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Senate Leadership Unveils Plan to Protect Seniors and Disabled

Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Nicholas P. Scutari, D-Union, Middlesex and Somerset, addresses his colleagues on the floor of the State Senate.

Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Nicholas P. Scutari, D-Union, Middlesex and Somerset, addresses his colleagues on the floor of the State Senate.

Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Nicholas P. Scutari, D-Union, Middlesex and Somerset, addresses his colleagues on the floor of the State Senate.

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Members of legislative leadership listen and prepare to answer reporters’ questions about how reinstating the millionaire’s tax would raise more than $620 million this year.

Senate Majority Leader Barbara Buono, D-Middlesex, stands with Assembly Speaker Sheila Y. Oliver, D-Essex, Assembly Budget Chairman Louis Greenwald, D-Camden and Senate President Steve Sweeney, D-Gloucester, Cumberland and Salem, to address reporters during a midday news conference, on plans to balance the State budget.

“Asking seniors and the disabled to pay thousands of dollars in higher property taxes and prescription costs while providing a huge windfall to the extremely wealthy is simply unconscionable,” said Senate Majority Leader Barbara Buono, D-Middlesex. “Today we renew our promise to seniors and the disabled that their quality of life is our priority.”

“For all his talk of ‘shared sacrifice,’ the Governor seemed to take pride in insulating the wealthiest residents from having to share in anything,” said Senator Paul Sarlo, D-Bergen, Essex and Passaic, chairman of the Senate Budget and Appropriations Committee. “We can protect the small business leaders we need to help rebuild our economy while also allowing our most vulnerable residents to continue to call New Jersey home.”

Senate President Steve Sweeney, D-Gloucester, Cumberland and Salem, stands with Assembly Speaker Sheila Oliver, D-Essex, Senate Majority Leader Barbara Buono, D-Middlesex, and Assembly Majority Leader Joseph Cryan, D-Essex, to answer reporters’ questions on plans to balance the FY 2011 budget, while saving tax dollars for some of the State’s most vulnerable citizens.

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