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Amid a push to clean up Albany following a series of scandals that rocked the Senate and Assembly — including the convictions of both legislative leaders last year — as well as ongoing corruption probes into economic development spending in upstate New York, most voters, 56 percent to 27 percent, believe the measures approved in June won't lead to a significant reduction in fraud and corruption.

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On the legislative and policy front, Bill C - 11 has passed the committee stage and seems likely to race toward royal assent by the summer, last week's unveiling of the telecom policy (including policies on the forthcoming spectrum auction and foreign ownership) puts to rest a major issue associated with the digital economy strategy, the CRTC recently published its final anti-spam regulations with Industry Canada expected to follow with theirs shortly, the open government initiative has been making considerable progress, and Government House Leader Peter Van Loan told the House of Commons on Thursday that Bill C - 12 (the PIPEDA reform bill) may finally move forward next week.

From easing the sale of water utilities to private companies to telling transgender students which bathroom to use, many high - profile — and controversial — legislative proposals have little chance of passage after the Assembly last week completed what leaders say was the final major floor session day.

Venezuelan crisis intensifies after vote, arrests Following a disputed election for a new legislative body last weekend, in which voting tallies were reportedly manipulated, and the arrest of two high - profile opposition leaders, Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro faces increased pressure both from within Venezuela and without.

The legislative leaders quietly introduced a campaign finance bill last night that is designed to strengthen enforcement at the state Board of Elections and also address the US Supreme Court's January decision that overturned a 20 - year - old ruling barring corporations from spending freely to support or oppose candidates.

Amid the arrests and indictments last year of the top legislative leaders, Cuomo and the Legislature essentially punted on whether to renew the tax abatement coveted by the well - heeled real - estate industry, which has given lavishly to campaigns in recent years.

The governor and legislative leaders were hoping to reach the parameters of a budget deal sometime last night.

Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan decided last last night to call an audible and declare the 2017 legislative session over, without a deal in place to extend mayoral control of the NYC school system.

Lobbyists, elected officials and reporters who spent a lot of time waiting around outside closed doors last week, hoping against hope that legislative leaders and the governor would finally hammer out a budget deal, noticed a key member of the Senate GOP conference was not participating in their closed - door caucuses.

Independent Democratic Conference Leader Jeff Klein on Tuesday defended the practice of paying non-committee chairs legislative stipends for jobs they don't actually hold, pointing to a statement issued last week by Comptroller Tom DiNapoli's office.

Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan (R - Suffolk County) sent a letter last week to Cuomo counsel Alphonso David alerting him that the Senate will no longer rush through last - minute appointments sent up by Cuomo at the end of the legislative session.

Cuomo has twice run for office amid a parade of legislative scandals, including the conviction last year of both leaders of the Legislature.

The new regulations, agreed upon last month as part of a much bigger budget compromise between legislative leaders and the governor, will do little to halt the erosion of middle - income housing in New York City, and are more dangerous to landlords in principle than in practice.

As federal courts move to decide whether to intervene on the Congressional redistricting process, the last ditch legal efforts on behalf of Albany's legislative leaders to dismiss the lawsuit was rejected by a three judge panel this evening.

Last week, the Governor and legislative leaders reached an agreement on multiple bills that include new programs and insurance reforms to improve treatment options for individuals suffering from heroin and opioid addiction; measures to strengthen penalties and put in place additional tools for law enforcement to crack down on the distribution of illegal drugs; provisions to ensure the proper and safe use of naloxone, an overdose antidote; and support for enhanced public awareness campaigns to prevent drug abuse.

With New York State budget negotiations at an impasse, Gov. Andrew Cuomo has asked legislative leaders to extend last year's budget through the end of May while Democrats and Republicans continue working to settle their differences.

Cuomo went out of his way to lavish praise on the legislative leaders, even though he has been criticizing the Legislature — and Albany writ large — since the start of his gubernatorial campaign last spring.

I expect the legislative leaders and DiNapoli will express solidarity with the unions — particularly the state comptroller, who owes no small part of his victory over Republican Harry Wilson last year to the efforts on his behalf by organized labor.

In other words, as we've known since late last week, there will be no vote today or tomorrow, unless a package deal on constitutional redistricting reform and the House maps gets done by legislative leaders and Gov. Andrew Cuomo, spurring the governor to provide a message of necessity to circumvent the three - day bill aging requirement.

The negotiations do not appear to be falling apart like they did several times last year, and while legislative leaders may not be completely up on the minimum wage discussions, the knowledge of their members, to a greater degree than before, has been tapped into.

Cuomo and legislative leaders are expected to finalize any end of session deals next week - the last scheduled session day is Wednesday, June 15.

Mr. Cuomo devoted parts of his State of the State addresses last week to blaming legislative leaders for failing to sign an agreement on funding affordable housing and homeless services, and urged the Senate again on Tuesday evening to release the funds.

«Last time, there were lots of players, lots of organizations, lots of good will, but not the truly united effort that has come together to work hand in glove with the governor and legislative leaders,» said Evan Wolfson, the president of Freedom to Marry.

The special elections on Tuesday for the seats formerly held by Dean G. Skelos and Sheldon Silver, the two state legislative leaders who were forced to depart Albany after being convicted on corruption charges last year, were supposed to be a test of how long a shadow corruption could cast on a race.

