Senate watch, day two
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- January
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Nearly 22 hours after Malcolm Smith of Queens was sworn in as Senate majority leader, the now-Democrat-controlled Senate has yet to change the welcome page on its Web site. Visitors are greeted by a “message from Senate Majority Leader Dean G. Skelos.” Skelos, a Republican from Nassau County, was elected majority leader after longtime leader Joseph Bruno gave up the job and his Senate seat last year.
Skelos was nominated by Republicans yesterday to continue as majority leader, but he didn’t get as many voice votes as Smith.
A spokesman for Smith’s office said this morning that staffers were meeting on the issue of the welcome page.
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Jay Gallagher has covered Albany for Gannett News Service since 1984 and has been Albany Bureau chief since 1989. He`s a native of the Boston area and likes to point out that in this millennium, the score is Red Sox 1 championship, the Yankees 0. 
Cara Matthews has been a statehouse correspondent in the Albany Bureau since August 2005. Prior to that, she covered Putnam County government and politics at The Journal News for nearly five years. Before that, she worked at newspapers in Connecticut and covered the state Legislature for one of them. 
