Lawmakers going home for the weekend
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ÂÂ ÂÂ The budget deadlock is expected to roll into next week, with lawmakers leaving the Capitol today with major issues like education aid and new taxes and fees still undecided.They have been in town for 10 days and are eager to get home, an aide said this morning.They stayed last weekend as part of a push to adopt a budget by the April 1 deadline, but that effort fell apart.The budget was late every year from 1985 to 2004. It was on time the next two years, then a day late last year.Lawmakers not being here doesn’t actually slow down the process much since most of the negotiating is done between Senate and Assembly staff members. But the elected representatives have to be here to ratify any final agreements.They have to be back Monday to adopt a bill to allow New York City to charge motorists $8 to travel into the most crowded parts ofÂÂ Manhattan during business hours, in case there is an agreement to do that.
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