SENATE GOP READY TO ACT ON BUDGET
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Republicans emerged from their closed-door conference about a half-hour ago and arenow prepared to act on the state budget.
“We just wanted to go over some of the amendments we’re going to propose and look at the school-aid runs,’’ said Sen. George Winner, R-Elmira, when asked what the GOP members were talking about.
The session is now set to start at 3 p.m. – five and a half hours later than originally scheduled – and will continue “until we’re finished,’’ said Senate Majority Leader Malcolm Smith, D-Queens. That makes it likely that two bills that were introduced too late to be acted on today will be approved shortly after midnight. That will make the budget late, at least by a few hours, since the new fiscal year starts just after midnight.
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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. 
