Sentences with phrase «additional ethics reforms»

«Ultimately, if he's serious on this front, the governor will need to prove it by making additional ethics reforms a priority this year,» the editorial concluded.

The governor reportedly now believes that a GOP - controlled Senate is no longer a handy foil, but rather an impediment to achieving aspects of his progressive agenda — particularly additional ethics reforms, which have taken on new urgency thanks to U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara's most recent public corruption case that reaches into Cuomo's own inner circle.

Also at 11 a.m., Assembly Minority Leader Brian Kolb and members of his conference push for changes to procedures for awarding state contracts and additional ethics reform measures, back of Assembly chamber, 3rd Floor, state Capitol, Albany.

State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, whose office had a hand in the investigation that led to the conviction yesterday of now former Sen. Tim Libous, called the Binghamton Republican's political demise «sad,» and said it should reignite calls for additional ethics reform in Albany.

Despite the arrest of the leaders of both houses of the legislature on corruption charges, Gov. Andrew Cuomo and state lawmakers say they have no plans to pass any additional ethics reforms this session.

But this year, too, Cuomo promised that additional ethics reforms were at the «top» after the convictions of Sheldon Silver and Dean Skelos, the former leaders of the Assembly and Senate, respectively.

Despite the arrest of the leaders of both houses of the legislature on corruption charges, Governor Andrew Cuomo and New York state lawmakers said they have no plans to pass any additional ethics reforms this session.

But legislative leaders say despite the on going corruption scandals, they have no plans to address any additional ethics reforms.