Transcript: New York City Council Brings Lawsuit Against the Mayor

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December 15, 1994
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NEAL CONAN, Host: In a budget dispute in New York City, the City Council is now suing the mayor. The unprecedented lawsuit concerns proposed cuts in city services and just who has power over the budget. From member station WNYC, Laura Sydell prepared this report.

NEW YORK CITY COUNCIL MEMBER: By a vote of 47 in the affirmative to one in the negative, a vote greater than two-thirds of this body, the mayor's veto is overridden and M263 and 721 is adopted.

LAURA SYDELL, Reporter: With only member voting against it, the New York City Council took a historic step last week when it overrode Mayor Rudolph Giuliani's veto of the council's mid-year budget ...

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