Last week, lawmakers reached an impasse over an earlier ethics package.

Consumer advocates and some lawmakers in food safety, even if 90% of suspect vegetable didn't reach the shelves.

But lawmakers, she said, have reached a "state of policy paralysis in regards to obesity."

The matter is one of the few substantive settlements lawmakers have reached in recent days.

But others aides said that lawmakers had reached no decision.

Despite the strife, lawmakers reached agreement on a number of issues, beyond passage of the two-year $153 billion budget.

In some ways, lawmakers are reaching back to the past for a solution to the chronically late budgets in Albany.

The one important part of the budget that lawmakers reached agreement on today was increasing tuition assistance for college students by $141 million.

Even as lawmakers reached agreement on Medicare, they found themselves stymied on another health care measure.

The payment had been delayed, she said, because lawmakers did not reach agreement on a budget until late July, nearly four months late.