Regular Session - May 10, 1994
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9 ALBANY, NEW YORK
10 May 10, 1994
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18 SENATOR HUGH T. FARLEY, Acting President
19 STEPHEN F. SLOAN, Secretary
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1 P R O C E E D I N G S
2 ACTING PRESIDENT FARLEY: The
3 Senate will come to order. Senators will please
4 find their places. Please rise for the Pledge
5 of Allegiance to the Flag.
6 (The assemblage repeated the
7 Pledge of Allegiance to the Flag.)
8 Today we're pleased to have with
9 us the Reverend Peter G. Young, Pastor of the
10 Blessed Sacrament Church of Bolton Landing, New
11 York for the opening prayer. Father Young.
12 FATHER YOUNG: Let us pray.
13 May we pray for Thomas Laverne,
14 our dear friend, and a continuing recovery for
15 Senator Volker.
16 Almighty and Eternal God, may
17 Your grace enkindle in all of us, a love for the
18 many unfortunate people whom poverty and misery
19 reduce to a condition of life unworthy of human
20 beings. Arouse in the hearts of those who call
21 You Father, a hunger and a thirst for social
22 justice, for fraternal charity in deeds and in
23 truth.
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1 Grant, O Lord, peace in our day,
2 peace to all and peace to these people of New
3 York State who deserve again Your love now and
4 forever again. Amen.
5 ACTING PRESIDENT FARLEY: The
6 Secretary will begin by reading the Journal.
7 THE SECRETARY: In Senate,
8 Monday, May 9th. The Senate met pursuant to
9 adjournment, Senator Farley in the Chair upon
10 designation of the Temporary President. The
11 Journal of Sunday, May 8th, was read and
12 approved. On motion, the Senate adjourned.
13 ACTING PRESIDENT FARLEY: Hearing
14 no objection, the Journal will stand approved as
15 read. The order of business:
16 Presentation of petitions.
17 Messages from the Assembly.
18 Messages from the Governor.
19 Reports of standing committees.
20 We have a report of a standing committee.
21 Senator Present, we'll read it.
22 The Secretary will read it.
23 THE SECRETARY: Senator Lack,
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1 from the Committee on Judiciary, reports the
2 following nomination: Judge of the Court of
3 Claims, the Honorable Israel Margolis of
4 Binghamton.
5 ACTING PRESIDENT FARLEY: Senator
6 Lack.
7 SENATOR LACK: Thank you, Mr.
8 President.
9 I'm happy to stand and move the
10 nomination of the Honorable Israel Margolis of
11 Binghamton, who has been renominated by the
12 Governor for a term on the New York State Court
13 of Claims.
14 Senator -- excuse me. Senator -
15 Judge Margolis has been screened by the Judicial
16 Screening Committee and screened by the Senate
17 Judiciary Committee and has been found well
18 qualified by both, and I'm going to yield to
19 Senator Thomas Libous of Binghamton. Senator?
20 ACTING PRESIDENT FARLEY: Senator
21 Libous.
22 SENATOR LIBOUS: Thank you, Mr.
23 President, and thank you, Senator Lack.
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1 I rise to move the nomination of
2 Judge Israel Margolis who is -- I'm proud to say
3 is a friend of mine.
4 Judge Margolis is a native of
5 Binghamton. He's a life-long resident of
6 Binghamton, and he received his Bachelor's
7 degree and his law degree right up the road from
8 Binghamton at Cornell University -
9 SENATOR GOLD: I vote in the
10 affirmative.
11 SENATOR LIBOUS: -- a fine
12 university that I'm sure some in this room have
13 attended.
14 He's also -- he served our
15 country well in the United States Navy from 1944
16 to 1946. After that, Judge Margolis came back
17 to Binghamton where his family was and
18 eventually became a partner in the law firm of
19 Chernin and Gold from 1956 to 1987.
20 Mr. President, I first got to
21 know Judge Margolis while he was the Broome
22 County Elections Commissioner and when I was a
23 member of the Binghamton City Council, and Judge
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1 Margolis was always one who was very fair in any
2 decisions that he was making, either as election
3 commissioner or as one who served the community
4 in his many responsibilities. One of those also
5 was the responsibility of being the past
6 president of the Broome County Bar Association.
7 As I said earlier, Judge Margolis
8 and I are -- our paths have crossed through my
9 association with public service and, of course,
10 his. I've known the Judge to be a very
11 friendly, compassionate man. He is one who is
12 extremely well respected in our community back
13 home, Mr. President. He was one that I know
14 that former Majority Leader and state Senator
15 Warren Anderson thought very highly of and he
16 was able to call his friend and, Mr. President,
17 I am pleased to move this nomination.
18 And I would also like to note
19 that Judge Margolis is here today, Mr.
20 President, with his family. He's here with his
21 wife Brenda, who, if I might add, also has
22 dedicated her life to public service as one who
23 has worked and served in the county of Broome
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1 and also one who directed a very successful and
2 effective liability partnership program in
3 Broome County.
4 So, Mr. President, my colleagues,
5 I ask you to join me in the movement of this
6 nomination for Judge Israel Margolis, one who I
7 am proud to say is my friend.
8 ACTING PRESIDENT FARLEY: On the
9 nom... on the nomination, Senator DeFrancisco.
10 SENATOR DeFRANCISCO: Yes, I rise
11 to second the nomination of Judge Margolis.
12 Although he's a resident of
13 Senator Libous' district, he spends probably as
14 much time on the floor that I reside in in the
15 State Office Building in Syracuse, and in that
16 capacity and also as a practicing attorney,
17 having discussed Judge Margolis with many other
18 practicing attorneys in the Onondaga County
19 area, there is one unanimous thing that you
20 hear, and that is that Judge Margolis is a fair,
21 compassionate individual who gives both sides
22 the opportunity to present their cases and makes
23 a fair and impartial decision.
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1 And he's a lawyer's judge.
2 Having practiced law for 30 years, he knows what
3 it is to get into a courtroom and present a
4 case, and he gives both sides the opportunity to
5 try their cases as they choose to try them, not
6 to interject his own feelings into those cases.
7 So the Senate, in 1987, confirmed
8 his first nomination as a Court of Claims judge,
9 and I rise to second his nomination and request
10 a unanimous vote to again confirm his nomination
11 in 1994.
12 ACTING PRESIDENT FARLEY: On the
13 nomination, all in favor say aye.
14 (Response of "Aye".)
15 Those opposed, nay.
16 (There was no response.)
17 The nominee is confirmed.
18 Judge Margolis, we're very
19 pleased to confirm you, and on behalf of the
20 Senate, we welcome you here, and your wife
21 Brenda.
22 Congratulations and best wishes.
23 (Applause.)
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1 ACTING PRESIDENT FARLEY: The
2 Secretary will read -
3 THE SECRETARY: Senator Lack,
4 from the Committee on Judiciary, reports the
5 nomination of the Honorable Leonard Silverman of
6 Woodmere as a judge of the Court of Claims.
7 SENATOR LACK: Mr. President.
8 ACTING PRESIDENT FARLEY: On the
9 nomination, Senator Lack.
10 SENATOR LACK: Thank you, Mr.
11 President.
12 I rise to move the confirmation
13 of the Honorable Leonard Silverman to succeed
14 himself as a judge of the Court of Claims of
15 this state.
16 As with Judge Margolis, Judge
17 Silverman has been screened by both the Judicial
18 Screening Committee and by the Senate Judiciary
19 Committee, and has been found to be -- be well
20 qualified. As to the details of Judge
21 Silverman's illustrious or less illustrious
22 past, I'll leave that to Senator Skelos and, I
23 assume, Senator Gold.
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1 I will make just a couple of
2 comments, if I can. Judge Silverman, as some of
3 you if you're old enough might remember, was a
4 member of this Assembly and chair of the
5 Assembly Insurance Committee. In his current
6 incarnation as a judge of the Court of Claims,
7 his court chambers are located immediately next
8 door to my district office in Hauppauge. That
9 has made for a very interesting dialogue over
10 the past almost decade between Judge Silverman,
11 myself and members of my staff.
12 I've got to tell you that Judge
13 Silverman and his staff have been more than kind
14 to myself, to my staff, the facilities that he
15 has put available for us to utilize have been
16 greatly appreciated on matters that have
17 pertained to court judicial administration in
18 this state.
19 Judge Silverman has been all too
20 helpful in allowing us to sit down and talk and
21 discuss with him matters that pertain to the
22 courts -- courts of this state. It's always
23 good to see a former member of the Legislature,
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1 Lenny Silverman, come up to Albany to get
2 recertified, reconfirmed as a judge of the Court
3 of Claims. He does a very good job and
4 certainly he is a nomination for which we in the
5 Senate and on behalf of the Governor can be
6 justly proud of.
7 As to whether or not he has done
8 specific things in his background which make him
9 worthy of the honor that is to be re-bestowed
10 upon him today, I would most gratefully yield to
11 Senator Skelos. Senator?
12 ACTING PRESIDENT FARLEY: Senator
13 Skelos.
14 SENATOR SKELOS: Thank you very
15 much, Senator Lack and Mr. President.
16 I'm delighted now for the second
17 time to move the nomination of Leonard Silverman
18 to succeed himself as a Court of Claims judge.
19 The first time was in 1985 when I was first -
20 my first term in the Senate, and certainly that
21 was a day that I remember back ten years ago
22 when I had that opportunity.
23 Judge Silverman has distinguished
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1 himself in his career as an attorney, as an
2 Assemblyman. I remember when I was on staff in
3 the Assembly back in the mid-70s admiring his
4 work as chairman of the Insurance Committee,
5 where many of our no-fault laws, our insurance
6 laws, malpractice laws were drafted by then
7 Assemblyman Leonard Silverman. He's been active
8 in various bar associations. I can go on and on
9 about his credentials. Most of all, we've never
10 heard an ill word spoken of Judge Silverman and
11 certainly those who practice before him, he
12 gives them the respect that all judges should
13 give practitioners that go before him.
14 So it's my pleasure, although
15 it's hard to believe that ten years have passed,
16 to once again move the nomination of Judge
17 Leonard Silverman.
18 ACTING PRESIDENT FARLEY: Senator
19 Gold.
20 SENATOR GOLD: Thank you, Mr.
21 President.
22 There are a lot of affirmative -
23 affirmative reasons -- excuse me. This is a
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1 Brooklyn kid I'm talking about. There is a lot
2 of affirmative reasons to vote for Judge
3 Silverman, but on the other side of the coin, I
4 would like to just say to the members of the
5 Majority that if you do not confirm Judge
6 Silverman, he has an offering for an Assembly
7 nomination where he will once again take on the
8 Insurance Committee, and there's some bills out
9 there that he would still like to get his hands
10 on.
11 No, I don't want a motion to
12 adjourn. The fact is that I'm not going to
13 repeat a lot that has been said, but it's my
14 pleasure to know the Judge from back in the
15 early days of the '70s when I served with him in
16 the Assembly, and it's interesting to hear that
17 Senator Lack gets the benefit of his advice on
18 administrative court issues and whatever. From
19 my point of view, we're confirming somebody
20 because we just need people who are smart,
21 decent and compassionate human beings to be
22 judges on a day-to-day basis to the people that
23 I represent and we all represent, and that's
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1 Lenny Silverman.
2 If you want to find the exact -
3 the purfect English word to describe this man,
4 just take out a dictionary and look under mensch
5 because that's where you're going to find it.
6 Judge Silverman is that. He is what we want
7 judges to be. He's somebody who treats lawyers
8 and their clients and the clients and their
9 lawyers the way they should be so that the
10 lawyers can do their jobs and so that the
11 litigants can, in fact, get justice, because
12 that's what we are supposed to be all about.
13 So, it is a pleasure and an honor
14 to see this confirmation of Judge Silverman
15 together with Judge Margolis, and I think today
16 is a good day for the judiciary, and we ought to
17 be proud of ourselves.
18 ACTING PRESIDENT FARLEY: Senator
19 Markowitz.
20 SENATOR MARKOWITZ: Thank you
21 very much, Mr. President.
22 It's good to see the good guys
23 winning in both of these cases. As I look up
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1 and I see Judge Lenny Silverman, I have to tell
2 you that I certainly know that he remembers when
3 my head was one solid color, as I remember when
4 yours was as well. And, actually, as the Judge
5 was moving out of an elective two-year office
6 and moving to becoming a statesman, I was just
7 coming into this wonderful role of state Senator
8 from Brooklyn, in fact, in part of the area that
9 you so ably, very ably, represented. In fact, I
10 would like to thank Judge Silverman that time
11 that you were serving part of Brooklyn, perhaps
12 those were the glory days of our borough, days
13 that I hope and pray that all of us will see
14 again. We are working very hard to make that
15 happen, but I know that with competent and
16 outstanding judges such as yourself, it
17 certainly makes our job here in the Legislature
18 that much easier and more enjoyable.
