Senator Charles J. Fuschillo, Jr. (8th Senate District) recently held an informational community meeting at the Roosevelt Library with Assemblyman Thomas McKevitt (17th Assembly District) to help Roosevelt senior citizens learn how the New York State EPIC program could help reduce their prescription drug costs. A representative from the EPIC program was on hand to explain how the program works and answer questions from the audience.

Brooklyn- State Senator Martin J. Golden (R-C-I, Brooklyn) is announcing that today he will introduce legislation in the New York State Senate to ensure that the World Trade Center Memorial remains free of an admission fee to all who will come to reflect and remember the horrific attacks of September 11, 2001, as well as to pay tribute to the lives taken that morning.Golden was sparked to introduce this legislation that will prohibit the charge of an admission fee following reports last week of the City's intention to charge a fee.

Senator Stavisky (D-Flushing) reported that New Yorkers will no longer have to pay the State sales tax on purchases of clothing and footwear $110 or less, as of April 1 of this year. On that date, New York joined Connecticut, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, and Vermont in exempting clothing from the sales tax base.

"The Senate Minority have worked for years on this very important piece of tax relief," said Senator Stavisky. "We promised the people of this state that we would eliminate this sales tax and we made good on that promise.

New York State Senate Deputy Majority Leader Dean G. Skelos (R-Rockville Centre) welcomed Rabbi (Major) Carlos C. Huerta, Chaplain of the United States Military Academy at West Point, to the Senate chamber on the designation of Wednesday April 5, 2006 being West Point Day. Each year the New York State Senate and Assembly commemorate the establishment of the United States Military Academy at West Point by an act of Congress, on March 16, 1802.