Friday, June 26, 2009

1 NEW YORK STATE SENATE 2 3 4 THE STENOGRAPHIC RECORD 5 6 7 8 9 ALBANY, NEW YORK 10 June 26, 2009 11 11:02 a.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 The Secretary will read. 20 THE SECRETARY: "Pursuant to the 21 power vested in me by Article IV, Section 3 of 22 the Constitution, I hereby convene the Senate 23 of the State of New York in Extraordinary 24 Session at the Capitol, in the City of Albany,

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(518) 371-8910 1 on the twenty-sixth day of June, two thousand 2 nine, at twelve o'clock noon, for the purpose 3 of considering legislation and nominations I 4 will submit with respect to various subjects 5 and for the consideration of legislation with 6 respect to other subjects as I may recommend. 7 "Given under the hand and the privy 8 seal of the State, in the City of Albany this 9 twenty-fifth day of June in the year 10 two thousand nine, by the Governor, David A. 11 Paterson." 12 ACTING PRESIDENT STEWART-COUSINS: 13 The proclamation having been read, the session 14 is in extraordinary session. 15 Senator Smith. 16 SENATOR SMITH: Yes, Madam 17 President. I would just ask that we take a 18 moment of silence for two people who have 19 recently passed away, Michael Jackson and 20 Farrah Fawcett. If we can take a moment of 21 silence for that, if our members will just 22 stand. 23 (Whereupon, the assemblage 24 respected a moment of silence.)

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(518) 371-8910 1 SENATOR SMITH: Madam President, 2 again, for this fourth extraordinary session, 3 at this time I would move, given that we still 4 have the challenges before us, that we move to 5 adjourn this session sine die. 6 ACTING PRESIDENT STEWART-COUSINS: 7 Thank you, Senator. 8 On motion, this fourth 9 extraordinary session is adjourned sine die. 10 (Whereupon, at 11:04 a.m., the 11 Senate adjourned.) 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24

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