But legislators also plan to press for a tactic less welcome at the White House this year: spending money.

Knowing that some legislators planned to attend the session armed, Breckinridge asked Winfield Scott to post guards in and around the chambers.

In a sign of their ambitions for democracy, the legislators are planning to issue their proposal as a letter to the Palestinian people, rather than to Mr. Arafat.

The legislators plan next year to request the balance of the money needed to see the project through to completion.

Mr. Suozzi hopes to raise $100,000 for the campaign, but he would not reveal how much he has raised so far or which incumbent legislators he plans to target.

Next week, two former governors and 20 legislators plan to announce the New Patriotism Caucus, an effort to focus on "public responsibility."

Unless a better package gets negotiated, legislators should plan to override Mr. Pataki's veto when they return next month, and fix the technical problems later.

It can be assumed that the legislators planned to override the previous legislation.

Yesterday, the legislators appeared to be moving toward conciliation and planned to meet today to talk about their "options and alternatives," a legislative aide said.

The legislators had planned to go to Tiananmen Square, reporters in tow, to honor the victims of the 1989 military crackdown on the democracy movement.