The Senate is deliberately slow-walking Rep. Elise Stefanik’s nomination to be President Donald Trump’s ambassador to the ...

The co-chair of Trump's transition effort and the longtime chief executive of financial services firm Cantor Fitzgerald, Lutnick has been picked to head the Commerce Department, the agency that has ...

A bill introduced to delay special elections in New York state is now dead. Democrats chose to kill the legislation.

Local politicians have voiced concerns regarding an assembly bill that was meant to delay a vote to replace outgoing ...

Stefanik, who represents the state’s 21 st Congressional District, has been nominated by President Donald Trump to serve as U ...

We speak with New York Public News Network Capitol Bureau reporter Jimmy Vielkind about how the expected special election to replace Congresswoman Elise Stefanik has become a political football in ...

But a bill introduced on Feb. 7 — in the Senate by Majority Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins and in the Assembly by Speaker Carl Heastie, both Democrats — would allow Congressional special elections to ...

Republican lawmakers in the region breathed a sigh of relief late Monday when top Democrats in the state government ended efforts to provide Gov. Kathy Hochul with the authority to delay the special ...

Lawmakers at Albany were expected Monday to vote on legislation that would change the time frame for special elections. If passed, it would have meant that the election to fill the seat held by Ms.

The bill that was created to delay the special election for New York's 21st congressional district, was placed on hold hours before it made it to the floor.

The legislation, which was introduced by New York lawmakers over the weekend, was quickly dismissed by Monday afternoon. It comes as the seat is expected to be vacated by Republican Congresswoman ...

Democratic powerbrokers in the state Legislature on Monday afternoon opted against putting forward a controversial bill with ...