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Making the 2016 Legislative Elections Competitive...
Starting with CJA's own legislative incumbents --
Senate Finance Committee Chair Catharine Young
Senate Finance
Ranking Member Liz Krueger
Senate Judiciary Committee Chair John Bonacic
Senate Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Ruth Hassell-Thompson
Senator Phil Boyle
Senator George Amedore
Senator James Seward
49th Senate District:
60th Senate District "The New York State Senate: An Analysis of All 63 Seats", Daily Kos, February 17, 2016 (Disastermarch17)
CJA's April 27, 2016 e-mail to NYS League of Women Voters -- "Subject: Request for Comment & Assistance: Citizen-Taxpayer Action Challenging Constitutionality & Legality of NYS Budget -- including 3-men-in-a-room-budget dealmaking"
CJA's May 3, 2016 e-mail to NYS League of Women Voters -- "Subject: Thank you, Jennifer! -- Request for Comment & Assistance: Citizen-Taxpayer Action Challenging Constitutionality & Legality of NYS Budget -- including 3-men-in-a-room budget deal-making" enclosed League of Women Voters' "IMPACT ON ISSUES 2005-2007"--"State Budget Process"
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MOVING TO
THE LEGISLATURE --
CJA's February 9, 2016 FOIL/Records Request -- "RE: Annual Reports of the Senate Ethics Committee and Assembly Committee on Ethics and Guidance -- & records describing their jurisdiction"
February 16, 2016 response from Assembly Records Access
Officer --
http://assembly.state.ny.us/comm/
-- no annual reports for Assembly Committee on Ethics & Guidance
Rule IV §13: "Ethics training. The Standing Committee on Ethics and Guidance shall develop and regularly update a course of instruction for all members and employees of the Assembly with regard to the laws and policies governing their conduct. The committee shall recommend to the Speaker an ethics training plan for implementing and scheduling such course of instruction." also Rule I, §§5, 6, and §7 -- relating to sexual harassment, discrimination, non-fraternization with student interns February 17, 2016 response from Secretary of Senate --
links to:
2011 End of Session Summary Report
2012 End of Session Summary Report;
Assembly Office of Ethics and Compliance
CJA's February 1, 2016 FOIL/Records Request -- "RE: Where are the Legislature's Reports on the Enacted Budgets, Required by State Finance Law §22-b? February 8, 2016 response from Assembly Records Access Officer -- here's link: http://assembly.state.ny.us/comm/?sec=post&id=41 2015 Green Book: Report of the Fiscal Committees on the Executive Budget: Fiscal Year 2015-2016 2014 Green Book: Report of the Fiscal Committees on the Executive Budget: Fiscal Year 2014-2015
2013
Green Book: Report of the Fiscal Committees on the Executive
Budget: Fiscal Year 2013-2014 extract
Staff Report Adopted Budget Summary 2014-2015 extract Report on Enacted Budget 2013-2014 extract Enacted Budget Summary 2012-2013 Enacted Budget Summary 2011-2012
February 9, 2016 e-mail from Associate Counsel/Judicial Committee/Program & Counsel Staff indicated link: http://assembly.state.ny.us/Reports/WAM/20150417/2015Budget.pdf
CJA's BUDGET-RELATED FOIL/RECORDS REQUESTS TO THE OCA CJA's Dec. 9, 2016 FOIL/Records Request -- "RE: The Dollar Amounts of the Judicial Salary Increases Recommended by the Commission on Judicial Compensation's August 29, 2011 Report -- and 'General State Charges' Resulting Therefrom" OCA December 9, 2016 acknowledgment CJA's January 22, 2016 status request CJA's February 24, 2016 status request
CJA's Feb. 4, 2016 FOIL/Records Request -- "RE: The Judiciary's
agreed-to, if not proposed reductions to its budget request for
fiscal year 2015-2016"
CJA's Feb. 5, 2016 FOIL/Records Request -- "RE: Chief Administrative Judge approvals of increases, decreases, and interchanges in fiscal year 2015-2016, as authorized by §2 of Legislative/Judiciary Budet Bill #S.2001-a/A.3001-a" OCA Feb. 5, 2016 acknowledgment
CJA's BUDGET-RELATED RECORDS
REQUESTS TO THE LEGISLATURE,
Senate SENATE ETHICS COMMITTEE
Assembly ASSEMBLY COMMITTEE ON ETHICS &
GUIDANCE
February 8, 2016 response from Assembly Public Information Officer
Assembly
Assembly
ASSEMBLY JUDICIARY COMMITTEE
ASSEMBLY COMMITTEE ON GOVERNMENTAL
OPERATIONS
ASSEMBLY COMMITTEE ON OVERSIGHT,
