Sentences with phrase «of legislative member items»

Governor Cuomo has vetoed over half a million dollars of legislative member items, saying he's following through on a promise to ban the funds, which have been used in the past to finance lawmakers» pet projects.

Silver has also been an unabashed defender of legislative member items, saying that lawmakers know their districts best when it comes to allocating state dollars to local causes.

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* $ 70 million by eliminating what's left of the state's reserve for legislative pork - barrel «member items» after the reduction proposed by Paterson.

The $ 138 billion budget plan, adopted just before the April 1 deadline, included last - minute re-appropriations of old member items, also known as legislative pork.

They handed out millions of dollars in «member items» to local organizations, legislative pork that drew criticism for lack of transparency and fairness.

Passage of the 2010 - 11 appropriation bills was completed by the Legislature June 28 — after which Gov. David Paterson vetoed thousands of line items, mainly legislative pork - barrel «member item» spending.

A nonprofit funded with hundreds of thousands of dollars secured by state Sen. Adriano Espaillat through legislative «member items» quietly wound down last year and threw its four paid staffers out of work.

The daylong veto-fest was designed to follow through on Paterson's vow to quash an estimated 6,900 spending provisions added to the budget by a defiant Legislature this week, including $ 600 million in school aid and thousands of legislative pet projects known as member items.

The Conservative Party believes that just as the Legislative Branch of government should eliminate all legislative member items, the Executive Branch must eliminate «executive» Legislative Branch of government should eliminate all legislative member items, the Executive Branch must eliminate «executive» legislative member items, the Executive Branch must eliminate «executive» items also.

Agencies under the UJA - Federation umbrella have lost a total of $ 6 million due to Paterson's veto of legislative earmarks known as member - item grants, the latest in eight cycles of budget cuts that have rocked the non-sectarian network of special education, child care, mental health, immigrant and other services, lowering revenue by 5 to 7 percent, said Soloway.

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.

«I have always had a problem with our system of legislative pork, and have never taken member items, even when I was criticized for not doing so,» Galef wrote.

The funds Gardner is accused of stealing came at least partially from state legislative earmarks, so - called member item funds, administered by the Empire State Development Corporation and the state Office of Children and Family Services.

If there is something both houses appear to have in common, judging from the memorandum, it is their defense of legislative earmarks, known in Albany as «member items.»

«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.

AG Andrew Cuomo today came out in strong support of Gov. David Paterson's tough talk about the two - way legislative budget deal, endorsing the governor's threat to use his line item veto power to nix additional spending by the Senate and Assembly as well as member items.

For Paterson, a tumultuous week in Albany ended as he and several staffers wrapped up the final 2,000 or so line - item vetoes of $ 500 million in legislative spending contained in budget bills passed earlier this week, plus $ 193 million in member - item grants.

In December, Schneiderman's office indicted Patricia Savage, a Huntley aide, and Lynn Smith, the senator's niece, on charges of submitting false documents to the state in order to misappropriate about $ 29,950 in state legislative member items that Huntley had steered to Parent Workshop Inc., her Nassau - based nonprofit.

The investigation found that the president and treasurer of the Parent Workshop, Inc. filed phony documents with the state in order to receive public money via a legislative member item.

The bill would also cover so - called member items, the legislative earmarks that have been the subject of scrutiny by law enforcement in recent years.

Cuomo spokesman Richard Azzopardi called the Schimminger legislation «another smokescreen,» saying he'd push changes that would affect lawmakers if he were serious about ethics reforms — like having the state freedom of information law cover the Legislature, banning pork - barrel spending known as «member items,» imposing term limits and eliminating legislative stipends.

As expected, Attorney General Eric Schneiderman announced the superseding indictment of his former state Senate colleague and fellow Democrat, Shirley Huntley for filing fraudulent documents in order to have aides pocket legislative member item money.

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.

On Monday, April 18th, Republican members of the Congressional delegation and key legislative Republicans sequestered themselves for a meeting in which resolving lingering difficulties over maps and making sure party leaders were on board were thought to be top agenda items.

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.

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