Debate in both houses of the state Legislature stretched from afternoon into evening, with the Assembly adjourning around 9 and the Senate around 10 p.m.. Both will be back to
finish voting on budget bills Tuesday morning - legslation that members mostly have not had a chance to read.
«Today, Senate Democrats
finished voting on a budget that raises taxes by nearly $ 4 billion,» Mr. Skelos said in a statement, referring to his tally of the total amount of taxes approved in the last few months.
Not exact matches
ALBANY — As the state Assembly
finished action
on the 2017 - 2018
budget Saturday evening, dozens of members — cooped up in Albany for at least 13 days — rushed out of the chamber before the final
vote tally was announced.
The state legislature is almost
finished voting on a $ 141.3 b state
budget.
Meanwhile, chaos reigned upstairs after Senate Democratic leader John Sampson of Brooklyn declared the
budget «done» and disbanded the Senate without
voting on the $ 1 billion «revenue» bill needed to
finish it off.
The Democratic - led Assembly plans to
finish voting on the 2016 - 17 state
budget on Friday during the day, a spokesman for Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie said.
The state legislature is
finished voting on a $ 141.3 billion state
budget, with the Assembly completing it's work shortly before midnight
on Thursday.
As Tuesday wore
on, it became increasingly clear that lawmakers were not going to meet their self - imposed deadline of
finishing the
budget by March 21, and said they were likely to continue
voting on budget bills into the weekend.
Lawmakers had been expected to
vote on the
budget this week, saying they were close to
finished, but
on Wednesday evening, Governor Cuomo gave a press conference saying there was no final deal yet
on the
budget.