{"id":937,"date":"2009-06-23T06:51:03","date_gmt":"2009-06-23T06:51:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=937"},"modified":"2009-06-23T06:51:03","modified_gmt":"2009-06-23T06:51:03","slug":"the_saga_continues_in_the_new","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=937","title":{"rendered":"The Saga Continues In The New York Senate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nypost.com\/seven\/06232009\/news\/regionalnews\/enough_of_this_split__gov_rejects_senate_175666.htm\">New York Post<\/a>, Governor Paterson has called the state Senate into session at 3 p.m. to vote on 55 crucial pieces of legislation that must be passed by the end of summer to prevent taxes and other vital laws from expiring.&nbsp; The Senators had asked for 24 hours to work out their differences, but the Governor turned down the request.&nbsp; On June 8, two Senate Democrats voted with the Republicans to replace the Senate leader and the Senate was thrown into chaos.&nbsp; They have not been able to agree on how to move forward since then.<\/p>\n<p>According to the article, the Governor provided the Senate with a to-do list:<\/p>\n<blockquote dir=\"ltr\" style=\"MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px\">\n<p jquery1245754238532=\"8\">&#8220;<em>Bills to renew the 2002 law that gives City Hall control over the school system and hike the city sales tax by 0.5 percentage <nobr><a class=\"GVAdLink\" id=\"GVLINK_1_0_2\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nypost.com\/seven\/06232009\/news\/regionalnews\/enough_of_this_split__gov_rejects_senate_175666.htm#\"><font color=\"#006600\">points<\/font><\/a><\/nobr> were on the list. <\/em><\/p>\n<p jquery1245754238532=\"9\"><em>More controversial items, such as his proposals to legalize same-sex marriage and create a new, less-generous pension tier, were not.&#8221; <\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" jquery1245754238532=\"9\">The State Assembly is expected to wrap up legislative business late this morning and&nbsp;adjourn for the summer after passing more than 300 bills in the last week.&nbsp;&nbsp;Meanwhile, the Senate is still trying to work out a power-sharing agreement.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to the New York Post, Governor Paterson has called the state Senate into session at 3 p.m. to vote on 55 crucial pieces of legislation that must be passed by the end of summer to prevent taxes and other &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=937\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-937","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/937","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=937"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/937\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}