Talks get nowhere as State Senate confronts threat of special session
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State Senate negotiators sat down for the first substantive talks Monday to try to resolve the power struggle between Republicans and Democrats in advance of a threatened special session that Gov. David A. Paterson ordered for this afternoon to prod the sides to a resolution.
New and old offers were made to split funding between the partisan sides for staff and pork-barrel spending, the new dissident Democrat leading the Senate proposed to resign at the end of this year instead of late 2011, and Democrats again pushed to have the chamber's leadership rotate on a daily basis.See the full content of this document
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Talks get nowhere as State Senate confronts threat of special session
In the end, no deals came together, and all eyes at the Capitol wait to see whether today's 3 p.m. special session -- which senators are legally supposed to attend -- can be pu...
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