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Report: Legislature remains ‘broken’
The Associated Press

    Citing weak committees, absence of debate or dissent and frequent lack of sound fiscal analysis of legislation in 2006 and 2007, a study released Monday concluded that New York state’s legislative process “remains broken.”
    The nonpartisan Brennan Center for Justice at the New York University School of Law said the state Legislature failed to measure up to lawmakers in California, Connecticut and Congress for openness and the process of government. Instead, New York’s Senate and Assembly leaders “maintained a stranglehold on the flow of legislation at all stages of the legislative process.”
    The center famously tagged New York’s Legislature the most dysfunctional state legislative body in the nation in 2004. Lawrence Norden, counsel of the Brennan Center’s Democracy Program and co-author of the study released Monday, said some legislative rule changes followed their 2006 report, but fundamental problems persist.
    “The large number of unanimous votes on bills over the past decade is evidence of....................http://www.dailygazette.net/De.....amp;EntityId=Ar01402
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Mr.Silver.....the effects of 'the wind' are all around the legislature......who is blowing that wind????


...you are a product of your environment, your environment is a product of your priorities, your priorities are a product of you......

The replacement of morality and conscience with law produces a deadly paradox.


STOP BEING GOOD DEMOCRATS---STOP BEING GOOD REPUBLICANS--START BEING GOOD AMERICANS
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