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Skelos: 'Perhaps we did act in haste'
Photo credit: Newsday/Alejandra Villa
Senate co-leader Dean Skelos acknowledged Tuesday the Legislature rushed to approve a gun-control bill in the wake of the Newtown, Conn., school massacre – but he didn’t go so far as to say the measure shouldn’t have been enacted.
Skelos (R-Rockville Centre) fielded questions from reporters regarding remarks from another Republican who said Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo acted dictatorially in forcing...