Sentences with phrase «ethics package»

The governor's now pushing a host of remedies, including a new legislative ethics package.

«It's clear to me that they don't intend to pass a robust ethics package in the budget,» Mr. Cuomo said this month, lowering expectations that he himself had raised.

The commission was formed by governor Cuomo in light of the recent spate of public official scandals and in the wake of a failure to negotiate a public ethics package with the legislature.

The new contract comes as the commission is bogged down by reports of gubernatorial interference and a sense that it could simply become cover for a negotiated ethics package.

Passage of a real ethics package will lend much - needed transparency and accountability to our state government, helping restore New Yorkers» trust and allowing us all to better tackle the dire challenges facing our state.»

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«So, I'm very confident we'll all get there and have a strong ethics package and an on - time budget.

A constitutional amendment to make that change retroactive for all lawmakers and high - ranking public officials was part of a five - point ethics package introduced by Gov. Andrew Cuomo after Silver's arrest last January.

-- Attorney General Eric Schneiderman has his own ethics package.

Under the new ethics package championed by Gov. Andrew Cuomo at the end of the legislative session this past year, that kind of transfer has now become illegal.

Klein and Cuomo had sought public finance and other reforms, as part of a budget deal, but in the end settled for a more limited ethics package that would strengthen the regulation of campaign violations and enact stiffer anti bribery laws.

Democratic Senate Minority Leader Andrea Stewart - Cousins supports closing the loophole, and her conference has put forward an extensive ethics package that includes it.

Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie also recommitted to closing the loophole in his opening remarks for the 2016 session, and the Assembly passed it once again as part of a broad ethics package, this time nearly unanimously.

It's the third standard Cuomo has set this year for an end - of - session ethics package, and with just one week before the state Legislature leaves Albany, he's hoping it's one that can be cleared with minimal fuss and maximum bragging rights.

The Florida Constitution Revision Commission advanced a sweeping ethics package, which includes a proposed six - year lobbying ban for former state lawmakers, agency heads and local government officials.

«The Independent Democratic Conference has put forth a serious ethics package to ban outside income and reform the per diem system,» said IDC spokeswoman Candice Giove.

Not discussed in the meeting was any potential for a new ethics package following the arrest of Skelos on charges that he used his official power to help his adult son's business interests.

During a speech at New York University, Governor Andrew Cuomo reiterated the government ethics package he outlined in his State of the State address, but then said he would not sign a state budget that fails to include it.

The town board on Tuesday voted down 11 amendments to Santino's ethics package suggested by Blakeman and King Sweeney, including an anti-fraternization policy, a requirement to post bids online and creating an inspector general position.

Had he used his bully pulpit in the months of April and May, he may have been able to galvanize public support for a comprehensive ethics package.

As part of what is increasingly the M.O. of Albany, a weak ethics package was trotted out to provide the necessary «optics» of reform so that the governor and state lawmakers could run for re-election touting their successes in cleaning up Albany.

Cuomo campaigned on the pledges that he would seek a tougher ethics package for elected officials in Albany, pass a property tax cap and pass marriage equality.

Although Cuomo also delivered a highly - touted ethics package that year, advocates insist that major issues were ignored because Skelos and Senate Republicans refused to cede any ground on campaign finance reform as they believed the current system was essential to keeping them in the majority.

As a result, the 2010 ethics package undid the ethics commission created under Spitzer, breaking it up into three distinct agencies - legislative, executive, and lobbying.

Public disclosure of electeds» outside income wasn't enacted until Cuomo's first ethics package in 2011.

A number of high - level Republican strategists have been quietly urging their party's congressional leaders to pass a «real ethics package» (in the words of one advocate) to counteract the potential negative political effects of the ongoing scandal surrounding disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff, whose name is once again dominating the news after he agreed to a plea deal earlier today.

Cuomo has said he would hold out for a strong ethics package, even if it meant the passage of a late budget, which would be his first during his time as governor.

Republican candidate for governor Rob Astorino on Monday unveiled a 10 - point ethics package, his first major policy push since announcing his campaign.

A New York State Senator from the Hudson Valley says a legislative ethics package unveiled this week by the Senate Democratic Conference includes one of his bills.

Attorney General Eric Schneiderman has his own ethics package.

Much of the work by the Moreland Commission is ongoing, the report says, but it hopes its recommendations will fuel discussions between the governor and top legislators over a new ethics package that has been under discussion by Cuomo and top lawmakers for months.

``... What is important right now is continuing to restore the confidence of the public and how we do that is we make sure the ethics package that the governor's putting forward comes out and we support it and move forward so that things like this don't happen.»

The Daily News reported today that Silver and the governor have agreed to an ethics package could give the Public Integrity Commission, which oversees the executive branch, the power to investigate the Legislature as well.

Deputy Senate Majority Leader Tom Libous said the Republican conference would take up an ethics package later this session, but he said it's unclear what the final bill would look like.

A breakaway group of five state Senate Democrats who have been aligned with the Republicans are set to reintroduce an ethics package that would ban state public officials from receiving any outside income following Silver's corruption conviction.

Updated X2: Senate Democratic spokesman Austin Shafran says, «We passed ethics reform last year that contained many similar components to this year's ethics package.

As the Governor has said, he will not enact a budget that doesn't include an ethics package with real disclosure of legislator's outside income, and he meant it.»

Since then, four ethics packages have been approved in Albany, but the high - profile corruption arrests continue.

Hempstead Town Councilwoman Erin King Sweeney said she intends to sue Hempstead Supervisor Anthony Santino to challenge an income cap contained in an ethics package the town board passed last week.

Gibson in Binghamton on Thursday praised the Assembly Republicans for their ethics package, which has included stripping those convicted of corruption of their pensions, as well as term limits.

Negotiations about some ethics package that could be praised as acceptable by all sides and relegate the Moreland Commission to irrelevance apparently stalled before the latest political conflict erupted.

Onondaga County Comptroller Bob Antonacci believes that his lawsuit over pay raises sparked these ethics packages.

There are reasons to doubt the claims that this ethics package will make sweeping changes.

On the other hand, the Senate Republican majority doesn't have an ethics package.

The ethics package proposal was the cause of some tension between Astorino and Senate GOP Leader Dean Skelos, which may be patched up now that Cuomo backs a full Democratic takeover of the state Senate.

Assembly Democrats last week announce they were in support of an ethics package agreed to by Cuomo that would create new disclosure requirements for lawmakers with legal clients and campaign finance while also change the travel reimbursement structure.