Andrea Stewart-Cousins is the longest-serving Democratic state Senate majority leader in New York. She sat down with Capital Tonight’s Susan Arbetter in the Senate majority conference room to discuss her tenure and her conference’s priorities for the legislative session that began Wednesday.
The leader told Capital Tonight the Senate Democrats plan to introduce a package of bills to lower utility costs within the next few weeks. On the issue of criminal justice reform, Stewart-Cousins said she wants to ensure that the Raise the Age law, which was originally passed in 2017, is funded the way it was intended.
