ALBANY -- The Legislature began passing budget bills Tuesday, although Republicans showed their disdain by refusing to grant a single vote for the package in the Assembly and by disregarding the Democrats' timetable in the Senate.
In the Senate, controlled by Democrats for the first time in four decades, the push to pass the $132 billion agreement by today's new fiscal year ran into roadblocks both political and physical: After a morning session delayed by Republicans' failure to come to the floor, the afternoon agenda was thrown off when Sen. Ruth Hassell-Thompson, D-Westchester County, fell ill with what was later identified as walking pneumonia.
Hassell-Thompson required treatment at Albany Medical Center but returned to the Capitol by ambulance just after 7 …
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