SENATE FINANCE COMMITTEE
(35 members -- Assembly Rule IV, §1a)
Stipends:  Chair -- $34,000; Ranking Member --$20,500

under construction -- it's massive

2013
CHAIR: John DeFrancisco, Esq.
RANKING MEMBER: Liz Krueger

[see: 2012 - 2015 LEGISLATIVE SESSIONS]

CJA's January 30, 2013 letter to Chair DeFrancisco & Ranking Member Krueger --
"February 6, 2013 Joint Legislative Hearing on 'Public Protection': The Legislature’s Mandatory Duty to Override the Judiciary’s Request for “funding for the next phase of the judicial salary increase”, in Discharge of its Checks-and-Balance Constitutional Function"

VIDEO
CJA's testimony at Legislature's February 6, 2013 "public protection" budget hearing

CJA's February 27, 2013 letter to Senator Liz Krueger's Chief of Staff -- "Memorializing What You Told Me"

CJA's February 27, 2013 e-mail to Senator Liz Krueger -- "Securing Appropriate Oversight & Action"

CJA's February 27, 2013 e-mail to Senate Finance Committee Majority Coalition Chief of Staff & Secretary Robert Mujica, Counsel to Republican Conference Diane Burman, & Counsel David Gruenberg -- "Verifying the Dispositive Nature of the February 6, 2013 Opposition Testimony to the Judiciary Budget & Judicial Pay Raises"

CJA's February 27, 2013 e-mail for Senate Finance Committee Democratic Minority Secretary Joseph Pennisi & Democratic Conference Counsel Laura Wood -- "Verifying the Dispositive Nature of the February 6, 2013 Opposition Testimony to the Judiciary Budget & Judicial Pay Raises"

cc:  Chair DeFrancisco
CJA's March 13, 2013 e-mail to the General Budget Conference Committee & its Subcommittee on "Public Protection", Criminal Justice & Judiciary -- "The Legislature's Duty to Reject Judicial Appropriations Bill S2601-A3001 & its Unidentified Judicial Salary Increases that are Fraudulent, Statutorily-Violative, & Unconstitutional"

cc:  Chair DeFrancisco & Ranking Member Krueger
CJA's March 13, 2013 e-mails to Legislative Leadership -- "The Uselessness of the Legislature's 'White', 'Blue', 'Yellow' & 'Green' Books as Aids to Legislators in Understanding the Judiciary Budget & District Attorney Salary Reimbursement"
          -- ANALYSIS of the Legislature's "Color Books", to further demonstrate the Legislature's duty to reject the Judiciary Budget & the Judicial Salary Increases

          Exhibit A:   Senate Majority's "White Book"  link to "White Book"
          Exhibit B:   Senate Minority's "Blue Book"   link to "Blue Book"
          Exhibit C:  Assembly Majority's "Yellow Book" link to "Yellow Book"
          Exhibit D:  Assembly Minority's "Green Book"  not publicly available  

CJA's March 15, 2013 e-mail ALERT to ALL Senate & Assembly Members -- "Is the Judiciary Budget a 'Slush Fund'?"

CJA's March 18, 2013 letter to ALL Senate and Assembly Members -- "The People's Right to Know the Dollar Cost of the Judiciary Budget & of the Appropriations Bill for the Judiciary"    transmitting e-mail/fax receipts

CJA's March 19, 2013 e-mail/fax to ALL members of the Senate Finance Committee & to all legislators  -- CJA's March 19, 2013 letter to Governor Andrew Cuomo -- "Assisting the Legislature in Discharging its Constitutional Duty:  The People’s Right to Know the Dollar Cost of the Judiciary Budget & of the Appropriations Bill for the Judiciary & to be Protected from 'Grand Larceny of the Public Fisc' by Unidentified, Unitemized Judicial Pay Raises, whose Fraudulence, Statutory-Violations, and Unconstitutionality are Proven by Documentary Evidence in Your Possession & the Legislature’s"    

CJA's March 22, 2013 e-mail to ALL Senators -- "Your Power & Duty to Reject the Budget: S2601/A.3001 -- Judiciary Appropriations Bill"  -- CJA's March 22, 2013 letter to the General Budget Conference Committee & its "Public Protection" Subcommittee -- "The Public’s Right to Know the 'Process' Behind Adoption of Senate Resolution 818 and Assembly Resolution 812: The Scandal of Judiciary Appropriations Bill S.2601/A.3001, the Unidentified, Unitemized Judicial Salary Increases Therein, District Attorney Salary Reimbursement Based Thereon – & the Price Tag of Each"    

CJA's March 24, 2013 letter to ALL Senators -- "Why You Must Reject S.2601 -- The Appropriations Bill for the Judiciary"    fn. 3: S-2605-C/D
        E-MAIL TRANSMITTALS: to all Senators -- here & here & here -- and then again on March 26, 2013 "'grand larceny of the public fisc'..."

