Tag: United States Senate Committee on Finance

Two Hartwick College students are exploring the New York political arena through internships for state senators. The interns were assigned to senators with consideration of the policy areas they were most interested in; Nolan chose agriculture for its economic importance upstate and said he was pleased to be working with Metzger, who was named chairwoman of the Senate Agriculture Committee in December. He added that he also supported the abortion-rights protections passed by the Legislature and signed by Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Tuesday, a measure that replaces a 1970 state abortion law passed three years before the U.S. Supreme Court's Roe v. Wade ruling legalized abortion nationwide. “Having a younger sister who I'm very close with, that was very important for me, to make sure she has a say in what happens in her own body,” Nolan said. The student interns are taking on a five-day work week that includes research for bills, note-taking, and sitting in on legislative sessions. The program will culminate in a mock legislative session, during which students will be assigned parties and discuss an original bill crafted during the internship, the students said. “I love the energy down here. It's really exciting, especially on session days, it feels like there's an electricity in the air,” Malone said, adding that the amount of discussion a given bill goes through on the floor is one aspect of the process he's found interesting. “I think this has already made me more mature,” he said.