When Will NY’s Lawmakers Start Making Laws Again?

Alessandra Biaggi

Originally published in Gothamist

Whenever any members ask the leader [Stewart-Cousins], ‘Hey, are we going back?’ she has said ‘yes,’ over and over again. Now what a lot of us want is to say, ‘okay, let’s pick a date,’” said State Senator Alessandra Biaggi, another Bronx Democrat who has grown increasingly critical of Cuomo’s response to COVID-19. “There are three coequal branches of government and more than 200 legislators who are very much ready to work, who feel urgency about this moment.”