Sentences with phrase «ethical reform»

Over the past four years we were extraordinarily aggressive on ethical reform and there is no doubt our current system is the most restrictive and most regulated in our history.

The Skeloses» verdict prompted immediate calls this afternoon from prosecutors and Albany watchdogs for state leaders to adopt meaningful ethical reforms in Albany.

Ethical reform when it comes to the hiring practices at state agencies — how many favors have been done where Cuomo donors end up with jobs?

Doctrinal as well as ethical reforms are thus best undergirded by historic Christian orthodoxy.

«It's now clearer than ever that term limits are the most important ethical reform we need,» Moss said.

Kaminsky said his election would be a «mandate» that could spur the Senate to pass ethical reforms, including a ban on outside income.

But there's no doubt that we have put in place more ethical reforms than ever before.»

Cuomo is also seeking public financing of political campaigns, and other ethical reforms, a bill to put into state law the abortion rights protections spelled out in the Supreme Court's Roe v Wade decision.

«We have been doing ethical reforms for four years and there has been a constant series of ethical advancements,» Cuomo said.

This article discusses the failure of lawmakers to implement ethical reforms that would prevent bid - rigging scandals in economic development contracts.

It's also a worthwhile exercise to measure various proposed ethical reforms with what we've just seen transpire in two trials.

It also did something else: «After a 40 - month, comprehensive and thorough investigation, including scrutiny of campaign finance filings of Cuomo and other statewide officials, a unanimous panel concluded in 1990 that New York's campaign finance laws were a «disgrace and embarrassment» and the state had «not yet demonstrated a real commitment to ethical reform in government.»»

Ethical reform.

But public financing of elections, a system designed to take the big money out of politics, would be «key» to any ethical reforms of state government, he said Wednesday at a daylong symposium on ethics and government at Albany Law School.

Jindal's brand new in Louisiana and came in riding the ethical reform horse when the press shellacked him for wanting to pay his Economic Development Secretary $ 320K and his deputy $ 280K.

«We have been very aggressive in the area of ethical reforms but we still need to do more.

In a news conference this month, he asked New Yorkers to look at how far Albany has come: «We are already at the point where we have done more than ever before in terms of ethical reforms.»

And I'm saying this ethical reform is literally the most dramatic and aggressive in the country.