Gavel In, Gavel Out
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- June
- 27
The fifth day of special sessions in the state Senate today ended the way the others have: Neither side had 32 votes to pass any legislation.
So has they have in past days, each side gaveled in and gaveled out within minutes and they left.
The warring sides said they will continue to meet through the weekend to try to end the gridlock that has hit the chamber since June 8.
A larger group of Democratic and Republican senators are meeting later today behind closed doors after Democrats yesterday rejected a plan that would have made Sen. Malcolm Smith, D-Queens, Senate president. Smith was ousted as majority leader in the coup.
Sen. Pedro Espada, D-Bronx, who has joined with Republicans, said this afternoon that progress is being made toward a resolution.
“We’re aware of what embarrassment we brought our state and our institution,” he said. “We’re going to correct that.”
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on Saturday, June 27th, 2009 at 1:05 pm by Joseph Spector.
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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. 
why are they wasting so much time. the governor should send them home and have the senators face the public instead of aiing them by hiding in the capitol