Gaveled in 3:25 PM · Albany, New York · 2009–10 session
1 NEW YORK STATE SENATE 2 3 4 THE STENOGRAPHIC RECORD 5 6 7 8 9 ALBANY, NEW YORK 10 July 9, 2009 11 3:25 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 bow all 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. 17 SENATOR SMITH: Yes, Madam 18 President. Is there a proclamation from the 19 Governor Paterson at the desk? 20 ACTING PRESIDENT STEWART-COUSINS: 21 Yes, Senator Smith, there is a proclamation 22 here at the desk. 23 The Secretary will read. 24 THE SECRETARY: "Pursuant to the
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(518) 371-8910 1 power vested in me by Article IV, Section 3 of 2 the Constitution, I hereby convene the Senate 3 of the State of New York in Extraordinary 4 Session, at the Capitol, in the City of 5 Albany, on the ninth day of July, two thousand 6 nine, at three o'clock p.m., for the purpose 7 of considering legislation I will submit with 8 respect to various subjects and acting on 9 gubernatorial nominations. 10 "Given under my hand and the Privy 11 Seal of the State in the City of Albany this 12 seventh day of July in the year two thousand 13 nine, by the Governor, David A. Paterson." 14 ACTING PRESIDENT STEWART-COUSINS: 15 The proclamation having been read, the Senate 16 is in extraordinary session. 17 Senator Smith. 18 SENATOR SMITH: Thank you, Madam 19 President. 20 Would you please call on my 21 colleague Senator Dean Skelos. 22 ACTING PRESIDENT STEWART-COUSINS: 23 Senator Skelos. 24 SENATOR SKELOS: Thank you,
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(518) 371-8910 1 Senator Stewart-Cousins. 2 I'd like to once again remind all 3 of our colleagues that we are here today in 4 extraordinary session at the call of the 5 Governor, but also by court order being 6 required to convene. 7 Again, I must state for the record, 8 despite some of the new news that's out there, 9 that we do not move away from the vote that 10 occurred on June 8th where a majority of this 11 body voted to change leadership and elected 12 Senator Espada as temporary president of the 13 Senate and myself as majority leader. 14 That would mean that either Senator 15 Espada, on the vote of June 8th, or myself are 16 the only ones entitled to appoint a presiding 17 officer and to go into extraordinary session. 18 I would also like to point out that 19 last night the Governor attempted to appoint a 20 Lieutenant Governor in violation of the 21 Constitution. We do not recognize any such 22 appointment, and any attempt by a person 23 claiming to be the Lieutenant Governor to 24 convene and preside over any session of the
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(518) 371-8910 1 Senate is not valid. 2 Again, I would point out that 3 whether it's extraordinary session or regular 4 session, based upon the vote of June 8th and 5 the rules that were instituted that day, only 6 Senator Espada or myself are entitled to 7 appoint a presiding officer and to proceed 8 with the session. 9 So at this time I'd like to move to 10 lay aside the agenda and move to adjourn this 11 session sine die. 12 ACTING PRESIDENT STEWART-COUSINS: 13 Thank you, Senator Skelos. 14 Senator Smith. 15 SENATOR SMITH: Thank you, Madam 16 President. Always good to see you. 17 Given that we will have no 18 legislative activity going before us today, I 19 ask that we adjourn this Extraordinary Session 20 Number 18 sine die. 21 ACTING PRESIDENT STEWART-COUSINS: 22 Thank you, Senator Smith. 23 On motion of Senator Smith, this 24 Extraordinary Session Number 18 stands
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(518) 371-8910 1 adjourned sine die. 2 (Whereupon, at 3:29 p.m., the 3 Senate adjourned.) 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24
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