2013 - 2017
ASSEMBLY WAYS & MEANS COMMITTEE

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

2013
CHAIR: Herman Farrell, Jr.
RANKING MEMBER: Robert Oaks

[see: 2012 - 2015 LEGISLATIVE SESSIONS]

CJA's January 30, 2013 letter to Ways and Means Chair Farrell & Ranking Member Oaks --
"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"

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CJA's testimony at Legislature's February 6, 2013 budget hearing --

CJA's February 27, 2013 e-mail for Assembly Ways & Means Committee Democratic Majority Secretary Matt Howard & Counsel Michael Johnson --
"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 Assembly Ways & Means Committee  Republican Minority Director Rebecca Dagati & Counsel John Mertz --
"Verifying the Dispositive Nature of the February 6, 2013 Opposition Testimony to the Judiciary Budget & Judicial Pay Raises"

CJA's March 4, 2013 e-mail to Assembly Ways & Means Democratic Majority --
"Assembly Ways & Means Democratic Majority:  Verifying the Dispositve Nature of the February 6, 2013 Opposition Testimony to the Judicial Budget & Judicial pay Raises"

CJA's March 4, 2013 e-mail to Assembly Ways & Means Republican Minority --
"Assembly Ways & Means Republican Minority:  Verifying the Dispositve Nature of the February 6, 2013 Opposition Testimony to the Judiciary Budget & Judicial pay Raises"

cc:  Chair Farrell
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 Farrell & Ranking Member Oaks
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

March 19, 2013 e-mail/fax to ALL members of Ways & Means Committee -- 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 Assembly Members --

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 26, 2013 letter to ALL Assembly Members --
"Why You Must Reject A.3001 -- The Appropriations Bill for the Judiciary"   TRANSMITTING E-MAIL

CJA's March 27, 2013 e-mail to Chair Farrell & Ranking Member Oaks --
"Assisting Assembly Members in their Duty to Reject Judicial Appropriations Bill A.3001"

2014
CHAIR: Herman Farrell, Jr.
RANKING MEMBER: Robert Oaks

[see: 2012 - 2015 LEGISLATIVE SESSIONS]

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

CJA's January 14, 2014 letter to Chair Farrell & Ranking Member Oaks --
"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 Farrell & Ranking Member Oaks --
"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 Farrell & Ranking Member Oaks --
"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 Farrell & Ranking Member Oaks --
"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 Assembly Ways and Means 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 Assembly Ways and Means 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 Farrell & Ranking Member Oaks -- "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: Herman Farrell, Jr.
RANKING MEMBER: Robert Oaks

[see: 2015 LEGISLATIVE SESSION]

CJA's February 23, 2015 letter to Chair Farrell & Ranking Member Oaks –
“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”