New York State Senate re-elects its respective party conference leaders

Last week, New York State Senate Republicans and Democrats re-elected the leaders of their respective party conferences: Sen. John Flanagan for the Republican Conference and Sen. Andrea Stewart-Cousins for the mainline Democrat Conference. With two Senate elections undergoing a final vote count and a growing Independent Democrat Conference (IDC) headed by Sen. Jeffrey Klein, it remains unclear who will control the Senate chamber in January.