“The decision by unelected bureaucrats on the wage board to raise the minimum wage for fast food businesses adversely affects young people looking for work and seeking to gain experience at a first job. As someone who owns and operates a small business,...

This year’s legislative session generated a lot of headlines for the powerful downstate leaders ensnared in a corruption scandal, but not a lot of headlines for the work it failed to accomplish. This is yet another year where downstate took care of...

“We may have extended session another week, but we didn’t tackle many of the major issues facing our communities. The Legislature didn’t stop or even reform the Common Core curriculum, nor did it fully eliminate the Gap Elimination Adjustment (GEA)....

Assemblyman David DiPietro (R,C-East Aurora) and several of his colleagues in the Assembly Minority Conference called on legislative leaders and Gov. Andrew Cuomo to shut down the START-UP NY program. Following an extensive audit by New York State Comptroller...

Assemblyman David DiPietro (R,C-East Aurora) is calling on the Assembly Majority to pass the agreed-upon pension forfeiture measure they promised to bring to the floor following budget negotiations. The one-house measure the Majority is bringing to the...

Assemblyman David DiPietro (R,C-East Aurora) expressed pleasure at the news that the state is hiring over 100 new correction officers for New York’s prisons. With prison violence on the rise, DiPietro viewed the decision as necessary to combat a growing...

Assemblyman David DiPietro (R,C-East Aurora) is a sponsor of Assembly Bill 4313, which would allow military veterans to buy back as many as three years in the state pension system. This is currently only available to veterans of certain wars. Nearly identical...

Assemblyman David DiPietro (R,C-East Aurora) is slamming Gov. Cuomo for continuing to spend money advertising START-UP NY following a damning report from New York State Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli, which stated the advertising provided “no tangible...

“The report released by New York State Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli is another indictment of the START-UP NY program. There has been no tangible benefit to the high-priced advertising of this program, both in New York and in the other states like Iowa...

Assemblyman David DiPietro (R,C-East Aurora) celebrated Tax Freedom Day, when New Yorkers have finally worked long enough to cover their annual federal and state tax burdens, by encouraging the legislature to enact more pro-growth policies. “The...

Assemblyman David DiPietro (R,C-East Aurora) is calling on the governor and the State Education Department to increase the number of teacher evaluation summits and open them to the public. Currently, there is one summit, open by invitation-only, to discuss...

I was pleased to see Assembly Bill 5360, of which I am a sponsor, pass the Assembly unanimously. The legislation amends the law to protect workers from sexual harassment regardless of the size of the workplace. Currently, if the business has fewer than...

When you increase the minimum wage, the national and international businesses can readily accept the rise in costs for labor; when you introduce an increase like this in the small-business community, shops close and people may lose their jobs, or services...

Assemblyman David DiPietro (R,C-East Aurora) is renewing his call to reform the state Medicaid system following a report from State Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli exposing millions of dollars in fraud. DiPietro sponsors a number of bills focusing on reforming...

Another member of the Assembly Majority is leaving the chamber in disgrace with a guilty plea. Assemblyman William Scarborough will plead guilty to defrauding the taxpayers of New York for over $40,000 in per diem abuses. The people of New York still...

Assemblyman David DiPietro (R,C-East Aurora) announced that Assembly Bill 6075, which prohibits differential pay because of sex, passed the Assembly unanimously today. Despite the legislative victory, DiPietro believes partisan politics prevented this...

Assemblyman David DiPietro (R,C-East Aurora), a sponsor of Assembly Bill 3656, better known as the APPLE Plan, and a vocal opponent of the Common Core high-stakes testing model, voiced his displeasure with the Assembly Majority killing the legislation...

Assemblyman David DiPietro (R,C-East Aurora) is renewing his call for a constitutional amendment which would strip politicians convicted of felonies of their taxpayer-funded pensions. DiPietro cited a new report chronicling the $531,000 in pension payments...

Assemblyman David DiPietro (R,C-East Aurora), who voted against START-UP NY in 2013 and has been a vocal opponent of the legislation since, is renewing his calls to end the program following a dismal report on the effort’s lack of success. START-UP...

Assemblyman David DiPietro (R,C-East Aurora) cites New York’s burdensome regulatory and tax climate, coupled with Gov. Cuomo’s desire for media-savvy proposals over actual reform, as reasons for the state’s poor outlook. The American Legislative...