Sentences with phrase «job as legislators»

Our job as legislators is to create options.

Given all this, our job as legislators is to decide what our priorities are and how to best spend our limited resources.

«Sometimes first drafts of the laws aren't perfect,» Simotas said, «and it's our job as legislators to make the laws become more effective.»

Lawmakers are allowed to have outside income because their jobs as legislators are technically part time.

Not exact matches

«As a state worker, and I believe I speak for most of us, I don't believe we would be as up in arms about negotiations if we saw that Gov. Paterson and our legislators were doing their best to also reduce their salaries, their perks, their staffing patterns and to get their job done, by passing a budget.&raquAs a state worker, and I believe I speak for most of us, I don't believe we would be as up in arms about negotiations if we saw that Gov. Paterson and our legislators were doing their best to also reduce their salaries, their perks, their staffing patterns and to get their job done, by passing a budget.&raquas up in arms about negotiations if we saw that Gov. Paterson and our legislators were doing their best to also reduce their salaries, their perks, their staffing patterns and to get their job done, by passing a budget.»

Another investment they make is that when a legislator is a «friend,» both in the general voting, but, especially, as a member of committees, they get rewarded afterwards with 7 - and 8 - figure «consulting» contracts after they leave office for jobs as lobbyists for companies they were supposed to oversee, lobbying their former colleagues.

New York's Westchester County Board of Legislators has passed a bill portrayed as a civil rights measure that blocks businesses from asking job candidates» salary histories.

Citing unnamed sources, New York Post columnist Fred Dicker reported this morning that legislators are considering a push to have the Joint Commission on Public Ethics investigate how Duffy approached the Rochester Business Alliance and its officials about a job as the group's president, and whether he properly recused himself from government decisions pertaining to the organization.

«The presence of these two capable, community - oriented, active councilmen has shown that gay legislators will do a good job of representing their constituents across the board, which in turn reinforces the idea of gay people as members of the community,» Queens College political science professor Michael Krasner said in an e-mail.

New York State legislators, who receive a base salary of $ 79,500 for what is classified as a part - time job, have not received a pay increase since 1999.

Mr. Cuomo said some legislators treated their lawmaking jobs as full time, while some approached it as a part - time job and had lucrative outside careers.

Astorino unsuccessfully sought the job as a county legislator in 2005, losing in a landslide to the incumbent Democrat, Andy Spano.

Voters generally approve of the job their local state legislators are doing, but disapprove overall of the Legislature as a whole (29 - 58).

He announced that he planned to keep his job as a lawyer after taking office, drawing a contrast with Mr. Kaminsky, who said banning outside income for legislators was crucial to stamping out corruption.

«Community members throughout New York find it offensive that legislators like George Amedore, who have blocked ethics reforms and treat their public service as a hobby rather than a full - time job, would try to give themselves a pay hike,» Niccoli wrote.

As the county legislator for more than 85,000 people, I rely on open communication to ensure I am doing the best job possible.

«Stripping pensions from legislators - as well as any state employee - convicted of a crime related to their public jobs is an issue that has the overwhelming support of New Yorkers,» Greenberg said.

The company does work with the New York government, but Bruno doesn't see that as a problem, as all of their contracts are achieved through public bidding and state legislators are legally barred only from lobbying after retirement from office, not from taking other types of jobs.

«For state legislators, it is much harder to raise taxes on income or sales or cut spending on education or other vital services, while legalizing and expanding gambling is seen as a relatively easy and painless source of revenue and job growth,» said Lucy Dadayan, the Rockefeller analyst who wrote the report.

same as the old boss...... We will not be able to reverse the dismal state of economic free fall in NY State until we can get rid of all of the corrupt legislators and corrupt bureaucrats in NY State government who allow the fleecing of NY taxpayers to continue supporting crony state jobs.

Over 100 years ago, when legislators only had to go to The State Capital a few times a year, the job made sense as part - time, thus, allowing other or outside income.

Yet the ethics deal was also conspicuous for its gaps: Despite discussions early in the session about more ambitious reforms that would limit the income legislators could make from other jobs or even transform the Legislature into a full - time institution, lawmakers could ultimately muster agreement only on what many described as a no - brainer.

«Because the state of New Jersey is so geographically small, the legislators come to Trenton as if it's a state job,» Palmer said.

The Sheriff's Office has done a tremendous job in combating the drug issue in Erie County and as legislators it is our duty to provide them the resources needed to continue those efforts,» Legislator Dixon added.

