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Senate Moves Toward Pricing Vote

2:31 PM EDT on April 7, 2008

Liz Benjamin at the Daily Politics is reporting that Senate Majority Leader Joe Bruno will call a floor vote on congestion pricing today:

Senators on both sides of aisle have received the heads up that themajority is preparing to call a vote on congestion pricing, despite thefact that both Senate Majority Leader Joseph Bruno and Minority LeaderMalcolm Smith have said they don't have sufficient votes to pass themeasure.

This is a departure for Bruno, who has been trying to pin the blamefor the delay on Bloomberg's pet project (not to mention its potentialdemise) on Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, saying the Senate would notmove forward until Silver's majority Democratic conference made adecision.

Keep those phone calls coming.

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