Audio from Albany: Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos
As part of a regular weekly feature on the Politics Now blog, Tom Precious of The News' Albany Bureau posts an audio interview with a newsmaker from the Capitol.
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ALBANY — The Legislature's top Republican is suggesting Western New York and New York City could be the locations for where the state will lose two of its congressional seats in the redistricting process raging on behind closed doors at the Capitol.
Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos said talks are intensifying between the GOP-led Senate and Democratic-controlled Assembly to try to produce a deal for New York's 27 congressional district boundaries under the once-a-decade reapportionment exercise. ... Read more
