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,...

Assemblyman David DiPietro’s (R,C – East Aurora) attempts to repeal the SAFE Act today reached the Codes Committee for a vote to release the bill to the Assembly as a whole. The Assembly Majority voted unanimously to kill the repeal effort. Also...

As I sat through my second budget as an Assemblyman, I found myself under-whelmed and frustrated by another budget that spends too much, prioritizes downstate, and does not go far enough addressing the core needs of our state. From education, to the...

Assemblyman David DiPietro (R,C-East Aurora) today joined educators, local officials and parents at a New York State Assembly Minority Forum on Education at Iroquois Middle School in Elma. The event focused on ways to improve education in New York,...

Assemblyman David DiPietro (R,C-East Aurora) will host a New York State Assembly Minority Forum on Education in Elma on Saturday, March 29, 2014 from 11:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m. at the Iroquois Middle School, 2111 Girdle Road. He will be joined by local...

Assemblyman David DiPietro (R,C – East Aurora), a member of the Assembly Transportation Committee, successfully secured funding for the milling and resurfacing of Route 39 through the Village of Arcade. The project is set to be completed during the...

Assemblyman David DiPietro (R,C – East Aurora), whose district houses Attica Collins, Wyoming, and Gowanda correctional facilities, expressed outrage regarding new appointments to the Cuomo Administration at a time when cuts are being made. Peter Vallone...

While debating New York’s Common Core curriculum today, Assemblyman David DiPietro (R,C – East Aurora) called for Education Commissioner John King, Jr. to resign, citing his failures at implementing the controversial program across the state. “Commissioner...

Assemblyman David DiPietro (R,C – East Aurora), a vocal supporter of welfare reform in New York State, took offense at the inaction of Assembly Majority leaders regarding a federal deadline to keep welfare dollars out of strip clubs and prevent the...

Gov. Cuomo has, once again, misplaced his priorities and done a disservice to the people he supposedly represents. In a time when student debt is ever-increasing and law-abiding children are struggling to afford college, the governor has made the decision...

Assemblyman David DiPietro (R,C – East Aurora) is encouraged by the recent string of good news regarding the battle to reform the Common Core curriculum in New York State. “It appears that more and more elected officials are joining our fight...