Sentences with phrase «ethics agreement says»

A provision of Tillerson's ethics agreement says that he must give up any undistributed assets in the trust if he becomes employed by or provides services to «a company in the oil and gas industry or the oil and gas services industry.»

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Mnuchin signed an ethics agreement in January saying that he would divest dozens of assets, most within 90 days of being confirmed by the Senate.

Thus it must be said that the relevant political ethic for the diplomatist requires, to begin with, an awareness that the texture of interstate relations is comprised of multiple national interests, with their military, political, economic, and moral components, which clash in conflict or are resolved in consensus and agreement.

Cuomo is pushing a package of ethics reform proposals including public financing of political campaigns and strengthened disclosure of outside income for elected officials — measure he says must be in the final state budget agreement.

Closed - door negotiations over the ethics reform bill have been dragging on for weeks now, despite the fact that Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver has said repeatedly that his house has an agreement with the governor.

On ethics reform, Republican Sen. John DeFrancisco says the leaders and the governor are close to an agreement on disclosure of clients and outside income.

Cuomo has said he would hold up an agreement on the state budget if lawmakers fail to compromise on new ethics legislation in the spending plan.

Silver said in the interview that the criticism of the Assembly is unfair because he continues to be «in virtual agreement» with Cuomo on ethics reform, which will likely be include the requirement that lawmakers reveal the sources of their outside income.

But 77 percent of voters upstate polled said they agreed with critics of the state budget agreement that the ethics package did not go far enough.

Mahoney says the governor scored with an ethics agreement in 2011, but struck out this year when it came to redistricting, agreeing to a plan that permitted gerrymandered districts.

The governor says he always intended for the commission to end once he achieved an agreement on an ethics package.

«[T] he ethics agreement signals that we've taken another step in restoring the public's trust in their government,» then Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos said at the time.

«Having said that, the confidentiality agreement came out of mediation, and it should not have been agreed to, and that's the No. 1 mistake we made; and No. 2 was not sending it to the ethics commission,» he said.

On ethics, the GOP conference said in a release that it would support new disclosure requirements for outside income, but did not provide details on what Republican lawmakers would back in a final budget agreement.

Cuomo, who has said ethics changes are a top priority as he negotiates a budget, said the agreement matches the five principles he sketched out after the arrest and ouster of former Assembly speaker Sheldon Silver.

«As New York continues to fail to pass significant ethics reform at the state level, I am pleased the Erie County Legislature came together to reach an agreement on creating more transparency in government,» said Legislator Lorigo.

«While talks continue on a few outstanding issues, Senator Skelos is working extremely hard to forge an agreement with the governor and the Assembly on historic ethics reforms,» Skelos spokesman Scott Reif said.

South Dakota Sen. John Thune, the third - ranking Senate Republican, said some nominations may have been bottlenecked at the Office of Government Ethics, which helps hash out ethics agreements for government appointees.

ALBANY — With a budget deadline two weeks away, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo said on Tuesday that he had come to an agreement on new ethics policies with the State Assembly, which his fellow Democrats control, though a deal with the Republicans who lead the State Senate was not secure.

With former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver and former Senate leader Dean Skelos scheduled to be sentenced next month for public corruption crimes, and a recent poll showing that nearly 90 percent of New Yorkers believe unethical behavior is a serious problem in state government, Albany's political leaders have an obligation to reach a significant agreement on ethics reform, the good government groups said.

Suffolk County Comptroller Joseph Sawicki, who once served as the ranking Republican on the State Assembly ethics committee and whose office reviews county contracts, said: «It appears to me that he's taken pains to hide these agreements and to avoid publicly disclosing what every other county official has to - as they should.»

«The problem with Brenda Fitzgerald is like many in the Trump administration, she was very negligent at submitting her personal financial disclosure to the Office of Government Ethics and finally worked out an ethics agreement with OGE very late in her term,» Holman said.

In his ethics agreement with the Treasury Department, Tarbert said he would withdraw from the partnership of A&O upon his confirmation.

Claude Ducloux, an Austin lawyer who represents attorneys in the State Bar of Texas grievance process and is knowledgeable about legal ethics but who is not involved in the case, says the Supreme Court's ruling assures lawyers that when they have an unambiguous agreement with a client, that agreement is going to be valid and the client can not inject testimony into the case that the agreement says something else.