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Senate holding Murphy cabinet confirmations

April 11, 2018 4:53 pmApril 12, 2018 8:50 am

Editor’s Note: This story was updated to include a statement from offices of the Governor and Senate President. Senate President Stephen Sweeney has pulled two of Gov. Phil Murphy’s cabinet nominations from their agenda tomorrow. This story was first reported...

Poll: Sweeney nuclear subsidy may hurt lawmakers

April 10, 2018 4:49 pmApril 11, 2018 11:13 am

New Jersey Senate President Steve Sweeney’s quest to secure subsidies for two nuclear power plants in his district may have hit another snag. A recent poll commissioned by the NJ Coalition for Fair Energy, an industry coalition that has opposed...

Diegnan to replace Gordon as Senate Transportation Chair

April 4, 2018 2:10 pmApril 5, 2018 12:17 am

The resignation of State Sen. Bob Gordon has led to some changes in the New Jersey Senate leadership, with Senate President Steve Sweeney filling Gordon’s posts as chairman of the Senate Transportation Committee and as as Senate Majority Conference Leader....

How Steve Sweeney got to the Senate

March 29, 2018 2:03 amMarch 29, 2018 5:45 pm

Steve Sweeney won a State Senate seat in 2001 after a feud between State Senator Raymond Zane and Gloucester County Democratic Chairman Michael Angelini over competition between the two over government legal contracts they both wanted. Zane was one of...

Huge show of force expected at Dem meeting tonight

March 28, 2018 1:46 pmMarch 28, 2018 11:22 pm

The quarterly meeting of the New Jersey Democratic State Committee is typically an unexciting, low-turnout, check-the-box kind of event, but four of the state’s top five Democrats will attend the meeting tonight to energize the base at the start of...

Menendez to launch re-election campaign on Wednesday

March 27, 2018 9:24 amMarch 27, 2018 1:36 pm

U.S. Senator Bob Menendez will kick off his re-election campaign on Wednesday with rallies in his hometown of Union City and in South Jersey. U.S. Sen. Cory Booker and Gov. Phil Murphy are scheduled to speak at the Union City...

Murphy’s problem: he only has three, maybe four allies in the Senate

March 21, 2018 7:08 pmMarch 22, 2018 3:16 pm

Gov Phil Murphy has a historically low number of New Jersey State Senators he can rely on – you can literally count them on one hand and still have some fingers left over. And it’s no secret that Murphy and...