Sentences with phrase «about legislative ethics»

Former Assemblyman and senior fellow at the Demos foundation, Richard Brodsky, says if there is another convention, it won't be motivated by concern about legislative ethics, but by social issues that people care more about, like schools, and pension benefits.

Republicans in the New York State Senate are in talks with Gov. Andrew Cuomo about legislative ethics reforms as demands for changes mount after the recent arrest of the former Assembly speaker.

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Talk about ethics reform in the new legislative session has been largely muted this year, even as a year filled with corruption trials involving prominent New York figures is underway, including the ongoing trial this week of Joe Percoco, a former close aide to Governor Andrew Cuomo.

McArdle said Skelos, of Nassau County, did not seek an opinion about the arrangement from the legislative ethics commission.

Cuomo also talked a bit about the «dramatic» ethics reform he's working on with legislative leaders, although he didn't offer much in the way of details on that, other than to say: «Is dramatic reform hard to accept and hard to pass?

State lawmakers will have to disclose more details about their outside earnings and business relationships under new ethics laws agreed to by Gov. Andrew Cuomo and legislative leaders.

The most recent person with any clout to take an interest in this mess was John McKinney, the former Senate minority leader, who seemed serious about creating a real legislative ethics code with teeth.

A legislative ethics commission has sent a notice of delinquency to former New York state Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver demanding more information about his outside income.

LOCKPORT, N.Y. — Since the sentencings of two former legislative leaders, there's been plenty of talk about ethics reform, but so far, little action.

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.

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.

There's been little public talk by Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie or Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan during the legislative session, about passing tough new ethics laws, and no reforms have been approved by the Legislature.

Cuomo spokesman Richard Azzopardi called the Schimminger legislation «another smokescreen,» saying he'd push changes that would affect lawmakers if he were serious about ethics reforms — like having the state freedom of information law cover the Legislature, banning pork - barrel spending known as «member items,» imposing term limits and eliminating legislative stipends.

Legislative leaders and Gov. David Paterson have spoken about the need to reform the ethics structure, but agreement on what that should be has been elusive.

Horner, legislative director of the New York Public Interest Research Group, said he was glad to see rank - and - file members of both chambers talking about ethics, in contrast to what he called «the cricket sounds that we've hearing over the past few weeks when it comes to ethics — no RV driving around the state, no town meetings about ethics.»

Flanagan refused to answer questions about what ethics reforms he might support this session, continuing what has been a deafening silence from legislative leaders on ethics reform for the last month.