Sentences with phrase «amendment for public financing»

Senator Gustavo Rivera (D - Bronx) introduced an amendment for public financing of elections to a bill authorizing lever machines for run - off elections.

Not exact matches

Podesta is for abortion, on demand, and its public financing (his candidate advocates disposing of the Hyde Amendment).

The event has drawn the ire of campaign finance reform advocates, who have dubbed Grisanti an «enemy of reform» (props to the late Ed Koch are necessary here) for refusing to break with his fellow Republicans in their collective «no» vote on the hostile amendment offered by the Democrats that would have created a public campaign finance system.

Watchdogs said the constitutional amendment would be a poor substitute for a full - fledged public - financing mechanism.

The mailer in the Nassau County Senate district touts Cronin's proposals, including term limits for state lawmakers, campaign finance reform measures such as closing the LLC loophole, boosting penalties for corruption and support for stripping public officials of their pensions if they are convicted of corruption — the latter of which is now up for second passage in the Legislature next year as a constitutional amendment.

Speculation in Albany is also centering on whether Cuomo may push an amendment to the Constitution that would create a public financing system, a measure that may be easier for Republicans in the Senate to swallow.

Assembly Democrats on Friday evening released a package of ethics and campaign finance reform measures including limits to outside income, while holding out for negotiations for a constitutional amendment for pension forfeiture by public officials convicted of corruption.

[Hawkins] said Cuomo should «be calling for full public campaign financings and an amendment to the U.S. constitution to permit effective public regulation of election financing.»

Packaging public financing as a constitutional amendment could make those proposals more palatable to resistant legislators, in part because an amendement would face several additional hurdles to becoming law and could not take effect for at least five years.

The Governor should be calling call for full public campaign financing and an Amendment to the U.S. Constitution to permit effective public regulation of election financing.

Democratic Sen. Mike Gianaris of Queens stopped by Capital Tonight on Monday to tout his conference's ethics proposal that includes public financing of political campaigns, restrictions on using campaign dollars for criminal defense and stripping those convicted of public corruption of their pensions through a constitutional amendment.

Although Hughes, the veteran Lib Dem MP for Bermondsey and Old Southwark, said he supported harsh budget measures to help deal with Britain's weak public finances, he indicated that he was prepared to table rebel amendments to promote fairness.

In the wake of the Watergate scandal, Kennedy pushed campaign finance reform; he was a leading force behind passage of the Federal Election Campaign Act Amendments of 1974, which set contribution limits and established public financing for presidential elections.

The governor announced that he would seek an array of good government reforms from the State Legislature, a number of them familiar: preventing donors from circumventing contribution caps through the creation of shell limited liability corporations; enhancing personal financial disclosures; creating a public financing system; and instating constitutional amendments to establish term limits for Albany lawmakers (though not Cuomo and the current class of legislators), extend the legislative session from six months to year - round and ban outside income.

The purpose of Amendment 23 was to begin to reverse a trend of more than ten years of declining real funding of Colorado public education by gradually restoring education funding to the equivalent of 1988 levels, as adjusted for inflation, by 2010 - 11, and to prevent further erosion of education finance from the effects of TABOR and the Gallagher Amendment.

Description: Omnibus agriculture policy and finance bill featuring a hemp amendment providing framework for the state's Department of Agriculture to develop a pilot program allowing participation from the state's higher - education academic institutions as well as public and private growers.

Public finance partners Julie Seymour (Chicago), Liz Columbo (New York) and Dan Deaton (Los Angeles) published a contributed article on the SEC's proposed amendment to Exchange Act Rule 15c2 - 12 and what it could mean for market participants.