Sentences with phrase «new legislative member items»
For this reason, Governor Cuomo has refused to fund new legislative member items and is carefully reviewing existing items.
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As lawmakers prepare to pass the third consecutive state budget with no new pork - barrel spending, Cuomo said yesterday he doesn't believe legislative «member items» should ever return.
The Senate and Assembly have stuffed millions of dollars in pork - barrel - type spending into nonbinding budget resolutions adopted Thursday — despite the fact that that governors have not allowed new legislative «member items» in the budget since 2010.
«Member items» and other legislative discretionary spending — like the Multi-Modal Program — have been a feature of Albany and New York City corruption scandals for decades.
According to the state's indictment, the president and treasurer of the Parent Workshop submitted fraudulent documents to New York State to obtain public money from a legislative member item sponsored by then - Senator Huntley.
Since 1999, the New York State Legislature has distributed more than $ 900 million through legislative member items to more than 20,000 nonprofit entities.
In other words, where member items were at least part of the regular state budget, New York is now going deeper into debt year after year to pay for this legislative and gubernatorial largesse.