The California Senate abruptly adjourned its marathon weekend session Sunday night, leaving in doubt the fate of a $14.4billion tax bill that is a key part of a plan to balance the state budget.

Senate President Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg, D-Sacramento, angrily adjourned proceedings shortly before 9 p.m. after a Republican lawmaker complained that the hours of negotiations and debate that began Saturday night had been a charade reports the Daily News.

Steinberg said that lawmakers would meet again today to try to salvage the combination of spending cuts, tax hikes and additional borrowing designed to erase a $42 billion deficit.

“We’re going to come back at 11 o’clock tomorrow morning and we’re going to stay and we’re going to work again and we are going to come back every day until we get this done,” he said. “This will get done, and it will get done with the framework that has been presented to you as a result of 90 days of work by your elected leaders.”

He criticized Sen. Sam Aanestad, R-Grass Valley, and other Republicans opposed to the tax increases.

“I just wish you could deviate just a little bit from your philosophy, from the endless mantra of no new revenue, no new revenue ever, and be a participant and partner with us in solving this problem,” he said.

Aanestad prompted Steinberg’s response by complaining that the budget-balancing package had been put together without open public hearings and that the weekend session had been a “charade.”

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