Facing an increasingly worrisome budget outlook, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo and legislative leaders are in negotiations to return to Albany for a special session later this month, an official briefed on the negotiations said on Thursday.
But his outlook for a legislative compromise was pessimistic nonetheless.
That was just in anticipation to the sequester". Sen. John Thune (R-S.D). said he was unsure how Wednesday's report would "be used in the debate about the sequester and what we ought to do going forward". But his outlook for a legislative compromise was pessimistic nonetheless.
"Under the current situation, new social conflicts will be created nonstop," Chen Jiping, deputy secretary general of the Communist Party's central political and legislative affairs committee, said this month in Outlook, a magazine published by Xinhua, the state news agency.
"As state legislative sessions are wrapping up," Avalere Health's Caroline Pearson tweets, "The outlook for Medicaid expansion looks bleak". She posts this map of where states are at in their thinking about the health law provision.
A more immediate worry, moreover, is that the improving outlook will lead states to water down the commission's legislative proposals on tightening up governance of the euro zone, due to be published later this month.
The usual gun control advocates have re-aired their grievances with the current state of legislative affairs, but even they have acknowledged that the conversation is tired and the outlook is bleak.
But the outlook now is the House will punt the issue to the fall when legislative time will be even tighter, and a second $5.6 billion obligation will come due.
Q: In hindsight, is there anything you wish you had done in the past several months that might have led to a more optimistic outlook for RAS? V.F.: We wish we had prepared more seriously and carefully for the legislative connotations of the law, to require formal negotiations and a written account of the results of the negotiations.
