Sentences with phrase «pass new ethics laws»

«To clean up the government and restore trust we need to pass a new ethics law that mandates transparency and full disclosure,» Cuomo says.

«To clean up the government and restore trust we need to pass a new ethics law that mandates transparency and full disclosure.

To clean up the government and restore trust with New Yorkers, we need to pass a new ethics law that mandates transparency and full disclosure as well as a law that calls for a real independent monitor.

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Professor E. F. Scott, however, passes a not unfair judgment on James: «Conceiving of the new message as a «law,» and not as a power which creates a new life, he misses what is deepest, both in the Christian religion and the Christian ethic.»

After lawmakers failed to pass the ethics reforms he proposed last year — including closing the LLC loophole — Cuomo formed a Moreland Commission to investigate corruption and recommend new campaign finance laws.

«We must prove once again that state government can be trusted, and that means passing tough new ethics laws and creating a system that deters, detects and punishes individuals who seek to abuse and corrupt,» he said last week in a

Mayor Steve Noble said this week he will sign a new ethics law that passed a divided Common Council earlier

While a federal lawsuit unfolds, Attorney General Eric Schneiderman has agreed not to enforce certain provisions of a new state ethics law passed requiring charitable organizations giving money to lobbying campaigns to disclose far more of their donors, according to the plaintiffs in the suit.

Despite the string of arrests doing little to help Albany's reputation for corruption, Gov. Andrew Cuomo and the new state legislative leaders acknowledge there is little they can do to stem the arrests by passing new ethics and anti-corruption laws.

The foundations of the American Civil Liberties Union and the New York Civil Liberties Union have jointly filed a lawsuit saying an ethics law passed by the Legislature earlier this year violated the First and Fourth amendments.

However, in June 2011 Cuomo reached a deal with the Legislature that started a new ethics body - the Joint Commission on Public Ethics (JCOPE)- and passed a law to require stricter disclosure on legislators» outside income.

New Jersey provides some hope that states with troubled histories can reduce corruption, even if they can't eliminate it, by passing aggressive ethics laws with strong oversight.

State lawmakers have meanwhile over the last six years passed a raft of new ethics and anti-corruption laws aimed at boosting transparency and accountability.

Mayor Steve Noble said this week he will sign a new ethics law that passed a divided Common Council earlier this month.

There's been little public talk by Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie or Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan during the legislative session, about passing tough new ethics laws, and no reforms have been approved by the Legislature.

FPI's Executive Director, Ron Deutsch joins Barbara Bartoletti, Legislative Director for the League of Women Voters of New York State and Blair Horner, Executive Director of NYPIRG on WCNY News to discuss the failure of lawmakers to pass contract procurement and ethic reforms and voting laws.