Sentences with phrase «with the ethics legislation»

«Governor Cuomo's call for publicly financed elections, when combined with the ethics legislation, is the best way to rebuild trust in government,» Cantor continued.

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Both Price and Gottlieb were questioned on their intimate involvement with biopharmaceutical and health care companies by lawmakers; Price specifically was the subject of sharp ethics questions about his financial investments in medical firms that would also benefit from legislation he was pushing while serving in the House of Representatives.

Some of us disagree with the sexual ethics of orthodox Jews, Christians, and Muslims giving rise to this legislation, but we are unified in our resistance to the government setting up its own system of orthodoxy.

This year Cuomo has started to rely heavily on an ad campaign from the state Democratic Committee, blanketing airwaves with spots promoting his budget plan and, more recently, his ethics overhaul legislation.

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.

These proposals, along with ethics and campaign finance reform legislation passed by the Assembly, demonstrate the strong commitment of the Assembly majority to making positive change in Albany, and I thank Assembly Members Pretlow, Kavanagh and the other members of the Workgroup for the many hours they put into this most important effort.»

But Cuomo has said he would hold up a deal on the state budget this year in order to achieve ethics legislation, with a heavy emphasis on disclosure of outside income.

In an open letter released on Tuesday, Gipson called for a special session to deal with ethics and campaign finance legislation, namely the closing of the loophole in state election that allows for unlimited donations to flow from a web of limited liability companies.

At the moment, no additional information was available on the second agreement announced on Friday along with a package of ethics and lobbying reform legislation.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo included a public financing system, along with a package of ethics reform legislation, in his $ 142 billion budget proposal.

Cuomo has previously reached an agreement with Assembly Democrats on ethics legislation that would create new disclosure requirements, campaign finance regulations and travel reimbursement reform.

In January, Cuomo included the plan, along with a suite of ethics and anti-corruption legislation, in his $ 142 billion budget proposal.

The good government group's lobbyist, Blair Horner, said Leibell's plea should «reignite voter outrage about Albany and spur outgoing Gov. David Paterson to call another special session specifically to deal with comprehensive ethics legislation.

With public corruption and ethics once again moving to the front burner in Albany, Senate Democrats in the coming days plan a renewed push of a their package of ethics legislation in the chamber.

Cuomo shut down the commission with little fanfare in April after ethics legislation was agreed to in the state budget.

Still, even as a number of other measures melted away from the budget talks, Cuomo stuck with including education reforms, as well as ethics legislation, in the final budget agreement.

Just a week after Gov. Cuomo praised the Legislature for passing «historic» ethics - reform legislation, state senators opposed to enacting a «historic» same - sex marriage law are being courted with promises of political cover, endorsements and (psst!)

With the corruption scandals that have roiled the state; the last - minute flurry of legislation this past June and watered - down ethics reform packages, there's not a lot to love about the way our state government is functioning right now.

In addition, he said he will begin focusing on the legislation he hopes to craft or support when he goes up to Albany, including term limits and campaign finance bills, as well as ethics reform and creating an independent redistricting commission that would be tasked with redrawing legislative districts.?

«With three weeks to go in the legislative session, ethics, fighting corruption is still the number one issue for voters,» said Siena spokesman Steve Greenberg, who noted that 96 percent of New Yorkers continue to say that passing anti-corruption legislation is important.

Blakeman and King Sweeney have been feuding with Santino for months over ethics reform legislation.

However, a new Siena Poll released Tuesday shows that 96 percent of voters say passing ethics reform legislation should be the top priority for legislators at session's end - with 81 percent calling it «very important.»

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The American Society of Home Inspectors stands alone as North America's premier inspector organization leading the way with inspection legislation, testing, standards of practice, ethics, and education.

Littler provides services designed to address the increasing government pressures to maintain compliance and ethics programs, and help our clients comply with the various legal requirements under the ever - expanding body of labour and employment laws, regulations, and legislation.

Amazing that it was the government who decided that our profession was so important it needed to be policed with legislation and a code of ethics which dictated business practices only to turn around and say that it ended up in a format that made selling real estate less accessible to the general public.