Sentences with phrase «former legislative»

Giovaniello, a former legislative aide on Capitol Hill and a 20 - year veteran lobbyist with NAR, has been an instrumental part of the legislative success of the national association, says NAR Executive Vice President Terrence M. McDermott.

As a former Legislative Branch senior executive and bar association leader, Ellen has a keen understanding of the networking process.

She is a former Legislative Branch senior executive.

He is a former Legislative Intern in Victoria, which included an assignment with the Ministry of the Attorney General.

A leader in the legal bar, Domingo is past chairman, vice-chair and former legislative liaison for the Chicago Bar Association (CBA) Trust Law Committee.

As a former legislative staffer, I can attest that even the most straight forward pieces of legislation can be very difficult to get through the legislative cycle.

The czar — also known as former legislative staffer and elementary school teacher Gary Bennett — said the website is slated to go up next week, as are two requests for proposals.

In an article entitled, «Former House Speaker lands job at teachers» union,» The CT Mirror's Jacqueline Rabe Thomas has confirmed the rumors that, «Christopher G. Donovan, the former speaker of the state House of Representatives, has been hired by the state's largest teachers» union — the second former legislative leader to land a job at the Connecticut Education Association this winter.»

We asked former legislative council and labor lawyer Kenneth Dau - Schmitt to look over a law which limits collective bargaining rights for teachers, and he indicated there may be constitutional issues with a clause in the legislation which cuts teachers unions out of forming grievance procedures.

The former legislative staffer leads the new Office of Educational Opportunity at the University of Wisconsin System.

Karen Miller is a long time PTA volunteer, and the former legislative chair of the Austin (Texas) Council of PTAs.

Former legislative leaders John McKinney and Bill Dyson launched a bipartisan campaign Monday which they hope will fix the education funding formula in Connecticut.

Director, Coalition to Save Manned Space Exploration, & Former Legislative Director, Office of Congressman Steve Stockman

Dr. Louis Friedman, Former Executive Director, The Planetary Society Dr. Thomas Jones, Former NASA Astronaut and Former Member NASA Advisory Council Dr. Robert Zubrin, President, The Mars Society Art Harman, Director, Coalition to Save Manned Space Exploration, & Former Legislative Director, Office of Congressman Steve Stockman Jeff Foust, Moderator, Senior Staff Writer, SpaceNews, & Editor, The Space Review

Meanwhile, US Attorney Preet Bharara, who brought the charges against Cuomo's former top aide and other associates as well as the successful prosecution of the former legislative leaders, confirms, after a meeting with President - elect Donald Trump, that he will be keeping his job when the new administration takes over in January.

Mr. Partridge, Mr. Siggia and a former legislative aide, Paul Adler, were indicted in Manhattan last July on charges that they had conspired to defraud the state in the rental and renovation.

But Governor Cuomo has been needling legislators about the issue since the summer, saying lawmaker's performance «hasn't been great», pointing out that 29 legislators have been implicated in crimes, including both former legislative leaders, who are facing stiff prison sentences for corruption.

Torres said that Rivera «cares deeply about public housing,» noting that the Lower East Side has one of the highest concentrations of it and that as a former legislative director she has «deep insight into the workings of the city Council.»

ALBANY — Six former legislative staffers who have accused state lawmakers of misconduct are calling for the Legislature to postpone addressing workplace harassment until after the budget negotiation is completed.

Lawmakers had more trouble getting agreements on ethics reforms, in a year that's seen the two former legislative leaders sentenced to prison and state and federal probes of Governor Cuomo's economic development programs.

Two special elections were also held Tuesday, to fill the seats vacated by the two former legislative leaders, who were both convicted of felony corruption and had to resign.

Senate Republicans in the Elections Committee cast a vote on closing a campaign finance loophole that has played a role in recent corruption trials of the former legislative leaders, but the act could doom the measure for the 2016 session.

And, almost unbelievably, Alden Wolfe, the former legislative chairman, argued that the county does not «need» the $ 4.51 million from the sale.

Lerner, with Common Cause, says New York state should enact reforms and make changes to its laws so that the actions by the former legislative leaders are clearly prohibited.

Coleman, popular with his former legislative peers, has so far encountered no problems in the legislature's confirmation process that has included a committee hearing but also requires approval of his nomination in yet - to - be scheduled votes by the House and Senate.

Ex-Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver's secret sex life wreaked havoc on a former state official — who detailed for The Post how she and a co-worker were fired to allegedly free up jobs for his «Barbie doll» mistress and a former legislative aide.

But the proposal would not apply to two former legislative leaders and several former associates of Governor Cuomo accused of corruption.