CJA's March 25, 2013 e-mails to Ranking Member Krueger...Senator Hoylman -- "Standing up for Legislative Law 54 & 'process' with respect to the budget"

   -- transcribed excerpt: March 24, 2013 Senate floor proceedings on budget appropriations
   -- transcribed excerpt: February 26, 2009 hearing of Temporary Senate Committee on Rules & Administration Reform
   -- excerpts: 2009 Minority & Majority Reports of Temporary Senate Committee on Rules & Administration Reform
   -- Legislative Law 54 

           click here for: March 24, 2013 Senate floor proceedings   March 24, 2013 Senate Finance Commmitee meeting
 

CJA's March 26, 2013 e-mail to Chair DeFrancisco & Ranking Member Krueger -- cc: Senator Hoylman... -- "Request that CJA's Opposition Report & verified complaint be brought to the Senate floor for inspection by the Senators"

CJA's March 26, 2013 e-mail to ALL Senators -- "Subject: 'grand larceny of the public fisc' -- Why You Must Reject S2601 -- Judiciary Appropriations Bill"

2014
CHAIR: John DeFrancisco
RANKING MEMBER: Liz Krueger

[see: 2012 - 2015 LEGISLATIVE SESSIONS]

CJA's January 7, 2014 letter to Chair DeFrancisco & Ranking Member Krueger --
"FOLLOWING THE MONEY': The Proposed Judiciary & Legislative Budgets for Fiscal Year 2014-2015"  

CJA's January 14, 2014 letter to Chair DeFrancisco & Ranking Member Krueger --
"Vindicating the Public’s Rights under Article VII, §1 of the NYS Constitution & Legislative Law §32-a:  (1) request to testify at the Legislature’s joint budget hearings in opposition to the proposed Judiciary & Legislative budgets; (2) request for information/records as to the process, if any, by which the Legislature’s proposed budget was compiled."      -- CJA's January 14, 2014 transmittal to recipients 

CJA's January 29, 2014 letter to Chair DeFrancisco & Ranking Member Krueger --
"Your Mandatory Duty under Legislative Law §32-a to Hear Testimony in Opposition to the Legislature’s Proposed Budget & Governor Cuomo’s Budget Bill #S.6351/A.8551 at Public Budget Hearings" 

CJA's February 3, 2014 e-mail to Chair DeFrancisco & Ranking Member Krueger --
"Request to Testify in Opposition to ANY Funding for the Commission to Investigate Public Corruption -- including the proposed $270,000 appropriation"

CJA's February 21, 2014 letter to Chair DeFrancisco & Ranking Member Krueger --
"Restoring Value to Your Sham and Rigged February 5, 2014 'Public Protection' Budget Hearing on the Judiciary’s Proposed Budget by Appropriate Questioning of Chief Administrative Judge Prudenti"

CJA's February 21, 2014 e-mail to Rank & File Members of Senate Finance Committee --
"HEADS UP: What's Been Happening with the Judiciary & Legislative Budgets -- & Appropriations for the Commission to Investigate Public Corruption?"

CJA's February 24, 2014 e-mail to Rank & File Members of Senate Finance Committee --
"Again, HEADS UP!: What's Been Happening with the Judiciary & Legislative Budgets -- & Appropriations for the Commission to Investigate Public Corruption?"

CJA's March 4, 2014 letter to Chair DeFrancisco & Ranking Member Krueger --
"Your Constitutional Duty:
       "(1) to address the evidence of fraud and unconstitutionality in the proposed Judiciary and Legislative budgets – and in the materially-divergent Governor’s Budget Bill #S.6351/A.8551, which, in violation of Senate and Assembly Rules, is unsupported by a fiscal note and introducer’s memorandum;
        (2) to address the $270,000 and other appropriations, embedded in the Executive Budget, for a demonstrably corrupt Commission to Investigate Public Corruption"

2015
CHAIR: John DeFrancisco, Esq.
RANKING MEMBER: Liz Krueger

[see: 2012 - 2015 LEGISLATIVE SESSIONS]

CJA's February 23, 2015 letter to Chair DeFrancisco & Ranking Member Kruger –
“YOUR FEBRUARY 26, 2015 ‘PUBLIC PROTECTION’ BUDGET HEARING: Reconsidering Your Denial of CJA’s Request to Testify, Pursuant to Legislative Law 32-a, in Opposition to the Proposed Judiciary and Legislative Budgets – and the Governor’s Budget Bill #S.2001/A.3001”

2019
CHAIR: Liz Krueger
RANKING MEMBER: James Seward, Esq.

Members: Robert Antonacci, ESQ., Jamaal Baily, ESQ., Brian Benjamin, Neil Breslin, ESQ., Leroy Comrie, Brad Hoylman, ESQ., Timonty Kennedy, Andrew Lanza, ESQ., Kenneth LaValle, ESQ., Betty Little, John Liu, Velmanette Montgomery, Kevin Parker, Michael Ranzenhofer, ESQ., Gustavo Rivera, Joseph Robach, Diane Savino, James Skoufis, Toby Ann Stavisk, Kevin Thomas, ESQ., Catharine Young

