Hard At Work?
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- March
- 6
Here’s NYPIRG’s analysis of the workload of the state Legislature in February:
Assembly
Total time in session: 15 hours, 3 minutes
Total bills passed: 149*
Average time spent debating each bill: 6 minutes, 4 seconds
Total session days: 8**
Senate
Total time in session: 4 hours, 16 minutes
Total bills passed: 101
Average time spent debating each bill: 2 minutes, 32 seconds*
Total session days: 9
*This does not factor in session time spent passing resolutions, introducing constituents in the audience, confirming appointments, or tending to other miscellaneous business. The actual time spent debating each bill is significantly lower.
**The Assembly did not convene on Super Tuesday, which is why they have one less session day than the Senate.
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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. 
[...] a breakdown of the legislature’s workload for February (via NYPIRG and Albany Watch): Assembly Total time in session: 15 hours, 3 minutes Total bills passed: 149* Average time spent [...]