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and Government | | As
in all fifty states, the head of the executive branch of government is a Governor.
The legislative branch is called the Legislature and consists of a Senate and
an Assembly. Unlike most States, the New York electoral law permits electoral
fusion, and New York ballots tend to have, in consequence, a larger number of
parties on them, some being permanent minor parties that seek to influence the
major parties and others being ephemeral parties formed to give major-party candidates
an additional line on the ballot. |
New York's legislature is notoriously dysfunctional. The Assembly has long been
controlled by the Democrats, the Senate has long been controlled by the Republicans.
From 1984 until 2005, no budget had been passed on time, and for many years the
legislature was unable to pass legislation for which there was supposed to be
a consensus, such as reforming the so-called Rockefeller drug laws
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2002, 16,892 bills were introduced in the New York legislature, more than twice
as many as in the Illinois General Assembly, whose members are the second most
prolific. Of those bills, only 4 percent, 693, actually became law, the lowest
passing percentage in the country. | | New
York's legislature also has more paid staff, 3,428 than any other legislature
in the nation. Pennsylvania, whose staff is the second largest, only had 2,947,
and California only 2,359. New York's legislature also has more committees than
any other legislature in the nation. | |
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