Senator Nicholas A. Spano, a Westchester Republican who is chairman of the mental health committee, played down the dispute, saying it could be easily resolved.

"You won't see any meaningful dialogue until the final hours," Senator Nicholas Spano, a Westchester Republican, said.

"But they've always been defeated," said Senator Mary Goodhue, a Westchester Republican who has filed several.

I call myself a Westchester Republican.

I think I'm a Westchester Republican as I understand them to be: pro-choice, pro-environment, in favor of keeping open space and being fiscally conservative.

"The longer this goes on, the less credit anyone is going to get for whatever happens," said Senator Nicholas A. Spano, a Westchester Republican.

Senator Spano, a Westchester Republican, was preparing to leave on a trip to Barbados that had been delayed for months.

Nick Spano, a Westchester Republican, was one of two former Assemblymen to make the move to the Senate this session.

Some Westchester Republicans said yesterday they thought she was considering the attorney general's race, given her three terms as district attorney.

After the Rosi story appeared in this space last month, Representative Sue Kelly, a Westchester Republican, reached out to the authorities.