For Immediate Release: April 5, 2017

Contact: Gary Ginsburg | ginsburg@nysenate.gov | 518-455-2415

Statement from Senate Democratic Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins

The latest modified Raise the Age deal makes it clear that we could have and should have
done better. Unfortunately, this is the consequence of empowering Trump Republicans.
Important issues like this get watered down and others like the Dream Act, protecting Planned
Parenthood, ethics and voting reforms are left behind.

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BACKGROUND:

A spokesperson for the Senates Republican majority on Wednesday confirmed the deal, calling
it a modified raise the age.
http://www.newsday.com/long-island/politics/spin-cycle/idc-s-klein-details-raise-the-age-youth-
justice-deal-in-budget-1.13366300

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