In the days leading to Election Day on Tuesday, Assembly Republican leaders said they were working to regain control of that house. That didn’t happen.
He's had a well-publicized so-called bromance with State Sen. President Steve Sweeney, but Gov. Chris Christie's relationship with Assembly Speaker Sheila Oliver has been rocky.
Assembly GOP Leader Jon Bramnick feels that Governor Christie's landslide victory sends a clear message that the people of the Garden State like what Christie stands for, and if that's the case ,they must want the tax cut the governor's been asking for.
Despite a landslide win for Governor Chris Christie this week, the Republican will be dealing with a Democrat-controlled legislature for another few years.
Current Assembly Budget Committee chairman Vinnie Prieto and Assembly Majority Leader Louis Greenwald today announced 41 members of the Democratic caucus in support of a new leadership team for the 2014-15 Legislature.
A bill that would penalize towns that refuse to share services passed the full State Senate in late November of 2012, but it's been gathering dust in the Assembly ever since. Sen. President Steve Sweeney sponsors the measure.