Monday, January 8, 2007

1 NEW YORK STATE SENATE 2 3 4 THE STENOGRAPHIC RECORD 5 6 7 8 9 ALBANY, NEW YORK 10 January 8, 2007 11 3:07 p.m. 12 13 14 REGULAR SESSION 15 16 17 18 LT. GOVERNOR DAVID A. PATERSON, President 19 STEVEN M. BOGGESS, Secretary 20 21 22 23 24 25

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(518) 371-8910 1 P R O C E E D I N G S 2 THE PRESIDENT: The Senate will 3 please come to order. 4 I would ask all those present to 5 please rise with me and join in the recitation 6 of the Pledge of Allegiance. 7 (Whereupon, the assemblage recited 8 the Pledge of Allegiance to the Flag.) 9 THE PRESIDENT: Our prayer today 10 will be offered, as it has been so many times, 11 by the very wonderful and renowned Reverend 12 Peter G. Young, now with Mother Theresa 13 Community right here on 2nd Avenue in Albany. 14 REVEREND YOUNG: Forty-eight 15 years of doing the same thing. 16 Dear God, as we begin the 230th 17 session, we all have a variety of resolutions 18 that are environment, energy, disaster 19 preparedness, economic development, urban 20 planning, schools, DSS, taxes, community, 21 healthcare, crime, tech and government 22 spending. And without dedication to your 23 guidelines, O God, these 2007 resolutions will 24 be words without results. 25 We turn to You, O God, for these

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(518) 371-8910 1 Senators, so that they will benefit from Your 2 commitment to them and their commitment to You 3 for all of our New Yorkers, so that they will 4 prosper and do Your good work. 5 Amen. 6 THE PRESIDENT: Thank you, Father 7 Young. 8 The reading of the Journal. 9 THE SECRETARY: In Senate, 10 Friday, January 5, the Senate met pursuant to 11 adjournment. The Journal of Thursday, 12 January 4, was read and approved. On motion, 13 Senate adjourned. 14 THE PRESIDENT: Hearing no 15 objection, the Journal stands approved as 16 read. 17 Presentation of petitions. 18 Messages from the Assembly. 19 Message from the Governor. 20 Reports of standing committees. 21 Reports of select committees. 22 Communications and reports from 23 state officers. 24 Motions and resolutions. 25 The chair recognizes Senator

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(518) 371-8910 1 Skelos. 2 SENATOR SKELOS: Mr. President, 3 if you would recognize Senator Maltese at this 4 time. 5 THE PRESIDENT: The chair 6 recognizes Senator Maltese. 7 SENATOR MALTESE: Mr. President, 8 I wanted to take advantage of an opportunity 9 to address my esteemed Senate colleague, 10 former Senator David Paterson. Certainly 11 he'll never be a former Senator to me, but 12 Lieutenant Governor, the presiding officer. 13 I take this opportunity to 14 introduce a visiting legislator, a visiting 15 state senator from the state of Virginia, 16 representing Richmond, the chair of the 17 education committee, a member of the reserve, 18 the U.S. Army Reserve for many years, a very 19 distinguished legislator. He is also a guest 20 of Assemblyman Peter Rivera. 21 I'd just like to introduce H. 22 Russell Potts, Jr., from Richmond, Virginia, 23 the state senator. Will you please stand. 24 (Applause.) 25 THE PRESIDENT: Senator Potts,

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(518) 371-8910 1 welcome to the Senate chamber. 2 Senator Potts was an independent 3 candidate for governor in Virginia in 2005 and 4 has served with distinction in the senate of 5 that great state. 6 And we welcome you here to the 7 chamber and hope you will come back and visit 8 us again. Thank you. 9 The chair recognizes Senator 10 Skelos. 11 SENATOR SKELOS: Mr. President, 12 is there any further business to come before 13 the Senate? 14 THE PRESIDENT: No, there isn't, 15 Senator. 16 SENATOR SKELOS: There being no 17 further business, I move we stand adjourned 18 until Tuesday, January 9th, at 11:00 a.m. 19 THE PRESIDENT: The Senate stands 20 adjourned until Tuesday, January 9th, at 21 11:00 a.m., intervening days being 22 legislative. Whew -- tough day. 23 (Laughter.) 24 (Whereupon, at 3:11 p.m., the 25 Senate adjourned.)

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