No deal, but negotiations continue in Senate
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Senators completed their trio of sessions over the holiday weekend without resolving their leadership stalemate, but separate negotiations over how resources and staffing would be allocated have been moving forward, senators said Sunday.
The 6 p.m. special session lasted less than three minutes and no business was conducted, much the same as what happened Friday and Saturday.
“So far, unfortunately, there hasn’t been any progress made. It’s just a matter of moving forward and seeing what we can agree to,” Sen. Jeff Klein, D-Bronx, said after the session.
Sen. Thomas Libous, R-Binghamton, and Sen. Diane Savino, D-Staten Island, said they are involved in a second tier of negotiations in which senators are trying to work out all issues other than which party would lead the chamber or how the two sides would share power. They went into a meeting soon after the session ended.
“On our level (of negotiations), there’s a recognition that the Senate has changed in a way that none of us have ever imagined. There is no longer a Senate majority. You have two conferences with an equal number of members – 31 there and 31 here,” Savino said. “And that’s not going to change anytime soon.”
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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. 
