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. Donald Norcross Senator Jim Whelan, D-Atlantic, speaks on the floor of the State Senate. Senate President Stephen M. Sweeney, D-Gloucester, Cumberland and Salem, speaks with Senator Paul A. Sarlo, D-Bergen, Essex and Passaic on the floor of the State Senate.