ALBANY – Every January, lawmakers from across New York arrive in the State Capitol to begin a new legislative session to enact new laws and pass the state’s budget. For six lawmakers who ...

Gov. Kathy Hochul has now concluded the annual ritual of offering the State of the State Address; one filled with her vision ...

Gov. Hochul kicked off the state's budget process on Tuesday by doing exactly the opposite of what you do when you make a ...

Senate Majority Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins said Bynoe was “shattering a glass ceiling” as she introduced her to applause in the Senate Chamber. “For over a decade, she has served as a ...

According to Senate Majority Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins, it was the seventh-annual installment of a tradition to lead off session with proposals to make it easier for New Yorkers to vote.

The Deceptive Practices and Voter Suppression Prevention Act, sponsored by Senate Majority Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins, D-Yonkers, would create the crime of voter suppression as an A misdemeanor ...

Democrats in the New York state Senate will advance legislation aimed to protect election workers and prevent voter disenfranchisement, Senate Majority Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins announced Monday. ...

In addition to opening remarks, small talk in the hallways, and Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie and state Senate Majority Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins being re-sworn into their posts, the battles for ...

Today’s first day of session kicked off with Majority Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins and Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie simultaneously setting the tone. “To our returning colleges and to our ...

Carey said the group met in November with Senate Majority Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins, who has long skirted opining on the bill, and said she was optimistic that Stewart-Cousins would be more ...

Its previous occupant was Andrea Stewart-Cousins, the Yonkers Democrat who had just unseated longtime GOP state Sen. Nick Spano — and who has led the Senate as majority leader since 2019.