"We're doing our best," Mr. Miller told reporters shortly before the Council, without debate, approved the budget.
The lower house of Parliament, after more than 100 hours of debate, approved a law on Tuesday that would legalize same-sex marriage and give the same rights to all married couples to adopt children.
The City Council leadership, in its first major foray into the school governance debate, approved a plan yesterday that would give Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg conditional control over the school system but leave the setting of educational policy in the hands of a board.
The City Council, after a long and cantankerous debate, approved zoning changes on Wednesday that would allow a Wal-Mart to be built on the city's West Side, but turned down a proposal for another on the South Side.
The savings package is due to be debated and approved by parliament early this week, with 8 March set as the date when the private bondholders will participate in their part of the Greek bailout.
Language to transfer the cost is contained in an appropriations bill that is expected to be debated and approved on Tuesday by the House Appropriations Committee, which is controlled by Republicans.
On Friday, a senior Iranian lawmaker, Hossein Ibrahimi, sought to raise the pressure further, telling Iran's Fars News Agency that the legislation would be debated and approved in Parliament on Sunday and "could halt exports of oil to the European Union as early as next week".
The second Title IX, the one currently enforced, is the product of a policy interpretation in 1979 by the Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights (but never debated or approved by Congress) -- and which is functioning as a gender quota law.
In the US, laws are already being debated, and approved, to allow the vehicles to drive themselves on regular roads.
A similar law was debated and approved by Congress in 2008 but was vetoed by then President Tabare Vasquez.
