Sentences with phrase «of government ethics»

Hana Callaghan, director of government ethics at Santa Clara University's Markkula Center for Applied Ethics, said that absent specific anti- «pay to play» legislation, which limits vendors» political contributions, «courts have generally not found it to be improper for public contractors to contribute to political campaigns.

He is pro-public school teacher and loudly in favor of government ethics reform.

«This appears to be a textbook violation of government ethics laws and regulations enacted to prevent the abuse of an employee's government position,» Cummings wrote.

Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo's disbanding of a government ethics commission is under investigation by Mr. Bharara's office.

In January, the governor made closing the LLC loophole a key plank of his government ethics reform package.

«NYCOM invited him to speak on the issue of government ethics, since his office has been very active in that realm,» said Peter Baynes, executive director of the mayors group.

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Below are more statements he has made so far in the chat, in response to questions selected from the comments section of the Guardian website and Twitter, about the extent of U.S. government access to civilian information, the role of Google and Facebook, and his ethics:

That could include mentoring GV companies on how to the complicated world of defense contracts and procurement, though Mabus notes that he's prevented from approaching the government on anyone's behalf for two years because ethics rules.

Your board mandate should address vision, mission, strategy and operational plans; program delivery and operations; risk identification and management; finances (budgets, investments, use of donations, etc.); government filings and reporting; values, ethics, reputation and integrity; key policies and procedures; and communication and accountability to members and stakeholders.

The Office of Government Ethics has revealed that attorneys at the White House are examining whether loans to the company owned by Jared Kushner's family violated federal ethics regulations or criminal law.

Many government and private ethics watchdogs said he should have gone further, divesting himself of assets that could cause a conflict of interest.

Wendy L. Patrick, a business ethics lecturer at San Diego State University, says the order may have the salutary effect of forcing government and small business to order their priorities.

It might be possible to make a reasonable argument that Mr. Trudeau has done nothing wrong — the same ethics commissioner to whom the Harper government deferred on the matter of Nigel Wright's cheque seems to have cleared Mr. Trudeau to make the speeches he made between 2008 and 2012.

It's not — from the people who serve in this Parliament, it's not enough to simply follow the rules or follow the ethics code or even follow the law because we have a government right now that has broken repeatedly all three of those.

What are the ethics surrounding the possible outsourcing of previously dedicated government services and facilities?

Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner, President Trump's daughter and son - in - law, will remain the beneficiaries of a sprawling real estate and investment business still worth as much as $ 740 million, despite their new government responsibilities, according to ethics filings released by the White House Friday night.

Robert Weissman, president of Public Citizen, a group that promotes ethics in government, said Mr. Trump's swipe at Nordstrom was not a major issue in itself.

«While there is no modern precedent for an adult child of the president [in the West Wing], I will voluntarily follow all of the ethics rules placed on government employees,» she said.

Fifth, governments, industry and other interested groups should strengthen their efforts to build a national ethic of energy conservation and a clearer public understanding of the costs and benefits of various energy choices.

While employees are expected to comply with all laws, rules, regulations and government requirements in jurisdictions in which the Company does business, the general laws and ethics of Canada will govern.

Although I frequently find myself at odds with First Things over issues pertaining to economics and the role of government in public life, I usually find its critique of American social mores and ethics to be insightful and illuminating.

Not to confuse the psychological issues with the separation of church and state, we obviously need to keep religious interference and favoritism to a minimum in government, while shifting the societal paradigm to discourage fervent religiosity while fostering evolved secular morals and ethics.

They are committed to morality in the curriculum of grade schools but completely unmoved by the lack of morality in government ethics.

But if the ethics, and self - control, and laws fail to an extreme degree — we are stuck with the intervention of government.

Some of us disagree with the sexual ethics of orthodox Jews, Christians, and Muslims giving rise to this legislation, but we are unified in our resistance to the government setting up its own system of orthodoxy.

Instead of calling for ethics in government and corporations, these unholy men are wimping out.

This lowercase - a anglican ethics leads, in turn, to Whig politics: the idea of limited government, answerable to the people and built on constitutional guarantees of fundamental human rights.

