Thursday, June 25, 2009

1 NEW YORK STATE SENATE 2 3 4 THE STENOGRAPHIC RECORD 5 6 7 8 9 ALBANY, NEW YORK 10 June 25, 2009 11 3:06 p.m. 12 13 14 EXTRAORDINARY SESSION 15 16 17 18 SENATOR ANDREA STEWART-COUSINS, Acting President 19 ANGELO J. APONTE, Secretary 20 21 22 23 24

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(518) 371-8910 1 P R O C E E D I N G S 2 ACTING PRESIDENT STEWART-COUSINS: 3 The Senate will please come to order. 4 I ask everyone present to rise and 5 recite with me the Pledge of Allegiance to our 6 Flag. 7 (Whereupon, the assemblage recited 8 the Pledge of Allegiance to the Flag.) 9 ACTING PRESIDENT STEWART-COUSINS: 10 In the absence of clergy, may we all bow our 11 heads for a moment of silence. 12 (Whereupon, the assemblage 13 respected a moment of silence.) 14 ACTING PRESIDENT STEWART-COUSINS: 15 Thank you. 16 Senator Smith, I have at the desk 17 here a proclamation which I'm handing down to 18 the Secretary at this time. 19 SENATOR SMITH: Read the 20 proclamation, please. 21 ACTING PRESIDENT STEWART-COUSINS: 22 The Secretary will read. 23 THE SECRETARY: "Pursuant to the 24 power vested in me by Article IV, Section 3 of

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(518) 371-8910 1 the Constitution, I hereby convene the Senate 2 of the State of New York in Extraordinary 3 Session at the Capitol, in the City of Albany, 4 on the twenty-fifth day of June, two 5 thousand nine, at three o'clock, for the 6 purpose of considering legislation that 7 nominations I will submit with respect to 8 various subjects, and for the consideration of 9 legislation with respect to such other 10 subjects as I may recommend. 11 "Given under my hand and the privy 12 seal of the State, in the City of Albany, this 13 twenty-fourth day of June in the year 14 two thousand nine, by the Governor, David A. 15 Paterson." 16 ACTING PRESIDENT STEWART-COUSINS: 17 The proclamation having been read, the session 18 is in an extraordinary session. 19 Before we go on, Senator Smith, I'd 20 like to recognize Senator Craig Johnson for a 21 moment. 22 SENATOR CRAIG JOHNSON: Thank you 23 very much, Madam President. 24 I just want to recognize that today

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(518) 371-8910 1 happens to be the 15th yahrtzeit, the 2 anniversary of the death of Rabbi Menachem 3 Schneerson. 4 For those of you who may not know, 5 the Rebbe, Rabbi Schneerson, was one of the 6 greatest spiritual leaders over the past 7 century. And one of the important things that 8 the Rebbe taught was about bringing goodness 9 and kindness to all people throughout the 10 world. 11 And I think, as we see these days 12 here in Albany and all across our great state, 13 if we can just take a moment of silence for 14 prayers for him and his family and to take in 15 the words that he taught and taught so many. 16 So if I could just ask for people to rise for 17 that moment of silence for the Rebbe, I would 18 appreciate it. 19 (Whereupon, the assemblage 20 respected a moment of silence.) 21 SENATOR CRAIG JOHNSON: Thank 22 you, Madam President. 23 ACTING PRESIDENT STEWART-COUSINS: 24 Senator Smith.

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(518) 371-8910 1 SENATOR SMITH: Yes, Madam 2 President. Thank you for recognizing our 3 colleague Senator Craig Johnson for that brief 4 statement which is so important to us. 5 But, Madam President, in light of 6 the fact that the Governor has still neglected 7 to bring the Assembly into Extraordinary 8 Session Number 3 with us, I have to move that 9 we do not take up any legislative activity 10 today and we adjourn the special session 11 sine die. 12 ACTING PRESIDENT STEWART-COUSINS: 13 Thank you, Senator Smith. On motion, this 14 third extraordinary session is adjourned 15 sine die. 16 (Whereupon, at 3:09 p.m., the 17 Senate adjourned.) 18 19 20 21 22 23 24

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