While New York state senators resumed passing bills and getting paid, their bruising leadership fight left doubts about their capacity to conduct the kind of close-out to a legislative session in which lawmakers traditionally negotiate and pass substantive legislation.
Bills legalizing same-sex marriage, expanding use of DNA evidence to exonerate innocent defendants and allowing victims of pedophiles to bring time-barred suits against their abusers are among the measures that were left hanging for more than a month as the Senate fell into a 31-31 stalemate over whether Republicans or Democrats controlled the chamber.
