Sentences with phrase «about government ethics»

This governor has talked more about government ethics reform than any governor in memory, and yet the rules and high mindedness never apply to him.»

Governor Andrew Cuomo forgot about government ethics reform.

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Below are more statements he has made so far in the chat, in response to questions selected from the comments section of the Guardian website and Twitter, about the extent of U.S. government access to civilian information, the role of Google and Facebook, and his ethics:

But now, according to The Journal, we learn that Flynn's work involved a meeting on September 19, 2016 with senior Turkish government officials to discuss how to remove a Turkish dissident from the United States without going through judicial or other legal processes — actions that could violate U.S. criminal laws and that certainly raise anew serious questions about Flynn's judgment and ethics.

A «cluster of monotheism's core ideas,» which Rauf short - hands as the «Abrahamic ethic,» drives the book's thesis, showing what's right with both Islam and the U.S. and offering suggestions about how American Muslims and the U.S. government may become forces of healing in the larger Muslim world.

While Labour MP John Trickett said the incident «raises a series of questions about the ethics of public service and the integrity of the Government».

Generally speaking, lawmakers are trying to determine whether it's worth going to war with Cuomo now, or waiting to see if he's really serious about being willing to risk a late budget — and a government shutdown — to get what he wants in ethics reform.

The matter of prioritization for the bill - signing also underscores questions about the bill being necessary in the first place, but also issue that many took with Cuomo's abandonment of other, more pressing government ethics and campaign finance reform proposals, many of which he had previously claimed to champion.

But critics have said testimony has shown ethics breaches the governor or his top staff should have known about — especially Percoco's use of his government office from May 1, 2014, to Dec. 7, 2014.

Almost half — 48 percent — say that «when thinking about the problem of ethics in government (Cuomo) is part of the problem.»

They'll also talk about some of the areas of state government that need reform including, campaign finance, ethics and redistricting.

And you, Preet Bharara — you want to lecture us about ethics and criminalize the traditional horse - trading that allows government to function?

You were elected in 2010, and again in 2014, talking about ethics, talking about changing the tenor of state government.

«My campaign has always been about achieving tax relief for overburdened Long Island families, fair funding for struggling school districts, and real ethics reforms to restore public faith in government.»

The good government group's lobbyist, Blair Horner, said Leibell's plea should «reignite voter outrage about Albany and spur outgoing Gov. David Paterson to call another special session specifically to deal with comprehensive ethics legislation.

And, many miles away in Kentucky, US Attorney Preet Bharara this morning will be addressing members of that state's Legislature about ethics and honesty in government.

In a letter to Senate leaders, the director of the Office of Government Ethics described the current status of several nominees, some of whom are billionaires and millionaires, in the ethics process and expressed concern about the lack of ethics reviews just days from committee hearings.

After months of pressure from Percoco, the government says, and after Kelly falsely told other CPV executives that he had obtained an «ethics opinion» from the governor's office approving the arrangement, the company began to pay Percoco's wife $ 7,500 per month to teach fourth graders at elementary schools in New Jersey about a nearby power plant the company was developing.

The governor's ethics statement observed, «That fear of real problems, combined with mistrust about the government, is the toxic combination that this nation now faces.

«Voters are very angry about corruption and they want to hear the candidates recognize this problem and what they plan to do about it,» said Craig Holman, a government affairs lobbyist for Public Citizen, a Washington, D.C., nonprofit focuses on ethics and campaign finance issues.

After Libous» conviction of a single felony count of lying to the FBI about using his public post to get his son, Matthew, a job at a politically connected law firm — a decision that automatically ejected him from his Senate seat — six good government groups renewed their call for a special legislative session to address ethics reform.

With the corruption scandals that have roiled the state; the last - minute flurry of legislation this past June and watered - down ethics reform packages, there's not a lot to love about the way our state government is functioning right now.

ALBANY — A good - government advocate said New York's ethics commission is «like a black box» for not revealing whether it is investigating a complaint about political parties» alleged lobbying.

«For anybody that takes ethics in government as an important issue, this is a no - brainer,» Jacobs said when asked about what he expected Cuomo to do.

«The latest chapter of this wayward commission is another clumsy exchange that has only served to raise new ethics concerns about the government, and not solve them.»

The story raises continued questions about ethics in county government.

The debate about ethics in bio and life sciences in Germany was refueled last week: While Germany's central research funding organization, the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG), decided to revise its position on human stem cell research, the German government is finally reacting to heated public debates about sensitive issues by establishing a National Ethics Commission.

For the majority of scientists who won't get tenure - track positions — and may not want them — Research Universities states that the great need is to «better position new PhDs for the careers they will have by providing more information about career options and by providing opportunities to acquire, in addition to the knowledge of one's field, skills that are useful for academic positions (teaching, grant writing, publishing, presentations) and positions in government, business and non-profits (oral and written communication, project management, regulatory compliance, business ethics and innovation.)»

The ethics code says that while federal employees may talk about their own work, they should not publicly criticize government policy.

The truth is, the Brazilians who complain the most are all middle - to - upper - class, exactly the ones who aren't above making a quick buck and / or getting ahead in life, even if it means cheating or treading on others, disregarding everything from ethics to social responsibility to environmental issues, and when they complain about the corrupt and expensive government, it's mainly out of jealousy.

Although ordinary individuals may have no duty to go beyond their own personal opinion about the science of climate change, government officials who have the power to enact policies that could present catastrophic harm to millions of people around the world may not as a matter of ethics justify their refusal to support policies to reduce the threat of climate change on the basis of their uninformed opinions on climate science.

IPCC can, however, distinguish between prescriptive and descriptive questions that arise in relevant socio - economic literature about climate policy - making, identify important ethical and justice issues that arise in this literature, where there is a consensus on ethics and justice issues in the relevant literature describe the consensus position, where there is no consensus on ethical and justice issues describe the range of reasonable views on these issues, and identify hard and soft law legal principles relevant to how governments should resolve ethical and justice issues that must be faced by policy - makers.

Since I've designated today as a day to think about ethics, it's worth quoting from a recent US judgment on a issue that had and has both legal and moral implications that comes from the boomer days — the Viet Nam war and the consequences of the use of Agent Orange — and comparing that to how the Canadian government handled the problem that produced Authorson v Canada.

Since I've designated today as a day to think about ethics, it's worth quoting from a recent US judgment on a issue that had and has both legal and moral implications that comes from the boomer days — the Viet Nam war and the consequences of the use of Agent Orange — and comparing that to how the Canadian government handled the problem that produced Authorson v Canada... [more]

This time, however, it is not about the company's questionable hiring practices, but about ethics and the extent to which it is willing to bend over backward for the U.S. government.

However, experts in government ethics remain uncertain about whether CFTC employees should be allowed to trade cryptocurrencies.

Now that the proof is in the pudding, that what we all have been warning the public, each other, and government, about, vis a vis the breakdown of ethics and order within the real estate transaction sector, it is time for each and every ORE member to write letters to their respective Members of Parliament, requesting an investigation into the misleading advertising aspect of what is now going on in the devolving Canadian real estate market.

As someone who cares deeply about public protection, home ownership and building stronger credibility and ethics in the real estate industry, I urge the government and OREA to challenge yourselves to ensure that what you are recommending is addressing the real issues consumers face.