The country wasn't founded as a Christian nation, it was founded by Christian's with a strong tradition of using Christian morals and ethics as the basis of government.

Spelled out in a lengthy lead editorial entitled «Evangelicals in the Social Struggle,» as well as in books such as Aspects of Christian Social Ethics, Henry's understanding of Christian social responsibility stressed (a) society's need for the spiritual regeneration of all men and women, (b) an interim social program of humanitarian care, ethical proclamation, and personal, structural application, and (c) a theory of limited government centering on certain «freedom rights,» e. g., the rights to public property, free speech, and so on.18 Though the shape of this social ethic thus closely parallels that of the present editorial position of Moody Monthly, it must be distinguished from its counterpart by the time period involved (it pushed others like Moody Monthly into a more active involvement in the social arena), by the intensity of its commitment to social responsibility, by the sophistication of its insight into political theory and practice, and by its willingness to offer structural critique on the American political system.

Don't we know the ethic of government is generated by polls?

Global governance then took a Copernican turn, away from the paradigms of western modernity (such as national sovereignty and interest, the primacy of reason, growth, progress, representative democracy, the authority of government, western universal values, hierarchies), towards a new postmodern ethic.

A «cluster of monotheism's core ideas,» which Rauf short - hands as the «Abrahamic ethic,» drives the book's thesis, showing what's right with both Islam and the U.S. and offering suggestions about how American Muslims and the U.S. government may become forces of healing in the larger Muslim world.

It also requires them not to «attempt or support the functions, programmes and activities of political, social, ethic or gender interest group in a private capacity and name or in circumstances unrelated to the discharge of the project and tasks of the Civil and Local Government Services».

At 9:30 a.m., an hour before former Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos is sentenced for corrupting his office, government watchdog groups will weigh in on the heightened need for ethics reform before the end of the legislative session, Foley Square, intersection of Lafayette, Worth, and Centre streets, Manhattan.

Like environmental and gender equality lobby groups, MSF's ethic of refusal has one goal whichever government is implicated, that of influencing policy according to its philosophical beliefs.

A code of ethics will be made available to every government officer, which will include guidelines for when the officer has a duty to act as a whistleblower.

It's clear that Todd's record of delivering results for the people of Nassau County and his message of ethics reforms, government accountability and responsible leadership is what the voters wanted and they now deserve to finally have that voice representing them.

«One of my office's top priorities is to restore New Yorkers» faith in their state government, and that means we need to arm our top ethics body with strong and effective leaders,» Schneiderman said.

«Todd's message of ethics reforms, government accountability and responsible leadership clearly resonated with the voters of Nassau County.

«Something must be done to drain the venality from the swamp of corruption that is consuming Albany and Democrats are committed to using the lessons of the Bruno affair to implement real ethics reforms that are needed to make government work again.»

Still, the amount of money raised is eyebrow - raising for good - government advocates, who have been pushing for a host of ethics reforms in the wake of the corruption scandals, arrests and convictions, with still more investigations ongoing.

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.

«There are a whole host of things that need to be done and we are not taking a holistic approach to ethics in this state that would give people confidence in their state government,» said Sen. Mike Gianaris, a Queens Democrat.

There are plenty of compelling concepts being proposed that are worth examining to restore trust in government, but real ethics reform must begin with term limits.»

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.

Cuomo's new emphasis on ethics has been met with cheers from good - government advocates like Barbara Bartoletti, League of Women Voters legislative director.

The Office of Government Ethics has asked the Trump administration for copies of any waivers it issued that may have granted appointees exemptions from ethics rules.

ALBANY — Good - government advocates are pinning their hopes for passage of substantial ethics and campaign finance reforms on very public examinations of alleged corruption set to take place over the next six months.

After a year in which Dean Skelos and Sheldon Silver, respective legislative leaders of both the State Senate and State Assembly, were convicted for defrauding the public for personal gain, politicians in Albany have once again refused to act on preventing corruption and enacting needed ethics reform and running a more open government.

But he does believe that the additional disclosure requirements, tucked into a bill passed last June, was payback for past critiques by government reform groups on lack of ethics reforms in Albany.