Sentences with phrase «new ethics laws»

He fought for a tough new ethics law and the lowest tax rates in 50 years.

Now, the legislature will not want to pass new ethics laws.

Mr. Cuomo met with Republican senators on Tuesday to discuss his proposal for new ethics laws, particularly a measure requiring legislators who work part time as lawyers to reveal more of their clients, which has prompted concerns among the Republicans.

State lawmakers will have to disclose more details about their outside earnings and business relationships under new ethics laws agreed to by Gov. Andrew Cuomo and legislative leaders.

Cuomo shut down the commission before it completed its cases, after he and lawmakers reached a deal on new ethics laws.

Eliot Spitzer, that several sets of new ethics laws would make things dramatically better — has led to a depressing judgment from former Gov. David Paterson: Ethics reforms don't work.

He said he anticipates legislators digging in their heels about new ethics laws, claiming they would be an invasion into their private lives and that a majority of ethical lawmakers would be scrutinized because of a few who commit wrongs.

Erie County has their first new ethics law for elected officials in 30 years.

He noted the fallout from the federal corruption convictions last month of former Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos (R - Rockville Centre) and former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver (D - Manhattan), and said lawmakers up for re-election in November may find it hard to avoid adopting new ethics laws.

At the end of March, Cuomo said that he was shutting the Moreland Commission down, and that new ethics laws targeting corruption would take its place.

The biggest single change in the package is an entirely new ethics law, melding a series of them into one law, with more power for the Board of Ethics and stronger public employee disclosure rules.

«We must prove once again that state government can be trusted, and that means passing tough new ethics laws and creating a system that deters, detects and punishes individuals who seek to abuse and corrupt,» he said last week in a

After a string of corruption scandals hit the Legislature, Cuomo impaneled the commission to investigate the Legislature when lawmakers failed to reach an agreement with him on new ethics laws.

In a speech at New York University yesterday, Governor Andrew Cuomo said that he would use his leverage in the state budget process to push for new ethics laws, including stricter disclosure requirements, even if it ends his streak of on - time budgets.

«To clean up the government and restore trust we need to pass a new ethics law that mandates transparency and full disclosure,» Cuomo says.

The sticking point now in the debate over a new ethics law is over whether legislators must disclose clients in their law and consulting businesses to identify any conflicts.

In addition to legalization of same - sex marriage and implementation of a 2 - percent annual property - tax cap, his first year in office included: a new ethics law, a partial rollback of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority payroll tax, the first cut in state spending in 15 years, and a rewrite of the tax code to tax the wealthy at a higher rate and cut rates for middle income New Yorkers — an idea he opposed in the spring, only to reverse himself later as the state deficit grew.

Working with the new majority in the Erie County legislature, I have been able to secure a new ethics law that increases transparency and reinforces public faith in the integrity of elected officials.

«We must prove once again that state government can be trusted, and that means passing tough new ethics laws and creating a system that deters, detects and punishes individuals who seek to abuse and corrupt,» he said last week in a statement announcing ethics reform legislation.

Mayor Steve Noble said this week he will sign a new ethics law that passed a divided Common Council earlier

The governor got some new ethics laws out of his Moreland maneuvers.

Six new ethics laws were proposed Friday, the deadline to get on the agenda for the legislature's Sept. 5 meeting.

«To clean up the government and restore trust we need to pass a new ethics law that mandates transparency and full disclosure.

«Cuomo's thugs don't want to talk about enacting tough new ethics laws, addressing the culture of corruption propagated by the Democrats while in complete control of New York's government and the need to address a non-partisan special prosecutor.

The new ethics law being touted by Gov. Andrew Cuomo parcels equal roles to Democrats and Republicans in investigating lawmakers of both parties suspected of questionable conduct.

ALBANY — The Legislature's top leaders said there will be no new ethics laws sought by Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo in the state budget deal due by April 1.

Cuomo has said he agreed to end his Moreland Act Commission in a fair exchange for a new ethics law.

But DeFrancisco, a Syracuse Republican, has some unlikely allies in the form of the state's good - government groups, who are not pleased with the disclosure requirements in the new ethics law backed by Cuomo and the Legislature in June.

Of course NY will get a new ethics laws but who thinks they deserve raises?

Asked about Mr. Bharara's comments, Mr. Cuomo suggested he did not see why there was any concern, describing the commission as a temporary entity and saying its mission was to act as a prod to lawmakers to approve new ethics laws.

Last month, they told those same pollsters that corruption remains a serious problem in Albany but new ethics laws will have no real effect on reducing corruption in state government.

Asked about the new ethics laws on Thursday, Cuomo told reporters that it wasn't everything he was hoping for, but still important.

Since the new ethics law was signed last August, there has been a kind of limbo period, with no active investigations of lawmakers for any alleged ethics violations.

«Ed's plan includes sweeping campaign finance reform, tough new ethics laws and independent redistricting.

Mayor Steve Noble said this week he will sign a new ethics law that passed a divided Common Council earlier this month.

There is going to be more transparency in Erie County government under a new ethics law approved Thursday by the Legislature.

The group also says it has no plans to spin its self off from the Brennan Center and become a 501 (c) 4, which would then have to disclose contributions above $ 5,000 once part of the new ethics law takes effect in June.

Operatives and donors behind the Committee to Save New York are saved, too — from the need to publicly disclose their activities as required under a new ethics law.

The task before her is especially important because of the need for this agency to succeed as an impartial panel charged with oversight and enforcement of our state's new ethics law and the pressing need to restore the public's faith in our government and elected officials.»

MOBILE, Alabama — This Christmas, students won't be able to give their public school teachers gift certificates or anything deemed valuable without breaking Alabama's new ethics law.