Senate, Assembly agree on fall session
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Senate Majority Leader Joseph Bruno, R-Brunswick, Rensselaer County, just announced the Senate will return to Albany Oct. 22 “to address a number of unresolved issues involving economic development, jobs, tax relief and confirmations.” Bruno said he spoke with Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, D-Manhattan, and he has agreed to convene a session in the Assembly that day too.
Following a deal crafted in July allowing New York City to pursue a traffic-reduction plan, Bruno said the compromise forged as part of the agreement included giving $200 million in property-tax credits to moderate-income homeowners over 65 and spending $300 million on economic-development projects. Gov. Eliot Spitzer said at the time those issues were not done deals.
On confirmations, there are about 75 Spitzer nominees who haven’t been confirmed by the Senate (out of more than 200). Bruno said many of the nominations came in days before the legislative session ended in June and the Senate has needed time to vet all the candidates.
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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. 
