Sentences with phrase «of ethics measures»

Gov. Andrew Cuomo in his January State of the State and budget address introduced a package of ethics measures, but has largely focused in recent weeks on increasing the state's minimum wage to $ 15 and creating a 12 - week paid family leave program.

A package of ethics measures has been approved in the Legislature virtually every year Cuomo has been in office.

Cuomo insisted on Wednesday the blow up over the budget had nothing to do with a scuttled pay raise, denied to lawmakers in December after they failed to coalesce around a package of ethics measures in a special session that never materialized.

Cuomo did include a package of ethics measures in the budget, reiterating proposals such as limits to outside income for lawmakers and term limits through constitutional amendments.

Senate Democrats back plans to raise the age of criminal responsibility to 18, want to see a package of ethics measures approved, and restore funding for elementary and secondary schools.

The move is most likely an attempt to prod Skelos on passing some sort of ethics measure.

Several legislative sources on Tuesday expressed doubt that, at this point, a special session would be possible to approve a series of ethics measure, whether public financing is a part of the package or not.

Stewart - Cousins, a Yonkers Democrat, told Brian Lehrer on WNYC on Thursday that the power retained by GOP lawmakers in the Senate — who have a numerical minority in the chamber — prevented the passage of an ethics measure following a spate of corruption arrests.

Not exact matches

Had Trump taken the measures suggested repeatedly by ethics experts on both sides of the political aisle, he would by now have put his assets in what's called a blind trust, which would entail turning over his empire to a third party with whom he will have no contact, who would sell off the properties and reinvest the resulting money in other assets without providing the president any information about the sales or the purchases.

This always happens when we legalize the commandment, when we isolate it, when we try to obey it to the letter, or conversely when we dismiss it easily by saying that it is outmoded, when we make a summary of it (an ethics), when we bring it into our own circuit of good and evil, when we use it in our own lives to justify ourselves (before God) or to condemn ourselves (in God's place), when we harden it into a reality that has been declared once and for all, when we measure it by our own standards, or when we take possession of it in exposition, discussion, or dissection.

With more and more attention necessarily riveted on matters of morality and ethics, it is hardly a surprise that we ask about moral content as a measure of the meaning of any God - talk, and test the potency of faith claims by the difference they make for human well - being and the well - being of the wider creation.

ethics) in which our intellect stands as the measure of what is, instead of letting our thou g his stray «into the vast Ocean of Being.»

; (2) family ethics (what kind and measure of subordination, if any, of wives to husbands is biblically required?)

This is a measure of the changing nature of the situation; our ethics are very much tied up with technology and economics.

'' [T] he poverty of postmodern ethical relativism should be evident - a missing ethical subject and hence no possibility of genuine moral responsibility or accountability, desire as the basis for ethics, ethics as pure self - creation with the vaguest of boundaries, ethics without principle, or ethical conduct measured by how well one «copes with the flux» of the postmodern world.»

The ethic of love presupposes that in some measure what ought to be can come to be.

Measured by the churches» utopian aspirations for global justice, the work ethic is regarded as more a part of the problem than part of the solution.

Cuomo is pushing a package of ethics reform proposals including public financing of political campaigns and strengthened disclosure of outside income for elected officials — measure he says must be in the final state budget agreement.

Cuomo approved what was widely considered to be the ethics bill of the legislative session, a measure designed to address the Citizens United era of super PAC political spending, as well new requirements for lobbyists and consultants.

Depending on who you ask, the legislative session was a productive six months in which a range of policy measures from an increase to the state's minimum wage, paid family leave to new ethics reform and anti-heroin addiction legislation was accomplished.

At the same time, the ethics watchdogs criticized Cuomo, who proposed the initial measure in June, for not going far enough on reform measures in Albany in the wake of a series of corruption scandals and arrests that have plagued the Legislature.

Senate Democrats are trying to push the Republican majority into supporting a host of ethics reform measures and are attempting to force the issue by using a Senate rule to get a hearing on the matter.

Senate Democrats, meanwhile, are seizing on a Siena College poll released Tuesday morning that found a broad majority of voters want ethics reform and anti-corruption measures approved this year.

His campaign has focused heavily on ethics and anti-corruption measures, a theme that he hopes resonates with voters after the ouster of disgraced former Majority Leader Dean Skelos, who was convicted on corruption charges in December.