19 Congratulations and best wishes.
20 ACTING PRESIDENT FARLEY: Senator
21 Solomon.
22 SENATOR SOLOMON: Thank you.
23 I would like to second the
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1 nomination of Judge Silverman who, prior to my
2 election, sat down with me for dinner or coffee,
3 we had a brief meeting. He gave me some unique
4 political advice for a district which he
5 represented, and I dare say, I don't think any
6 member of this Legislature ever received
7 political advice such as this. How many people
8 who represented an area told you, "First thing
9 you have to do, Marty, is go out and buy a black
10 suit", which was for a particular area of my
11 district in order to go to particular events so
12 you sort of blended in with the dress of the
13 constituency, and I think Judge Silverman, just
14 based upon that and the number of events that he
15 went to, represented the area very ably, I dare
16 say, and I know that he's done an excellent job
17 on the bench. Would have been interesting to
18 serve in the Senate and have someone in the
19 Assembly where I could have tried to pass some
20 bills in both houses with, but I'm sure Judge
21 Silverman has done a great job and he'll finish
22 out his term and complete his term in the
23 excellent manner in which he served the people
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1 of my current Senate district as an assemblyman
2 and he served the entire people of the state,
3 and I would like to second that nomination.
4 Thank you.
5 ACTING PRESIDENT FARLEY: On the
6 nomination -- on the nomination, all in favor
7 say aye.
8 (Response of "Aye".)
9 Those opposed, nay.
10 (There was no response.)
11 The nominee is confirmed.
12 Judge Silverman, on behalf of the
13 New York State Senate, let me say how pleased we
14 are to confirm a former member of this legis
15 lative family and an outstanding judge.
16 Congratulations, best wishes and
17 a very good tenure. (Applause.)
18 The Secretary will read a report
19 of the Committee on Finance.
20 THE SECRETARY: Senator Stafford,
21 from the Committee on Finance, reports the
22 following nominations: Member of the state
23 Board of Historic Preservation, Monroe Fordham,
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1 Ph.D., of Tonawanda and Dean R. Snow, Ph.D., of
2 Burnt Hills;
3 Member of the state Council on
4 Home Care Services, Thomas A. O'Brien, of
5 Flushing and Sarah H. Trafton of Fairport;
6 Director of the Municipal
7 Assistance Corporation for the city of New York,
8 Dick Netzer, Ph.D., of Brooklyn and Eugene
9 Keilin, of Brooklyn;
10 Member of the Advisory Council to
11 the Commission on Quality of Care for the
12 Mentally Disabled, E. Regis Obijiski, of
13 Tillson;
14 Member of the Empire State Plaza
15 Art Commission, Janis Keane Dorgan, of
16 Slingerlands;
17 Banking member of the State
18 Banking Board, Charles J. Hamm, of Bronxville;
19 Member of the Allegany State Park
20 Recreation and Historic Preservation Commission,
21 Daniel P. Harris, of Olean;
22 Member of the Niagara Frontier
23 State Park, Recreation and Historic Preserva
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1 tion Commission, Joseph L. Newton, Jr., of
2 Appleton;
3 Member of the Thousand Islands
4 State Park, Recreation and Historic Preservation
5 Commission, Joseph F. Chavoustie, of Chaumont;
6 Member of the Board of Visitors
7 of the Bronx Psychiatric Center, Helen T.
8 Rosello, of the Bronx;
9 Member of the Board of Visitors
10 of the Kirby Forensic Psychiatric Center, Ina
11 Stone, of New York City;
12 Member of the Board of Visitors
13 of Rockland Children's Psychiatric Center,
14 Snowden Taylor, of Tappan;
15 Member of the Board of Visitors
16 of the Letchworth Village Developmental Center,
17 Helen S. Crabbe, of Orangeburg.
18 ACTING PRESIDENT FARLEY: On the
19 nominees, all in favor say aye.
20 (Response of "Aye".)
21 Those opposed, nay.
22 (There was no response.)
23 The nominees are confirmed.
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1 Report of select committees.
2 Communications and reports from
3 state officers.
4 Motions and resolutions.
5 SENATOR LACK: Mr. President.
6 ACTING PRESIDENT FARLEY: Senator
7 Lack.
8 SENATOR LACK: I wish to call up
9 my bill, Senate Print Number 7213-A, recalled
10 from the Assembly and now at the desk.
11 ACTING PRESIDENT FARLEY: The
12 Secretary will read.
13 THE SECRETARY: By Senator Lack,
14 Senate Bill Number 7213, an act to amend the
15 Uniform Commercial Code, in relation to
16 regulation of leases of personal property.
17 SENATOR LACK: Mr. President, I
18 move to reconsider the vote by which the bill
19 was passed.
20 ACTING PRESIDENT FARLEY: Call
21 the roll on reconsideration.
22 (The Secretary called the roll on
23 reconsideration.)
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1 THE SECRETARY: Ayes 46.
2 SENATOR LACK: Mr. President, now
3 that the bill is restored to third reading, I
4 move to discharge the Committee on Judiciary
5 from Assembly print 1041-A and substitute it for
6 my identical bill.
7 ACTING PRESIDENT FARLEY:
8 Substitution is ordered.
9 SENATOR LACK: The Senate Bill on
10 first passage was voted unanimously, and I move
11 that the substituted Assembly bill now have its
12 third reading.
13 ACTING PRESIDENT FARLEY: Read
14 the last section.
15 THE SECRETARY: Section 2. This
16 act shall take effect immediately.
17 ACTING PRESIDENT FARLEY: Call
18 the roll.
19 (The Secretary called the roll.)
20 THE SECRETARY: Unanimous.
21 ACTING PRESIDENT FARLEY: The
22 bill is passed.
23 SENATOR LACK: Mr. President, I
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1 wish to call up my my bill, 6963-A, now at the
2 desk, recalled from the Assembly.
3 THE SECRETARY: By Senator Lack,
4 Senate Bill Number 6963-A, an act to amend the
5 Estates, Powers and Trusts Law, in relation to
6 the division of trusts.
7 SENATOR LACK: I now move to
8 reconsider the vote by which this bill was
9 passed.
10 ACTING PRESIDENT FARLEY: Call
11 the roll on reconsideration.
12 (The Secretary called the roll on
13 reconsideration.)
14 THE SECRETARY: Ayes 46.
15 SENATOR LACK: I offer the
16 following amendments to the bill, and ask that
17 it retain its place.
18 ACTING PRESIDENT FARLEY: The
19 amendments are received. The bill will retain
20 its place on third reading. Senator Libous and
21 then Senator Nozzolio.
22 SENATOR LIBOUS: Thank you, Mr.
23 President.
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1 I move the following -- on behalf
2 of Senator Johnson, I move the following bills
3 be discharged from their respective committees
4 and be recommitted with instructions to strike
5 the enacting clause: Number 7925, on behalf of
6 Senator Johnson.
7 ACTING PRESIDENT FARLEY: So
8 ordered.
9 SENATOR LIBOUS: Mr. President,
10 on behalf of Senator Volker, Mr. President, I
11 wish to call up his bill, Senate Print 246-A,
12 recalled from the Assembly which is now at the
13 desk.
14 ACTING PRESIDENT FARLEY: The
15 Secretary will read it.
16 THE SECRETARY: By Senator
17 Volker, Senate Bill Number 246-A, an act to
18 amend the Penal Law.
19 SENATOR LIBOUS: Mr. President, I
20 now move to reconsider the vote by which this
21 bill was passed.
22 ACTING PRESIDENT FARLEY: Call
23 the roll on reconsideration.
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1 (The Secretary called the roll on
2 reconsideration.)
3 THE SECRETARY: Ayes 46.
4 SENATOR LIBOUS: Mr. President, I
5 now offer up the following amendments.
6 ACTING PRESIDENT FARLEY: The
7 amendments are received.
8 SENATOR LIBOUS: Mr. President,
9 on behalf of Senator Goodman, I call up his
10 bill, Senate Print Number 1622-B, recalled from
11 the Assembly which is now at the desk.
12 ACTING PRESIDENT FARLEY: The
13 Secretary will read it.
14 THE SECRETARY: By Senator
15 Goodman, Senate Bill Number 1622-B, an act to
16 amend the Social Services Law.
17 SENATOR LIBOUS: Mr. President, I
18 now move to reconsider the vote by which this
19 bill was passed.
20 ACTING PRESIDENT FARLEY: Call
21 the roll on reconsideration.
22 (The Secretary called the roll on
23 reconsideration.)
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1 THE SECRETARY: Ayes 49.
2 SENATOR LIBOUS: Mr. President, I
3 offer up the following amendments.
4 ACTING PRESIDENT FARLEY:
5 Amendments are received. The bill will retain
6 its place.
7 SENATOR LIBOUS: Mr. President,
8 on behalf of Senator Daly, on page 27, I offer
9 the following amendments to Calendar Number 715,
10 Senate Print Number 1093, and ask that said bill
11 retain its place on the Third Reading Calendar.
12 Mr. President, also on behalf of
13 Senator Daly, on page 17, I offer the following
14 amendments to Calendar Number 474, Senate Print
15 Number 21007, and ask that said bill retain its
16 place on the Third Reading Calendar.
17 ACTING PRESIDENT FARLEY: Without
18 objection.
19 SENATOR LIBOUS: And Mr.
20 President, on behalf of Senator Volker, on page
21 15, I offer the following amendments to Calendar
22 Number 388, Senate Print Number 2502-C, and ask
23 that said bill retain its place on the Third
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1 Reading Calendar and, Mr. President -
2 ACTING PRESIDENT FARLEY: Without
3 objection.
4 SENATOR LIBOUS: -- may I offer
5 up the following resolution and ask that just
6 its title be read and passed.
7 ACTING PRESIDENT FARLEY: The
8 Secretary will read the title of Senator
9 Libous' -
10 THE SECRETARY: Legislative
11 Resolution, by Senator Libous, commemorating the
12 30th Anniversary of the Chenango County ARC.
13 ACTING PRESIDENT FARLEY: All in
14 favor of the resolution say aye.
15 (Response of "Aye".)
16 Those opposed, nay.
17 (There was no response.)
18 The resolution is adopted.
19 Senator Marchi.
20 SENATOR MARCHI: Yes, Mr.
21 President. I wish to call up my bill, Print
22 Number 6521, recalled from the Assembly and is
23 now at the desk.
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1 ACTING PRESIDENT FARLEY: The
2 Secretary will read it.
3 THE SECRETARY: By Senator
4 Marchi, Senate Bill Number 6521, an act to amend
5 the Environmental Conservation Law.
6 ACTING PRESIDENT FARLEY: Senator
7 Marchi.
8 SENATOR MARCHI: I move to
9 reconsider the vote by which this bill passed.
10 ACTING PRESIDENT FARLEY: Call
11 the roll on reconsideration.
12 (The Secretary called the roll on
13 reconsideration.)
14 THE SECRETARY: Ayes 49.
15 ACTING PRESIDENT FARLEY: The
16 bill is before the house.
17 Senator Marchi.
18 SENATOR MARCHI: I Offer the
19 following amendments.
20 ACTING PRESIDENT FARLEY: Without
21 objection.
22 Senator Nozzolio.
23 SENATOR NOZZOLIO: Mr. President,
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1 on behalf of Senator Volker, please place a
2 sponsor's star on Calendar Number 764.
3 ACTING PRESIDENT FARLEY: Bill is
4 starred at the request of the sponsor.
5 SENATOR NOZZOLIO: On behalf of
6 Senator Johnson, please place a sponsor's star
7 on Calendar Number 828.
8 ACTING PRESIDENT FARLEY: 828 is
9 starred at the request of the sponsor.
10 Senator Seward.
11 SENATOR SEWARD: On page 24, I
12 offer the following amendments to Calendar 681,
13 Senate Print Number 4371, and I ask that the
14 bill retain its place on the Third Reading
15 Calendar.
16 ACTING PRESIDENT FARLEY: Without
17 objection, the bill will retain its place.
18 SENATOR NOZZOLIO: And also, Mr.
19 President, I would like to place a sponsor's
20 star on Calendar Number 666.
21 ACTING PRESIDENT FARLEY: 666 is
22 starred at the request of the sponsor.
23 Senator Holland.
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1 SENATOR HOLLAND: Mr. President,
2 can you star my bill, Calendar 799, please?
