Sentences with phrase «own ethics package»

``... What is important right now is continuing to restore the confidence of the public and how we do that is we make sure the ethics package that the governor's putting forward comes out and we support it and move forward so that things like this don't happen.»

The Daily News reported today that Silver and the governor have agreed to an ethics package could give the Public Integrity Commission, which oversees the executive branch, the power to investigate the Legislature as well.

Deputy Senate Majority Leader Tom Libous said the Republican conference would take up an ethics package later this session, but he said it's unclear what the final bill would look like.

Updated X2: Senate Democratic spokesman Austin Shafran says, «We passed ethics reform last year that contained many similar components to this year's ethics package.

A breakaway group of five state Senate Democrats who have been aligned with the Republicans are set to reintroduce an ethics package that would ban state public officials from receiving any outside income following Silver's corruption conviction.

As the Governor has said, he will not enact a budget that doesn't include an ethics package with real disclosure of legislator's outside income, and he meant it.»

The Senate Democrats» ethics package announced earlier this month includes tighter regulations on campaign spending.

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Susan Lerner, the executive director of the good - government group Common Cause New York, said the ethics package in this year's state budget did not include any provisions to address the types of campaign spending the Moreland Commission was investigating.

Hempstead Town Councilwoman Erin King Sweeney said she intends to sue Hempstead Supervisor Anthony Santino to challenge an income cap contained in an ethics package the town board passed last week.

Gibson in Binghamton on Thursday praised the Assembly Republicans for their ethics package, which has included stripping those convicted of corruption of their pensions, as well as term limits.

Klein and Cuomo had sought public finance and other reforms, as part of a budget deal, but in the end settled for a more limited ethics package that would strengthen the regulation of campaign violations and enact stiffer anti bribery laws.

Negotiations about some ethics package that could be praised as acceptable by all sides and relegate the Moreland Commission to irrelevance apparently stalled before the latest political conflict erupted.

Onondaga County Comptroller Bob Antonacci believes that his lawsuit over pay raises sparked these ethics packages.

There are reasons to doubt the claims that this ethics package will make sweeping changes.

On the other hand, the Senate Republican majority doesn't have an ethics package.

Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie also recommitted to closing the loophole in his opening remarks for the 2016 session, and the Assembly passed it once again as part of a broad ethics package, this time nearly unanimously.

«So, I'm very confident we'll all get there and have a strong ethics package and an on - time budget.

Republican candidate for governor Rob Astorino on Monday unveiled a 10 - point ethics package, his first major policy push since announcing his campaign.

But 77 percent of voters upstate polled said they agreed with critics of the state budget agreement that the ethics package did not go far enough.

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.

The ethics package that produced the pilot public campaign finance program for the state comptroller race also included the shuttering of Governor Cuomo's Moreland Act Commission, which was in the midst of probing possible corruption cases.

In a nutshell, it looks like a disappointment: the ethics package approval process was another instance of Albany's opaque, backroom dealing, and the governor's «dramatic» five - point plan will do far too little to raise the veil of secrecy that contributes to Albany's pervasive culture of corruption.

It's the third standard Cuomo has set this year for an end - of - session ethics package, and with just one week before the state Legislature leaves Albany, he's hoping it's one that can be cleared with minimal fuss and maximum bragging rights.

Mr. Cuomo, who fashioned himself as a political reformer from the day he launched his 2010 bid for governor in front of Tweed Courthouse, included his renewal of the order as part of an ethics package adopted on his first day in office.

The governor says he always intended for the commission to end once he achieved an agreement on an ethics package.

Several senators, including Skelos, earn hundreds of thousands of dollars a year in outside income from private law firms, and if the governor's ethics package is adopted, would have to disclose more details, including names of their clients.

The ads, which begin with Cuomo speaking directly into the camera, focus on the governor's pitch for his tax cut plan and an ethics package that includes public financing of political campaigns and a crack down on bribery.

More substantially, Kaminsky had a seat at the table as an ethics package was negotiated last month.

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Assemblyman Brian Kolb, leader of that chamber's minority Republicans, said the «watered - down ethics package» that was enacted «hardly scratches the surface of what we need to do to restore public trust.»

Since then, there have been quite a few high - profile legislative corruption cases, and when lawmakers balked at passing Cuomo's ethics package to address that, he created a Moreland Commission to investigate them.

The governor and lawmakers also agreed on an ethics package.

The Florida Constitution Revision Commission advanced a sweeping ethics package, which includes a proposed six - year lobbying ban for former state lawmakers, agency heads and local government officials.

«The Independent Democratic Conference has put forth a serious ethics package to ban outside income and reform the per diem system,» said IDC spokeswoman Candice Giove.

Cuomo is planning to begin a Moreland Act Commission to investigate campaign finance violations at the state Board of Elections if lawmakers do not approve an ethics package.

Let's get it done,» Schneiderman said when unveiling his ethics package.

Cuomo introduced an ethics package in his $ 142 billion budget that calls for stricter anti-bribery and corruption penalties as well as increased oversight at the state Board of Elections.

Not discussed in the meeting was any potential for a new ethics package following the arrest of Skelos on charges that he used his official power to help his adult son's business interests.

The ethics package comes as lawmakers in Albany this legislative session have been largely focused on the economic measures Cuomo is touting: A $ 15 minimum wage and a proposed 12 - week paid family leave program.

The Siena college survey asked voters about Cuomo's plan to make the state budget late if the legislature doesn't agree to an ethics package that includes fuller disclosure of lawmakers» outside income.

ALBANY — Governor Andrew Cuomo announced late Tuesday that he and Assembly Democrats have agreed on an ethics package that would require legislators to disclose their business and law clients and to use swipe cards to prove they were in Albany on days when they claim per diem expenses.

During a speech at New York University, Governor Andrew Cuomo reiterated the government ethics package he outlined in his State of the State address, but then said he would not sign a state budget that fails to include it.

The governor had previously reached an accord with Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver on the framework for an ethics package, but as the Times Union reported, Republicans balked over the composition of the JCOPE.

Much of the work by the Moreland Commission is ongoing, the report says, but it hopes its recommendations will fuel discussions between the governor and top legislators over a new ethics package that has been under discussion by Cuomo and top lawmakers for months.

Hempstead Town Councilwoman Erin King Sweeney said Thursday that she intends to sue Hempstead Supervisor Anthony Santino to challenge an income cap contained in an ethics package the town board passed last week.

The new contract comes as the commission is bogged down by reports of gubernatorial interference and a sense that it could simply become cover for a negotiated ethics package.

But lawmakers are angry because Cuomo has targeted the legislature for failing to adopt his ethics package.

The governor's now pushing a host of remedies, including a new legislative ethics package.

Town board members approved Santino's ethics package by a 4 - 3 vote Tuesday during a marathon eight - hour public hearing, with King Sweeney, Blakeman and Councilman Ed Ambrosino dissenting.