Assembly Minority Leader Brian M. Kolb (R,I,C-Canandaigua) is pictured (second from right) speaking during a General Budget Conference Committee Meeting on Tuesday, March 13 in Albany. Leader Kolb urged his fellow Legislative Leaders to join him in making statewide economic development, mandate relief and private sector job creation a priority in the 2012-2013 State Budget. Additionally, Leader Kolb called for equitable distribution of school aid to protect low and average wealth school districts and expansion of the DNA databank.
Pictured from left to right are Deputy Senate Majority Leader Tom Libous; Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos; Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver; Assemblyman Herman D. Farrell, Jr.; Assembly Majority Leader Ron Canestrari; Assemblywoman Earlene Hooper; Assembly Minority Leader Brian M. Kolb; and Assemblyman Robert C. Oaks, Ranking Minority Member on the Assembly Ways and Means Committee.