Sentences with phrase «on ethics bills»

Democratic Sen. Daniel Squadron of Manhattan said the Democratic minority called the session because the Republican majority has so far refused to grant them a public hearing on ethics bills.

«We have an ethics crisis here in Albany, we have an ethics crisis in the Legislature,» Senator Dan Squadron (D - Manhattan) said during the debate on the ethics bill.

And then there's the backtracking on redistricting, the delay in even working on an ethics bill, etc..

Not exact matches

The bill, now on its way to the Senate, would require the two leading advisors in the Crescent Point dispute, Institutional Shareholder Services Inc. and Glass Lewis & Co., to formally register with the SEC and within those filings «disclose their potential conflicts of interest and codes of ethics.»

After failing in their effort two weeks ago to force the Senate Republicans to hold a public hearing on a package of ethics reform bills, the Senate Democrats are taking matters into their own hands.

Closed - door negotiations over the ethics reform bill have been dragging on for weeks now, despite the fact that Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver has said repeatedly that his house has an agreement with the governor.

The Senate Democrats are again trying to use a 2009 chamber rule change to their advantage in hopes of forcing a public hearing on their reform agenda, which is contained in five ethics and campaign finance - related bills.

Silver reiterated that the Assembly and the governor are in «virtual agreement» on an ethics reform bill and he's still holding out hope on a three - way agreement in which the Senate would participate.

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.

But Cuomo's posture on inserting ethics legislation into spending bills has met opposition in the Legislature, where lawmakers want to be able to negotiate the finer points of the agreement.

An ethics bill signed this past summer puts ethics investigations for both the legislative and executive branches in the hands of the Joint Commission on Public Ethics.

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.

NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio challenged his predecessor, former Mayor Mike Bloomberg, on his work ethic, saying he needs a bigger staff of special assistants because his agenda is more ambitious than Bloomberg's was.

Hiram Monserrate proves his willingness to take on his colleagues and also praised him for pushing an ethics reform bill, although the measure didn't go nearly as far as the paper (or the governor and most good government groups, for that matter) had hoped.

Interestingly, Paladino is on the same page here with the NY Times editorial board, which also called recently for Cuomo to introduce an omnibus ethics bill sometime during his first week in office.

233 regarding healthcare reform, 125 on poverty and public assistance, 112 crime fighting bills, 97 economic bills, 60 human rights and anti-discrimination bills, 21 ethics reform bills, 15 gun control, 6 veterans affairs and many others.

The investigation also found that Ponte, in violation of city ethics rules, drove his city - issued car 18,500 miles on trips to and from coastal Maine and billed taxpayers for gas and tolls.

The Senate and Assembly each passed their own one - house ethics reform bills earlier this year, but their leaders have failed to reach a deal on the issue.

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.

Catsimatidis in the radio interview with Talk 1300's Fred Dicker said he had not spoken to Cuomo about the bill and that it was his idea to contact ethics regulators at the Joint Commission on Public Ethics to receive approval for the trip.

A debate over a massive education, labor and ethics bill lasted for more than six hours in the chamber on Tuesday and Assembly Republicans called a conference on a capital projects spending bill at 10 minutes to midnight.

As for ethics disclosure in the budget, Senate Republicans were poised to make an agreement on a bill that would require revealing outside legal clients, a move already backed by Assembly Democrats.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo released his 30 - day budget amendments, which jammed the Legislature by stuffing ever more policy (particularly ethics reforms) into appropriations bills, on Feb. 21 — almost two weeks ago.

Cuomo put the bill on the table late in the legislative session after it had become clear that the majority of the ethics reforms he proposed in his State of the State address would not pass in the Legislature, especially the Republican - controlled Senate.

Spitzer said he was a «f — ing steamroller» who would roll over Tedisco as he criticized the governor for cutting him out of negotiations on an ethics enforcement bill.

The ethics refresher was ordered as the burgeoning federal probe into police corruption has resulted in the transfers of nine officers, including eight high - level supervisors, many of them stripped of their guns and badges, for their dealings with two wealthy Brooklyn businessmen who are also large donors to Mayor Bill de Blasio and were on his Inauguration Team.

