Sanders, who founded the Senate's Defend Social Security Caucus and currently serves as its chairman, has launched a petition and is leading a national coalition of various interest groups whose mission is to reject legislative efforts to scale back benefits for seniors.
The comments, by Assemblyman Steven F. McLaughlin of the capital region, were immediately rejected by legislative leaders of both parties.
He went so far as to propose exempting teachers from the state's income tax, an idea rejected by legislative leaders in favor of a smaller tax credit.
Some budget-related proposals, like the one to create a new, larger state lottery jackpot to encourage more people to play, have already been rejected by legislative critics.
Mr McDonough hinted at the president's ability to bypass Congress if they reject his legislative proposals.
They may be hardworking and bright, and the nation may have wittingly or unwittingly invested in 12 or more years of schooling in them, but the government still deports them, and the law still opts to keep them from college by rejecting the legislative proposal known as the DREAM Act.
Approving recommendations made by a committee last month, the European Parliament today soundly rejected calls for legislative changes that could have more severely restricted the use of animals in research.
If Governor Pence meant it when he said that SB101 isn't intended to allow discrimination against LGBT people, then why were amendments designed to make that explicit repeatedly rejected during the legislative process?
