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Skelos: Newfangled Senate coalition 'will show the rest of the country'
Photo credit: Newsday / Alejandra Villa
ALBANY — Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos said Wednesday the power-sharing deal he cut with dissident Democrats to run the Senate will not only be good for the state but a model for the nation.
“We’re going to show the rest of the country that Republicans and Democrats can work together,” Skelos (R-Rockville Centre) said. “And I think the public is going to be very happy with the solutions...