NY Senate Democrats rip GOP on gay marriage, other unresolved issues

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Several Senate Democrats just spoke with reporters to complain about the lack of progress in the Senate. The Republican conference in the chamber, which has 32 members, was scheduled to meet privately at 9:30 and open session at 10 a.m. The Democrats—Sens. Liz Krueger of Manhattan, Michael Gianaris of Queens and Adriano Espaillat of the Bronx—held their news conference at 10:30 a.m. Session still has not started. There are 30 Democrats in the Senate.

Sen. Michael Gianaris, D-Queens, said Senate Republicans have “no excuse for the slowness and delay” this week. Democrats want to end the session in a productive way, he said.

“Unfortunately we’ve been here all week. We were supposed to be here just Monday. There are important issues to decide,” he said. “We stand as a conference on the Democratic side ready to vote on all the issues of the day that have been outstanding all week. We can’t understand what the hold up is. We were in the Capitol for 13 hours yesterday; we were in session for one hour, and we all know that there are significant, important pieces of legislation that thousands of people throughout the state and even people throughout the country are watching and hoping that we can resolve one way or the other