{"id":3978,"date":"2013-01-09T08:16:20","date_gmt":"2013-01-09T13:16:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wrfalp.wordpress.com\/?p=3978"},"modified":"2013-01-09T08:16:20","modified_gmt":"2013-01-09T13:16:20","slug":"morning-news-state-senate-irons-out-rules-for-co-leadership-pact","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wrfalp.com\/morning-news-state-senate-irons-out-rules-for-co-leadership-pact\/","title":{"rendered":"MORNING NEWS: State Senate Irons Out Rules for Co-Leadership Pact"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ALBANY &#8211; <strong>State Senate<\/strong> has drafted new rules recognizing the <strong>Independent Democratic Conference<\/strong> along with Republicans and Democrats, senators briefed on the document said late\u00a0Tuesday.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesunion.com\/local\/article\/New-Senate-rules-reflect-IDC-role-4177755.php\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>READ MORE AT TIMESUNION.COM<!--more--><\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>An article today in the Albany <em>Times Union<\/em> says the tweaked rules, accompanied by a separate operating agreement, were finalized by aides to Republican Leader <strong>Dean Skelos<\/strong>, of Long Island, and Bronx Sen. <strong>Jeff Klein<\/strong>, leader of the five-member Independent Democratic\u00a0Conference.<\/p>\n<p>Skelos and Klein announced an alliance on Dec. 4, but until Tuesday senators in both conferences had offered only a few key adjectives about their plans to run the chamber in a coalition this year: decisions would be made in a &#8220;joint&#8221; and &#8220;equal&#8221;\u00a0manner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ALBANY &#8211; State Senate has drafted new rules recognizing the Independent Democratic Conference along with Republicans and Democrats, senators briefed on the document said late\u00a0Tuesday. READ MORE AT TIMESUNION.COM<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[4],"tags":[663,1065,1203,2103],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3YlJ4-12a","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wrfalp.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3978"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wrfalp.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wrfalp.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrfalp.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrfalp.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3978"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrfalp.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3978\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wrfalp.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrfalp.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrfalp.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}