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Paul Sabatino II, counsel to the legislature, said the lawmakers' decision was justified until Robert Toussie's business relationship with his son was clarified.

But lawmakers' decision not to reverse a scheduled increase in the payroll tax that finances Social Security, while widely expected, still means that about 77 percent of households will pay a larger share of income to the federal government this year, according to the center's analysis.

But immediately after the lawmakers' decision, Gov. Mitt Romney, a first-term Republican who opposes both gay marriage and same-sex civil unions, said he would ask the state's highest court to issue a stay of its rulings, last November and again in February, requiring the state to grant marriage licenses to gays.

Seventy-eight percent of Americans who voted for Hillary Clinton consider the Democratic lawmakers' decision to be acceptable, but just 4percentt of Trump voters do. .

It is difficult to predict how lawmakers' decisions over the last decade will now affect the thinking on Capitol Hill.

By now, however, with the legislative season either winding down or over in most states, it seems clear that lawmakers' decisions on whether to follow Arizona's lead on police enforcement ultimately had more to do with state politics than with concerns about potential legal challenges and Supreme Court rulings.

What is political is how attitudes toward marginalized groups affect lawmakers' decision-making.

She added that she believes many lawmakers' decisions are motivated by fear.

But the more troubling role of money in politics is its potential to shape lawmakers' decisions after they are elected.

Mr. Jones, a former election lawyer at Patton Boggs, a leading Washington law firm and lobbying shop, said the sponsors viewed the convention not as a chance to buttonhole lawmakers and decision makers, but as a way to advertise their brands.

Though the directive was issued by Mr. Paterson's counsel two weeks ago and was soon made known to gay-rights advocates and some lawmakers, the decision became broadly publicized only on Wednesday evening and apparently caught almost everyone else in Albany — Republicans and Democrats alike — by surprise.