From The Buffalo News:

Reducing the state’s soaring deficit, legalizing gay marriage, slowing property tax growth and toughening drunk driving laws are among the items on the agenda for a special session of the Legislature that Gov. David A. Paterson has scheduled for Tuesday.

The governor, though, is being rebuffed by his fellow Democrats who run the State Senate in his quest to address both houses a day earlier in a rare joint session in which he hopes to convince them of the need to cut state spending to trim the $3.2 billion deficit.

But Democrats in the Senate, where Paterson served for years before becoming governor, have rejected that notion. Senate Republicans plan to attend the Monday session, as do Assembly Democrats and Republicans.

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