3 ACTING PRESIDENT FARLEY: 799 is
4 starred at the request of the sponsor.
5 Senator Spano.
6 SENATOR SPANO: Mr. President,
7 could you please place a sponsor's star on
8 Calendar 809 and 810?
9 ACTING PRESIDENT FARLEY: Without
10 objection, the bills are starred.
11 Any other motions on the floor?
12 The Secretary has a substitution.
13 THE SECRETARY: On page 4 of
14 today's calendar, Senator spano moves to
15 discharge the Committee on Civil Service and
16 Pensions from Assembly Bill Number 2153 and
17 substitute it for the identical Calendar Number
18 867.
19 ACTING PRESIDENT FARLEY:
20 Substitution is ordered.
21 THE SECRETARY: On page 7,
22 Senator Daly moves to discharge the Committee on
23 Corporations, Authorities and Commissions from
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1 Assembly Bill Number 11355 and substitute it for
2 the identical Calendar Number 891.
3 ACTING PRESIDENT FARLEY:
4 Substitution is ordered.
5 THE SECRETARY: On page 25,
6 Senator Volker moves to discharge the Committee
7 on Codes from Assembly Bill Number 10828
8 substitute it for the identical Calendar Number
9 696.
10 ACTING PRESIDENT FARLEY:
11 Substitution is ordered.
12 THE SECRETARY: On page 29,
13 Senator Daly moves to discharge the Committee
14 and Corporations, Authorities and Commissions
15 from Assembly Bill Number 10631-A and substitute
16 it the for identical Third Reading 749.
17 ACTING PRESIDENT FARLEY:
18 Substitution is ordered.
19 THE SECRETARY: On page 33,
20 Senator Spano moves to discharge the Committee
21 on Education from Assembly Bill Number 11434 and
22 substitute it for the identical Calendar Number
23 783.
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1 ACTING PRESIDENT FARLEY:
2 Substitution is ordered.
3 THE SECRETARY: On page 36,
4 Senator Maltese moves to discharge the Committee
5 on Local Government from Assembly Bill Number
6 10571 and substitute it for the identical
7 Calendar Number 813.
8 ACTING PRESIDENT FARLEY:
9 Substitution is ordered.
10 Are there any other motions on
11 the floor?
12 Senator Present.
13 SENATOR PRESENT: Mr. President,
14 I move that we adopt the Resolution Calendar
15 with the exception of Resolutions 3506 and 3542,
16 and that those two resolutions be recommitted to
17 the Finance Committee.
18 ACTING PRESIDENT FARLEY: The -
19 all in favor of adopting the Resolution Calendar
20 please say aye.
21 Senator Galiber.
22 SENATOR GALIBER: Mr. President,
23 there's one resolution I would like to either
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1 put aside for the time being and read in its
2 entirety and that's 3547.
3 ACTING PRESIDENT FARLEY: Do we
4 have that? I think that -- all in favor of
5 adopting the Resolution Calendar with
6 exceptions, please -- Senator Gold, did you ask
7 if -
8 SENATOR GOLD: Let's do that and
9 then I want to handle another situation.
10 ACTING PRESIDENT FARLEY: Okay.
11 There's a motion on the floor to adopt the
12 Resolution Calendar with exceptions. All in
13 favor please say aye.
14 (Response of "Aye".)
15 Those opposed, nay.
16 (There was no response.)
17 The Resolution Calendar is
18 adopted with exceptions. The Resolution
19 Calendar has been adopted with exceptions. The
20 two exceptions have been recommitted.
21 Senator Levy doesn't have
22 anything to say.
23 Senator Present.
3369
1 SENATOR PRESENT: Would you
2 recognize Senator Larkin; I believe he has a
3 privileged resolution.
4 ACTING PRESIDENT FARLEY: Senator
5 Larkin.
6 SENATOR LARKIN: I have a
7 privileged resolution at the desk. Just read
8 the title.
9 ACTING PRESIDENT FARLEY: All
10 right. We're pleased to read the title of
11 Senator Larkin's resolution.
12 THE SECRETARY: Legislative
13 Resolution, by Senator Larkin, commending
14 Frances Sodrick upon the occasion of her
15 designation as recipient of the Orange County
16 Mental Health Distinguished Services Award on
17 Thursday, May 12th, 1994.
18 ACTING PRESIDENT FARLEY: All in
19 favor of adopting the resolution please say
20 aye.
21 (Response of "Aye".)
22 Those opposed, nay.
23 (There was no response.)
3370
1 The resolution is adopted.
2 Senator Present.
3 SENATOR PRESENT: Mr. President,
4 can we take up the non-controversial calendar,
5 please?
6 ACTING PRESIDENT FARLEY: The
7 Secretary will read the non-controversial
8 calendar.
9 THE SECRETARY: On page 23 of
10 today's calendar, Calendar Number 654, by
11 Senator Hannon -
12 SENATOR GOLD: Lay it aside.
13 ACTING PRESIDENT FARLEY: Lay it
14 aside.
15 THE SECRETARY: Calendar Number
16 699, by Senator Volker, Senate Bill Number 7574,
17 an act to amend the Criminal Procedure Law, in
18 relation to corrective remedies.
19 SENATOR GOLD: Lay it aside.
20 SENATOR GALIBER: Lay it aside.
21 ACTING PRESIDENT FARLEY: Lay it
22 aside.
23 THE SECRETARY: Calendar Number
3371
1 727, by Senator Hannon, Senate Bill Number 6627,
2 an act to amend the Administrative Code of the
3 city of New York, in relation to access to
4 correct housing maintenance code violation.
5 SENATOR PRESENT: Lay the bill
6 aside.
7 ACTING PRESIDENT FARLEY: Lay the
8 bill aside.
9 THE SECRETARY: Calendar Number
10 740, by Senator Hannon, Senate Bill Number 7500,
11 an act to amend the Retirement and Social
12 Security Law, in relation to the earnings of
13 disability pensioners.
14 ACTING PRESIDENT FARLEY: Read
15 the last section.
16 THE SECRETARY: Section 2. This
17 act shall take effect immediately.
18 ACTING PRESIDENT FARLEY: Call
19 the roll.
20 (The Secretary called the roll.)
21 THE SECRETARY: Ayes 51.
22 ACTING PRESIDENT FARLEY: That
23 bill is passed.
3372
1 THE SECRETARY: Calendar Number
2 754, by Senator Marchi, Senate Bill Number 1586,
3 an act directing the city of New York to refund
4 to certain not-for-profit organizations.
5 ACTING PRESIDENT FARLEY: Read
6 the last section.
7 THE SECRETARY: Section 2. This
8 act shall take effect immediately.
9 ACTING PRESIDENT FARLEY: Call
10 the roll.
11 (The Secretary called the roll.)
12 THE SECRETARY: Ayes 51.
13 ACTING PRESIDENT FARLEY: The
14 bill is passed.
15 THE SECRETARY: Calendar Number
16 755, by the Assembly Committee on Rules,
17 Assembly Bill Number 8067-A, authorizing the
18 city of New York to reconvey its interests in
19 certain real property.
20 ACTING PRESIDENT FARLEY: There's
21 a home rule message here at the desk. You can
22 read the last section.
23 THE SECRETARY: Section 2. This
3373
1 act shall take effect immediately.
2 ACTING PRESIDENT FARLEY: Call
3 the roll.
4 (The Secretary called the roll.)
5 THE SECRETARY: Ayes 51.
6 ACTING PRESIDENT FARLEY: The
7 bill is passed.
8 THE SECRETARY: Calendar Number
9 757, by Senator Stafford, Senate Bill Number
10 435 -
11 SENATOR GOLD: Lay it aside.
12 ACTING PRESIDENT FARLEY: Lay
13 that bill aside.
14 THE SECRETARY: Calendar Number
15 758, by Senator Cook, Senate Bill Number 2279,
16 an act to amend the Highway Law, in relation to
17 abandoned highways.
18 ACTING PRESIDENT FARLEY: Read
19 the last section.
20 THE SECRETARY: Section 2. This
21 act -
22 SENATOR ONORATO: Senator Cook,
23 could we get one day on this, please?
3374
1 ACTING PRESIDENT FARLEY: Lay the
2 bill aside for the day.
3 THE SECRETARY: Calendar Number
4 760, by Senator Present, Senate Bill Number
5 3859, an act to amend the Vehicle and Traffic
6 Law and the Parks, Recreation and Historic
7 Preservation Law.
8 ACTING PRESIDENT FARLEY: Read
9 the last section.
10 THE SECRETARY: Section 2. This
11 act shall take effect immediately.
12 ACTING PRESIDENT FARLEY: Call
13 the roll.
14 (The Secretary called the roll.)
15 THE SECRETARY: Ayes 51.
16 ACTING PRESIDENT FARLEY: The
17 bill is passed.
18 THE SECRETARY: Calendar Number
19 761, by Senator Levy, Senate Bill Number 3886-C,
20 directing the Commissioner of Transportation to
21 develop test pilot programs.
22 ACTING PRESIDENT FARLEY: Read
23 the last section.
3375
1 THE SECRETARY: Section 2. This
2 act shall take effect immediately.
3 ACTING PRESIDENT FARLEY: Call
4 the roll.
5 (The Secretary called the roll.)
6 THE SECRETARY: Ayes 51.
7 ACTING PRESIDENT FARLEY: The
8 bill is passed.
9 THE SECRETARY: Calendar Number
10 762, by member of the Assembly Gantt, Assembly
11 Bill Number 9611, an act to repeal Paragraph C
12 of Subdivision (1) of Section 401 of the Vehicle
13 and Traffic Law.
14 ACTING PRESIDENT FARLEY: Read
15 the last section.
16 THE SECRETARY: Section 2. This
17 act shall take effect immediately.
18 ACTING PRESIDENT FARLEY: Call
19 the roll.
20 (The Secretary called the roll.)
21 THE SECRETARY: Ayes 51.
22 ACTING PRESIDENT FARLEY: The
23 bill is passed.
3376
1 THE SECRETARY: Calendar Number
2 763, by Senator Goodman, Senate Bill Number
3 6972, an act to amend the Transportation Law.
4 ACTING PRESIDENT FARLEY: Read
5 the last section.
6 THE SECRETARY: Section 2. This
7 act shall take effect immediately.
8 ACTING PRESIDENT FARLEY: Call
9 the roll.
10 (The Secretary called the roll.)
11 THE SECRETARY: Ayes 50, nays 1,
12 Senator Wright recorded in the negative.
13 ACTING PRESIDENT FARLEY: The
14 bill is passed.
15 THE SECRETARY: Calendar Number
16 765, by Senator Libous, Senate Bill Number 7770,
17 an act to amend the Highway Law designating the
18 relocated Front Street in the city of Binghamton
19 as a state highway.
20 ACTING PRESIDENT FARLEY: Read
21 the last section.
22 THE SECRETARY: Section 2. This
23 act shall take effect immediately.
3377
1 ACTING PRESIDENT FARLEY: Call
2 the roll.
3 (The Secretary called the roll.)
4 THE SECRETARY: Ayes 52.
5 ACTING PRESIDENT FARLEY: The
6 bill is passed.
7 THE SECRETARY: Calendar Number
8 766, by Senator Skelos, Senate Bill Number 1986,
9 an act to amend the Real Property Tax Law, in
10 relation to granting real property tax
11 exemption.
12 ACTING PRESIDENT FARLEY: Read
13 the last section.
14 THE SECRETARY: Section 2. This
15 act shall take effect immediately.
16 ACTING PRESIDENT FARLEY: Call
17 the roll.
18 (The Secretary called the roll.)
19 THE SECRETARY: Ayes 54.
20 ACTING PRESIDENT FARLEY: The
21 bill is passed.
22 THE SECRETARY: Calendar Number
23 772, by Senator Skelos, Senate Bill Number 7888,
3378
1 an act to amend Chapter 841 of the Laws of 1987.
2 ACTING PRESIDENT FARLEY: Read
3 the last section.
4 THE SECRETARY: Section 2. This
5 act shall take effect immediately.
6 ACTING PRESIDENT FARLEY: Call
7 the roll.
8 (The Secretary called the roll.)
9 THE SECRETARY: Ayes 54.
10 ACTING PRESIDENT FARLEY: The
11 bill is passed.
12 THE SECRETARY: Calendar Number
13 773, by Senator Saland -
14 ACTING PRESIDENT FARLEY: Lay it
15 aside.
16 THE SECRETARY: Calendar Number
17 774, by Senator Saland, Senate Bill Number 4660,
18 an act to amend the Family Court Act.
19 ACTING PRESIDENT FARLEY: Read
20 the last section.
