Budget Deal Slows
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- April
- 7
There wasn’t much progress over the weekend toward getting a state budget approved—which is now almost a week late.
Gov. David Paterson asked lawmakers to stay in Albany through the weekend to get a deal done, but many went home anyway. Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver put his members on “4-hour alert,” meaning they needed to get back to Albany over the weekend within four hours, which for most members meant they could go home.
Lawmakers are expected to pass some budget bills today, but it’s unclear whether they will. They still remain at odds over how to split education and higher education money. Also today, much of the private discussions will be over whether there’s enough votes to pass a congestion pricing plan for New York City.
Yet that plan appears dead in the state Legislature.
Here’s a little comic look at how budget negotiations are going, thanks to a Rochester reader who sent this in.
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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. 
