Sentences with phrase «ethics proposals»

So perhaps it is no surprise that the governor has released yet another flurry of ethics proposals.

But it seems unclear if the succession of corruption trials will spur sweeping legislative action on ethics, given that the federal complaint detailing charges against Percoco and seven others gained national attention months before last year's session, where nevertheless «lawmakers failed to take up a raft of ethics proposals included in the governor's executive budget,» The New York Times reported.

Cuomo has promised to unveil a series of ethics proposals in his address, which comes just weeks after the two former leaders of the Legislature were convicted on bribery and extortion charges.

In issuing the veto, Mr. Paterson was hoping to negotiate a new ethics proposal with the Legislature.

Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo and legislative leaders agreed to several ethics proposals during the final week of the 2016 legislative session.

In early January, during his State of the State address, Cuomo cited the commission's interim report as evidence for the need to pass new ethics proposals.

A second source close to the Cuomo administration said there was concern Silver had endorsed a strong ethics proposal only because he knows Skelos will kill it.

«The Senate Democrats will continue pushing our aggressive ethics proposals including a full - time Legislature, restrictions on outside income and stripping the pensions from officials convicted of corruption.»

The Albany Times - Union's Rick Karlin and Matthew Hamilton have compiled a list of the various ethics proposals kicking around Albany.

Legislation enabling ride - hailing services like Uber and Lyft to operate outside of New York City will be included in the budget's Article VII bills, as will the government ethics proposals Cuomo announced last week and language to raise the age of criminal responsibility from 16 to 18.

He'll be unveiling a stringent new legislative ethics proposal and also discussing his opposition to any AG candidate accpeting either the labor - backed Working Families Party line or the state Independence Party line, since both as under investigation.

The GOP conference announced it backs «enhanced disclosure» and pledged, without details, to alter Cuomo's own ethics proposals, introduced following the arrest of former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver on corruption charges.

The Republican and Democratic candidates for Nassau County executive are sniping over ethics proposals.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo told the Observer today that Attorney General Eric Schneiderman is «late in the day» with the massive End New York Corruption Now Act ethics proposal he released earlier this week, given that the legislative session will end on June 17.

Young fenced with Democratic State Sen. Daniel Squadron about ethics proposals — including a cap on outside income for legislators — that the GOP did not include in its resolution.

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Wednesday presented ethics proposals that responded to the corruption charges against a former top aide and allies.

Stronger governmental ethics proposals and measures to authorize advance voting are also languishing on the agenda, but there's little sign of momentum going into the session's final days.

Meanwhile on Monday, Astorino unveiled a 10 - point ethics proposal, calling for term limits, a shorter legislative session and other changes that he says will help combat government corruption.

Michael Dawidziak, a consultant who works primarily for Republicans, said voters won't drill down too deep into the specifics of the respective ethics proposals and will largely make their selection based on which candidate they trust more.

«Our biggest concern is, number one, with the different ethics proposals that have come from the governor, that what applies to the Legislature should apply to the governor,» he said, holding up a copy of the chamber's semi-annual expenditure report.

Asked about the Assembly proposal on Tuesday, Mr. Cuomo said that he felt the limit was «too high,» and that the overall ethics proposal, which included new rules governing legislators who work as lawyers, was disappointing.

Mr. Cuomo's ethics proposals also called for greater disclosure of outside income and campaign spending, stiffer penalties and reform of per diems.

Schneiderman's ethics proposal contains pieces of Cuomo's 2013 Public Trust Act, plus knottier concepts including a ban on all outside income for lawmakers and a commensurate boost in their pay.

detailing charges against Percoco and seven others gained national attention months before last year's session, where nevertheless «lawmakers failed to take up a raft of ethics proposals included in the governor's executive budget,»

That sentiment has been echoed in recent days by Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo, a Democrat who promised as recently as Tuesday that his agenda for 2016 would include a «very aggressive ethics proposal,» despite his previous assertions that little could be done legislatively to solve venal behavior by lawmakers determined to break the law.

«All the various ethics proposals that he passed and didn't get passed?

