Sentences with phrase «when ethics committees»

It is sad when ethics committees turn away from the responsibility of helping ordinary people think clearly about moral issues.

«I have to wait until after my primary to find about when the ethics committee intends to have a hearing,» Rangel said of the New York primary vote on September 14.

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«Since 2007 when the legislative ethics committee started, you have long line of senators and assemblymen who have gotten into trouble.

Evidence of the backroom deal began to emerge on Fri., Aug. 24, when Assemblyman Vito Lopez, of Brooklyn, was implicated in the sexual harassment of two female employees following an internal investigation by the Assembly's ethics committee.

But when the Times Union recently requested records related to the ethics committee's work since 2012, the town said it had nothing to provide.

When the 1922 committee looked into the Howard Flight affair it concluded that Howard flight was denied natural justice and that Michael Howard and the Chief whip did not have the power to withdraw the whip on a matter pertaining to the ethics and integrity of an MP.

When more women lodged graphic accusations not long after, Silver's patience — or Lopez's usefulness — appears to have been exhausted, with the new complaint being referred to the legislative ethics committee.

Things got a bit heated when he asked about political campaigns «laundering» money through 501 (c)(4) s — a clear reference to the pro-Cuomo Committee to Save New York — and was abruptly cut off by JCOPE Chair / Westchester County DA Janet DiFiore, who was hand - picked by the governor to head the ethics watchdog.

House Minority Leader John Boehner (R - Ohio) introduced a bill Thursday calling for the House ethics committee to restart its probe of ex-Representative Eric Massa (D - N.Y.), as Republicans seek to focus attention on what Democratic leaders knew about Massa's behavior and when they knew it.

Most of Rangel's legislative success, including the historic ObamaCare bill, came when he was chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee from 2007 to 2010, before he stepped down during the ethics probe.

When the new legislative session began in Albany earlier this month, there was an immediate shake - up of the long - dormant state Senate ethics committee, throwing the always - simmering chamber to a quick boil.

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Fact 1: Republicans control both houses of Congress Fact 2: A Republican controlled ethics committee voted THREE TIMES to censure Tom Delay for ethics violations Fact 3: The Republican leadership, not liking this, removed the Republican on the committee who was voting to censure Delay and replaced him with a Republican who accepted Delay's leftover campaign money for his own campaign Fact 4: The Republicans further tried to shield Delay by making a change to the rules to allow a Congressman under indictment to retain their leadership post, relenting only when Democrats had a field day trumpeting that little change in the media

Pelosi said she did not know what direction the ethics committee will take when it unveils its specific charges against Rangel on Thursday afternoon.

Walker - Smith claimed to have approval from the hospital's ethics committee and, with another doctor, confirmed this when challenged in February 2004 by a Sunday Times investigation by me.

When a 2008 initiative, Measure 10, which would have banned the use of tax money for campaigns or lobbying and restricted political contributions by government contractors was defeated, its committee chair Jim Anderson noted, «We'll be able to prepare accordingly next time, knowing that the real opposition to ethics reform in South Dakota is NEA union officials back east.»

The ABA addressed the need for change and to modernize ethics rules in 1969, when its Special Committee on Evaluation of Ethical Standards issued the Model Code of Professional Responsibility.

Vermont «s ethics committee holds websites to record - keeping standards, requiring you to keep a copy for two years with a record of when and where it was used.

Accordingly, the Committee concludes that lawyers have a reasonable expectation of privacy when communicating by e-mail maintained by an OSP, a conclusion that also has been reached by at least one case as well as state bar ethics committees and commentators.35

Mr. Lowell has been counsel to the US House of Representatives twice, most recently when he was Chief Minority Counsel during impeachment proceedings against President Clinton and before that as special ethics counsel to the House Committee of Standards of Official Conduct (Ethics Committee).

Not only are they unlikely to think that, but the investigators and members of ethics committees routinely tell me that they get clearer responses and hearings proceed more smoothly when a lawyer has counsel.

It was suggested that the board replace r 9 with a much simpler rule requiring solicitors to act in accordance with their core duties when entering into referral arrangements and the report resolved to ask the rules and ethics committee to review what changes ought to be made to r 9.

Legal ethics committees across the country have noticed this influx and have issued conflicting, and sometimes confusing, opinions regarding the ethical issues presented when lawyers interact online.

When a Grievance Committee receives a written ethics complaint, it will review the complaint consistent with Sections 19 and 20 of the current NAR Code of Ethics and Arbitration Manual.