Perhaps Kirsten is hesitant to defend her abysmal record as a legislator: 117 of the 131 bills she has introduced have died in committee, and none of the 14 bills that passed had to do with jobs for New Yorkers.

McLaughlin's evident focus on local employment as a candidate and legislator notwithstanding — a 2014 Times Union story observed that she «has fought for jobs access for those in the city's minority communities» — it remains to be seen if this commitment will translate to votes in the Democratic primary, the city's de facto general election.

This managerial approach worked in her current job and prior positions as a state legislator and town clerk.

«Your job as a staffer is to, at all cost, protect your boss and protect their career,» said one of the former staffers who tried to bring a sexual harassment claim against a legislator.

AMHERST, N.Y. — Gov. Andrew Cuomo maintains his START - UP NY program is creating thousands of jobs at no cost to taxpayers, even as legislators in Albany are challenging the premise.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo maintains his START - UP NY program is creating thousands of jobs at no cost to taxpayers, even as legislators in Albany are challenging the premise.

«As Election Day draws near, incumbent legislators will be talking about their efforts to promote job growth and boost the economy.

WESTCHESTER, NY — As former Westchester County Executive Robert Astorino is eagerly entering the private sector and considering all of his options for future employment, including three recent appearances on CNN analyzing the news from Washington and President Donald Trump, some of his recently defeated allies on the County Board of Legislators and his former employees in his county executive's office landed jobs at the Board of Elections.

As Legislators our job is to do the people's work and that isn't being done.

Susan Lerner, the executive director of Common Cause, said she would like to see an end to the practice of treating LLCs as independent entities for purposes of campaign finance laws, a ban or else «absolute transparency» for legislators» side jobs and an end to pots of discretionary funding that lawmakers can direct.

If doing what you've been doing and expecting different results is a definition of insanity, well, then, these legislators are just crazy about the jobs they've been doing as the so - called «co-equal» branch of county government.

In 2016, he lost a contentious Democratic primary for his retiring mentor Charles Rangel's congressional seat to rival Adriano Espaillat, then a state Senator, and now he is facing blowback for accepting a job at a prominent lobbying firm following his years as a state legislator.

My job is to speak about my record, the work that I have done as borough president, my work as a state legislator,» he said Saturday on CNN.

«At times it's hard for me to think that I'm leaving the New York Assembly, it's almost heartbreaking because I absolutely love the job and I love serving the North Shore of Staten Island as a legislator,» said Titone.

As New York's state legislators huddle behind closed doors to select a temporary replacement for the disgraced former attorney general Eric T. Schneiderman, they will be choosing more than just a six - month placeholder for the state's top legal job.

State legislators may hold outside jobs, Coombe noted, «so long as the legislator performs work in exchange for the payments.»

After his election as attorney general the next year, Cuomo during his first week on the job said member items were a «vivid, graphic symbol» of what was wrong at the Capitol, and required any member item recipient to certify they had no conflict of interest with the relevent legislator.

DeSena cites jobs and the economy as his main focus, but he said he would also prioritize tax, budget and ethics reform, and that he hopes to work with other legislators from both parties to affect real change.

Joseph Burns, a Republican and friend of Erie County Republican Chairman Nick Langworthy, was ousted as authority secretary and will switch jobs with Terrence McCracken, a former county legislator and chairman of the Lancaster Democratic Party.

And any pay hike may also be tied to changes in overall lawmaker pay, such as capping the amount legislators can receive from outside jobs and imposing new documentation requirements to collect per diems.

As the smoke clears from the opening congressional salvos in the 2013 budget wars, the Obama Administration finds itself with the unexpected — but not entirely unpleasant — job of deciding how to respond to legislators» preliminary plans to give some science programs more money than the White House had requested.

Roy Romer, the former Colorado governor who retired last year after six years as superintendent of L.A. Unified, tried in vain before leaving his job to convince the mayor, state legislators, and the governor that the district was not failing.

As chief apologist for Governor Malloy and Malloy's education reform proposal, Riccard's job was apparently to insult Connecticut's teachers, the teacher unions and any Democratic legislator who dared to support public education.

According to the job post, lobbying legislators will be one of the Executive Director's responsibilities, along with working to, «Establish E4E - CT as a go to source for the opinions and perspectives of progressive educators on issues that impact Connecticut's classrooms.»

Across the United States, legislators are working to remove employee credit checks as an obstacle to job seekers with poor credit.

With endangered species dangers, and a shrinking snow - cap water supply due to climate change, legislators will have to determine not just how to get water to the masses this year, but also how to transition and wean current users off into new sectors of the economy for the long term, as some job sectors dry up.