By Vivian Wang
It is going to be a big year in Albany.
That, at least, is the promise of New York’s Democrats, who now control all the lawmaking arms of state government for the first time in a decade.
They have promised voters the moon and more, vowing to unleash a
torrent of new laws that they said had been blocked by the State
Senate’s recalcitrant — and now ousted — Republicans.
On some issues, that may be true. Measures to codify Roe v. Wade abortion rights under state law, expand voting rights, protect child sex-abuse victims, reform cash bail and revamp campaign finance laws
are expected to glide through. Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo recently said he
would send lawmakers many of those bills in the coming weeks, for them
to pass and send back to him to sign into law.
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Source: The New York Times
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