Politics on the Hudson

If Senate Democrats don’t move by Monday on a resolution to determine Sen. Hiram Monserrate’s fate, Senate Republicans will seek to bring the issue to the floor, said Senate Minority Leader Dean Skelos, R-Nassau County.

“I don’t believe personally that it should take weeks for a resolution to be studied,” Skelos said.

Senate Democrats have yet to seek a vote on a Senate panel’s recommendation last month that Monserrate, who was convicted of misdemeanor assault involving his girlfriend, should be either expelled or censured.

Senate Democratic Leader John Sampson, D-Brooklyn, has put no specific timetable on a vote, but said last week that the conference would discuss it before the February session break, which starts next Tuesday.

But Sampson said this afternoon that “there will be a resolution next week.”