Think This Budget is Done?

Not Hardly

“The governor may at any time within thirty days thereafter and, with the consent of the legislature, at any time before the adjournment thereof, amend or supplement the budget and submit amendments to any bills submitted by him or her or submit supplemental bills.”

That is from the New York state constitution and that means this budget is far from over and patting anyone on the back for passing it "on-time" is misguided and undeserved. Sorry Steamroller.

Of the many special interest additions we will likely see over the next few weeks, one of the items at the top of the legislature's to-do list in the coming days is a nice little pay raise for themselves. I challenge any reader to give me a logical reason why they actually deserve a raise.

One more thing, has anyone been able to find a breakdown of individual legislator's votes on the budget? The Assembly page search tool is useful if you know the individual bill numbers but most of the Senate and Assembly members did not even see those.