(Recall that Cuomo has more than a passing interest in this lawsuit, since it challenges his right as governor to make policy
through budget extender bills).
A key component of the Senate GOP's lawsuit against the prisoner counting change included in the 2010 - 2011 budget is a challenge to the way that switch was made —
through a budget extender bill sent to the Legislature by then - Gov.
Not exact matches
But if it has to get done on Monday, it gets done on Monday... I'm looking forward to passing
budget bills, I'm not doing it
through the
extenders.»
Despite decades of late
budgets, Monday's action marked the first time a governor has enacted a portion of the final state
budget through a temporary
budget extender bill.
DeFrancisco, a Republican from Syracuse, says if no agreement is reached on some of the unrelated topics by the
budget deadline, lawmakers will likely oppose any attempt by the governor to force
through the policy changes in the form of
extender bills to keep the government running.