Goo-Goos: Senate Reforms Don’t Go Far Enough
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- January
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A number of watchdog groups today forwarded a memo to senators, calling on them to make the reforms they are set to approve today broader.
They want more information about Senate committees posted online and reforms to the committee structure.
“A strong commitment to broader reform requires, at the very least, immediate changes to the rules in the area of transparency and procedures governing committee function,” the memo states.
They also want the new reform committee that Senate Democrats are setting up to come back with recommendations by March 15 to ensure that both parties have adequate resources to address the changes. Republicans are expected to have their staff in the minority officially pared down by April 1.
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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. 