ALBANY — Gov. Andrew Cuomo put a positive spin on the just - concluded legislative session on Wednesday, and said he will not recall lawmakers to the Capitol to tackle some government ethics proposals that went unaddressed.

«We keep getting in a situation where the people who end up getting accused are the ones negotiating down the strongest ethics proposals,» Senator Michael N. Gianaris, a Democrat from Queens, said.

Cuomo in 2010 released volumes of policy books on everything ranging from ethics proposals to ideas to help revitalize New York's agricultural sector.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo saved his ethics proposals for the last stop of his State of the State tour in Albany, where he released a 10 - point plan to address rampant corruption that has reached his own administration.

Governor Andrew Cuomo saved his ethics proposals for the last stop of his State of the State tour in Albany, where he released a 10 - point plan to address rampant corruption that has reached his own administration.

Under the banner of «Advancing the Democracy Agenda,» the governor's 14 - point plan lays out a familiar suite of reforms, including ethics proposals that «close the LLC loophole» in political spending, procurement reform that would more closely monitor how state contracts are awarded and voting reforms like same - day voter registration and early voting.

Two spring out of an ethics proposal put forth by County Executive Joanie Mahoney in June and a third targets the Mahoney administration.

Reform groups are giving Gov. Andrew Cuomo an A for effort on his ethics proposals, but they say some of them need to go further, and Cuomo needs to follow through and actually get the plans enacted into law.

Introduced last month, Cuomo's 30 - day amendments to his $ 142 billion budget proposal sought to jam state lawmakers by linking the ethics proposals to spending.

Jon Campbell from Gannett News, Rick Karlin from the Albany Times Union, Karen DeWitt of NYS Public Radio and Nick Reisman discuss the ethics proposals being floated in the wake of two corruption scandals.

But Democrats write they won't directly address Cuomo's ethics proposals, considering that the governor is stretching his budgetary powers by yoking policy to spending.

Under the governor's ethics proposal, state elected officials must disclose all outside income exceeding $ 1,000 and what they did to get it.

Cuomo's communications director Melissa DeRosa responded with the following statement: «We're happy to review any ethics proposal with the bill's sponsor, whoever that may be.»

Meanwhile, Legislature Chairman Ryan McMahon, R - Syracuse, and Legislator Tim Burtis, R - Brewerton, developed an ethics proposal that they say addresses outside income more efficiently than the idea from Mahoney and Chris Ryan.

Reform groups are giving Governor Cuomo an A for effort on his ethics proposals, but they say some of them need to go further, and Cuomo needs to follow through and actually get the plans enacted into law.

The NYT says Cuomo's ethics proposals «don't cover all that's needed to reform Albany,» but offer «a chance to claim some real progress» in cleaning up the state Capitol.

Senate Republicans released the details of their one - house budget resolution on Wednesday that includes alternatives to Gov. Andrew Cuomo's property tax as well as plans to modify his education and ethics proposals.

«The Senate supports enhanced disclosure to ensure transparency and accountability in government, and will modify the Governor's ethics proposals, as well as the education reform initiatives advanced as part of the Executive budget,» the Republican conference stated.

But the spots that have promoted timely passage of the budget and Cuomo's ethics proposal have been replacements for the Committee to Save New York, the now dormant coalition of business groups and private - sector trade unions that backed the governor's fiscal agenda in 2011 and 2012.

Fellow Democrats who oppose the acting Erie County district attorney's ethics proposals are turning the argument around him, aiming their own ethical challenges at him.

Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie says his house is working on a «serious» ethics proposal, to be released in the Assembly's one - house budget proposal, later in March.

On Tuesday in Albany, the heads of three major good government groups gave their evaluation of the ethics proposals Gov. Andrew Cuomo included in his State of the State address and budget presentation last week.

Murtha's comment to the Blue Dogs on the ethics proposal by Pelosi was the end of his campaign.

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo saved his ethics proposals for his last stop of his State of the State tour, in Albany, where he released a ten point plan to address rampant corruption that has reached his own administration.