NY Senate Republican push for subpoena of nursing home data thwarted
Updated Feb 03, 2021;
By Amanda Fries | Times Union, Albany
Albany, N.Y. A last-minute motion for the Senate investigations committee to vote on issuing a subpoena to compel testimony from Department of Health Commissioner Dr. Howard Zucker regarding nursing home coronavirus deaths was squashed and labeled as political by the committee’s chair Monday.
Sen. Thomas O’Mara, a Southern Tier Republican and ranking member of the Senate Committee on Investigations and Government Operations, surprised committee chairman, Hudson Valley Democratic Sen. James Skoufis, when he made the motion to have committee members vote to subpoena Zucker.
Senate GOP push for subpoena of nursing home data thwarted
Committee chairman describes pursuit a political motion
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Sen. James Skoufis is interviewed at the Capitol on Monday, April 1, 2019, in Albany, N.Y. Skoufis rejected a GOP call Feb. 1, 2021 to subpoena nursing home data from the state. (Will Waldron/Times Union)Will Waldron/Albany Times UnionShow MoreShow Less
2of3Buy PhotoState senators; Susan Serino, left, Thomas O Mara, center, and Daphne Jordan, right, listen to testimony during a state Senate hearing on the new pre-trail discovery reform rules on Monday, Oct. 25, 2019, at the Legislative Office Building in Albany, N.Y. The new rules take effect on Jan. 1. (Will Waldron/Times Union)Will Waldron/Albany Times UnionShow MoreShow Less