[see: 2019 LEGISLATIVE SESSION]

CJA's January 18, 2019 e-mail --
"Request to Testify at the Legislature's Jan. 29, 2019 and Feb. 11, 2019 Joint Budget Hearings --
plus request as to the referred-to constitutional provisions concerning budget approval by April 1st"

Jan 18, 2019 e-mail from Assembly Ways & Means
Jan. 18, 2019 e-mail from from Senate Finance

CJA's Jan. 18, 2019 e-mail to Assembly Ways & Means with completed form
CJA's Jan. 18, 2019 e-mail to Senate Finance with completed form

CJA's February 14, 2019 letter to Chair Krueger & Ranking Member Seward --
"EVIDENCE substantiating written testimony for the Legislature's February 11, 2019 budget hearing on 'local government officials/general government', submitted at last year's January 30, 2018 budget hearing on 'public protection' -- and required to be preserved pursuant to Legislative Law §67   transmitting e-mail

CJA's February 19, 2019 written testimony,
with appended QUESTIONS for Chief Administrative Judge Marks,
Temporary Senate President Stewart-Cousins, and Assembly Speaker Heastie
submitted for the February 11, 2019 budget hearing
on "local government officials/general government"

CJA's March 1, 2019 e-mail to Chair Krueger & Ranking Member Seward --
"AGENDA:  Legislative/Judiciary Budget Bill #S.1501/A.2001 -- & the Questions to be Answered by Chief Administrative Judge Marks & by Temporary Senate Presidents Steward-Cousins/Flanagan & Assembly Speaker Heastie"

2020
CHAIR: Liz Krueger
RANKING MEMBER: James Seward
Members: Jamaal Baily, ESQ., Brian Benjamin, Neil Breslin, ESQ., Leroy Comrie, Patrick Gallivan, Brad Hoylman, ESQ., Timonty Kennedy, Andrew Lanza, ESQ., Kenneth LaValle, ESQ., Betty Little, John Liu, Velmanette Montgomery, Kevin Parker, Michael Ranzenhofer, ESQ., Gustavo Rivera, Joseph Robach, Diane Savino, James Skoufis, Toby Ann Stavisk, Kevin Thomas, ESQ.

[see: 2020 LEGISLATIVE SESSION]

CJA's February 7, 2020 e-mail to Chair Krueger & Ranking Member Seward
"Thank you -- RE: Joint Legislative Budget Hearing on Local Government" 

CJA's February 10, 2020 e-mail to Chair Krueger & Ranking Member Seward
"Thank you -- RE: Joint Legislative Budget Hearing on Public Protection"

CJA's February 11, 2020 e-mail to Chair Krueger & Ranking Member Seward
"'Public Protection' Budget Hearing -- Questions for Chief Administrative Judge Marks"

February 12, 2012 e-mail -- "Today's..." & here

click here for:  Questions for Marks & webpage

 CJA's February 12, 2020 e-mail to Chair Krueger & Ranking Member Seward
"Legislative & Judiciary Budgets -- & Legislative/Judiciary Budget Bill #7501/9501:
Questions for Stewart-Cousins, Heastie -- & for Marks"

click here for: CJA's Questions for Stewart-Cousins/Heastie & webpage

CJA's February 19, 2020 e-mail to Chair Krueger & Ranking Member Seward --
"CJA's Submissions for the record
of the Legislature's Feb 12, 2020 'public protection' budget hearing  

CJA's February 19, 2020 e-mail to Chair Krueger & Ranking Member Seward --
"Request for Committee review & determination of Feb. 18, 2030 letter to Governor -- & Questions for Senate Majority Leader Stewart-Cousins, Assembly Speaker Heastie & for Chief Administrative Judge Marks"

cc:   CJA's February 18, 2020 letter to Governor Cuomo --
"Your January 21, 2020 address on the Executive Budget: Part I -- The 'very simple' budget numbers of your Executive Budget, starting with those on your 'Partners in Government' slide"

cc:   CJA's March 3, 2020 letter to Governor Cuomo --
"Your January 21, 2020 address on the Executive Budget -- Part II: The so-called 'independent commission [that] proposed pay raises for New York's elected officials because we performed' --
& your other related slides and claims about public trust in government, transparency, & 'nothing to hide'"

cc:   CJA's March 18, 2020 letter to Governor Cuomo --
"Your January 21, 2020 address on the Executive Budget -- Part III:  GOOD NEWS DURING THE CORONAVIRUS EMERGENCY -- You Can Chuck Six of Your Seven 'Article VII Bills' Because They are Unconstitutional. Here's why based on analysis of the Court of Appeals' 2004 plurality, concurring, and dissenting opinions in Pataki v. Assembly/Silver v. Pataki, 4 N.Y3d 75" 

QUESTIONS FOR CHIEF ADMINISTRATIVE JUDGE MARKS