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BATTLE ROYALE: NY Senate budget sets stage for 3-way negotiation

March 14, 2014 Associated Press

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ALBANY— The budget proposal advanced by New York’s Senate sets the stage for a complex two-week negotiation with the governor and Assembly on tax cuts, campaign finance reform, legalizing medical marijuana and other issues.

The state’s new fiscal year starts April 1. Talks starting Monday are intended to resolve enough differences in their respective budgets to pass one plan for spending more than $142 billion while amending many state programs and policies.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo in a radio interview Friday says the Senate, unlike the Assembly and him, has no renters’ tax cut for low-income city residents. He calls that “a non-starter.”