Another Short Session
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Senate Democrat and Republicans gaveled in and out of session again this afternoon without taking any action.
The whole thing lasted a few minutes before the 62 senators left the chambers.
Senators said they are preparing to be in Albany for the Fourth of July weekend, expecting Gov. David Paterson to continue to call daily special sessions.
He’s holding his daily press conference at 4:30 p.m. today.
Sen. Pedro Espada, D-Bronx, said the special sessions are useless.
“It’s nothing more than a continued opportunity by Governor Paterson’s pollsters to think that they will increase their favorable rating, and the evidence on that is pretty much in. It’s not working for them,” Espada said.
A Marist College poll yesterday found that Paterson’s approval rating is still at record lows, with 21 percent of New Yorkers approving of the job he’s doing.
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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. 