State lawmakers are expected to consider a package of ethics and campaign finance reform measures when they return to Albany for the post-budget session next Tuesday.

Even without investigations dominating the headlines, lawmakers were likely to contend with growing calls for ethics and campaign finance reform measures following the sentencing of former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver to 12 years in prison.

The measure appears to largely mirror what Gov. Andrew Cuomo sought as part of his slate of ethics legislation unspooled in the State of the State this month.

Word spread Friday evening of a potential deal that could have also included ethics - related measures such as more oversight of procurement procedures — a discussion sparked by the latest public corruption scandal that reached into the governor's inner circle — and a public financing system for judicial campaigns.

Also at 11 a.m., the City of Mount Vernon Department of Law Corporation Counsel Lawrence R. Porcari will hold a press conference to announce new anti-corruption and public ethics measures, which include full funding of an independent Inspector General as required by Mount Vernon charter, City Hall, 1 Roosevelt Square, Mount Vernon.

In this Year of the Corruption Trials in New York — where at least five such trials have, are or will take place — Cuomo and the Legislature could not even come together on watered - down versions of measures to address ethics problems in state government.

The plan left out some long - sought measures advocates had pushed for, including ethics laws and new spending oversight, an extension of the statute of limitations for child sex - abuse victims and more traffic - safety cameras.

David Grandeau, outspoken blogger and former executive director of the now - defunct Temporary Commission on Lobbying, has made no secret of his disdain for the job the Joint Commission on Public Ethics, an agency he calls «J - Joke» that was created by the 2011 ethics overhaul measure.

A nervous Vince Cable started debating the measure just after midday, as a packed House of Commons saw emotional MPs argue over the ethics of the decision to try and triple the fees.

Updated: The Assembly will consider the ethics legislation outside of the one - house budget resolution, but both measures will be voted on next week.

Later on, Cuomo further suggested a pay hike would be linked to new ethics measures, perhaps in a special session that includes capping the amount of money lawmakers can earn outside of government.

Stewart - Cousins, a Democrat from Yonkers, confirmed that issues such as voter reform measures and changes to the state's ethics laws had fallen out of the budget talks.

The package would require public disclosure of every legislator's outside clients and income, establish an ethics commission with robust investigative powers over both the legislative and executive branches — and institute other measures to introduce badly needed transparency and accountability into our state government.

Cuomo's budget includes non-spending measures such as his slate of ethics reforms, allowing ride - hailing apps like Uber and Lyft to operate outside of New York City and a plan to encourage local governments sharing services to reduce property taxes.

An ethics reform measure approved by the New York State Legislature at the end of the legislative session still hasn't been signed by Gov. Andrew Cuomo.

Hoping to capitalize on Democratic anger over the election of President Trump, Mayer and other Democrats argue the Westchester contest is critical to their hopes of controlling the Senate and enacting legislation long sought by progressives, including new gun control measures, campaign finance and ethics reforms, and a bill to strengthen New York's abortion laws.

The governor said he believed this year's session was successful, despite the inability to agree on the schools and the failure to pass an ethics overhaul as well as other long - sought measures such as a longer time period within which victims of child sex abuse could sue their abusers.

«In addition to the enacted measures, the Assembly Majority has independently passed a number of ethics - related bills that were not taken up by the State Senate.

The budget that passed did contain new ethics measures, which at least to some extent, requires more disclosures of outside income by lawmakers.

An ethics reform measure approved by the New York legislature at the end of the legislative session still hasn't been signed by Governor Cuomo.

In fact, for the rest of the legislative session, the governor and the legislative leaders ignored the growing chorus calling for new ethics measures.

Cuomo in February set out to pass what he said would be the most stringent ethics and disclosure measures in the nation — a push that was undertaken after the arrest of now former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver on charges of fraud and extortion.

Cuomo is reportedly planning to send an ethics program bill to the Legislature in hopes of pressuring members into taking a public stand on the measure.

Today is the final day of the legislative session in Albany, and state lawmakers in both chambers have been under pressure to pass some version of ethics or anti-corruption reform measures in the wake of corruption scandals that have engulfed both chambers.

The ethics package in the budget was just the latest in a series of measures passed by lawmakers and agreed to by the governor following a public outcry after the arrest of a state lawmaker.

These measures will create the strongest and most comprehensive ethics laws for public officials of any state in the nation,» said Governor Cuomo.