As a result, New York's lawmakers too often act like a school of minnows.

Whether the experiment has caused ticket prices to go down or up is not likely to be clear before lawmakers act.

The decision signaled that lawmakers would act to keep the financial industry from collapsing.

If the lawmakers do not act, the agency can impose the offer it last made to the controllers.

If the lawmakers don't act, they are courting problems that may be even harder to solve later on.

How courts and lawmakers acted then should be a good guide as to how they'll act again, if we can change the law back.

This argument is faulty because legal interpretation generally assumes that lawmakers act with clear purpose.

It said it would make its own guidelines if lawmakers did not act in the coming legislative session.

But certainly some lawmakers, lobbyists and some budget analysts are acting as if they think such a situation is possible.

But the law doesn't require lawmakers to act on the actual results at the end of the year.