The 1996 budget, approved 104 days late, and the 1997 one, 126 days overdue, were believed by independent researchers to be the two tardiest state budgets in American history.
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The failure of those talks made it likely that Pataki would preside over the tardiest budget agreement on record, and he has been using events like this one to distance himself from the fray.
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The second tardiest was in 1996, at 104 days late, when Pataki refused to enact a budget until the Legislature agreed to changes in the state's workers'compensation law to save employers money.
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In 1997, Silver held up the budget to win renewal of rent control laws, producing another record : Aug . 4, 126 days late, by far the tardiest any state has been since the Depression, if not longer.
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Finally producing the tardiest state budget in the nation's history, New York Gov . George Pataki and the Legislature announced a $ 66 billion spending plan on Thursday that rejects most of the cuts and policy changes that Pataki had advocated.