«So to do it during the last week of session seems strange unless there is interest by the legislative leaders to do it.

He mentioned by name U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara, who scored convictions of legislative leaders Sheldon Silver and Dean Skelos last year, as he advocated for ethical fixes that include stripping pensions of any lawmakers convicted of a crime.

Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie, as well as the leader of the State Senate, John Flanagan, expressed support for the bills last spring, but they ended the legislative session without voting on them.

Now, Gov. Andrew Cuomo is asking legislative leaders to extend last year's budget through the end of May while Democrats and Republicans continue working to settle their differences.

The reminder from Bharara comes as legislative leaders and Gov. Andrew Cuomo are quietly discussing possible ethics reforms behind closed doors — reforms none of them have appeared interested in discussing publicly since Cuomo outlined his platform in his State of the State address last month.

Odds are Gov. Andrew Cuomo and legislative leaders will reach a deal on the $ 150 - plus billion spending plan in time, as the governor has made this a priority of his time in office, more or less achieving it in each of his five years leading the state thus far (last year's is the only one in question, as the budget was technically voted through after the midnight deadline).

And in Albany, Republican Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan accused Cuomo of writing off the last two months of the legislative session when there is more work to be done.

Lawmakers — as well as Cuomo — had been under pressure to approve some form of ethics and anti-corruption legislation in Albany after a parade of corruption arrests that engulfed the Capitol in recent years, including the convictions of the two former state legislative leaders last year, Dean Skelos and Sheldon Silver.

«With nearly two decades of hands - on experience in the Executive and Legislative branches, including the last nine years with the Senate Republican Conference, Scott Reif is exactly the right person to lead the communications effort for our majority both now and in the future,» said Majority Leader John Flanagan.

(According to the calendar agreed on by legislative leaders months ago, yesterday was the last work day of the year).

Emails show Robert Nichols, Republican - turned - Democrat Assemblyman John Ceretto's top political aide, wanted none of the $ 1.6 million in tax dollars Ceretto was allocated last year by legislative leaders went to the town of Wheatfield, all of whose elected members are Republicans, because Town Supervisor Robert Cliffe allegedly gave Nichols and Ceretto the cold shoulder at a public picnic.

This comes on top of the latest increase in the minimum wage at the end of 2015 to $ 9 an hour (for non-tipped employees)-- the result of the last deal cut by the governor and legislative leaders.

Faced with a deadlock over transportation funding and highway tolls, Democratic legislative leaders last month quietly resorted to an audacious proposal that would have permitted the establishment of highway tolls without the approval of the General Assembly.

State Sen. Tony Avella (D - Bayside) is one of three freshmen Democratic senators to be appointed as ranking minority members of legislative committees in Albany, Sen. Democratic Leader John Sampson (D - Brooklyn) announced last week.

She served as Legislative, Policy and Budget Director to Rodríguez for four years before becoming his Chief of Staff in 2014, and was elected District Leader last year.

Their request is not new A «memorandum of understanding» that set aside $ 2 billion for the construction of supportive and affordable housing was agreed to in principle by the governor and legislative leaders last year, but all parties have yet to put their signatures on that MOU, meaning the bulk of the money hasn't been released.

In response to the deadly school shooting in Parkland, Fla., last week, the Democratic governor gathered top members of his team and legislative leaders for a news conference in Trenton.

Groups became increasingly furious over the course of last week over the failure of Cuomo and legislative leaders to frame a «memorandum of understanding» required for the

For a state capitol that began the legislative session shellshocked by the convictions on corruption charges of two of its most powerful leaders, Sheldon Silver and Dean G. Skelos, the most significant action was perhaps the pension - forfeiture measure, which had fizzled last year.

For the last several weeks, we legislative leaders — for the first time since I've been at the Capitol — put aside party labels, locked ourselves in a room and talked as leaders and friends about the direction of the state of Connecticut and how collectively we could orchestrate a budget that fulfilled our expectations for a new Connecticut.

Speaking at a press event in Albany, and joined by State Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan and Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie, Mr. Cuomo cited the failure of the two houses the State Legislature to come to an agreement on the handling of law enforcement homicides by the end of the legislative session, which was supposed to have been last Wednesday.

«The last time they had a pay commission, it was basically controlled by the governor and the legislative leaders and because of some other deal, it blew up,» said Blair Horner of the New York Public Interest Research Group.

A second gun - related bill has been postponed in the Florida Senate in the wake of last week's mass shooting at a Parkland high school, as legislative leaders craft a multi-pronged response to the massacre and Gov. Rick Scott plans a series of workshops about school safety and ways to keep guns away from people struggling with mental illnesses.

In the final days of the New York legislative session, which ended last week in Albany, Governor Andrew Cuomo and legislative leaders reached an agreement on a two - year delay in the teacher assessments to be based on the Common Core testing.

Incoming Ulster County Legislature Chairman Ken Ronk will deliver his state - of - the - county address later this winter, but his brief remarks after being sworn in last week as Ulster's 15th legislative leader gave some clues as to his agenda.

Republican Assemblyman Gary Finch, who represents a large portion of Cortland County, says the conviction of two legislative leaders last year has put the spotlight on the need for changes in the way Albany does business.