Sentences with phrase «ethics bill»

Any responsible ethics bill has to require full disclosure.

If the legislators were serious about reform (which they are not), they could simply pass ethics bills in each house outside the budget process and present it to Cuomo for signature.

And, legislators and good government advocates say there may be no one more familiar with the challenges associated with moving ethics reform through the legislature, as Schneiderman was a prodigious and prominent sponsor of ethics bills during his time representing Manhattan in the state Senate.

Asked how she could get her new ethics bill passed by a Republican Congress, Slaughter said: «Only if»60 Minutes» takes it up — and we've talked to them about it.»

Democratic Sen. Daniel Squadron of Manhattan said the Democratic minority called the session because the Republican majority has so far refused to grant them a public hearing on ethics bills.

To prepare a detailed analysis of a recently passed, 100 + page government ethics bill for my boss, who surely already knew it in detail already but who wanted to make sure that I did, too.

He's also threatened to enact a Moreland Commission to investigate the Legislature if he doesn't have a yet - to - be introduced and written ethics bill approved.

A debate over a massive education, labor and ethics bill lasted for more than six hours in the chamber on Tuesday and Assembly Republicans called a conference on a capital projects spending bill at 10 minutes to midnight.

We need a strong ethics bill that will do more than it has in the past.»

Interestingly, Paladino is on the same page here with the NY Times editorial board, which also called recently for Cuomo to introduce an omnibus ethics bill sometime during his first week in office.

«New Yorkers have seen what happens when ethics bills are hammered out in the dark,» said Blair Horner, NYPIRG Executive Director.

ALBANY, N.Y. — One day after signing his fourth ethics bill into law since taking office as governor, Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Thursday there's still more work that's needed to be done.

Rebekah Mercer, daughter of Long Island billionaire Robert Mercer, chairs the board of Reclaim New York, which had reviewed a controversial ethics bill proposed by Santino, finding some good things but also pointing out flaws — primarily Santino's proposed cap on town board members» outside income.

In the past, the Assembly Democratic conference has been reluctant to support ethics bills that forced attorneys to reveal their client lists — something Governor Cuomo is calling for.

Thomson Reuters News & Insights quoted Ron Minkoff in a T article on legal loopholes that exist within the pending «Clean Up Albany Act of 2011» ethics bill aimed at state legislators.

The marathon 20 hours of wheeling and dealing behind closed doors produced votes to approve a last - minute ethics bill, a mandate to test school drinking water supplies for lead, money for SUNY and CUNY, more money and operating flexibility for charter schools, $ 570 million for «supportive housing» for the homeless, and continued state control of the New York Racing Association until October 2017.

Cuomo did not release the new ethics bill until shortly before 2 a.m..

«They haven't introduced a proposal for ethics reform,» Gianaris said (Republicans have introduced ethics bills, including one seemingly aimed at having the governor's girlfriend, Sandra Lee of the Food Network, release her financial information.

Of course, winning passage of a congressional ethics bill seemingly aimed at a Republican in a Republican Congress won't be much easier than controlling the weather.

Cuomo, whose staff has been holding secret talks with aides to legislative leaders on the proposal, will turn up the heat by introducing his own ethics bill in the Legislature, which would force lawmakers to say if they support it or not.

In June, the governor and legislative leaders reached agreement on an omnibus ethics bill which created a new commission, jointly controlled by the governor and legislative leaders, with expanded powers to look into legislators» activities.

ALBANY — An increasingly frustrated Gov. Cuomo plans to step up pressure on the scandal - scarred Legislature to pass a tough ethics bill if an agreement isn't reached within two weeks, a Cuomo administration source told The Post yesterday.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo signed that measure, widely considered to be the chief ethics bill this year, into law earlier this month.

The Senate and Assembly draft their own small - bore ethics bills bound for nowhere, and everyone hopes the issue slides into oblivion.

After all, it worked for him with the highly imperfect ethics bill he passed in June.

In roughly 10 minute address, Duffy reminded the crowd that Cuomo is beginning a statewide tour drumming up support for gay marriage, along with a legislative ethics bill and a property tax cap.

Deputy Senate Majority Leader John DeFrancisco on Thursday in a radio interview decried what he sees as «out of control» disclosure laws after Gov. Andrew Cuomo signed the latest ethics bill into law.

The governor himself does not have the same leverage he did on the budget or on a potential ethics bill, where he has suggested he would use a Moreland Commission to investigate legislators if a reform bill doesn't pass.

But with the new ethics bill (apparently about to be signed into law by Gov. Andrew Cuomo) requiring new disclosure of outside income, that's looking like a less attractive option for some senators and assembly members.

«The ethics bill is a major step forward,» Cuomo said.

That ethics bill I analyzed was designed to stop such exciting habits as the handing out of campaign contribution checks on the Senate floor during a vote, but it also reaffirmed a long - standing ban on direct corporate and union money in Texas politics.

Cuomo approved what was widely considered to be the ethics bill of the legislative session, a measure designed to address the Citizens United era of super PAC political spending, as well new requirements for lobbyists and consultants.

And Cuomo has threatened to use a Moreland Commission in order to get an ethics bill.

That's the reaction from good - government advocates today after Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, D - Manhattan, told The Daily News that an ethics bill had been agreed to with Gov. Andrew Cuomo, but Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos was holding out.

But I am convinced there will be an ethics bill, a strong ethics bill and we should do it.»

David Paterson vetoed the ethics bill approved by the Legislature when the Democrats held a Senate majority on the grounds it was not strong enough.

It's unclear what would be included in the ethics bill since all of the talk on the measure has been conducted behind closed doors.

Cuomo has been negotiating behind closed doors with legislative leaders over an ethics bill for weeks now (much to the chargin of the NY Times editorial page, which called over the weekend for these talks to go public).

Canestrari also said he expects a «strong» ethics bill to pass this year, making the governor's threat to create a Moreland Commission to investigate the Legislature unnecessary.

«I have said all along that our conference under Sen. Skelos, we believe in passing the ethics bill, we believe in doing some very strict ethics reform.

«If the Legislature doesn't come out with an ethics bill, I think this governor, because he had the experience as an attorney general, I think he would very willing to use it.»

Senate Democrats disagree, pointing to a Siena College poll earlier this week that showed broad support for an ethics bill.

An ethics bill signed this past summer puts ethics investigations for both the legislative and executive branches in the hands of the Joint Commission on Public Ethics.

Without his skillful use of the bully pulpit and sage tactics at the negotiating table, traditional Albany dysfunction probably would have dealt this ethics bill a mortal wound months ago.

The outside income issue came up during a 2010 show, recorded during negotiations over an ethics bill with then - Governor David Paterson.

An ethics bill New York Governor Andrew Cuomo says will increase accountability and transparency was signed into law Wednesday.

The ethics bill was the latest attempt by Cuomo and legislators to respond to the wave of investigations, arrests and convictions that have tainted state government for nearly a decade, starting with the arrest of former state Comptroller Alan Hevesi in a probe that revealed state pension fund bribes and kickbacks.

«We have an ethics crisis here in Albany, we have an ethics crisis in the Legislature,» Senator Dan Squadron (D - Manhattan) said during the debate on the ethics bill.

Republican Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos earlier in the day said he expected an ethics bill to be introduced as early as this evening.