Both projects were contained in one bill sent down by Gov. George Pataki before the legislative break, but there's no need for them to be conjoined.
The letter, distributed in a news release, was dated May 23, just before a five-day legislative break for Memorial Day, and was largely unnoticed until the Assembly returned to work on Wednesday.
Officials of the Treasury, and the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation, the agency that insures pensions, have said they would oppose any legislative break that they perceived as dangerously broad or that granted special breaks to individual companies or sectors.
"At some point, when the legislative process breaks down completely, which seems more and more likely, this is just political, and this is about beating the people who keep the war going in the next election.
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"The way I see it, it's, in case of legislative gridlock, break open the Clean Air Act," Weiss said.
But the main power the Constitution grants the vice president is a legislative one — breaking a tie vote in the Senate.
While it is natural to believe that codification consists of taking something that contains entirely new legislative language, breaking it into pieces, and plugging the pieces into the Code (or substituting them for old ones), that is not exactly what happens much of the time.
Sherrod Brown and David Vitter are making a major legislative to break up these Too Big To Fail and Jail banks.
has repeatedly wrestled with factions of his own party as he tries to bring traditionally uncontroversial bills to the floor, only to see a legislative war break out between tea party hard-liners and old-guard conservatives.
