The
Michael Waldman (
Michele Balfour, Jeremy Creelan (Jenner & Block), Beth Golden, Professor Helen Hershkoff (NYU School of Law), Daniel Kolb (Davis Polk & Wardwell), Edward Labaton (Labaton Sucharow), Lawrence Pedowitz (Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz), Roy Reardon (Simpson Thacher & Bartlett), Lee Richards (Richards Kibbe & Orbe), Professor Cristina Rodriguez (NYU School of Law), Charles Stillman (Stillman, Friedman & Shechtman), and Sung-Hee Suh (Schulte Roth & Zabel)
Invite You to a Conversation on
Still Broken:
with
Jeremy Creelan - Partner, Jenner & Block
Andrew Stengel - Senior Advisor for Government Reform,
Michael Waldman - Executive Director,
Larry Norden - Senior Counsel,
The phrase is now ubiquitous: "
But that was five years ago. Has anything changed since then?
Regrettably, not much. Our State Senate and Assembly continue to operate in a way that is not accountable, transparent, or deliberative: committees do not fulfill a responsibility to vet legislation, there are no hearings or substantive debate on major bills, and much of the process is shielded from the public eye in the majority conferences in both houses.
The good news is that progress has begun in at least one chamber:
the new Senate Majority is taking steps to reform the process.
For far too long, the leadership has failed to enact the changes necessary to remake the Senate and Assembly. Today, pressure to change the culture of
Please join us!
Thursday, April 30, 2009
12:30 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.
Jenner & Block
RSVP: Kindly respond by April 27, 2009 to max.scales@nyu.edu or by calling 212.992.8643.