Sentences with phrase «week on the ethics»

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As it happens, I gave a presentation last week (with pharmacist and blogger Scott Gavura) on the ethics of marketing complementary and alternative medicines, including things like herbal supplements.

The company spent roughly $ 2.1 million to lobby the U.S. government between Jan. 1 and March 31, including on issues such as trade and tariffs, according to an ethics report filed last week.

We have expanded the essays on our web site to include short book reviews, and I thought he would be a good candidate for some of the offerings in ethics and philosophy that we receive from publishers every week.

The MORAL LIFE AND THE CLASSICAL TRADITION SEMINAR is a week - long program for advanced high school students interested in the origins of Western moral thought and its influence on Christian ethics.

Moving forward with the series, I'd like to spend just a few more weeks focusing on the specific topic of homosexuality, before we move into other aspects of human sexuality, like singleness, «purity,» sexual ethics, marriage, and so on.

INDIANAPOLIS — South Carolina coach Steve Spurrier made a stir last week on NFL AM in describing defensive end Jadeveon Clowney's work ethic as just «OK,» and ranking the soon - to - be first - round draft pick's work habits behind those of several form... more

- February 24, 2014 Following the increase of internet - based co-ops for cloth diaper imports, the San Diego - based nonprofit Real Diaper Association issued a report this week following our investigation into the legality, ethics, and sustainability of such co-ops on the long - term practice of cloth diapering in the US and Canada.

After good - government groups criticized the ethics legislation he signed into law this week, Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Thursday acknowledged more work needed to be done the issue.

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.

Assemblyman Todd Kaminsky is doubling down on his commitment to push legislation addressing ethics reform in Albany if elected to the State Senate during next week's special election.

Last week on Capital Tonight, Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos said ethics reform should include the executive branch, and today, Speaker Sheldon Silver called the effectiveness of the governor's tour across the state «irrelevant.»

Three weeks to go before the budget is expected to pass in Albany and lawmakers and Gov. Andrew Cuomo have not spent much time publicly dwelling on ethics reform, a perennial issue that is often the subject of a hammered - out compromise.

Updated: The Assembly will consider the ethics legislation outside of the one - house budget resolution, but both measures will be voted on next week.

Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie expects to include ethics legislation along with the Democratic - led Assembly's one - house budget resolution when it is voted on next week, he said at a Crain's New York breakfast.

Cuomo and Heastie struck a two - way deal on ethics last week, but Skelos has not yet signed on.

State Sen. Tony Avella (D - Bayside) and state Assemblyman Edward Braunstein (D - Bayside) said they were focusing on the state budget and ethics reform after being sworn into office last week.

The six - member board of the umbrella New York Empowerment Zone, which includes Rangel, unanimously approved the money to Dominicana on June 29 — just weeks before the House charged the embattled Democratic lawmaker with a litany of ethics violations.

The lawmakers had last week summoned US Envoy, Mr James Entwistle to appear before its ethics, priviledges and foreign affairs committee in futherance of allegations leveled against its three members who were on official programme in Cleveland, Ohio last April

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.

The field of candidates eyeing northeast Queens» 19th City Council District seat grew larger this week as its embattled incumbent, who will not seek re-election, faces an ethics probe on allegations that he had affairs with a former intern and former deputy chief of staff.

He added that if an agreement is reached on ethics reform legislation, broader deals could be reached on the budget, due next week.

In the past week, three agencies announced they were investigating Assemblywoman Naomi Rivera for putting her lovers on the public payroll, and a state ethics panel charged Assemblyman Vito Lopez with sexually harassing female aides.

But in recent weeks, Cuomo had said he would sacrifice the passage of an on - time budget if it meant the inclusion of ethics legislation (new disclosure requirements, per diem and campaign finance reforms were included).

The embattled congressman talked about how difficult it is for him to keep mum on the details of pretty much anything, but said he has been instructed by his attorneys not to discuss the ethics charges against him until they are made public next week.

Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver has been insisting for weeks now that he and Gov. Andrew Cuomo have a deal on ethics, while Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos has been characterized as the big sticking point.

Last week, Cuomo successfully pulled Speaker Heastie into the fold on ethics when the Democratic duo announced a two - way agreement that left Senate Republicans on the sidelines.

This week the new ethics watchdog, the Joint Commission on Public Ethics, picked a new executive director.

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.

Liz adds: Jacobs told me on «Capital Tonight» yesterday that the party will approve a resolution at the convention this week calling for ethics reform in Albany.

An administration official told the Times Union on Monday that panel appointees of the executive and judicial branch indicated at their meeting last week that they have soured on the idea of a raise for two reasons: because only two lawmakers have formally stated their case to the commission this year, and because ethics reforms approved this year have been lambasted as not properly addressing recent corruption.

Take earlier this week, when Trump's tweets made House Republicans perform a major switcheroo on ethics reform and the Ford Motor Co. backed off on a new plant for Mexico — all within a few hours.

Earlier in the week, Heastie embraced the governor and held a joint press conference with Cuomo on ethics.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo told the Observer today that Attorney General Eric Schneiderman is «late in the day» with the massive End New York Corruption Now Act ethics proposal he released earlier this week, given that the legislative session will end on June 17.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo in his January State of the State and budget address introduced a package of ethics measures, but has largely focused in recent weeks on increasing the state's minimum wage to $ 15 and creating a 12 - week paid family leave program.

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 U.S. Senate Republicans embark on a flurry of confirmation hearings this week, several of Trump's appointees have yet to complete the background checks and ethics clearances customarily required before the Senate begins to consider cabinet - level nominees.

The move suggested a larger push to reach a deal on ethics reform measures before the budget is due to pass next week.

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.

Corruption charges brought against a member of the state Senate Republican majority Wednesday have provided an opportunity for Democrats to jumpstart the seemingly dormant conversation on government ethics as state budget negotiations enter their final week.

Sen. Bob Menendez says he won't resign, launches attack on Republican opponent Democratic Sen. Bob Menendez, in his first press conference a week after being «severely admonished» by the Senate's ethics committee, said he has no plans to resign and launched an attack on his likely Republican opponent in November, calling him «unethical.»

But there in last week's weekly mailing was two - and - a-half-term minority party assemblyman and sate Senate candidate George Amedore Jr. taking credit for capping property taxes, repealing the MTA payroll tax, passing pension reform, enacting ethics reform and balancing not one but two budgets «delivered on time.»

While JCOPE is an improvement on its predecessor, the ethics enforcement agency was criticized this week for neglecting to focus on legislators» behavior in their home districts — for instance, Pedro Espada's embezzlement scandal, which occurred not in Albany but in Espada's home district in the Bronx.

Nothing on ethics, although an administration source said something new is coming this week.

For the next eight weeks, the governor did nothing on ethics, mentioning it only in response to reporters» questions.

Despite an ethics probe into his efforts on behalf of Innate Immunotherapeutics an Australian biotech firm, which is expected to culminate in a report in the coming week, Rep. Chris Collins has stepped up his outside business interests.

Nassau's lame - duck Board of Ethics has rebuffed District Attorney Madeline Singas» request for an opinion on the legality of partisan governmental mailings even as the county attorney acknowledged this week that the board's current membership does not conform with Nassau's revised ethics code.

Though the Democratic governor and lawmakers have given few specifics on the ethics measure, some details were made known this week.

Cuomo has said ethics reforms are on the «top» of his agenda, and in Rochester this week, the governor said the state should «remove the pensions of public employees who are convicted of a felony.»

The announcement comes after many weeks of silence from the Legislature and Gov. Cuomo on ethics reform despite the fact that the leaders of both legislative houses were indicted and convicted on multiple federal counts of corruption last year.