As we continue budget negotiations and discussions, I plan on focusing my support on our local public schools. In a time where Albany and Gov. Cuomo are particularly hostile toward our public education system, the fight for fair funding, restoring the...

Assemblyman David DiPietro (R,C – East Aurora) met with over a dozen representatives of New York State United Teachers (NYSUT) from his district in Albany this week. The meeting stressed issues such as Common Core, school aid runs, and ending the Gap...

Assemblyman David DiPietro (R,C – East Aurora), members of the Assembly Minority Conference, and the New York State School Boards Association are calling on Gov. Cuomo to release school aid runs so schools can craft their budgets properly. As it currently...

As a small-business owner, and the Ranking Minority Member on the Small Business Committee, I am very disappointed in the Labor Department’s decision to raise the wage of tipped workers 50 percent. Such an immediate shock to family-owned...

Assemblyman David DiPietro (R,C – East Aurora), an avid detractor of the DREAM Act, is calling for the controversial legislation to be removed from the budget following Gov. Cuomo’s decision to include the plan in his 30-day budget amendments. In...

Assemblyman David DiPietro (R,C – East Aurora) has signed on as a sponsor to Assembly Bill A.3134, which would restrict sex offenders from living within 1,000 feet of a school, childcare facility, or park. The New York Court of Appeals recently ruled...

Assemblyman David DiPietro (R,C – East Aurora) is sponsoring legislation designed to reduce the amount of Albany-centric red tape that slows the hiring process for the spouses of military veterans upon their return arrival to New York. The legislation...

A lot of priorities were laid out last week when the Assembly Majority finally replaced Sheldon Silver with Speaker Carl Heastie. Specifically, we were told there would be a new focus on ethics reform to prevent our Chamber from being embarrassed again...

Earlier this week, my colleagues and I came to Albany as planned for legislative session. Instead, we sat in a half-empty chamber waiting for the Majority to come out of conference with a new speaker. It took them five days and a five-hour meeting to...

“What we heard was just more of the same gimmickry we’ve seen for the past four years from this governor. Picking winners and losers for large sums of money like phone-in reality show is not an effective strategy to revitalize our state. Instead...

Speaker Sheldon Silver is appearing in court today on bribery and fraud charges. Does this surprise anyone? It’s more of the New York City corruption issues being brought to Albany. The people deserve better than this. You cannot expect...

Assemblyman David DiPietro (R,C – East Aurora), a long-time detractor of the controversial START-UP NY program ushered in by Gov. Cuomo in 2013, is criticizing the program for failing to meet a deadline within the law to provide a report...

Assemblyman David DiPietro (R,C – East Aurora) has been re-appointed as the Ranking Minority Member on the Small Business Committee. DiPietro has held the post since he began serving in Albany. “As a small-business owner, I experience firsthand...

Assemblyman David DiPietro (R,C – East Aurora) attacked Gov. Cuomo’s decision to veto a pension buyback system for “peacetime” veterans. The bill (S.7839) passed both chambers of the state legislature, with one dissenting vote. “This governor...

Four years ago, we heard promises from this governor that he would be the one to clean up Albany. After the New York Times exposé, it is clear that he has been consumed by the corruption. By interfering with his own Moreland Commission, Gov. Cuomo...

The recent quarter of a billion dollar raid on the Clean Water State Revolving Fund to subsidize the Tappan Zee Bridge has endangered our waterways as well as the economic viability of the future of the clean water fund. The short-sighted, downstate...

Assemblyman David DiPietro (R,C – East Aurora) is sponsoring Assembly Bill 7173, which would create a constitutional amendment to force elected officials to forfeit their pension benefits should they be convicted of a felony relating to violating the...

Assemblyman David DiPietro (R,C – East Aurora) this morning saw his bill, A.5717, killed in the Assembly Real Property Taxation Committee across partisan lines. The bill would have provided a reduction in assessed value for conservation easement to...

Acting Supreme Court Justice Thomas McNamara ruled yesterday against the Second Amendment he is sworn to uphold. The Second Amendment could not be clearer. ‘The right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.’ The right of the...

April 15th has long been a day of financial pain, but today has more than just monetary implications as today marks a registration deadline in New York’s controversial SAFE Act law. Assemblyman David DiPietro (R,C – East Aurora), author of A.6238,...