As you can see in the chart below, both legislators' packages are expected to drag on economic growth, since cutting government spending has ripple effects throughout the economy.
He said it is possible leaders could present a gun-legislation package to rank-and-file legislators next week.
The County Board of Legislators has drafted related legislation, which is under consideration for inclusion in the Year 2000 State Legislative package and is supposed to go to Albany at the end of the month.
After a closed-door meeting with the two top legislators -- Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, a Democrat, and Joseph L. Bruno, the Republican Senate majority leader -- Mr. Pataki was careful not to rule out a veto of any part of the legislative package.
Wisconsin legislators passed a package in May, but the governor is considering line-item vetoes.
"Today, I am a happy governor, because this is a new day for California," Mr. Schwarzenegger said after legislators approved the package.
The city aid package, legislators said, includes enough new revenue to cover $270 million for the second year of a teachers' contract and to forestall about 10,000 layoffs in city agencies.
Hong Kong's pan-democratic legislators rejected the package as granting legitimacy to "fake universal suffrage".
In consequence; Democratic legislators tend to package their economic concerns as a set of discrete problems and requirements, and to subsume them into a wider agenda in which those problems and requirements have (at most) only equal status with a parallel set of social problems and requirements.
Last year, Mr. Pataki waited until March to propose a sweeping gun control package, catching legislators in both parties by surprise.
