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COHEN/BURZICHELLI/FISHER BILLS TO OUTLAW SURGICAL MODIFICATION OF DOGS FOR SMUGGLING DRUGS ADVANCES

(TRENTON) - The Assembly Agriculture and Natural Resources Committee today released two bills Assemblymen Neil M. Cohen, John J. Burzichelli and Douglas H. Fisher sponsored to make surgical modification of dogs and other animals to serve as drug mules a specific animal cruelty crime.

COHEN PROPOSES 'CONGO'S BILL'TO SAVE LIFE OF DOG SENTENCED TO DEATH

(ROSELLE) - Assembly Deputy Speaker Neil M. Cohen today introduced legislation that would immediately change the state's vicious dog laws to save the life of Congo, a German shepherd that has fetched national media attention after being sentenced to death for mauling a landscaper in Princeton earlier this year. 

COHEN ASSAILS RIGHT-TO-LIFE’S ATTEMPT TO BLOCK STEM-CELL RESEARCH

(ROSELLE) – Assembly Deputy Speaker Neil M. Cohen today called for Democrats and Republicans to join hands in fighting the New Jersey        Right-to-Life’s lawsuit seeking to block this year’s ballot referendum asking voter approval for a proposed $450 million stem cell research bond fund.

There are few ceremonial silences in the Statehouse to rival what is created by an oration for the dead.

Former State Sen. Alexander J. Menza died this week of a heart attack in Rome after a long battle with cancer. On Thursday, Assemblyman Neil M. Cohen went to the floor to speak about his former boss, who brought him up in Union County politics.

"I was the kid licking stamps," Cohen told colleagues of his days as an aide in Menza’s office. "At all times he encouraged those who worked for him."

Cohen choked up as he recalled his political mentor, who in 1978 quixotically challenged Bill Bradley in a primary for the U.S. Senate. Menza met Dollar Bill’s account of his flashy basketball youth with allusions to his own work as a lawyer registering voters in the Deep South at the height of the Civil Rights movement.