Assembly Minority Leader Will Barclay

 Earlier this week, after much consideration, I decided I will not be running for reelection in November. As such, I will also be stepping down from my role leading the Assembly Minority Conference. I did […]

 Assembly Minority Leader Will Barclay (R,C-Pulaski), in conjunction with Operation Oswego County, Sen. Chris Ryan, Sen. Mark Walczyk, and Oswego County officials hosted a nuclear energy forum today at Cayuga Community College’s Fulton Campus. The […]

 New York is on the cusp of a full-blown energy crisis, and the real tragedy of the matter is that if catastrophe does strike, it will have been entirely avoidable. Since the Climate Leadership and […]

  New York’s legislative process is objectively one of the most dysfunctional in the nation. A recent report from the Times Union (TU) effectively illustrated this point by noting New York is one of only […]

Washington, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, a member of the U.S. Senate Appropriations Committee, announced that several of her priorities were included in the just-passed Fiscal Year (FY) 2026 Energy and Water Development, […]

    “Gov. Hochul’s $260 billion executive budget proposal continues the disturbing, and failing, pattern of reckless spending in New York. The state budget has increased by $81 billion over the last five years with […]

 The broad strokes of Gov. Kathy Hochul’s plan for 2026 contains a handful of items spearheaded by the Assembly Minority Conference. I was happy to hear the governor talk about eliminating taxes for tipped workers, […]