would allow corner drugstores to compete with mail-order pharmacies. The proposed law, called the "Anti-Mandatory Mail ...