ALBANY, N.Y. -- State lawmakers are cutting their vacations short this summer. They will be in Albany Tuesday for a special session. There's word this morning that lawmakers are already inching closer toward a revised budget with the governor.
We are told Assembly members may cut some health spending and their own member items. Paterson had identified the two areas as ways to help cut more than a billion dollars from the state budget.
Just one day to go until a special session of the state legislature. Lawmakers will be working on revising the budget. Governor Paterson wants to cut $2 billion from the budget.
While the Democratic-controlled Assembly still hasn't given up on its plans to tax high-income New Yorkers, there is a growing understanding that the controversial measure wouldn't pass the Republican-controlled State Senate or Paterson's veto pen. The governor has also proposed cuts to the city university system.
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