Gaveled in 11:18 AM · Albany, New York · 2007–08 session
1 NEW YORK STATE SENATE 2 3 4 THE STENOGRAPHIC RECORD 5 6 7 8 9 ALBANY, NEW YORK 10 January 17, 2007 11 11:18 a.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 ACTING PRESIDENT LITTLE: The 3 Senate will come to order. 4 I ask everyone present to please 5 rise and repeat with me the Pledge of 6 Allegiance. 7 (Whereupon, the assemblage recited 8 the Pledge of Allegiance to the Flag.) 9 ACTING PRESIDENT LITTLE: The 10 invocation today will be given by the Reverend 11 Robert Hart, pastor of Sonrise Bible Church in 12 Schenectady. 13 Reverent Hart. 14 REVEREND HART: Thank you. 15 Our Heavenly Father, we're reminded 16 of a critical time in the Nation of Israel's 17 history when the Old Testament tells us that 18 one of the small tribes, ones that the history 19 books would consider insignificant, at this 20 critical point the Old Testament tells us that 21 these people from Issachar rose up with an 22 understanding of the times they lived in, to 23 know what the nation ought to do. 24 Lord, I pray for the men and women 25 that are here today that they would be the
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(518) 371-8910 1 modern people of Issachar, that they would 2 understand the times we live in, these 3 critical times, and they would know what our 4 people should do. Lord, You would give them 5 wisdom, You'd give them understanding, You'd 6 give them a spirit of justice and mercy. 7 I pray their guidance would be 8 God-given, for I ask this in the name, as I 9 pray, of my savior Jesus. 10 Amen. 11 ACTING PRESIDENT LITTLE: Thank 12 you, Reverend Hart. 13 Reading of the Journal. 14 THE SECRETARY: In Senate, 15 Tuesday, January 16, the Senate met pursuant 16 to adjournment. The Journal of Monday, 17 January 15, was read and approved. On motion, 18 Senate adjourned. 19 ACTING PRESIDENT LITTLE: Without 20 objection, the Journal stands approved as 21 read. 22 Senator Skelos. 23 SENATOR SKELOS: Madam President, 24 if I could, the resolution yesterday, I 25 believe it was 128, we should have the Journal
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(518) 371-8910 1 reflect that there were 23 "aye" votes. 2 ACTING PRESIDENT LITTLE: Thank 3 you. The Journal will so reflect that, 4 Senator Skelos. 5 Presentation of petitions. 6 Messages from the Assembly. 7 Messages from the Governor. 8 Reports of standing committees. 9 Reports of select committees. 10 Communications and reports from 11 state officers. 12 Motions and resolutions. 13 Senator Skelos. 14 SENATOR SKELOS: Madam President, 15 if we could adopt the Resolution Calendar. 16 ACTING PRESIDENT LITTLE: All in 17 favor of adopting the Resolution Calendar 18 signify by saying aye. 19 (Response of "Aye.") 20 ACTING PRESIDENT LITTLE: 21 Opposed, nay. 22 (No response.) 23 ACTING PRESIDENT LITTLE: The 24 Resolution Calendar is adopted. 25 Senator Skelos.
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(518) 371-8910 1 SENATOR SKELOS: Madam President, 2 there will be an immediate meeting of the 3 Rules Committee to report a bill to be taken 4 up next week. 5 And then we'll stand at ease, but 6 we'll come back and just do some housekeeping, 7 for the knowledge of the membership. 8 ACTING PRESIDENT LITTLE: There 9 is an immediate meeting of the Rules Committee 10 in the Majority Conference Room, and the 11 Senate will stand at ease. 12 (Whereupon, the Senate stood at 13 ease at 11:22 a.m.) 14 (Whereupon, the Senate reconvened 15 at 11:28 a.m.) 16 THE PRESIDENT: Senator Skelos. 17 SENATOR SKELOS: Mr. President, 18 if we could return to reports of standing 19 committees, I believe there's a report of the 20 Rules Committee at the desk. I ask that it be 21 read. 22 THE PRESIDENT: The Secretary 23 will read. 24 THE SECRETARY: Senator Bruno, 25 from the Committee on Rules, reports the
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(518) 371-8910 1 following bill direct to third reading: 2 Senate Print 1A, by Senator Bruno, an act to 3 amend the Tax Law and others. 4 SENATOR SKELOS: Move to accept 5 the report of the Rules Committee. 6 THE PRESIDENT: All those in 7 favor. 8 (Response of "Aye.") 9 THE PRESIDENT: Opposed, nay. 10 (No response.) 11 THE PRESIDENT: The report of the 12 Rules Committee is accepted. 13 Senator Skelos. 14 SENATOR SKELOS: Mr. President, 15 is there any further business at the desk? 16 THE PRESIDENT: No, Senator, 17 there is not. 18 SENATOR SKELOS: Mr. President, 19 on behalf of Senator Bruno, I hand up the 20 following Majority leadership and committee 21 assignments and ask that they be filed in the 22 Journal. 23 And in consultation with the 24 Minority Leader, Senator Bruno hands up the 25 following Minority leadership and committee
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(518) 371-8910 1 assignments and asks that they be filed in the 2 Journal. 3 THE PRESIDENT: So ordered, 4 Senator. 5 Senator Skelos. 6 SENATOR SKELOS: There being no 7 further business to come before the Senate, I 8 move we stand adjourned until Monday, 9 January 22nd, at 3:00 p.m., intervening days 10 being legislative days. 11 THE PRESIDENT: The Senate stands 12 adjourned until Monday, January 22nd, at 13 3:00 p.m., all days intervening to be 14 legislative. 15 (Whereupon, at 11:30 a.m., the 16 Senate adjourned.) 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25
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