21 THE SECRETARY: Section 2. This
22 act shall take effect immediately.
23 ACTING PRESIDENT FARLEY: Call
3379
1 the roll.
2 (The Secretary called the roll.)
3 THE SECRETARY: Ayes 54.
4 ACTING PRESIDENT FARLEY: The
5 bill is passed.
6 THE SECRETARY: Calendar Number
7 775, by Senator Saland, Senate Bill Number 5500,
8 an act to amend the Family Court act, in
9 relation to procedures for the temporary removal
10 of a child with consent.
11 ACTING PRESIDENT FARLEY: Read
12 the last section.
13 THE SECRETARY: Section 2. This
14 act shall take effect immediately.
15 ACTING PRESIDENT FARLEY: Call
16 the roll.
17 (The Secretary called the roll.)
18 THE SECRETARY: Ayes 54.
19 ACTING PRESIDENT FARLEY: The
20 bill is passed.
21 THE SECRETARY: Calendar Number
22 776, by Senator Saland, Senate Bill Number 7673,
23 Social Services Law, in relation to child abuse
3380
1 and maltreatment hearings.
2 ACTING PRESIDENT FARLEY: Read
3 the last section.
4 THE SECRETARY: Section 2. This
5 act shall take effect immediately.
6 ACTING PRESIDENT FARLEY: Call
7 the roll.
8 (The Secretary called the roll.)
9 THE SECRETARY: Ayes 54.
10 ACTING PRESIDENT FARLEY: That
11 bill is passed.
12 THE SECRETARY: Calendar Number
13 777, by Senator Saland, Senate Bill Number 7675,
14 Executive Law and the Family Court Act -
15 ACTING PRESIDENT FARLEY: Read
16 the last section.
17 THE SECRETARY: Section 2. This
18 act shall take effect immediately.
19 ACTING PRESIDENT FARLEY: Call
20 the roll.
21 (The Secretary called the roll.)
22 THE SECRETARY: Ayes 54.
23 ACTING PRESIDENT FARLEY: The
3381
1 bill is passed.
2 THE SECRETARY: Calendar Number
3 778, by Senator Saland, Senate Bill Number 7833,
4 an act to amend the Social Services Law -
5 ACTING PRESIDENT FARLEY: Read
6 the last section.
7 THE SECRETARY: Section 2. This
8 act shall take effect immediately.
9 ACTING PRESIDENT FARLEY: Call
10 the roll.
11 (The Secretary called the roll.)
12 THE SECRETARY: Ayes 54.
13 ACTING PRESIDENT FARLEY: The
14 bill is passed.
15 THE SECRETARY: Calendar Number
16 779, by Senator Saland, Senate Bill Number 7834,
17 an act to amend the Domestic Relations Law -
18 ACTING PRESIDENT FARLEY: Read
19 the last section.
20 THE SECRETARY: Section 2. This
21 act shall take effect immediately.
22 ACTING PRESIDENT FARLEY: Call
23 the roll.
3382
1 (The Secretary called the roll.)
2 THE SECRETARY: Ayes 54.
3 ACTING PRESIDENT FARLEY: The
4 bill is passed.
5 THE SECRETARY: Calendar Number
6 781, by Senator Stachowski, Senate Bill Number
7 1297, Education Law, in relation to school lunch
8 periods.
9 ACTING PRESIDENT FARLEY: Read
10 the last section.
11 THE SECRETARY: Section 2. This
12 act shall take effect immediately.
13 ACTING PRESIDENT FARLEY: Call
14 the roll.
15 (The Secretary called the roll.)
16 THE SECRETARY: Ayes 54.
17 ACTING PRESIDENT FARLEY: The
18 bill is passed.
19 THE SECRETARY: Calendar Number
20 782, by Senator Cook, Senate Bill Number 7541,
21 an act to amend the Education Law, in relation
22 to the definition of a facility child.
23 ACTING PRESIDENT FARLEY: Read
3383
1 the last section.
2 THE SECRETARY: Section 2. This
3 act shall take effect immediately.
4 ACTING PRESIDENT FARLEY: Call
5 the roll.
6 (The Secretary called the roll.)
7 THE SECRETARY: Ayes 54.
8 ACTING PRESIDENT FARLEY: The
9 bill is passed.
10 THE SECRETARY: Calendar Number
11 783, substituted earlier today, by the Assembly
12 Committee on Rules, Assembly Bill Number 11434,
13 an act to amend Chapter 118 of the Laws of 1969.
14 ACTING PRESIDENT FARLEY: Read
15 the last section.
16 THE SECRETARY: Section 2. This
17 act shall take effect immediately.
18 ACTING PRESIDENT FARLEY: Call
19 the roll.
20 (The Secretary called the roll.)
21 THE SECRETARY: Ayes 54.
22 ACTING PRESIDENT FARLEY: That
23 bill is passed.
3384
1 THE SECRETARY: Calendar Number
2 784, by Senator Saland, Senate Bill Number 7639,
3 in relation to legalizing, certifying and
4 confirming the acts of Germantown Central School
5 District.
6 ACTING PRESIDENT FARLEY: Read
7 the last section.
8 THE SECRETARY: Section 2. This
9 act shall take effect immediately.
10 ACTING PRESIDENT FARLEY: Call
11 the roll.
12 (The Secretary called the roll.)
13 THE SECRETARY: Ayes 54.
14 ACTING PRESIDENT FARLEY: The
15 bill is passed.
16 THE SECRETARY: Calendar Number
17 785, by Senator Saland, Senate Bill Number 7640,
18 to authorize the payment of transportation aid
19 to the Germantown Central School District.
20 ACTING PRESIDENT FARLEY: Read
21 the last -- there's a local fiscal impact note
22 at the desk. You can read the last section.
23 THE SECRETARY: Section 2. This
3385
1 act shall take effect immediately.
2 ACTING PRESIDENT FARLEY: Call
3 the roll.
4 (The Secretary called the roll.)
5 THE SECRETARY: Ayes 54.
6 ACTING PRESIDENT FARLEY: The
7 bill is passed.
8 THE SECRETARY: Calendar Number
9 786, by Senator Saland, Senate Bill Number 7641,
10 in relation to legalizing, certifying and
11 confirming the acts of the Germantown Central
12 School.
13 ACTING PRESIDENT FARLEY: Read
14 the last section.
15 THE SECRETARY: Section 2. This
16 act shall take effect immediately.
17 ACTING PRESIDENT FARLEY: Call
18 the roll.
19 (The Secretary called the roll.)
20 THE SECRETARY: Ayes 54.
21 ACTING PRESIDENT FARLEY: That
22 bill is passed.
23 THE SECRETARY: Calendar Number
3386
1 787, by Senator Cook, Senate Bill Number 7697,
2 Education Law and the public Health Law.
3 ACTING PRESIDENT FARLEY: Senator
4 Cook -- Senator Cook, he wants a day. Lay the
5 bill aside for the day.
6 THE SECRETARY: Calendar Number
7 788, by Senator Cook, Senate Bill Number 7871,
8 Education Law, in relation to efficiency study
9 grants.
10 ACTING PRESIDENT FARLEY: Read
11 the last section.
12 THE SECRETARY: Section 2. This
13 act shall take effect immediately.
14 ACTING PRESIDENT FARLEY: Call
15 the roll.
16 (The Secretary called the roll.)
17 THE SECRETARY: Ayes 54.
18 ACTING PRESIDENT FARLEY: The
19 bill is passed.
20 THE SECRETARY: Calendar Number
21 793, by Senator Lack, Senate Bill Number 4471,
22 Agriculture and Markets Law, in relation to the
23 sale and delivery of liquefied petroleum gas.
3387
1 ACTING PRESIDENT FARLEY: Read
2 the last section.
3 THE SECRETARY: Section 2. This
4 act shall take effect immediately.
5 ACTING PRESIDENT FARLEY: Call
6 the roll.
7 (The Secretary called the roll.)
8 THE SECRETARY: Ayes 54.
9 ACTING PRESIDENT FARLEY: The
10 bill is passed.
11 THE SECRETARY: Calendar Number
12 803, by Senator Holland, Senate Bill Number
13 6969, Social Services Law, in relation to the
14 single room occupancy support services program.
15 ACTING PRESIDENT FARLEY: Read
16 the last section.
17 THE SECRETARY: Section 2. This
18 act shall take effect immediately.
19 ACTING PRESIDENT FARLEY: Call
20 the roll.
21 (The Secretary called the roll.)
22 THE SECRETARY: Ayes 54.
23 ACTING PRESIDENT FARLEY: The
3388
1 bill is passed.
2 THE SECRETARY: Calendar Number
3 805, by Senator Spano, Senate Bill Number
4 2028-A -
5 SENATOR GOLD: Lay it aside.
6 ACTING PRESIDENT FARLEY: Lay
7 that bill aside.
8 THE SECRETARY: Calendar Number
9 808, by Senator Spano, Senate Bill Number 7011,
10 Labor Law.
11 SENATOR GOLD: Lay it aside.
12 ACTING PRESIDENT FARLEY: Lay it
13 aside.
14 THE SECRETARY: Calendar Number
15 816, by Senator Saland, Senate Bill Number
16 5765-B, authorizing the town of Wappinger,
17 county of Dutchess, to discontinue the use of
18 certain park lands.
19 SENATOR GOLD: Yeah, would
20 Senator Saland let us have one day on this,
21 please? We'll give him anything he wants.
22 Okay. Lay it aside temporarily, please.
23 ACTING PRESIDENT FARLEY: Lay the
3389
1 bill aside.
2 SENATOR GOLD: Senator Saland,
3 may we have one day, please, sir?
4 SENATOR SALAND: Excuse me?
5 SENATOR GOLD: On 816, can we
6 have one day?
7 SENATOR SALAND: If you would
8 like the day -- if there's a question, I would
9 certainly be happy to answer it.
10 SENATOR GOLD: I will relay that
11 to the people who were really asking the
12 questions who were using me as a front.
13 ACTING PRESIDENT FARLEY: Lay the
14 bill aside for today.
15 SENATOR GOLD: Thank you very
16 much.
17 THE SECRETARY: Calendar Number
18 818, by Senator Skelos, Senate Bill Number
19 6344-A, General Municipal Law, in relation to
20 authorizing an "early bird" bingo game.
21 SENATOR LEICHTER: Lay it aside.
22 ACTING PRESIDENT FARLEY: Lay
23 this bingo game aside.
3390
1 THE SECRETARY: Calendar Number
2 820, by Senator Bruno, Senate Bill Number 6898,
3 an act to amend Chapter 460 of the Laws of 1986,
4 creation of the Saratoga Lake Protection and
5 Improvement District.
6 ACTING PRESIDENT FARLEY: Read
7 the last section.
8 THE SECRETARY: Section 2. This
9 act shall take effect immediately.
10 ACTING PRESIDENT FARLEY: Call
11 the roll.
12 (The Secretary called the roll.)
13 THE SECRETARY: Ayes 55.
14 ACTING PRESIDENT FARLEY: The
15 bill is passed.
16 THE SECRETARY: Calendar Number
17 821, by Senator Volker, Senate Bill Number 6904,
18 an act to amend the Local Finance Law, in
19 relation to the sale of municipal obligations by
20 the county of Erie.
21 ACTING PRESIDENT FARLEY: There's
22 a home rule message here at the desk. You can
23 read the last section.
3391
1 THE SECRETARY: Section 2. This
2 act shall take effect immediately.
3 ACTING PRESIDENT FARLEY: Call
4 the roll.
5 (The Secretary called the roll.)
6 THE SECRETARY: Ayes 55.
7 ACTING PRESIDENT FARLEY: The
8 bill is passed.
9 THE SECRETARY: Calendar Number
10 822, by Senator Nolan, Senate Bill Number 6907,
11 an act to legalize and validate the adoption of
12 a bond resolution in the town of New Scotland.
13 ACTING PRESIDENT FARLEY: Read
14 the last section. I'm sorry, before we read the
15 last section, there's a home rule message at the
16 desk. Now you can read the last section.
17 THE SECRETARY: Section 2. This
18 act shall take effect immediately.
19 ACTING PRESIDENT FARLEY: Call
20 the roll.
21 (The Secretary called the roll.)
22 THE SECRETARY: Ayes 55.
23 ACTING PRESIDENT FARLEY: The
3392
1 bill is passed.
2 THE SECRETARY: Calendar Number
3 823, by Senator Stafford, Senate Bill Number
4 7023, authorizing the Town of Waverly, county of
5 Franklin, to discontinue the use of and transfer
6 of certain parks lands.
