The Assembly, while falling far short of the $1.6 billion goal set by the Senate, has expressed a willingess to shoot for at least $1 billion in Medicaid and welfare cuts, some of which will affect recipients.

But the Parti Quebecois chief indicated he would delay passing a resolution in the Assembly expressing Quebec's will to become a sovereign country, a move the party's platform had promised for soon after the election.

The assembly debates the motion "That this Assembly expresses deep concern about the implications of the Welfare Reform Bill, particularly the introduction of a new coercive regime into benefit administration, and its impact on a number of vulnerable groups, including neurological patients."

Both the Assembly and the Senate are expressing their usual opposition to raising the state's gasoline tax, as the Governor has proposed.

The King can't be in favor of anything till the Assembly or the Chancellor express an opinion.

The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), the Nordic Council and Amnesty International also expressed concern over an increase in the trafficking of women and forced prostitution up to and during the World Cup.

Both Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver and the Senate leader, Joseph L. Bruno, have expressed misgivings about the stadium.

The Assemblies of God, for their part, endorsed the reconciliation proposals, but expressed deep reservations about the amnesty clauses.

On December 18, 2005, amid controversy, the Assembly of Shimer College expressed its support for the ongoing negotiations by a vote of 46-29.

The Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá'ís of San Francisco expressed its "grief and sense of serious loss" and paid tribute to "the untiring services and inspiring leadership of their first Chairman, Dr Frederick W. D'Evelyn".