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Brian Lockhart covers the Connecticut General Assembly in Hartford

As of 6:30 p.m. Monday it is still unclear if the General Assembly will reconvene this week

House Majority Leader Denise Merrill, D-Mansfield, in a phone interview said she is uncertain whether the General Assembly will return to the capitol this week to  wrap-up the budget process.

Last week’s special session was aimed at passing a variety of bills required to implement the 2009-10 and 2010-11 spending plan the Democratic-majority approved Sept. 1.

But the Democrats remain at odds with Republican Gov. M. Jodi Rell over several issues and adjourned early Friday morning with plenty of unfinished business.

Democratic leaders in the House and Senate met today.

“We talked about doing something Thursday or Friday but the Senate seems to have a lot of problems,” Merrill said. “There’s various people on vacation and they’re telling us they’ll have trouble getting people in … And the Governor’s on vacation. So who knows?”

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