Sentences with phrase «enacts new ethics reforms»

Enacts new ethics reforms to Drain the Swamp and reduce the corrupting influence of special interests on our politics.

Cuomo acknowledged that despite a cascade of corruption scandals, he was unable to enact new ethics reforms.

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Hoping to capitalize on Democratic anger over the election of President Trump, Mayer and other Democrats argue the Westchester contest is critical to their hopes of controlling the Senate and enacting legislation long sought by progressives, including new gun control measures, campaign finance and ethics reforms, and a bill to strengthen New York's abortion lanew gun control measures, campaign finance and ethics reforms, and a bill to strengthen New York's abortion laNew York's abortion laws.

Bharara declined to comment on whether Cuomo should convene a special session of the legislature to enact ethics reforms — «That's not for me to say» — but did say New York's system of having part - time legislators who can earn outside income deserved consideration.

In February, for example, the Siena Research institute asked voters whether lawmakers should get a pay raise if they enacted ethics reforms; New York City residents said yes by a 50 percent to 48 percent margin, while only 34 percent of upstate residents agreed.)

Flyers sent this week accuse Rivera of «Playing Us For Fools» and excerpts heavily from the June 21 New York Times editorial, «The Old Albany Hustle,» which criticized Gov. Andrew Cuomo and legislative leaders for failing to enact any meaningful ethics reforms this year.

Cuomo has pushed the legislature to enact a series of ethics reforms in response to scandals and public pressure, but public integrity in New York is worse today than it was three years ago, according to a new 50 - state analysNew York is worse today than it was three years ago, according to a new 50 - state analysnew 50 - state analysis.

The Assembly should therefore take concrete steps to overhaul the rules that keep it from functioning effectively as a legislative body, and make clear to New Yorkers that it is serious about enacting comprehensive and much - needed reforms to its ethics laws.

So on Wednesday, Citizens Union, Reinvent Albany, Common Cause NY, the League of Women Voters of New York State, and the New York Public Interest Research Group sent a letter to Governor Cuomo and the two new legislative leaders, Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie and Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan, urging them to come together to enact comprehensive and significant reforms in five ethics categoriNew York State, and the New York Public Interest Research Group sent a letter to Governor Cuomo and the two new legislative leaders, Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie and Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan, urging them to come together to enact comprehensive and significant reforms in five ethics categoriNew York Public Interest Research Group sent a letter to Governor Cuomo and the two new legislative leaders, Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie and Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan, urging them to come together to enact comprehensive and significant reforms in five ethics categorinew legislative leaders, Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie and Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan, urging them to come together to enact comprehensive and significant reforms in five ethics categories.

New York's new Senate Leader, John Flanagan, said he does not think that further ethics reform will be enacted in the remaining weeks of the legislative session, despite an ongoing corruption scandal that cost his predecessor his jNew York's new Senate Leader, John Flanagan, said he does not think that further ethics reform will be enacted in the remaining weeks of the legislative session, despite an ongoing corruption scandal that cost his predecessor his jnew Senate Leader, John Flanagan, said he does not think that further ethics reform will be enacted in the remaining weeks of the legislative session, despite an ongoing corruption scandal that cost his predecessor his job.