Sentences with phrase «said ethics changes»

Cuomo, who has said ethics changes are a top priority as he negotiates a budget, said the agreement matches the five principles he sketched out after the arrest and ouster of former Assembly speaker Sheldon Silver.

Not exact matches

Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan in a statement Tuesday said he would be willing to discuss «additional changes» to the state's ethics and transparency laws after the guilty verdict in the corruption case of Joe Percoco, a former close aide to Gov. Andrew Cuomo.

In the interview, Stewart - Cousins said she he had hoped the Senate's one - house budget resolution went further on issues such as criminal justice reform, ethics and climate change, saying those subjects should be dealt with in the finalized spending plan.

Blair Horner, with the New York Public Interest Research Group says it's an attempt to break the gridlock on ethics changes.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo said one of the reasons he is actively campaigning for Democrats to take over the New York State Senate is that he believes he will have more success getting ethics changes done without the GOP in charge.

Government reform groups say they are not optimistic, though, that ethics changes will end up being part of the budget.

Some say the bill seeks to stifle contributions to issue advocacy groups that campaign for changes to environmental, education, criminal justice, government ethics, and other policies.

He said achieving ethics reform and education policy changes remain the top priorities for him in the budget, and that he won't sign a budget without them.

Cuomo says he will pursue new ethics changes when the legislature reconvenes in January, but he did not detail what they might be.

On the legislature, Lafazan says he'd use his extraordinary surplus of energy to advocate for changes like strict term limits and ethics reform.

He said it «underscores that the changes made to the ethics code with great fanfare last summer are wholly insufficient.

Kaehny said the governor would have had to spend large amounts of political capital to achieve the ethics changes, without a lot of immediate credit from the public.

«Governor Cuomo campaigned on restoring honesty and ethics to Albany, but when it comes to transit nothing much has changed,» Executive Director Paul Steely White, said in a statement.

Cuomo's appointees, who dominate the commission, said if the Legislature did not make ethics changes that Cuomo is seeking, there would be no pay raise.

Kolb had said earlier this week — after the Democrat - led Assembly rejected his proposed ethics - law changes — that he would seek to invite the prosecutor to Albany.

The governor's remarks, made at an Easter egg hunt at the executive mansion, are a change from what Cuomo said in late March when asked about the chances for ethics reform.

Lawmakers won't be called back for a special session to pass more ethics and campaign - finance reform measures, as Gov. Andrew Cuomo says he would like to see broader changes included in a constitutional convention.

Governor Cuomo says he wants ethics reform and campaign finance changes passed if the legislature does return to Albany for a special session this year.

Cuomo said that he wanted a special session to tackle sweeping ethics and campaign - finance reform changes, including the public financing of political campaigns as well as a cap on outside pay and banning employment of state lawmakers from firms that have business before the state.

However Cuomo's approval rating is relatively strong, at 57 %, and Greenberg says if the governor actually achieves ethics reform and some of his more popular education changes, the public is likely to back that.

In each of his State of the State speeches Cuomo has used the capitol building as a metaphor for something that was once glorious and can be restored; he has said he wants to re-establish New York «the progressive capital of the nation»; he has touted the number of on - time budgets he and the legislature have delivered (this year he'll say four in a row and counting); he has demanded more teacher accountability but explained new changes he's seeking; and, he has stressed a need for ethics rules overhaul and campaign finance reform while mentioning unsavory headlines.

«Albany has been rocked by scandal after scandal, and yet the Senate continues to bury their heads in the sand and refuses to take action,» Senate Democratic Leader Andrea Stewart - Cousins said of the need for stronger ethics law changes in the wake of the latest round of corruption cases in Albany.

«We have over the last five years... we have made very significant changes in the law,» Flanagan said of past ethics reforms.

He said at the top of his agenda will be ethics changes to respond to a string of corruption scandals.

Meanwhile on Monday, Astorino unveiled a 10 - point ethics proposal, calling for term limits, a shorter legislative session and other changes that he says will help combat government corruption.

But another source said the updated filings have more to do with a change made to ensure the firm is meeting the expanded definition of lobbying put into place last year by the state ethics commission.

Zephyr Teachout, a Fordham Law professor whose speciality is corruption and 2014 primary opponent of Cuomo's, said that the Skelos indictment shows that none of Cuomo's smaller ethics initiatives have actually changed the climate of corruption in Albany.

«We're not going to pass a budget, we're not going to end this session, without having changed the ethics rules that relate to what people do in terms of outside income — whether it's the level of outside income they have or, more importantly, making sure that people can't use their public office in a way to benefit themselves privately,» Morelle said.

He says at the top of his agenda will be ethics changes to respond to a string of corruption scandals.

Though the ethics changes passed in the budget were blasted as half - loaf policies, he showed he had the muscle to get legislators to sign off on the reforms he said he wanted.

It's hard to give advice or recommend changes when she couldn't review how the ethics law was being administered, she said.

ALBANY — Top lawmakers emerged from a private meeting with Governor Andrew Cuomo today saying they might consider proposals to change the state laws on ethics and education as standalone bills, despite Cuomo's attempt to bake language into his $ 141.6 billion spending proposal.

«If he's introducing ethics reform when I didn't even have a chance to look at it, it became very clear that they didn't want to make changes,» Feldman said.

In a direct confrontation with a Legislature controlled by his own party, Mr. Cuomo, a Democrat, said he would pressure lawmakers this fall to state publicly whether they would embrace essential ethics changes, including disclosing their outside income, ceding control of redistricting to an independent panel and submitting to an outside ethics monitor.»

In a letter to the Public Interest Research Group dated May 16, the ethics commission said Mr. Sachs's calls on behalf of Mount Sinai Queens did not constitute lobbying because he had made them before the department formally decided to consider the rule change.

Bellone said Suffolk County needs an outside partner «with expertise on government reform and ethics» to hold public hearings and develop a series of changes that can be put before voters in a 2018 referendum.

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.

On Sunday, with a weekend to mull Friday's news, Horner said it's difficult to tell how the push for ethics reforms changes now, if it changes at all.

DeSena cites jobs and the economy as his main focus, but he said he would also prioritize tax, budget and ethics reform, and that he hopes to work with other legislators from both parties to affect real change.

«Somethings never change - the Assembly is against ethics reform and the Senate is for millionaires,» Azzopardi said.

Cuomo said he will pursue new ethics changes when the legislature reconvenes in January, but he did not detail what they might be.

Hawkins says the recent New York Times article that says a senior aide to Cuomo, Lawrence Schwartz, put pressure on an ethics inquiry commission shows the system needs to change.

He also says Cuomo has tried to link too many unrelated and difficult issues, including ethics and education changes, to the state spending plan.

Cuomo says at the top of his agenda will be ethics changes to respond to a string of corruption scandals.

While Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo and much of the Albany establishment opposed the measure, many good - government types said a constitutional convention would be the best way to break down institutional corruption in Albany by forcing changes in campaign finance and ethics laws that state legislature would never approve.

«I do think that you'll see ethics changes, substantial ethics changes before the end of session,» he said.»

«If you don't have a strong school culture and a strong work ethic, you're not going to be able to just put a child in front of a computer and expect to change their performance,» DeBoer said.

There is no other way to account for the way they are changing the conversation about gun violence in this country other than to say that they have incredible intellectual skills and a work ethic that drives them to excellence.

PS — One more note, having worked for a few firms that were ethics - challenged as far as accounting and sales practices went, I can say that trying to promote change from inside is tough.

Aldo Leopold said it best when he wrote, «[A] land ethic changes the role of Homo Sapiens from conqueror of the land - community to plain member and citizen of it.