7 ACTING PRESIDENT FARLEY: Read
8 the last -
9 SENATOR GOLD: May we have one
10 day on this bill?
11 SENATOR PRESENT: Lay it aside
12 for the day.
13 ACTING PRESIDENT FARLEY: Lay it
14 aside for the day.
15 THE SECRETARY: Calendar Number
16 824, by Senator Volker, Senate Bill Number 7199,
17 an act to amend the Erie County Tax Act.
18 ACTING PRESIDENT FARLEY: Read
19 the last section.
20 THE SECRETARY: Section 2. This
21 act shall take effect immediately.
22 ACTING PRESIDENT FARLEY: Call
23 the roll.
3393
1 (The Secretary called the roll.)
2 THE SECRETARY: Ayes 55.
3 ACTING PRESIDENT FARLEY: The
4 bill is passed.
5 THE SECRETARY: Calendar Number
6 825, by Senator Volker, Senate Bill Number 7518,
7 an act to amend the Town Law, in relation to the
8 deadline for annual audit to be completed.
9 ACTING PRESIDENT FARLEY: Read
10 the last section.
11 THE SECRETARY: Section 2. This
12 act shall take effect immediately.
13 ACTING PRESIDENT FARLEY: Call
14 the roll.
15 (The Secretary called the roll.)
16 THE SECRETARY: Ayes 54, nays 1,
17 Senator Pataki recorded in the negative.
18 ACTING PRESIDENT FARLEY: The
19 bill is passed.
20 THE SECRETARY: Calendar Number
21 827, by Senator Pataki, Senate Bill Number
22 2876-A, Environmental Conservation Law, in
23 relation to state agency environmental audits.
3394
1 ACTING PRESIDENT FARLEY: Read
2 the last section.
3 THE SECRETARY: Section 2. This
4 act shall take effect immediately.
5 ACTING PRESIDENT FARLEY: Call
6 the roll.
7 (The Secretary called the roll.)
8 THE SECRETARY: Ayes 57.
9 ACTING PRESIDENT FARLEY: The
10 bill is passed.
11 THE SECRETARY: Calendar Number
12 831, by Senator Johnson, Senate Bill Number
13 7722, Environmental Conservation Law.
14 ACTING PRESIDENT FARLEY: Read
15 the last section.
16 THE SECRETARY: Section 2. This
17 act shall take effect immediately.
18 ACTING PRESIDENT FARLEY: Call
19 the roll.
20 (The Secretary called the roll.)
21 THE SECRETARY: Ayes 57.
22 ACTING PRESIDENT FARLEY: The
23 bill is passed.
3395
1 THE SECRETARY: Calendar Number
2 833, by Senator Maltese, Senate Bill Number
3 1648.
4 SENATOR ONORATO: Lay it aside.
5 ACTING PRESIDENT FARLEY: Lay
6 that bill aside.
7 THE SECRETARY: Calendar Number
8 834, by member of the Assembly Ramirez, Assembly
9 Bill Number -
10 SENATOR GOLD: Lay it aside.
11 ACTING PRESIDENT FARLEY: Lay it
12 aside.
13 THE SECRETARY: Calendar Number
14 835, by Senator Maltese, Senate Bill Number
15 2115, an act to amend the Correction Law.
16 ACTING PRESIDENT FARLEY: Read
17 the last section.
18 THE SECRETARY: Section 2. This
19 act shall take effect immediately.
20 ACTING PRESIDENT FARLEY: Call
21 the roll.
22 (The Secretary called the roll.)
23 THE SECRETARY: Ayes 57.
3396
1 ACTING PRESIDENT FARLEY: The
2 bill is passed.
3 THE SECRETARY: Calendar Number
4 845, by Senator Holland, Senate Bill Number
5 2659, an act to amend the Tax Law.
6 ACTING PRESIDENT FARLEY: Read
7 the last section.
8 THE SECRETARY: Section 2. This
9 act shall take effect immediately.
10 ACTING PRESIDENT FARLEY: Call
11 the roll.
12 (The Secretary called the roll.)
13 THE SECRETARY: Ayes 57.
14 ACTING PRESIDENT FARLEY: The
15 bill is passed.
16 Senator Present, that's the first
17 time through.
18 Senator Libous.
19 SENATOR LIBOUS: Mr. President,
20 could I have unanimous consent to be recorded in
21 the negative on Calendar Number 761?
22 ACTING PRESIDENT FARLEY: 761,
23 Senator Libous will be in the negative.
3397
1 Senator Present.
2 SENATOR PRESENT: Would you
3 recognize Senator Paterson; I believe he has a
4 privileged resolution.
5 ACTING PRESIDENT FARLEY: Senator
6 Paterson.
7 SENATOR PATERSON: Mr. President,
8 I have a privileged revolution -- resolution,
9 kind of as in a revolution -- that I would like
10 to be read at the desk, if it would be all
11 right.
12 ACTING PRESIDENT FARLEY: The
13 Secretary will read Senator Paterson's privi
14 leged resolution.
15 THE SECRETARY: Legislative
16 Resolution, by Senator Paterson, congratulating
17 and honoring President Nelson Mandela as the
18 first popularly elected president of the new
19 South Africa and the first black president of
20 South Africa.
21 WHEREAS, it is the sense of this
22 legislative body to walk in the noontide of
23 righteous resolve -
3398
1 SENATOR GALIBER: Mr. President.
2 ACTING PRESIDENT FARLEY: Hold
3 on.
4 SENATOR GALIBER: Mr. President.
5 ACTING PRESIDENT FARLEY: I'm
6 going to ask that you hold your conversations
7 down for Senator Paterson's resolution. The
8 Secretary will continue reading.
9 THE SECRETARY: -- it is the
10 sense of this legislative body to walk in the
11 noontide of righteous resolve, in the eternal
12 light of peace with the imperishable hope of
13 freedom for all nations of the world;
14 Attendant to such concern and
15 fully in accord with its long-standing
16 tradition, it is the intent of this legislative
17 body to commend Nelson Mandela upon the occasion
18 of his election as the first popularly elected
19 president of South Africa;
20 Nelson Mandela, in spite of
21 nearly 27 years of political imprisonment, has
22 dedicated a lifetime spanning more than 70 years
23 to securing racial equality, political freedom
3399
1 and economic empowerment for all South Africans;
2 Nelson Mandela exemplifies a
3 spirit, dedication and foresight which has not
4 only precipitated independence and
5 enfranchisement for all South Africans but has
6 propelled him forward as the first popularly
7 elected president of the New Republic of South
8 Africa;
9 The African National Congress, in
10 spite of countless threats, beatings and arrests
11 and assassinations of its membership and leader
12 ship, has waged an ever vigilant battle to
13 eradi- cate the last vestiges of racism and
14 colonialism from South Africa and to bring about
15 a truly democratic state;
16 With about 46 percent of the
17 estimated 22.7 million votes counted, the people
18 of South African have cast their ballots for the
19 first time in a multi-racial election and
20 furnished an electoral mandate to the architects
21 of the New Republic of South Africa;
22 The African National Congress was
23 projected to win around 240 seats in the new 400
3400
1 seat Parliament.
2 With the demise of the dreaded
3 social system of apartheid, the people of South
4 Africa have spoken in unity and in peace;
5 WHEREAS, on May the 10th, 1994,
6 Nelson Mandela will be inaugurated at a ceremony
7 attended by world leaders, including Hillary
8 Rodham Clinton and Vice-president Al Gore;
9 The desire for freedom and self
10 determination upon the part of the people of
11 South African touches the hearts of all. It
12 transcends the advocates of mindless retrench
13 ment; it frays and shreds the mantle of purblind
14 indifference which so cruelly seeks to rewrite
15 the tragic history of black sufferings arching
16 across the great Atlantic, it strikes a resonant
17 chord upon the American bell of freedom;
18 Upon the occasion of this
19 historic achievement, it is the sense of this
20 legislative body to pause in its deliberations
21 and so proudly congratulate President Mandela
22 and the African National Congress in recognition
23 of their monumental achievements and their
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1 electoral victory, and join with the nations of
2 the world in welcoming a new democracy to those
3 already heroically committed to the fruition of
4 freedom's promise;
5 This legislative body maintains
6 its pledged commitment to work with and support
7 continuing efforts to eradicate racism and
8 improve living standards in the newly elected
9 Republic of South Africa; now therefore, be it
10 RESOLVED, that this legislative
11 body pause in its deliberations to commend
12 Nelson Mandela upon the occasion of his election
13 as the first popularly elected president of the
14 New Republic of South Africa and the first black
15 president of South Africa; and be it further
16 RESOLVED, that copies of this
17 resolution, suitably engrossed, be transmitted
18 to President Nelson Mandela and the African
19 National Congress.
20 ACTING PRESIDENT FARLEY: Senator
21 Paterson, on the resolution.
22 SENATOR PATERSON: Mr. President,
23 I want to thank all of my colleagues for being a
3402
1 part of the resolution. I would also like to
2 thank Senator Gold and the members of the
3 Majority for making it possible for us to have
4 the resolution read at this time and I'm hoping
5 that we will do more than pause from our
6 deliberations in harmonious celebration of this
7 historical event.
8 I hope that we will take the
9 meaning of what occurred today in South Africa
10 and try to think globally in terms of human
11 rights violations that are taking place in
12 Rwanda as we speak, of human rights violations
13 that are taking place in Bosnia and in human
14 rights violations that are taking place right
15 here in the United States.
16 I've never been to South Africa,
17 but I have been to the South Bronx. I have been
18 to -- to areas of this state where people are
19 living in what are the squalor conditions that
20 many South Africans lived in and many as a
21 result of violations that occurred in this
22 country hundreds, and in some cases, decades
23 ago.
3403
1 We're hoping that this moment in
2 history, this opportunity in which 90 percent of
3 South Africans went to the polls and elected
4 Nelson Mandela, their president, will start in
5 place right here in United States where we have
6 presidential elections that less than half the
7 population votes in, statewide primaries that
8 less than 20 percent of the people vote in,
9 school board elections when sometimes 5 percent
10 of the population votes in.
11 Maybe we have taken our rights
12 for granted at a time when the world so sorely
13 needs the participation. How else do you judge
14 society unless you judge it by those who make up
15 the society? But when we think that we are in
16 1994, in our vast age of technology when we can
17 televise this inauguration around the world,
18 when we can have interviews with many who
19 participated and they'd be seen 7,000 miles
20 away, when we think about that time period,
21 isn't it interesting that some of the simplest
22 and most common aspects of human nature are not
23 observed and are only now being laid to rest in
3404
1 places like South Africa. Is it that our
2 ability to learn in a logical and mathematical
3 sense has exceeded, our human values? I guess
4 that is the case.
5 No one in South Africa ever
6 thought that apartheid was a policy that was
7 correct or in any way commensurate with how
8 people should live anyway, anywhere. None of
9 the high officials of the South African
10 government ever really believed that this was
11 the way that people should live in our time or
12 in any other time, and yet it was allowed to
13 happen. Why would that be the case? Why was
14 apartheid not only encouraged but was sanctioned
15 by the government? Let's just remember that
16 every time there was a protest, that any time
17 there was a disturbance, there were government
18 troops coming out to quell it. Let's remember
19 that right here in this chamber, Senator
20 Montgomery and others joined to try to limit the
21 rights of corporations that were registered in
22 New York State that were doing business in South
23 Africa, and we stood silently by for years and
3405
1 just hoped that the situation would work itself
2 out. Well, the situation worked itself out, no
3 thanks to our participation, and yet we are
4 still obliged and are allowed to join in the
5 celebration.
6 Perhaps what we might want to do,
7 rather than just relinquish the opportunity, is
8 to seize upon the moment and look at our state
9 and look at our government and look at our house
10 and see how much in order it may be. How many
11 issues that we might discuss or might address
12 are at this time being held hostage when we know
13 that any value or any condition that would
14 promote any interest in our neighbors would
15 compel us to discuss it and to try to ameliorate
16 some of the conditions that our brothers and
17 sisters right here in America are enduring? How
18 many times have we ignored the opportunity to be
19 a part of history and to be part of that
20 celebration?
21 There will be no discussion in
22 the moment in which Nelson Mandela who once sat
23 in the prison and looked through the windows at
3406
1 the state house who will now sit in the state
2 house and look through the windows of the
3 prison, there will be no remembering of those
4 who complied or got along just by going along
5 with the apartheid conditions of South Africa.
6 History will not remember them. History will
7 remember those who rather chose out -- to speak
8 out against that injustice with the truth, who
9 tried to do something to change those
10 conditions, and it is in their honor that we try
11 to remember them.
