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Last Updated on Wednesday, 25 November 2009 12:11 Written by rslcpol Wednesday, 25 November 2009 12:11
From The Buffalo News:
Gov. David A. Paterson on Tuesday proposed a new set of deficit-closing ideas with far less drastic reductions in aid to public schools and more reliance on federal bailout money.
And in a bit of a mixed message, he also urged lawmakers to grant him unprecedented emergency powers to cut the budget on his own — an idea that won no support in the State Legislature.
In the end, no decisions were made. Lawmakers rejected Paterson’s more modest round of proposed cuts and went home for the Thanksgiving holiday with plans to not return until Monday, when they will try — for the fourth week in a row — to erase the state’s $3.2 billion deficit.