Sentences with phrase «own ethics bill»

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.

And Cuomo has threatened to use a Moreland Commission in order to get an ethics bill.

But I am convinced there will be an ethics bill, a strong ethics bill and we should do it.»

Cuomo has been negotiating behind closed doors with legislative leaders over an ethics bill for weeks now (much to the chargin of the NY Times editorial page, which called over the weekend for these talks to go public).

Without his skillful use of the bully pulpit and sage tactics at the negotiating table, traditional Albany dysfunction probably would have dealt this ethics bill a mortal wound months ago.

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.

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.

But with the new ethics bill (apparently about to be signed into law by Gov. Andrew Cuomo) requiring new disclosure of outside income, that's looking like a less attractive option for some senators and assembly members.

An ethics bill New York Governor Andrew Cuomo says will increase accountability and transparency was signed into law Wednesday.

We need a strong ethics bill that will do more than it has in the past.»

The outside income issue came up during a 2010 show, recorded during negotiations over an ethics bill with then - Governor David Paterson.

The ethics bill was the latest attempt by Cuomo and legislators to respond to the wave of investigations, arrests and convictions that have tainted state government for nearly a decade, starting with the arrest of former state Comptroller Alan Hevesi in a probe that revealed state pension fund bribes and kickbacks.

The marathon 20 hours of wheeling and dealing behind closed doors produced votes to approve a last - minute ethics bill, a mandate to test school drinking water supplies for lead, money for SUNY and CUNY, more money and operating flexibility for charter schools, $ 570 million for «supportive housing» for the homeless, and continued state control of the New York Racing Association until October 2017.

Cuomo did not release the new ethics bill until shortly before 2 a.m..

«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.

Republican Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos earlier in the day said he expected an ethics bill to be introduced as early as this evening.

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.

«They haven't introduced a proposal for ethics reform,» Gianaris said (Republicans have introduced ethics bills, including one seemingly aimed at having the governor's girlfriend, Sandra Lee of the Food Network, release her financial information.

The time has come for the Republican Majority to finally join with the Senate Democrats and pass the ethics bills we have introduced and supported for years,» she said in a statement.

Asked how she could get her new ethics bill passed by a Republican Congress, Slaughter said: «Only if»60 Minutes» takes it up — and we've talked to them about it.»

Dick Dadey, executive director, Citizens Union, called the ethics bill an uninspiring answer to much larger corruption problems due to its «small solutions and bigger disclosure loopholes.»

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.

The ethics bill was «stunningly inadequate» in a year of «unprecedented» lawmaker lawbreaking, said New York Public Interest Research Group director Blair Horner.

ALBANY, N.Y. — One day after signing his fourth ethics bill into law since taking office as governor, Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Thursday there's still more work that's needed to be done.

The ethics bill specifically authorizes the board to retain private counsel in situations where there is a conflict of interest.

As Cuomo negotiated the ethics bill — which delegates no authority to the attorney general — Schneiderman in late May reached an agreement with Comptroller Tom DiNapoli.

The new ethics bill would temporarily halt any current investigations by the Public Integrity Commission, including the probe into former SUNY Research head John O'Connor.

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.

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

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.

If the legislators were serious about reform (which they are not), they could simply pass ethics bills in each house outside the budget process and present it to Cuomo for signature.

Flanagan is getting involved in the race to keep former Sen. Dean Skelos» Long Island seat in Republican hands — blasting the Democratic candidate, Assemblyman Todd Kaminsky, for his backing of an ethics bill that would boost legislative pay.

Moreland Commissions have their place — and they're a powerful tool — but I think they'll stay in the Governor's back pocket regardless of whether an ethics bill is passed.

Although passed by the Legislature in the 2011 ethics bill, several lawmakers have been concerned about this unprecedented disclosure of their personal income.

The Senate and Assembly draft their own small - bore ethics bills bound for nowhere, and everyone hopes the issue slides into oblivion.

After all, it worked for him with the highly imperfect ethics bill he passed in June.

The governor insists that he'd declared from the outset that he'd shutter the commission when the Legislature passed an ethics bill, and that's true.

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.

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.

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 governor and members of his administration are traveling the state to drum up support for the cap, along with an ethics bill and same - sex marriage legalization.

In roughly 10 minute address, Duffy reminded the crowd that Cuomo is beginning a statewide tour drumming up support for gay marriage, along with a legislative ethics bill and a property tax cap.

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.

The video comes as the governor travels to Syracuse today at noon to pitch voters on his tax cap, as well as an ethics bill and the legalization of gay marriage.

and he says it provided the «stimulus» to pass a new ethics bill, which Cuomo called «historic reform.»

The ethics bill trumpeted by Gov. Cuomo as a historic step toward reforming New York government highlights nothing so much as how allergic the Legislature is to sunlight.

Any responsible ethics bill has to require full disclosure.

So the ethics bill is a major step forward.

«The interesting part was the second item, which said the reason the ethics bill is not happening is because Senator [Michael] Nozzolio has a law firm and doesn't want to reveal his clients.

«They said this was the smallest part of the ethics bill,» said Angelo Mazzone, owner of 677 Prime in Albany and the Glen Sanders mansion in Scotia, «but we think it's important.»