12 I remember being outside this
13 chamber one day a few years ago when a colleague
14 came up to me and said there was an article
15 about Nelson Mandela, that he and his daughter
16 hadn't spoken to each other in 20 years. It
17 would -- and that this was not a good image for
18 a black father to be portraying, but the problem
19 is that Nelson Mandela's daughter is 43 years
20 old. Nelson Mandela is 73 years old. This was
21 a -- apparently some kind of a dispute involving
22 a second marriage that occurred as adults. This
23 in no way would reflect the contribution this
3407
1 man has made to humankind as a leader, not to
2 delve into some personal problem, but it makes
3 me understand that we have now become a hard
4 copy generation. We would rather indulge
5 ourselves in the eccentricities of peoples'
6 existence rather than the contribution that they
7 have made to such an extent that we can stand in
8 this chamber and even be part of what would be a
9 society that is striving for freedom today.
10 And so those are the issues that
11 history represents, not just the minor
12 malfeasances of individual character but the
13 overall great good that they have done and have
14 contributed to our society and to the world.
15 And so it is in that spirit that
16 I offer this resolution, a prelude, I hope to a
17 remembrance of the kinds of goals and values
18 that we strive for as human beings that we can
19 appreciate whether we are Asian, black, Hispanic
20 or white, whether we are upper middle class or
21 welfare recipients, whether we send our children
22 to public or private school or in any way that
23 we live our lives, we understand that there are
3408
1 certain self-truths, there are certain dignities
2 that we should bestow upon our neighbors that
3 unfortunately is still misunderstood in this
4 century, and it took until May the 10th, 1994,
5 for the nation of South Africa, the new South
6 Africa, to recognize all people at least on
7 paper in a way that would equal their value as
8 human beings. We hope that this will be the
9 beginning of a new era in which land rights and
10 also self-determination will not only follow the
11 South Africa government but every government of
12 people around the world.
13 Thank you, Mr. President.
14 ACTING PRESIDENT FARLEY: Senator
15 Galiber.
16 SENATOR GALIBER: Thank you, Mr.
17 President.
18 I could never really think this
19 could ever happen in my lifetime. Those of us
20 who are here in this chamber, and there are some
21 good folk in this chamber who have helped this
22 happen in South Africa. I used to say, Senator
23 Paterson, the same thing, we could have no
3409
1 freedom in South Bronx until we have freedom in
2 South Africa. If this is any indication,
3 certainly things are looking better. It's been
4 an awful long time coming.
5 Can you imagine in the real
6 world, someone for a commitment, for a cause,
7 spent 27 years in jail -- 27 years in jail
8 because you believe that all people were truly
9 created equal, and that they should have an
10 opportunity to participate?
11 I can recall some years ago as I
12 reflect on progress, as we moved, I can recall
13 Senator Marchi at a convention some years ago
14 who was out for sanctions and committed to the
15 same causes that we were when some of his
16 colleagues, not all, some of his colleagues were
17 suggesting to us that the Sullivan approach was
18 better. "Wait. Let's see. Let's not go too
19 fast", but he focused as usual on the notion
20 that if you are committed for as long as 27
21 years and you can come out of prison after 27
22 years with love in your heart, with no hatred,
23 looking not to get even but to move forward,
3410
1 what a -- what a person, what a man, what a
2 golden opportunity, if you will, for us to
3 reflect on what he represents.
4 If we can take just a piece of
5 the cloth that he wears, magnify it and send it
6 over, if you will, to the problems that we have
7 here in this great state, that the racism that
8 still exists -- its ugly head is still there,
9 this frame of mind I keep telling you over and
10 over about, the practices of discrimination -
11 why are we wasting so much valuable time?
12 When Nelson Mandela left jail,
13 there were some who would suggest that Nelson
14 Mandela was free, and there are some of us who
15 wisely said "No, he's not free. He's not free.
16 He's just out of jail." And I suggest that we
17 look at South Africa as we celebrate this great
18 day, great day for democracy, as we see walls
19 come tumbling down, as we see countries driving
20 or striving or struggling, if you will, for the
21 sense of democracy, all not calm yet but
22 certainly working towards democracy. We're
23 living in such interesting times and fantastic
3411
1 times with Senator Marchi and to many of my
2 colleagues and others who have been on the side
3 of righteousness, what is good and what is right
4 and what is fair. We've got to watch South
5 Africa and not get hoodwinked into a position
6 that now that we have a president for the first
7 time, that everything is okay, everything is
8 going to run smooth. I say not so. We have to
9 be extremely careful because to be a president
10 and not take the advantage or control over the
11 natural resources of that country, is a mere
12 president with no power, so they need our help
13 in so many, many ways.
14 And in closing, I would like to
15 say that oppression, period, is a fight and a
16 struggle against oppression, and we've had
17 phases of oppression and we've moved forward in
18 this country, and every now and then we feel a
19 sense of slippage when we're taking two steps
20 forward and sliding back three, but we all
21 should join in celebration, whatever our
22 discipline, whatever our attitudes are, we
23 should join in celebration of this day.
3412
1 For all people as you saw them on
2 the lines waiting to vote in South Africa, we
3 have folks here who won't come out of their
4 high-rises off the 14th floor to vote. They
5 have forgotten in this great country of ours,
6 when people just a few years ago were not
7 allowed to vote unless you owned property and a
8 whole slew of other conditions precedent
9 forgotten, but to see the elderly people in
10 Africa in wheelchairs saying "this is my last
11 act, last act for democracy, last act to take an
12 opportunity to participate," what a great lesson
13 there is to be learned today.
14 So, Mr. President, as we pause,
15 and rightly so, in celebration for democracy,
16 celebration for integrity, celebrate for
17 sticktoitiveness, celebrating love versus
18 hatred, because I can think of no other person
19 except Mandela, president Mandela, to spend 27
20 years in jail with all the hardships and the
21 abuse and the tragedies that have occurred in
22 South Africa, the killings and the children that
23 have died, I can't imagine how he survived, but
3413
1 as we celebrate this occasion, we should look at
2 that experience, his experience as our experi
3 ence and move forward and stop nitpicking over
4 some of the nonsense that's taking place even at
5 this particular time.
6 So I take the opportunity to
7 congratulate South Africa and to thank those of
8 my colleagues who were helpful in terms of the
9 sanctions and helpful in terms of applying
10 pressure and, John Marchi, I point you out
11 individually to say thank you, because I know
12 for sure of your position when you were fighting
13 against your colleagues who did not want us to
14 go through and proceed, so there are some
15 victories in our world and this is one of them.
16 Thank you, Mr. President.
17 ACTING PRESIDENT FARLEY: Senator
18 Marchi.
19 SENATOR MARCHI: It's, indeed, a
20 very moving experience to witness the fact that
21 -- well, today is the day, isn't it? It's May
22 10th -- that this event has taken place. Now,
23 this isn't more of same, more nations acquiring
3414
1 statehood in Africa or anywhere else. This is
2 an experience that has been in a process of
3 evolution for a number of years, and as has been
4 said with a great deal of human sacrifice, great
5 suffering, great emotions being challenged,
6 abuses, all kinds of things taking place, and
7 yet, the final impact was the emergence of an
8 individual, and mind you, you have not had this
9 in my memory, at least since the days of Mahatma
10 Gandhi stepping out of prison as it were, and in
11 a relatively short time by comparison to that
12 time when he was not free to function, to assert
13 the moral grandeur of this new nation, the
14 spiritual grandeur of this nation.
15 The first thing that the new
16 president said, "I am the president of all the
17 people". Now, you never had this. In most
18 cases, there was somebody crowing over a
19 victory. His was an affirmation that he is the
20 president of all the people, and the formulation
21 of that government was for the purpose of
22 speaking to all of them as members of this new
23 society that was emerging. Now, this is an
3415
1 exciting step. This isn't something that had
2 happened virtually as nations were born during
3 the last 30 and 40 and 50 years. This was
4 something different. It had a moral and
5 spiritual context, and it is a challenge. It's
6 not the beginning of the end. It's the end of
7 the beginning, but the important steps are going
8 to be now.
9 If there is a great victory in
10 terms of positive progress from now on -- and
11 that will require international cooperation and
12 the comity of nations knowing that the responsi
13 bility that is there, do we realize what this is
14 going to mean to other nations that are still in
15 -- in deep difficulty in terms of achieving and
16 perfecting their own independence. It helps
17 us. It helps anybody on the planet. If this
18 can -- if this affirmation -- and it's not going
19 to happen overnight with tremendous victories.
20 It's going to be acquired by hard work and it's
21 going to be acquired by the cooperation of
22 nations, and that benefit is going to flow to
23 everybody on this planet, because if it can be
3416
1 done, it will be a dramatic example of what good
2 faith can mean.
3 I remember several years back, an
4 attempt was made to provide an auspices. We
5 have an auspices in this country since 1922 or
6 '23 in providing academic opportunities to
7 foreign students, and this is sponsored by the
8 federal government, and it was my suggestion and
9 others that we do the same thing on a state
10 basis even if it's a modest basis and taking
11 other areas where an auspices can be created for
12 -- for the preparation of a cadre that will be
13 able to step in and assume the responsibilities
14 for crafts, for new technology, for so many -
15 for so many functions that are going to be
16 required for the success of over 20 million
17 people functioning -- functioning successfully.
18 There's a lot of infrastructure
19 there already, but meaningful participation will
20 require furnishing that type of auspices for a
21 growing number of people who, in the throes of
22 the last years of this effort, were distance -
23 distant from a process even at the level which
3417
1 it existed at that time. There was a slow-down
2 so that receptive communities and receptive
3 states can provide even on a modest basis but in
4 their totality would constitute a very, very -
5 a dramatic contribution in assisting a new state
6 come into being with the cadre of people,
7 because the richness of that nation is going to
8 be its people, and if they have the proper tools
9 with which to function, they are going to enrich
10 and build on what they have.
11 So that it's a great opportunity,
12 I think as a day of rejoicing for all elements
13 of decency that exist throughout this planet,
14 and it's going to come back many times if we
15 recognize the opportunity that we have that
16 should be seized, that opportunity should be
17 seized to make a very dramatic impact and to
18 give every assurance that we believe that this
19 will function.
20 Even the number of people -- I
21 believe Senator Paterson mentioned the great
22 number of people that voted in South Africa
23 compared to the fact that we bring in less than
3418
1 half of our voting population to the polls.
2 That's the importance that was attached to what
3 was being done, and this educative process, this
4 involvement, everyone had a share, everyone had
5 a little peice of that nationhood that was being
6 created, and they went to the remotest areas.
7 It was very dramatic just to see in some of the
8 news reports, the televised reports of the
9 super-human efforts that were being made to
10 reach as many people as possible regardless of
11 the remoteness of their residence, because it
12 was very important. It wasn't just one more
13 vote. This was establishing a bond -- this was
14 a bonding operation. These people were
15 participating in the creation of a nation,, and
16 in most cases this doesn't happen. It's the
17 product of an elite. This wasn't an elite.
18 This was everybody and everybody had a little
19 piece of it. We didn't even have that
20 experience ourselves in the founding of our own
21 nation.
22 So this was a rather unusual and
23 dramatic way of establishing a statehood, a
3419
1 direct participation and a direct solicitation
2 and the provisioning of that opportunity to cast
3 their ballot, that was the passport to becoming
4 a member of a new nation, and that was a pass
5 port that very few nations have ever experienced
6 anywhere else, but it did happen here, so we had
7 so many things happening -- people participating
8 directly in great numbers, every effort being
9 made to extend that franchise and to take this
10 bonding experience and then handing it to those
11 who would be assuming responsibility and the
12 response was "We are one nation." That was
13 Nelson Mandela's response.
14 All right. I think it's a great
15 moment in history. It's one of the -- one of
16 the signal steps that you find very few counter
17 parts anywhere else, very few counterparts that
18 -- that can trace the footsteps that were taken
19 prior to the establishment of a new member of
20 the family of nations in the form and the
21 complete and total form with which we behold it
22 today.
23 So it's a day to rejoice, but
3420
1 it's also one for sober reflection on the
2 serious responsibilities that we assume and we
3 rejoice over these circumstances because we, by
4 our collective -- the comity of nations and by
5 collective realization of the responsibility the
6 free world has, we have the opportunity to make
7 a function, and it's going to -- it's going to
8 happen naturally, but it has to be supported,
9 and there's no worse blasphemy than denying our
10 dependency on each other, and even ourselves.
11 We will benefit greatly. We will benefit
12 greatly by the very example that will be set if
13 we give full effect and full credence in our own
14 commitment to what has happened.
