All the Assembly Democrats will be together in Brooklyn next Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday when Sheldon Silver holds his conference meet at the Brooklyn Marriott. (Book your rooms now!)

As one person who's planning to attend explained to me, it'll be the strategy session where the Assembly Democrats actually start crafting their legislative priorities in earnest. (With an expected $4 billion budget gap in a local election year, that list should be really interesting.)
 
About the meeting, this attendee said, "The first time we did it was right after 9/11, and we were staying in the Embassy Suites downtown. Since then, it became an annual thing. This year is the first time we're doing it in Brooklyn. It's almost like a pre-game show to the session."

A spokesman for Silver, Dan Weiler, declined to discuss the meeting.

In order to qualify for $500 million in federal funding, state lawmakers would have to approve of Michael Bloomberg’s congestion pricing plan by July 16.

And to do that, they'd have to, you know, meet.

A spokesman for Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, the highest profile holdout on the plan, said it hasn‘t been decided whether his house will be called back in by then.

“As of today, no date has been seen to come back to Albany,” spokesman Dan Weiler told me earlier. Another person who is obligated to be there whenever legislators are in session told me he’s not sure where he’ll be that day.