Cuomo, whose staff has been holding secret talks with aides to legislative leaders on the proposal, will turn up the heat by introducing his own ethics bill in the Legislature, which would force lawmakers to say if they support it or not.

On Tuesday, the second - term lawmaker also slammed lawmakers in both houses for failing to include pension forfeiture bills in ethics reform packages earlier this year.

ALBANY — Mayor Bill de Blasio's political nonprofit group sought to convince a judge here on Wednesday that it should not be compelled to respond to a subpoena from a state ethics panel.

All of the proposals on Mr. Cuomo's ethics wish list must be approved by the Legislature, which has declined to pass similar bills in the past.

On Wednesday both the Democrat - led Assembly and the GOP - controlled Senate took up rival state budget bills that contained only modest proposals when it comes to ethics or corruption.

If the Legislature continues to drag its feet on ethics reform, even after a bill is introduced, Cuomo has another weapon he is threatening to use.

On that August day in 2011 when he signed the bill into law, there was no hint that the new ethics commission was anything short of a miraculous cure.

Touted as the key ethics measure approved at the end of the legislative session in June, the bill has been opposed by good - government organizations for failing to address the root causes of corruption in state government and placing an overdue burden on non-profit entities.

With the Memorial Day weekend approaching, Cuomo did not release any new program bills for ethics and campaign finance reform, but did lament while on Long Island the existing loopholes in the law.

From the creation of an independent commission on government ethics, to increasing financial disclosure, to stripping pensions from public officials convicted of felonies (Governor Cuomo says he is going to introduce a bill on this as well, but hasn't to date.)

After 97 % of those surveyed by Siena indicate they desired real ethics reform measures be enacted we get Beagle bills, cat declawing legislation, Daily fantasy sports, the right to drink on Sunday morning and a lot of sorry excuses and finger pointing concerning ethics in government.

Schneiderman was on Long Island on Friday, and said he was confident there was enough time to pass his ethics bill, calling three weeks at the Capitol a lifetime.

As of Sunday morning, neither the massive education, labor and family assistance bill or the ethics bill has appeared in print — meaning both will likely require a message of necessity from Cuomo to waive the required three - day aging process if officials want to meet Tuesday's on - time budget deadline.

Daniel Horwitz, who chaired the ethics panel that investigated NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio's fundraising activities, said he was stunned when the mayor rejected his nomination by the state's chief judge to serve on a judicial screening panel.

After running on a platform of ethics reform, he has introduced bills to prevent elected officials from «double dipping» by collecting retirement while still in office and increasing a legislator's term from two to four years.

Following his comments on the ongoing investigation, Cuomo told reporters that ethics reform is among the bills he wants passed and on his desk to sign before State Legislators adjourn later this month.

«What the public is hungry for, post Shelly Silver, is ethics reform — specifically, the pension forfeiture bill that was agreed to last year and promptly reneged on by the Assembly,» said Rich Azzopardi, a spokesman for the Democratic governor.

The meeting, he said, represented the first opportunity that any ethics reform bill was voted on this year.

«I wish I could say the crap that came out about Shelly and Skelos is enough to get the governor and legislature to do something real on election reform and ethics, but left to their own devices they are going to pass some Mickey - Mouse bill that tinkers around the edges,» he said.

ALBANY — State lawmakers were assembling the skeleton of a long - awaited deal on a number of issues on Thursday evening, including a one - year extension of Mayor Bill de Blasio's control of New York City schools and an ethics reform measure that would strip state pensions from elected officials convicted of a felony.

Cuomo campaigned last year on a promise to limit Albany's «pay to play» culture, part of which is addressed in an ethics bill he and the Legislature approved this year.

Cuomo signed Albany's latest iteration of an ethics bill on Wednesday, but good - government groups were deeply critical of the measure's provisions.

The DN on the ethics reform bill: «Although afflicted by loopholes and escape hatches, it's a world better than Albany's current schmutz.»

Deputy Senate Majority Leader John DeFrancisco on Thursday in a radio interview decried what he sees as «out of control» disclosure laws after Gov. Andrew Cuomo signed the latest ethics bill into law.