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Special Session Press Conference 
Special Session Press Conference (excerpt)
 Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, flanked by (From Left) Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos and Gov. David Paterson and Senate Majority Leader Malcolm Smith, addresses the Capitol press corps at news conference about the special session and the Legislature’s passage of legislation to reduce state spending. |
 Silver shares his thoughts with Gov. Paterson at today’s news conference on the mid-year budget spending cuts agreed to by the executive and Legislature in response to declining state revenues and the struggling state and national economies. |