Sentences with phrase «ethics reform agenda»

For the second year in a row, in his January State of the State, Governor Andrew Cuomo laid out an ambitious ethics reform agenda that touched on a variety of issues and aimed at restoring public trust in New York State's scandal - plagued government.

Cuomo's wide - ranging, 10 - point ethics reform agenda advocates for a public campaign financing system, early voting, and several additional measures that reform - minded advocates and legislators have been calling for, as well as others of his own.

Cuomo said that he'd be rolling out additional efforts to boost his ethics reform agenda in the final days of the session, including limits on lawmakers» outside income and proposed term limits.

On Wednesday, with only four days remaining of this year's legislative session, Cuomo announced a new prong to his ethics reform agenda: an ambitious plan to better regulate the activities of political action committees and limit the impact of shadowy independent expenditures that he says are all too often not actually independent from the candidate they are supporting.

Much of Curran's ethics reform agenda, including the appointment of an inspector general to oversee county contracting, would require legislative approval.

Governor Andrew M. Cuomo today outlined his ethics reform agenda for the 2015 legislative session at the NYU School of Law in New York City.

DOWNTOWN — Governor - elect Andrew Cuomo and his successor as attorney general Eric Schneiderman are planning a comprehensive ethics reform agenda that will likely include an independent ethics watchdog and an independent prosecutor, Cuomo said after the pair's first official meeting Friday.

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The Senate Democrats are again trying to use a 2009 chamber rule change to their advantage in hopes of forcing a public hearing on their reform agenda, which is contained in five ethics and campaign finance - related bills.

• Transforming the ethical environment in Government: Governor Cuomo's «Clean Up Albany» agenda would institute campaign finance reforms including a system of public financing for elections, limits on contribution levels, creating an independent redistricting commission, creating independent monitoring and enforcement of ethics laws, and requiring full disclosure of outside income and clients.

released on Wednesday, Cuomo outlined an ethics and voting reform agenda nearly identical to last year's, with the addition of an election cyber security and reporting requirement for online political advertising.

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.

She says her administration will be representative of the entire county, not just the Democratic Party, as she embarks on an agenda centered on ethics and contracting reform.

While the governor piled 13 ethics and voting reform initiatives into last year's State of the State Book, not one became a reality, at least as not as envisioned, and many subsequently re-appeared on this year's agenda in an updated list of 14.

In the State of the State policy book released on Wednesday, Cuomo outlined an ethics and voting reform agenda nearly identical to last year's, with the addition of an election cyber security and reporting requirement for online political advertising.

Cuomo clearly enjoyed reliving his big gay marriage victory of two years ago — especially on the heels of a not - so - successful (despite his vehement claims to the contrary) end of session, in which he sustained losses on a number of key agenda items, including the Women's Equality Act, and campaign finance and ethics reform.

«This race will be a choice between a community advocate who stands for ethics reform in government, supporting small businesses and middle class workers, and equality for all people, or a out of touch 1 % er who represents big business, back door politics as usual, and the conservative agenda,» Small said.

Hammond slammed Cuomo for failing to put forth an agenda for the second four - year term he's seeking, noting that in 2010, candidate Cuomo released seven book - length white papers addressing everything from ethics reform to energy policy.

After outlining his government ethics and campaign finance reform agenda is his January State of the State address, Cuomo has now held one public event dedicated to reform in the last five months.

The governor, who spoke at an unrelated event at JFK airport to announce renovation plans, did not mention any ethics reforms as part of a session agenda.

Cuomo demanded the Legislature pass the major pillars of his agenda: legalization of same - sex marriage, ethics reform and a property tax cap.

Saladino challenged Democratic supervisor candidate Marc Herman and others as they outlined their agenda for ethics reform.

And de Blasio is doing so as Cuomo finds himself prodded by other liberal Democrats, too: Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, who once responded with timidity to Cuomo's efforts to undercut him, recently ridiculed Cuomo's attempts at ethics reform as «tinkering around the edges» and proposed his own ethics agenda.

«We have a very aggressive agenda on ethics reform.»

On top of that he got sucked into playing ball with Senate Leader Dean Skelos's agenda to water down ethics reform, when he failed to call Senate Leader Skelos out on his own questionable behavior in the State Senate.

A Long Island town supervisor who touted an ethics - reform agenda while in office lost his re-election bid — and on the way out gave questionable raises and transfers to nearly 200 workers.

When he's representing the governor, he should let us know what Mr. Cuomo is up to and how he intends to move his legislative agenda on ethics reform forward.»

And on Tuesday, the Democratic speaker said ethics reforms were also on the agenda, but would not say when his colleagues would take a formal position on one of Cuomo's latest proposals: restricting legislators» ability to earn outside income.

But Silver is playing his cards pretty close to the vest these days and insisting he's open to working with Cuomo on many of his agenda items — from the property tax cap to ethics reform.

Cuomo has said ethics reforms are on the «top» of his agenda, and in Rochester this week, the governor said the state should «remove the pensions of public employees who are convicted of a felony.»

He said he would have them address the minimum wage, the passable sections of the Women's Equality Agenda, the Dream Act, the Farmworkers Bill of Rights, and public campaign finance and ethics reform.

Here's hoping that the apparent rhetorical reluctance to put ethics reform at the top of the governor's legislative agenda does not reflect a lack of interest on his part to advance meaningful measures to reform Albany.

Mr. Cuomo has called ethics reform the most important issue of his second term, particularly after Mr. Silver's arrest, which occurred just a day after Mr. Cuomo laid out his agenda for the year.

«Top of my agenda is going to be ethics reform,» said Governor Andrew Cuomo, speaking on NY1 on Jan. 3.

In addition to the need for ethics reform, Hawkins will discuss Cuomo's education agenda and attacks on teachers; energy; taxes and fiscal relief for local governments; and poverty.

Other achievements for Cuomo included an on - time budget agreement, a cap on proprty taxes and an ethics reform bill — all on the governor's agenda.

In 2017, Cuomo released a 10 - point government ethics and voting reform agenda, which included early voting, automatic voter registration, same - day voter registration, and campaign finance changes such as closing the LLC loophole, which allows anonymous donors to flood candidates» campaign coffers in New York.

Trying to make his reality less gloomy than all that — and, to be fair, surely with the genuine intent of reducing misbehavior in all branches of government — Gov. Andrew Cuomo has included a package of ethics reform proposals in the agenda he laid out in a series of State of the State speeches around the state this week.

Governor Cuomo has said time and again he does not see any point in calling a special session to deal with ethics reform, though, as he has promised ethics reform will be at the top of his 2016 agenda.

driving ACC's global advocacy agenda to improve and protect corporate in - house practice rights and re-define antiquated regulatory practice limitations [including multi-jurisdictional practice (MJP) reforms, in - house attorney - client privilege protection, the development of in - house legal ethics and professionalism resources, in - house corporate responsibility initiatives, and ACC's amicus program].