“During budget negotiations, I’ve been fighting for a raise for the direct-care professionals who provide critically important healthcare and deliver quality-of-life programming to New Yorkers with developmental disabilities. I was proud to...

“Millions of New Yorkers fleeing the state in search of affordability and good jobs hasn’t deterred the Assembly Majority from indulging their worst instincts. Their budget proposal features $5.7 billion in tax hikes over the next two years,...

Assemblyman Minority Leader Brian M. Kolb (R,C,-Canandaigua) has tapped Assemblyman Ed Ra (R,C,I-Franklin Square) to serve as the alternate for the Assembly Minority on the Education Joint Budget Conference Committee. Ra served as the Ranking Minority...

Assemblyman Ed Ra (R,C,I-Franklin Square) is encouraging his Assembly colleagues to sponsor and advance his legislation which would create a nonpartisan office of  policy research and analysis that would serve lawmakers on both sides of the aisle....

Assemblyman Ed Ra (R,C,I-Franklin Square) and the members of the Conference of Italian-American State Legislators are announcing the kick-off for their for their annual scholarship program. Four scholarships will be awarded, each totaling $3,500. Two...

“These Senate Majority politicians have been insistent that they’re different than the group that raised taxes, spiked spending and cut Long Island school aid during their last disastrous tenure controlling the chamber. They were billed as professionalized...

Assemblyman Ed Ra (R,-Franklin Square) yesterday joined a bipartisan group of colleagues, advocates and dozens of home-care recipients at a press conference in the Capitol to voice their opposition to Gov. Cuomo’s devastating cuts to the Consumer...

Assemblyman Ed Ra (R-Franklin Square) grilled MTA officials at yesterday’s Joint Legislative Transportation Budget Hearing in Albany for details about how the governor’s proposed congestion pricing plan would benefit Long Island commuters. ...

“Last year, this house passed legislation to cleanly decouple student performance on statewide assessments from teacher evaluations. The bill we passed today fails to meet that standard. 50 percent of a teacher’s evaluation will still be based...

“At times, the governor’s State of the State Address felt more like a partisan political rally. He blamed Minority politicians in the state Senate for not rubber-stamping his entire progressive agenda. He blamed Minority politicians in Washington...

Assemblyman Ed Ra (R-Franklin Square) is excited to announce he has been re-appointed Assistant Minority Leader Pro Tempore as he begins his fifth term as representative for the 19th Assembly District this January. He has also been appointed ranking...

Assemblyman Ed Ra (R-Franklin Square) hosted a Snowflakes for Seniors program in which students from St. Aidan’s School, Williston Park, wrote heartfelt messages of cheer on paper snowflakes to be distributed to senior citizen at NYU Winthrop Hospital...

Assemblyman Ed Ra (R-Franklin Square) partnered with Sen. Elaine Phillips to collect hundreds of toys, with the help of local students, to be delivered to child patients at NYU Winthrop Hospital. The toys were delivered to the children in the hospital’s...

Assemblyman Ed Ra (R-Franklin Square) partnered with Notre Dame School in New Hyde Park to honor local veterans through a new project based off of President George W. Bush’s book Portraits of Courage. He hosted a reception to highlight the success of...

Assemblyman Ed Ra (R-Franklin Square) was happy to present a resolution proclaiming October as German American Heritage Month to members of the Plattduetsche Volksfest Vereen at the Plattduetsche Park Biergarten on Sunday, September 30. To signify the...

Assemblyman Ed Ra (R-Franklin Square) was proud to honor eight local women with his 6th Annual 2018 Women of Distinction Award on Saturday, October 6 at the Westbury Memorial Public Library. The Girl Scouts of Nassau County preformed the Presentation...

Assemblyman Ed Ra (R-Franklin Square) is pleased to announce he collected 2,201 pounds of supplies at his second annual Summer Food Drive to End Hunger, co-hosted with Long Island Cares & King Kullen. The event was held on Saturday, Sept. 15 and Sunday,...

Assemblyman Ed Ra (R-Franklin Square) was pleased to celebrate with the local students who successfully completed the New York State Assembly 2018 Summer Reading Challenge on Tuesday, October 2 at the Hillside Public Library. Over 30 children completed...

Assemblyman Ed Ra (R-Franklin Square) is pleased to announce he will co-host a Shred & Shed event with Senator Kemp Hannon and Carey Dad’s Club on Saturday, September 22 at Sanitary District #6, 80 Cherry Valley Avenue, West Hempstead. At the event,...