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Last Updated on Wednesday, 17 June 2009 02:00 Written by rslcpol Wednesday, 17 June 2009 02:00
From Buffalo Business First:
A state judge declined to decide who is in charge of the state Senate on Tuesday. The ruling keeps the chamber in legislative gridlock.
Senators have performed no official business in the eight days since the surprise uprising that Republicans led on June 8. Two Democrats joined all 30 Republicans to oust Sen. Malcolm Smith, D-Queens, as majority leader.
The dizzying events since then have shut down the Senate. Control of the chamber remains up in the air; the bipartisan group of senators, and remaining Democrats, each say they control the Senate.