Meeting prep
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It’s not clear yet whether Gov. Spitzer and legislative leaders will be able to announce any agreements later today when they hold another public bargaining session. Neither the governor nor Joe Bruno nor Sheldon Silver indicated such in brief speaking appearances this morning on other topics.
In fact, Senate Majority Leader Bruno, R-Rensselaer County, again was critical of the governor when asked how things were going. Asked if the governor has, in Bruno’s view, sufficiently pushed the Democrat-led Assembly on key issues, the senator said: “No. I haven’t seen it.’’
Assembly Speaker Silver, D-Manhattan, said the two houses will probably have to go to conference committees (a bipartisan panel of Senate and Assembly members) if they are to resolve their differences on a DNA crime database bill. The Assembly wants to allow criminal defendants more access to DNA evidence than Bruno or Spitzer.
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Jay Gallagher has covered Albany for Gannett News Service since 1984 and has been Albany Bureau chief since 1989. He`s a native of the Boston area and likes to point out that in this millennium, the score is Red Sox 1 championship, the Yankees 0. 
Cara Matthews has been a statehouse correspondent in the Albany Bureau since August 2005. Prior to that, she covered Putnam County government and politics at The Journal News for nearly five years. Before that, she worked at newspapers in Connecticut and covered the state Legislature for one of them. 