Prosecuting attorneys said Silver exploited his position of power to illegally gain the funds, and in the days leading up to the sentencing, revealed that the former legislative leader had two affairs — one with his former communications director, now a prominent lobbyist, and a former assemblywoman, who they say gained financially from the arrangement.

Yet the policy still falls short, according to critics, including a group of former legislative staffers who say they were harassed by lawmakers.

Bharara's office is currently prosecuting two former legislative leaders — ex-Senate Leader Dean Skelos, R - Long Island, and ex-Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, D - Manhattan — on unrelated corruption charges.

Although Cuomo wasn't charged with wrongdoing, good government advocates said the case — piled on top of recent trials of former legislative leaders Dean Skelos and Sheldon Silver — painted an ugly picture of Capitol politics.

That means the two former legislative leaders, who face potential retrial for crimes they are accused of committing during the first half of this decade, would get to keep their pensions.

Lerner says while she's disheartened that yet another legislator, Senator Ortt, has been accused of corruption, she's relieved that state prosecutors under Attorney General Schneiderman are taking on investigations, now that the U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara who achieved prison terms for both former legislative leaders, has been fired by President Trump.

Former legislative leaders John McKinney and Bill Dyson launched a bipartisan campaign Monday which they hope will fix the education funding formula in Connecticut.

It's been the focus of several major corruption scandals including two that led to jail time for both former legislative leaders.

The bill passed by the Senate includes anti-nepotism provisions, today: · Prohibits gifts from lobbyists and their clients of more than nominal value, including travel, lodging and other expenses, and broaden the types of lobbying activities that lobbyists must disclose; · Prohibits elected government officials and candidates for elected local, state or federal office from appearing in taxpayer - funded advertisements; · Closes the «revolving door» loophole by prohibiting former legislative employees from directly lobbying the Legislature for two years, and expands the revolving door restrictions for Executive Chamber employees to preclude appearances before any state agency; · Prohibits non-legislative employees from using their authority or influence to «compel or induce» any other employee to make political contributions; · Prohibits state employees from participating in any personnel decision or contracting matter concerning a relative.

DiNapoli, who in 2007 was tapped as controller by his former legislative colleagues, is running statewide for the first time this fall.

Democratic hopefuls occupy a wide swatch of the political spectrum, from moderates like Tedra Cobb to more progressive candidates like Patrick Nelson, a Stillwater - based activist and former legislative aide who has largely adopted many of the campaign platforms highlighted by Funiciello, including sharply deriding the role of money in politics and calling for a less interventionist U.S. foreign policy.

Ellen DiFalco, a former legislative clerk who ran another unsuccessful campaign for county legislature from Kingston this year, is being considered for a legislative staff position.

The new poll follows a month in which former legislative leaders Sheldon Silver and Dean Skelos were sentenced to federal prison after they were convicted on corruption charges in separate cases last year.

Why should New Yorkers have to pick up the $ 545,000 tab for settling a lawsuit brought by two former legislative staffers who say they were...

But Cuomo also wants to enact reforms, including converting to a full - time Legislature and strictly limiting outside income, to answer recent corruption scandals that have resulted in prison sentences for the two former legislative leaders.

But Cuomo has been needling legislators about the issue since the summer, saying lawmakers» performance «hasn't been great,» pointing out that 29 legislators have been implicated in crimes — including both former legislative leaders, who are facing stiff prison sentences for corruption.

The issue rose to prominence after the 2015 indictments of Sheldon Silver and Dean Skelos, the former legislative leaders, who stoked popular rage when they began collecting pensions after they were convicted of selling their offices.

Lawmakers returning to Albany this week to kick off the 2016 legislative session are faced with a litany of unresolved issues from last year and the spectre of the recent convictions of two former legislative leaders.

A former legislative aide who helped Assemblyman Travis Allen fight the proposed ban on Orange County's fire rings, Patrascu has already criticized Curry's record on the issues.

Before the two legislative chambers took up the so - called one - house budget resolutions, good - government groups decried what some have seen as a silence on ethics reforms in the first session following the conviction of the two former legislative leaders.

The report recommends the House Ethics Committee subpoena the 10 individuals and entities that refused to cooperate with the board's investigation, including Tom Price, former secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, Innate and its CEO, Simon Wilkinson, and Collins» former legislative assistant, Jeff Freeland.

Two of Sampson's former legislative colleagues, one - time Senate leader Dean Skelos and former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, both contend they should remain free pending appeal because their corruption convictions are likely to be overturned under the new rules established by the McDonnell case.

The upcoming legislative session marks the first since the convictions of former legislative leaders Sheldon Silver and Dean Skelos on corruption - related charges.