Not exact matches
; (2) family
ethics (what kind and
measure of subordination, if any, of wives to husbands is biblically
required?)
Also at 11 a.m., the City of Mount Vernon Department of Law Corporation Counsel Lawrence R. Porcari will hold a press conference to announce new anti-corruption and public
ethics measures, which include full funding of an independent Inspector General as
required by Mount Vernon charter, City Hall, 1 Roosevelt Square, Mount Vernon.
But this year, lawmakers are also trying to push Cuomo to accept some
ethics laws regulating his office, including a
measure that is designed to
require those who serve on the governor's regional economic development councils to disclose * their * outside income.
The package would
require public disclosure of every legislator's outside clients and income, establish an
ethics commission with robust investigative powers over both the legislative and executive branches — and institute other
measures to introduce badly needed transparency and accountability into our state government.
The budget that passed did contain new
ethics measures, which at least to some extent,
requires more disclosures of outside income by lawmakers.
Now, as governor, Cuomo is trying to pass an
ethics overhaul
measure that may
require legislators to reveal more details about their outside income and clients who do business with the state.
Cuomo's
ethics measures — aimed at the Legislature, but would also apply to all state employees in the executive branch — would
require the reporting of private business clients.
The Legislature in 2011 adopted an
ethics overhaul
measure that
required greater disclosure of sources of outside income for state elected officials, as well as the creation of the latest lobbying regulator, the Joint Commission on Public
Ethics.
Mr. Cuomo met with Republican senators on Tuesday to discuss his proposal for new
ethics laws, particularly a
measure requiring legislators who work part time as lawyers to reveal more of their clients, which has prompted concerns among the Republicans.
In anticipation of this week's special election in Harlem, the IDC released a video, calling on all 32 Democrats — the number
required to pass legislation — to join them in declaring their support for progressive
measures like
ethics and voting reform, codifying a woman's right to choose, and more.
The Comptroller's report included a lengthy chart showing the legislature's inaction on
ethics reform, criticizing the fact that, among other things, the budget «intentionally omits»
measures such as
requiring advisory opinions on legislators» outside income, closing the LLC loophole in corporate political contributions, and extending the Freedom of Information Law (FOIL) to cover the Legislature.
A strong ethical case can be made that if nations have duties to limit their ghg emissions to their fair share of safe global emissions, a conclusion that follows both as a matter of
ethics and justice and several international legal principles including, among others, the «no harm principle,» and promises nations made in the 1992 UNFCCC to adopt policies and
measures required to prevent dangerous anthropocentric interference with the climate system in accordance with equity and common but differentiated responsibilities, nations have a duty to clearly explain how their national ghg emissions reductions commitments arguably satisfy their ethical obligations to limit their ghg emissions to the nation's fair share of safe global emissions.