15 So, again, we must thank
16 providence that steps have taken the trend they
17 have, but it's also an indication that our work
18 is cut out for us in trying to give every
19 conceivable encouragement, positive
20 encouragement, to those people who have now
21 embarked on a -- on a very difficult operation
22 but which I believe, given the faith that they
23
3421
1 have professed already, is going to endure to
2 the benefit of mankind.
3 ACTING PRESIDENT FARLEY: Senator
4 Waldon.
5 SENATOR WALDON: I first want to
6 applaud Senator Paterson for making it possible
7 for us to have the opportunity to speak on
8 Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela and his inauguration
9 as president of South Africa.
10 I would like to compliment, Mr.
11 President, the Republican side for recognizing
12 that today is the day that he was sworn and
13 today is the day that we should deal with this
14 resolution. This is a great day of pride for
15 me.
16 So allow me -- let me back up to
17 the time that I was a young child in Florida and
18 New York. In Florida everybody was black in my
19 neighborhood, but when we moved to Halsey Street
20 in Brooklyn, I met people from all over the
21 world in terms of the children who were in my
22 classes. Stanley Yuslowski, his family came
23 from the Russias, Jewish; "Sonny" Galino, his
3422
1 grandparents had come from Italy. He was
2 Italian-American. Went to Junior High School
3 85. I met guys who were great ball players,
4 whose grandparents had come from Ireland. They
5 were Irish-Americans. Met a guy named Freitche,
6 super ball player, tough guy, German-American,
7 and when we would talk about their parents and
8 where their parents had come from and their
9 experiences, they spoke with great pride about
10 the home land, the mother country, but I did not
11 and could not at that time, because there
12 weren't a lot of classes in school teaching me
13 about where my people had come from. The movies
14 depicted us in very bad ways. In fact, I can
15 honestly admit now, because I'm mature enough to
16 recognize that I can distinguish between what
17 was good then and bad then and what is good now
18 and bad now versus who I am, my self-image, I
19 was ashamed of the fact that my people had come
20 from Africa because everything I saw spoke to
21 the "dark continent", the ignorant people from
22 there, people in trees wearing short outfits.
23 So today is a day where children
3423
1 who are young of age, as I was in the '40s, will
2 never have to experience what I experienced,
3 because when you ask the question, what is
4 Nelson Mandela, you have to respond, a
5 visionary, a man of great stature and intellect,
6 a true leader of all the people, a man who put
7 himself second to the cause that he saw as
8 necessary for the viability and the survival of
9 South Africa: Freedom and democracy.
10 When you ask, what does Nelson
11 Mandela mean to Al Waldon, it has to be
12 responded with I, too, walk a little taller
13 because of this giant -- this man who will be
14 remembered, in my opinion, historically as was
15 Mahatma Gandhi and as is Mahatma Gandhi; as was
16 Franklin Roosevelt and as is Franklin Roosevelt;
17 as was Winston Churchill and as is Winston
18 Churchill. This man will become one of the
19 great historical leaders of our time, and I
20 believe of all time.
21 But the significance of the
22 achievement of bringing from a state of
23 apartheid to democracy in South Africa for the
3424
1 children who are of the African Diaspora, in my
2 opinion, will be that they now can be very proud
3 of their ancestry. They now can no longer be
4 fooled into thinking that Africa is not a valu
5 able and viable place, with all of its mineral
6 wealth and all of its beauty, because it is a
7 stark reality as of today when Nelson Mandela
8 took the presidency of South Africa.
9 So I applaud all of us in what we
10 did in our own way to make it possible for South
11 Africa to be what it is today and for Nelson
12 Mandela to ascend to the presidency. I thank
13 you for the book drive where many of you have
14 helped. I thank you for the gifts that you made
15 years ago in regard to your votes affecting the
16 policies -- financial policies of New York
17 State, in regard to your encouragement of those
18 from South Africa who came here needing to be
19 encouraged.
20 I thank you for your comradeship
21 with me, a great, great, great grandson of
22 somebody from somewhere in Africa.
23 Today is a day of great pride.
3425
1 It's a day mostly of great pride for those of
2 South Africa, but secondarily for those of us
3 who have descended from those of all of Africa.
4 But it is also a day of pride for each of you
5 because, when this man achieved what he
6 achieved, all humankind on earth achieved as
7 well.
8 Thank you very much, Mr.
9 President.
10 SENATOR GOLD: Mr. President.
11 ACTING PRESIDENT FARLEY: Senator
12 Gold.
13 SENATOR GOLD: Thank you, Mr.
14 President.
15 Mr. President, I would be less
16 than candid if I didn't admit that, when I
17 watched the movie EXODUS, and the British
18 finally accede and the blockade is broken and
19 the ship is on its way to Israel, I cry a
20 little; I choke. And I admit that you -- I
21 don't know anyone who watches that one scene in
22 CASABLANCA where they sing "The Marseillaise"
23 and everybody gets involved and the Germans are
3426
1 put down at that point, and I choke and I cry.
2 And I won't delude anybody here. As I sat in
3 The Egg today and they showed the inauguration
4 of Nelson Mandela, my eyes were not dry. It was
5 -- it was enormous. It's just an enormous,
6 enormous event in the history of this world.
7 My dear friend, Senator Waldon,
8 says that as a result of today, he can walk a
9 little taller. Well, I want to tell you
10 something, Senator. I don't think there's any
11 freedom-loving person on the earth who shouldn't
12 walk a little taller today. Today is a day when
13 human beings did something human, and we all
14 know that, unfortunately, that's too unusual.
15 But today was a day when, if you were a human
16 being and you saw this, it had to affect you
17 whether or not your ancestors came from Africa
18 or any other continent.
19 A number of people have referred
20 to the -- this vision of a man for 27 years
21 looking out of prison at a palace, and now 27
22 years later looking back the other way. That
23 man is a man whose picture and name was banned
3427
1 from the press for all that time, and here's a
2 man who, after 27 years of that, keeps his eye
3 on the ball. He understands that the success of
4 his country is more important than revenge, and
5 whereas, as human beings, we understand how
6 someone could build up an enormous hatred, an
7 enormous resentment, and could come out, get
8 that freedom and "show the world" in the violent
9 sense, the man has his eye on the target, and
10 will take that country and show that what is
11 inside of him is the success of his country is
12 more important than whatever venality was done
13 to him than to show that he could do that to
14 other people.
15 I also was very touched today by
16 not only what I saw on the screen when they
17 showed the inauguration, but by something else
18 which I thought was very important. There were
19 faces in that audience and these weren't
20 "thems", these were ours, these are our kids,
21 American kids, growing up here and they had such
22 a feeling of pride at what happens so many, many
23 miles away, that humanity took a step up and
3428
1 that they could, as my distinguished colleague
2 indicated, walk a little taller. They sang the
3 new anthem of the Republic, and it was
4 beautiful. It was beautiful music because it
5 came more from heart than from the vocal cords.
6 I believe, and I was taught as a
7 youngster that, when good things happen, you
8 should always give something to charity. You
9 always had a little pushki around, you give
10 seduca. When things are good you respond, and I
11 would like to see this Legislature do this.
12 There was no problem today getting this
13 resolution out, because we have a distinguished
14 deputy Majority Leader and his really very, very
15 distinguished counsel, who understood that this
16 had to be today, and I'm not shocked that they
17 did the right thing because Jess Present usually
18 does the right thing in helping us run this
19 Senate.
20 But while today is Nelson
21 Mandela's day, we have a session that will
22 continue for the next few weeks, months maybe,
23 and the way to show the enormity of this act is
3429
1 in what we do day to day, whether we put out
2 bills which are mean-spirited or bills which
3 take care of people, our people, whether we put
4 out bills which stake out political positions or
5 whether we put out bills that start to
6 comprehend the needs of everybody in this state
7 to be a part of the process, a part of the
8 economic process, the social process, and then
9 we will show that we not only passed a
10 resolution on one day, but we understood the
11 enormity of the event.
12 I want to close by saying that I
13 remember, as probably everybody remembers, where
14 they were the day Kennedy was shot, the day
15 other significant events happened, and I can
16 tell you, I will always remember breaking into
17 our day today at the request of Comptroller
18 McCall and the Caucus, to sit with other people
19 in a large room and see this enormous event take
20 place in front of my eyes.
21 It is a day when I can forget
22 about the mass murderers, and I could forget
23 about those who have dedicated their lives to
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1 destruction. It is a day when we can really
2 say, "Today it ain't so bad being a human
3 being. Today the good guys did win one."
4 ACTING PRESIDENT FARLEY: Senator
5 Connor, then Senator Montgomery.
6 SENATOR CONNOR: Thank you, Mr.
7 President.
8 We've seen some momentous events
9 in history in these past years, and today was
10 probably -- was undoubtedly one of the most
11 momentous occasions I've witnessed from afar, to
12 see a man who spent 27 years in prison -- and
13 let me say it's not unusual that the liberators
14 spend time in prison. Nehru, Gandhi, De Valera,
15 Nkrumah, Kenyatta, Macarios, on and on the list
16 goes, the people who spent years in prison
17 fighting colonizers, fighting for human rights,
18 fighting for the liberty and democracy. But I
19 dare say none of them -- none of them spent such
20 an enormous portion of their lives in prison as
21 did Mandela, for principle, and the character of
22 this man that he could come out of that and not
23 be bitter, be hopeful, be positive, is truly
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1 remarkable, and I think if we look back through
2 history, we think of world figures that we
3 observed in our lifetimes. It places him among
4 the few truly unique who could have such a
5 spirit, such an indomitable spirit, such a
6 hopeful spirit, that he's not embittered by the
7 kind of imprisonment and enslavement he
8 personally underwent and by the kind of
9 tragedies and barbarism the people he leads were
10 forced to suffer by an unjust system.
11 I think the other remarkable
12 thing or the other thing that's true about
13 Nelson Mandela is, like other liberators, he has
14 liberated everyone in his nation. He has liber
15 ated not just the oppressed, but he has liberat
16 ed the oppressors from the kinds of hard hearts,
17 from the kinds of debilitating demoralization
18 that undoubtedly their perpetuation of such an
19 atrocious system as apartheid caused them.
20 And it was truly remarkable to
21 see him inaug... Mandela inaugurated as
22 president of the Republic of South Africa and to
23 see the salutes from the military leaders who,
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1 for the most part, were white Afrikaans, to see
2 De Klerk congratulate him because what you
3 realized is, Mandela just didn't simply uplift
4 the spirits and free his people, the black
5 people and the other people of color of South
6 Africa, but he liberated the white minority. He
7 liberated them from the chains of their own
8 hatred. He liberated them and lifted their
9 hearts from the kind of coldness that they, by
10 perpetuating this system, had brought themselves
11 into.
12 He lifted them from the only
13 depths that they dug for themselves, even as
14 they oppressed others, and that's the true mark
15 of a liberator, the true mark of someone who
16 will lead the South African Republic on to true
17 justice that will perfect the democracy they now
18 have, and it is simply -- it is truly a
19 remarkable event in the history of humankind to
20 see such a hopeful development for people every
21 where, no matter who they are, and I hope that
22 we still have work -- I know we still have work
23 to do in our own state, in our own country, to
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1 ennoble people, to ennoble the human spirit for
2 everyone, to make sure everyone has an
3 opportunity, to make sure that in addition to
4 political justice there is economic justice for
5 all, and I hope all of us pause and take
6 inspiration from what Nelson Mandela and his
7 comrades in the African National Congress -- and
8 we can think of so many going back who gave
9 their lives. I hope we can all take inspiration
10 from that, and the ceremony that Comptroller
11 McCall and the Black and Puerto Rican Caucus
12 sponsored today, at the end of it, we joined
13 hands, and it took me back over 30 years to when
14 I was much younger, when we sang We Shall
15 Overcome today, it reminded me of many occasions
16 in the '60s and early '70s and, frankly, while
17 in those days many of us were hopeful, were
18 rebellious at the time, I don't think any of us
19 really in our -- deep in our hearts, that we
20 carried or ever thought we would live so long to
21 see what we have seen come to fruition today,
22 and it's just a wonderful event, and I thank
23 Senator Paterson for bringing forth this
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1 resolution so that we may all honor the heroes
2 of South Africa and also take inspiration for
3 our own work yet to come.