ANALYSIS & INVESTIGATION
ASSEMBLY WAYS & MEANS COMMITTEE
PRESS January 6, 2016 "Ethics and Corruption Dominate First Day of 2016 Session", WXXI (Karen DeWitt) January 7, 2016 "Corruption, Elections Loom Over Lengthy 2016 Legislative Agenda", Gotham Gazette (David Howard King) January 7, 2016 "New York's leaders need to stop talking and start cleaning", New York Post (editorial)
December 10, 2015: "Heastie: Full time legislature would need hefty pay raise", New York Post (Carl Campanile) March 2, 2016: "Lawmaker seeks more detail on discretionary funds", Capital New York (Jimmy Vielkind) Citizens Union Report: "Spending in the Shadows" March 3, 2016: "Several Significant Questions About the Governor's Budget", Gotham Gazette (David Howard King) March 1, 2016: "The Heastie era: one year in: changeover without revolution", Capital New York (Josefa Velasquez, Bill Mahoney) March 3, 2016: "Eight terms in, still pushing for change", Queens Chronicle (Ryan Brady) March 5, 2016: "Lonely Crusade" March 8, 2016: "Advocates: Cuomo not doing enough on ethics", Albany Times Union (Casey Seiler) March 10, 2016: "Advocates Call for Action on ethics reform", Public News Service, Andrea Sears March 11, 2016: "Speaker Heastie Announces Ethics Reform Package Aimed at Restoring Public Trust" March 11, 2016: "Heastie outlines Assembly ethics plan", Gotham Gazette (David King) March 11, 2016: "Reminder: you own the government, not the politicians" editorial-Gannett/USA Today March 12, 2016: "Corruption gets a shrug as NY nears budget deal", Washington Times (AP) 2007 "Silver, Spitzer, Bruno Agree to Significant Budget Reform Measures"
"Productive Progressive Change You Can Make", Skidmore News (Elena Veatch) Weinstein's Newsletter winter 2015 March 1, 2016: Judiciary Committee meeting
Gerald Benjamin, Reform in New York: The Budget, The Legislature, and the Governance Process, 67 Alb L Rev 1021 (2004). Pataki v Assembly 4 NY3d at 80 Breaking the Budget in NY State McMahon Understanding and Evaluating Mauro Press
March 30, 2016 "Alleghany County OKs district attorney salary hike", Wellsville Daily Reporter (Brian Quinn) March 30, 2016 "Don't Let Albany Ethics Reform Slip Away", NYT (editorial) March 30, 2016 "Not another rush job", Albany Times Union (editorial)
March 30, 2016: "Late Budget Could Hurt Case for Legislative Pay Raise", State of Politics (Nick Reisman) March 30, 2016: "Pushing for a Budget: Andrew Cuomo Suggests Link to Legislators' Pay", Wall Street Journal (Mike Vilensky, Erica Orden) March 31: 2016: "Deadline Tonight: Still No Budget Deal Reached for NY", TWC News (Barry Wygel) March 31, 2016: "Passing budget without proper review 'a travesty'", Capitol Confidential (Casey Seiler) March 31, 2016: "Legislators denouce school aid March 31, 2016: "Lawmakers begin passing NYS budget bills, but some details are murky", North Country Public Radio (Karen DeWitt)
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March 13, 2016: "
March 13, 2016: "
---- Investigations &
Government Operations: Assembly Speaker Heastie's January 21, 2016 press release
Senate Rule VIII, §6. Nominations. Unless the Senate orders otherwise, all nominations sent by the Governor for the appointment of any officer shall be submitted to the Temporary President who shall then refer such nominations simultaneously to the Finance Committee, and the appropriate standing committee, for consideration and recommendation and such standing committees, other than the Committee on Judiciary shall thereafter refer such nominations to the Finance Committee of the Senate who shall take whatever further actions it deems necessary and thereafter make its report on the nominations to the full Senate. Any Senator may submit a request to the Chair of a Standing Committee considering a nomination, to speak before the committee for not more than five minutes on the nomination. The granting of any such request shall be at the sole discretion of the Committee Chair. A nomination shall not be confirmed without reference on the day on which it is received except by unanimous consent. The names of those who voted for or against the nomination may be entered alphabetically on the journal,if any five Senators request it.
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