New look for NJ Legislature

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Credit: (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File)File photo: Former Senate President Steve Sweeney, left and Sen. Nick Scutari pictured on March 25, 2019.

After Sweeney lost his reelection bid in November to a Republican newcomer, Scutari was chosen as the new Senate president. For the first time in over a decade, New Jersey’s state Senate has a new leader after Nicholas Scutari, a Union County Democrat, was elected by his colleagues on Tuesday to serve as president of the Legislature’s upper house.

A veteran senator from Linden, Scutari took over for former Senate President Steve Sweeney (D-Gloucester) whose stunning loss in November ended his run as the Senate’s longest-serving president. Scutari, who is perhaps best known for shepherding New Jersey’s attempts to […].



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