Senate leader Joseph Bruno won't run again

ALBANY -- Senate Majority Leader Joseph Bruno, who has run the Republican chamber for more than a dozen years, confirmed Monday that he won't seek re-election in the fall.

The 79-year-old Bruno, considered the oldest serving state legislative leader in the country, has been the state's top Republican since 2006.

Several Republican senators some of whom could seek the powerful majority leader's job, refused to comment on Bruno's decision, announced in a closed-door session on the last scheduled day of the 2008 legislative session.