Sentences with phrase «legislative ethics committee»

A government reform group is calling for a state ethics panel report to be made public, one day after the panel investigating charges against Assemblyman Vito Lopez (D - Brooklyn) sent a report to the legislative ethics committee.

When more women lodged graphic accusations not long after, Silver's patience — or Lopez's usefulness — appears to have been exhausted, with the new complaint being referred to the legislative ethics committee.

JUNEAU, Alaska (AP)-- A legislative ethics committee has dismissed a complaint against an Alaska lawmaker over his «aggressive use» of the Legislature's moving policy.

«Since 2007 when the legislative ethics committee started, you have long line of senators and assemblymen who have gotten into trouble.

A long line of scandals, a long line of corruption, and not a peep from the legislative ethics committee in the meantime.»

This will be the speaker's first public appearance since he abruptly announced Lopez had been censured and stripped of his seniority after the bipartisan legislative ethics committee found the Brooklyn Democrat had made unwanted verbal and physical advances toward several young female staffers.

Not exact matches

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.

Most of Rangel's legislative success, including the historic ObamaCare bill, came when he was chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee from 2007 to 2010, before he stepped down during the ethics probe.

She also suggested that mailings of more than 100 «substantially identical pieces» be preapproved by the ethics board or a bipartisan legislative committee.

When the new legislative session began in Albany earlier this month, there was an immediate shake - up of the long - dormant state Senate ethics committee, throwing the always - simmering chamber to a quick boil.

I believe my bill proposing term limits on legislative leaders and committee chairs would be a better step toward ethics reform.»

The Daily News reports on Brooklyn Assemblyman William Boyland, Jr. — who has already been accused of corruption by the U.S. Attorney's Office and violating state ethics laws by the Legislative Ethics Committee — owes more than $ 21,350 in unpaid penalties to the Board of Elections for failing to file financial statements, according to Board spokesman John Conklin.

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