Tuesday, June 19, 2007

BREAKING: Marriage Bill passes Rules Committee - Silver in favor of marriage

By a vote of 21-8, the Assembly Rules Committee has advanced the marriage bill. Here are the notable votes:

Voting yes:

Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver

Republicans Dede Scozzafava and Mike Spano


Voting no:

Democrats Aurelia Greene and Anthony Seminerio



Next: the bill is expected to come to the Assembly floor shortly


***NOTE: If you can't access the streaming video, you can also watch the Assembly proceedings live on Time Warner channel 159.

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

is there any other venue to watch the assembly live than the link you guys offered? their server seems to be down...

Josh said...

The server is not down--the Assembly is recessing and should be back shortly.

Anonymous said...

I'm watching this now and it is one of my proudest moments. This is HISTORY!!!!!!!!!!!!

Anonymous said...

aurelia greene should be ashamed of herself. she should lose her speaker pro tempore position for her lack of courage to be a bronx progressive.