Sentences with phrase «ethics measures»

Several government watchdog groups responded to the arrest by calling for passage of new ethics measures.

In fact, for the rest of the legislative session, the governor and the legislative leaders ignored the growing chorus calling for new ethics measures.

Cuomo did include a package of ethics measures in the budget, reiterating proposals such as limits to outside income for lawmakers and term limits through constitutional amendments.

Cuomo insisted on Wednesday the blow up over the budget had nothing to do with a scuttled pay raise, denied to lawmakers in December after they failed to coalesce around a package of ethics measures in a special session that never materialized.

Mr. Skelos's arrest comes five weeks after Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo and legislative leaders agreed on ethics measures as part of the state budget.

Cuomo created the Moreland panel last July after the Legislature refused to pass ethics measures amid a string of indictments and convictions of lawmakers.

Now, with Percoco under the microscope, lawmakers may call for ethics measures that impact the executive branch — a maneuver we've seen before from Senate Republicans.

Senate Democrats back plans to raise the age of criminal responsibility to 18, want to see a package of ethics measures approved, and restore funding for elementary and secondary schools.

The ruling comes after a 2011 ethics measure required organizations that lobby in New York to disclose their top donors.

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.

Updated: Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan released a statement largely along the same lines, adding that he is interested in passing undefined ethics measures.

Cuomo had threatened to hold up the budget process in order to achieve ethics measures in the spending plan.

Majority Republicans and Democrats in the state Senate and Assembly are yet to introduced Gov. Andrew Cuomo's 30 - day budget amendments that tie ethics measures to appropriations.

She said the Legislature had so far shown «obstinacy» in failing to pass such ethics measures.

Two veteran Assembly members and an official from the governor's office said they expect a deal will be struck on the popular ethics measure this legislative election year after an unprecedented string of corruption convictions within the last 12 months.

Kaminsky is aware that it would be easy for him to get used as political cover, a seal of approval for modest ethics measures.

At the same time, most voters — 50 percent to 38 percent — are skeptical that lawmakers and Cuomo will do anything to improve ethics measures in Albany.

Touted as the key ethics measure approved at the end of the legislative session in June, the bill has been opposed by good - government organizations for failing to address the root causes of corruption in state government and placing an overdue burden on non-profit entities.

Still, lawmakers expect ethics measures to take center stage after the budget negotiations and the spending plan is approved in March.

Last week, Cuomo said he was disappointed neither chamber proposed ethics measures in their counterproposals to his executive budget.

The Democratic - led Assembly introduced Cuomo's budget amendments containing the governor's ethics measures aimed at the legislature, state officials confirmed Sunday.

Blair Horner of the New York Public Interest Research Group said it will be up to Gov. Cuomo to push tougher ethics measures through the Legislature this year.

But that is what happened and the new leaders had to at least tip their hats to the need for additional ethics measures.

He spoke about ethics measures (critics call them half - measures) taken by the Legislature and Gov. Andrew Cuomo in recent years.

«A state ethics measure will help the legislature get out from under a cloud of scandal.»

Cuomo, who had included new ethics measures as part of his 2016 - 17 budget proposal, signaled Tuesday that the matter will likely be dealt with separately after the adoption of a new budget later this month.

The Syracuse Republican said that if Gov. Andrew Cuomo's push to create new ethics measures as well as reform education threaten to hold up a budget deal, both should be removed and dealt with separately.

ALBANY — Gov. Cuomo wants state lawmakers to adopt stronger ethics measures but he's willing to give them until June to do it.

The move is most likely an attempt to prod Skelos on passing some sort of ethics measure.

In the statement, Democratic Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie and Republican Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan knocked Gov. Andrew Cuomo's appointees on the commission for calling for ethics measures be linked to the first pay hike in 18 years.

Cuomo has vowed to introduce new ethics measures in his State of the Address next week.

Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, D - Manhattan, has said an agreement between his chamber and Gov. Andrew Cuomo's office on an ethics measure has been made, but Cuomo's office said nothing has been finalized.

With ethics back in the headlines due to the pending sentencing for Skelos as well as former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, lawmakers may want to pass an ethics measure in some form before running for re-election later this year.

Less than a year later, the panel was shuttered following an agreement in the state budget for new ethics measures, such as an independent enforcement counsel at the state Board of Elections.

Later on, Cuomo further suggested a pay hike would be linked to new ethics measures, perhaps in a special session that includes capping the amount of money lawmakers can earn outside of government.

The budget that passed did contain new ethics measures, which at least to some extent, requires more disclosures of outside income by lawmakers.

ALBANY — Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo signed into law yesterday an ethics measure that he said would reduce the influence of big campaign donors.

Cuomo and Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan in statements both signaled, vaguely, for support of new ethics measures in the wake of the Percoco verdict.

Cuomo and Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie took the unusual step of calling their ethics measure a «deal,» even though they need the State Senate to agree to the plan in order for it to become law.

Cuomo and Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie took the unusual step of calling their ethics measure a deal, even though they need the Senate to agree to the plan in order for it to become law.

The budget contained no new ethics measures.

Cuomo had sought a range of ethics measures and campaign finance reforms at the start of the year, and recent weeks had been narrowed to a several proposals, including a push to prevent coordination between campaigns and independent expenditure committees formed in the wake of the Citizens United decision.

A package of ethics measures has been approved in the Legislature virtually every year Cuomo has been in office.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo in his January State of the State and budget address introduced a package of ethics measures, but has largely focused in recent weeks on increasing the state's minimum wage to $ 15 and creating a 12 - week paid family leave program.

Cuomo inserted those ethics measures into his 30 - day budget amendments, which neither chamber has introduced at this point.

Cuomo's office maintains that the ethics measures the governor is pushing apply to the executive branch of government as well.

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.