4 Thank you, Mr. President.
5 ACTING PRESIDENT LIBOUS: Senator
6 Montgomery.
7 SENATOR MONTGOMERY: Thank you,
8 Mr. President.
9 I just want to add my voice to
10 say, one, thank you to Senator Paterson and the
11 leadership in this Legislature -- this legis
12 lative body, for taking out this time and
13 allowing us an opportunity to express what I
14 suspect are such feelings of pride that it
15 doesn't even come through, though we try to
16 express it as best we can. And I know that,
17 though I was the prime sponsor, along with a
18 number of my colleagues in this house, of
19 legislation which was aimed at trying to
20 escalate the -- this moment in time, that, for
21 various reasons, primarily political I suppose,
22 we were not able to get that legislation onto
23 the floor and voted for. However, I want to say
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1 that Senator Marchi and I, and I think Senator
2 Marchi, long before Nelson Mandela was released
3 from prison, had a sense and a vision that this
4 day would come and, in anticipation of that,
5 Senator Marchi supported legislation which would
6 have allowed our state to participate in a
7 preparation of people in South Africa so that,
8 when this day came which he knew would come
9 sooner or later, there would be a base of people
10 who would be prepared for this to take over.
11 I also had conversations with
12 other members of the other side, including one
13 of the members who I respect and love so dearly
14 and miss so much even until today, Senator Gene
15 Levy, who said to me that, though the
16 legislation is not coming to the floor, you can
17 be assured that there are members on this side
18 who support it.
19 So I thank my -- my colleagues
20 for that kind of vision and that kind of support
21 and I guess there are so many of us, therefore,
22 who can take such pride in this moment because
23 we have, in fact, been part of this liberation,
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1 and so it is partly ours, and I think that for
2 me, the moment of greatest pride and joy and
3 happiness and fulfillment was the day that
4 Nelson Mandela walked out of jail, out of
5 prison, and in that moment I felt that it was in
6 honor of the many thousands of people, women and
7 children and men, who had died for that moment
8 and many millions of people around the world who
9 kept the flame burning and kept the faith and
10 fought and worked for that moment to happen, and
11 I am so sure that there were so many hours and
12 years that Nelson Mandela spent in that prison
13 cell, in those prison cells, anticipating the
14 freedom of his people and remembering the reason
15 that he was there, and contemplating what he
16 would do as a freed person and how he would
17 participate in the true liberation as Senators
18 have spoken about today and, therefore, when he
19 came out, he was prepared and I had that sense
20 when he walked out of -- out of there that this
21 day was going to come and that he would be part
22 of it. And so it's the fulfillment of the kind
23 of dream that people have that only happens
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1 perhaps only once in a lifetime and, for those
2 of us for whom it happens more frequently, it is
3 indeed so wonderful.
4 But this, I think, is a once-in
5 a-lifetime fulfillment of a dream for so many of
6 us, and I am so thankful that it is Nelson
7 Mandela who is fulfilling that dream, for I know
8 of no other person in this world at this time
9 that I believe could and will carry out the
10 mission and the cause and the course for which
11 he was he was imprisoned, and that is that for
12 those who will fight and die for their freedom,
13 freedom is sweeter and more significant, and it
14 embraces us all.
15 So I join my colleagues in this
16 wonderful moment that we have set aside. To me
17 it is a statement by this body that the reason
18 that we are here is being honored and that we
19 really do believe in it. We believe in this
20 democracy and we celebrate a man who is
21 hopefully going to bring that realization to a
22 part of the world that has been in darkness for
23 so many years.
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1 So thank you, Mr. President.
2 ACTING PRESIDENT LIBOUS: Senator
3 Dollinger.
4 SENATOR DOLLINGER: Thank you,
5 Mr. President. I'll be brief.
6 I want to add my voice to those
7 of my colleagues and add just one slight
8 variation. I think the wonder of today is what
9 it tells us about our ability to change
10 ourselves. As I sat here and listened to my
11 colleagues' comments, I remembered two little
12 phrases that summarize what I think is the
13 American democratic experience and which I think
14 are important to keep in mind as we discuss
15 Nelson Mandela.
16 One is the principle of one
17 person and one vote, and there could be no
18 greater affirmation, as Senator Marchi said,
19 than the vote of 22 million people who formerly
20 did not have the right to vote in South Africa,
21 who walked many miles to vote, who exercised
22 their franchise in favor of change, and it's
23 that collective will, that power of people
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1 grouping together to effectuate change, that
2 Nelson Mandela symbolizes.
3 But he also symbolizes one other
4 very important phrase in the American political
5 experience, and that is that one person can make
6 a difference. It seems to me that the
7 individual liberty, the individual spirit that
8 we recognize in this democracy, that we want to
9 have flourish in this democracy under the
10 concept of collective will, we have to allow
11 individual human dignity to not only come to the
12 fore, to flourish, to flower and to effectuate
13 change.
14 What I've learned by the lesson
15 of today is that history can be changed. We are
16 not its product. We are its author. A will,
17 the collective will is our pen and the future is
18 the clean slate on which we can write and what I
19 hope this affirmation of human dignity symbol
20 ized in the inauguration of Nelson Mandela does
21 today is embolden all of us to take that pen,
22 whether we're black or white, yellow, brown or
23 any hue in between, and that we'll write a
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1 future that we can all be proud of it that will
2 recognize our collective ability to live
3 together and the importance of the individual
4 human spirit.
5 Mr. President, I congratulate my
6 colleagues for bringing this resolution
7 forward. I think it's a great day for all of us
8 and a great day to celebrate the human dignity
9 not only of the man who persevered through
10 prison to the presidency but of all of us who
11 would like to write a future of change so that
12 we can all celebrate this not only on these
13 momentous occasions but every single day.
14 ACTING PRESIDENT LIBOUS: Senator
15 Pataki.
16 SENATOR PATAKI: Mr. President, I
17 rise as well to congratulate Senator Paterson on
18 sponsoring this resolution and to add my words
19 of thanks and happiness about the tremendous
20 events that have transpired in South Africa.
21 We were all, I believe,
22 tremendously moved to see the lines stretching
23 for miles of people, free people, finally given
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1 their democratic right standing there, waiting
2 to exercise that right, and I think it has a
3 great deal of meaning for us in this body and
4 for all New Yorkers and all Americans as well,
5 and that is that ultimately oppression, racism,
6 bigotry, hatred, will not prevail in the face of
7 a people united in spirit and united and wanting
8 simple freedom and dignity that is the right of
9 everyone as a resident of this planet.
10 And second, that when you do have
11 extraordinary individuals such as Nelson
12 Mandela, that it doesn't take tanks or planes or
13 weapons to overcome oppression and injustice.
14 It takes spirit and a willingness to fight and
15 be bigger than the oppressors, and I think we
16 have to learn from this, that injustice does not
17 have to be met by injustice. Nelson Mandela has
18 shown a willingness, an ability to forgive and
19 transcend his oppressors that all of us could
20 learn from, and it was just amazing today to be
21 reading that Nelson Mandela's cellmate when they
22 were in prison together by the oppressive
23 regime, as of next week will be the head of the
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1 corrections department in the new free South
2 Africa, and I think we can all have confidence
3 that he will be a fairer, more just, more human
4 person in that capacity because of the spirit
5 and the inspiration that Nelson Mandela has
6 given not just to the now free people of South
7 Africa but to all of us across the world who
8 have to admire his greatness.
9 So again, I just want to join and
10 thank Senator Paterson for offering this
11 resolution and join with my colleagues in saying
12 that this is a wonderful day not just for South
13 Africa, but for African-Americans or for
14 Americans but for everyone in this world who
15 respects the dignity and the freedom of
16 individuals and the capacity of one great
17 individual to overcome and rise above hatred and
18 bigotry.
19 ACTING PRESIDENT LIBOUS: Senator
20 Paterson.
21 SENATOR PATERSON: Mr. President,
22 we recognize that not everyone had an
23 opportunity to speak on the resolution so we
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1 would like to leave the resolution open for
2 anybody who would like to be part of it.
3 Senator Pataki is certainly right
4 that this day was brought about with the
5 certainly surprisingly less violence than we
6 would have thought, maybe synonymous with the
7 glorious revolution, the bloodless revolution of
8 the enlightenment in 1688. Hopefully, it will
9 be a prelude of how governments can be changed
10 and enlightened without the use and the
11 necessity of force, a lesson we hope will be
12 learned around the world, and I would just like
13 to close with a fond remembrance that I don't
14 think I've ever shared with any colleague.
15 ACTING PRESIDENT LIBOUS: Senator
16 Paterson, if I may, just before you close, if I
17 could ask Senators who would like to sponsor
18 just raise your right hand, please.
19 SENATOR GOLD: Recognize Senator
20 Kuhl.
21 SENATOR KUHL: Would you take
22 this opportunity to put all members of the
23 Senate on the bill, on the resolution, excuse
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1 me, and if there is somebody who wishes for
2 their own personal reasons not to, they can
3 indicate to the desk that they would not wish to
4 be on the resolution. That will solve the
5 problem.
6 ACTING PRESIDENT LIBOUS: The
7 Chair has no objection with that.
8 Senator Paterson to close.
9 SENATOR PATERSON: I was just
10 going to point out that in 1986, which was my
11 first year in this chamber, we had a discussion
12 about sanctions in South Africa, and Senator
13 Montgomery's attempt to -- to penalize those 133
14 companies that were doing business in South
15 Africa and, during that debate, Senator Marchi
16 made a comment that he had read that 75 percent
17 of black South Africans took part in a poll or
18 75 percent of black South Africans that took
19 part in a poll voted against government
20 sanctions against the South African government.
21 At that point, I wanted to point
22 out to Senator Marchi, that at that time it was
23 actually against the law to take a position
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1 opposite that of the South African government,
2 so that anybody who voted to the contrary
3 certainly was making himself eligible for
4 imprisonment in South Africa.
5 When I left the chamber that day,
6 Senator Marchi came up to me and, with the
7 discourse that I often heard in this chamber and
8 some of the words that went back and forth
9 between the Majority and the Minority, when he
10 came up to me, I thought that Senator Marchi was
11 going to try to kill me, and what he said was
12 that he had never realized that that was
13 actually the case and that he would rethink his
14 position on sanctions and that one thing was for
15 sure, that he would never cite that as an issue
16 in favor of not having sanctions at that
17 particular time.
18 So it was a good lesson for me in
19 my first year that, in spite of the perceived
20 problems inherent in some of our differences in
21 this chamber, that through the dialogue that we
22 had, particularly during these resolutions and
23 other debates that we indulge in, that we do
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1 have some understanding that goes back and forth
2 between these aisles, and this is certainly a
3 good day to recognize it.
4 Thank you.
5 ACTING PRESIDENT LIBOUS: On the
6 resolution, all in favor indicate by saying
7 aye.
8 (Response of "Aye.")
9 Opposed?
10 (There was no response. )
11 The resolution is adopted
12 unanimously.
13 Senator Goodman.
14 SENATOR GOODMAN: No.
15 ACTING PRESIDENT LIBOUS: Senator
16 Kuhl.
17 SENATOR KUHL: Any housekeeping?
18 SENATOR PRESENT: Senator Cook.
19 ACTING PRESIDENT LIBOUS: Senator
20 Present.
21 SENATOR COOK: Mr. President, on
22 page 24, I offer the following amendments to
23 Calendar Number 669, Senate Print 7710, ask that
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1 said bill retain its place on Third Reading
2 Calendar.
3 And also I'd like to place a star
4 on Calendar Number 819.
5 ACTING PRESIDENT LIBOUS: Star is
6 placed on 819. Amendments accepted without
7 objection.
8 Senator Present.
9 SENATOR PRESENT: Mr. President,
10 have we completed housekeeping?
11 ACTING PRESIDENT LIBOUS: I
12 believe so.
13 SENATOR PRESENT: Mr. Cornell is
14 caught up.
15 Mr. President, I'd like to remind
16 the members that the Senate picture will be
17 taken tomorrow promptly at noon. It's
18 imperative that we adhere to the schedule of the
19 cameraman for he has a tight schedule and would
20 like to move from this chamber over to the other
21 chamber.
22 ACTING PRESIDENT LIBOUS: Senator
23 Present, before we continue, the clerk has one
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1 other item.
2 SENATOR PRESENT: O.K.
3 THE SECRETARY: The Governor
4 returned without executive approval Senate Bill
5 Number 1142-A, by Senator Volker, Veto Number 3,
6 an act to amend the Real Property Law, in
7 relation to disclosure obligations of real
8 estate brokers and agents.
9 ACTING PRESIDENT LIBOUS: Lay it
10 on the table.
11 Senator Present.
12 SENATOR PRESENT: Mr. President,
13 there being no further business, I move that we
14 adjourn until tomorrow at 11:00 a.m.
15 ACTING PRESIDENT LIBOUS: The
16 Senate is adjourned until tomorrow at 11:00 a.m.
17 (Whereupon at 5:37 p.m., the
18 Senate adjourned. )
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