The state Senate really wants to get down to working on the people's business, but they have something they need to discuss first. Namely, where everyone is supposed to sit. LoHud explains that "the four-member independent Democratic conference led by Sen. Jeff Klein, D-Bronx, was given preferential seating by the Republican conference." Which, according to Sen. Eric Adams, means that Republicans discriminated against black and female senators by giving them bad seats and rooms. The fighting starts around 38:30, and goes on for way longer than it should: more ›

Today, the State Senate managed to have a "mini-session"—the Daily Politics' Elizabeth Benjamin reports, "They came, they gaveled in, they left. That basically sums up extraordinary session No. 2, to which only the Senate Democrats showed up." After saying the Pledge of Allegiance, "Sen. Jeff Klein then stood and read into the record the Senate Democrats' argument that any measures passed at the single-house extraordinary sessions called by the governor are basically moot because the other house isn't also present to pass same-as bills." more ›