Sentences with phrase «executive branch ethics»

«It's a novel kind of business,» said Virginia Canter, who is executive branch ethics counsel for Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington.

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If this already compromised Moreland Commission on Corruption is not willing to investigate the second highest elected official in the executive branch for what appears to be a clear violations of the ethics laws, they should pack up and go home.»

The Daily News reported today that Silver and the governor have agreed to an ethics package could give the Public Integrity Commission, which oversees the executive branch, the power to investigate the Legislature as well.

Speaking to reporters in Buffalo today, Gov. Andrew Cuomo said an ethics overhaul for the executive branch, which Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos suggested to Liz yesterday, isn't necessary.

Skelos told Capital Tonight that he is considering the introduction of ethics guidelines for the governor's office and executive branch.

Last week on Capital Tonight, Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos said ethics reform should include the executive branch, and today, Speaker Sheldon Silver called the effectiveness of the governor's tour across the state «irrelevant.»

Now, with Percoco under the microscope, lawmakers may call for ethics measures that impact the executive branch — a maneuver we've seen before from Senate Republicans.

A November report from the reform group Reinvent Albany listed 11 measures Cuomo could take by executive order to make the state government more accountable, including putting government information and public meeting presentations online, imposing stronger ethics rules for executive branch employees and automating voter registration.

The package would require public disclosure of every legislator's outside clients and income, establish an ethics commission with robust investigative powers over both the legislative and executive branches — and institute other measures to introduce badly needed transparency and accountability into our state government.

An ethics bill signed this past summer puts ethics investigations for both the legislative and executive branches in the hands of the Joint Commission on Public Ethics.

An administration official told the Times Union on Monday that panel appointees of the executive and judicial branch indicated at their meeting last week that they have soured on the idea of a raise for two reasons: because only two lawmakers have formally stated their case to the commission this year, and because ethics reforms approved this year have been lambasted as not properly addressing recent corruption.

In 2011, Cuomo created the first ethics agency that oversees both the Legislature and the executive branch but is not controlled by either.

Richard Azzopardi, the governor's spokesman, said the executive branch seeks information from JCOPE routinely about matters such as completing financial disclosure filings, conflicts of interest, pre-government employment, ethics training and how to comply with JCOPE's opinions.

Zephyr Teachout said Cuomo should not exclude the executive branch from any ethics reforms, accusing him of trying to deflect from his own missteps.

Cuomo's office maintains that the ethics measures the governor is pushing apply to the executive branch of government as well.

Cuomo's ethics measures — aimed at the Legislature, but would also apply to all state employees in the executive branch — would require the reporting of private business clients.

After meeting with his conference on Wednesday evening, Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos dismissed the ethics deal, saying any talks of ethics reforms should also include financial disclosures of the executive branch, and should also include domestic partners.

The White House has issued more than a dozen ethics waivers to administration aides, allowing them to work on issues they dealt with before they started working for the executive branch.

Lawmakers have insisted Cuomo also support measures aimed at improving ethics in the executive branch, but Cuomo has said corruption is a problem in the legislature, not his branch.

Eliminate the stratified oversight bodies and establish a single, independent ethics commission with robust enforcement powers to investigate and prosecute violations that members of either the executive and legislative branches commit.»

«The great privilege and honor of my career has been to lead OGE's staff and the community of ethics officials in the federal executive branch,» Shaub wrote.

They included putting government information and public meeting presentations online, imposing stronger ethics rules for executive branch employees and automating voter registration.

Skelos, a Republican from Long Island, said that any talks of ethics reforms should also include financial disclosures of the executive branch, and should also include domestic partners.

«The great privilege and honor of my career has been to lead OGE's staff and the community of ethics officials in the federal executive branch,» Mr. Shaub wrote in a letter to the president that the director posted to his Twitter account.

Established in 2011, Jcope oversees the executive and legislative branches and investigates violations of state ethics and lobbying laws.

That must include the creation of an ethics enforcement commission to investigate misdeeds in both the Legislature and the executive branch, including the governor's office.

One of Mr. Perdue's first acts after he was sworn in as governor in January 2003 was to sign an executive order establishing a new code of ethics for executive branch employees.

It investigates alleged ethics violations in the executive branch and regulates lobbying while the Legislature's ethics commission investigates lawmakers.

Also at Science, Brad Wible, 2005 — 07 Executive Branch Fellow at NIH, is a senior editor who works «to tell people why research matters and what society needs to consider in terms of social impacts, economics, ethics, politics, etc.» Like Thompson, he has always felt science was critical but underappreciated, so he works to make science «more attractive.»

Executive branch employees should obtain written permission to attend this event from their designated agency ethics office and should send a copy of the permission to Kathryn Sullivan either by email ([email protected]) or by fax [phone]) prior to the event.

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Although ethicists criticized the arrangement as falling short of the blind trusts set up by recent former presidents, Trump said he was doing more than he had to and noted that an ethics law that applies to most executive branch officials exempts the president.