In the first few weeks of the legislative session, the state Assembly and the newly Democratic Senate passed a flurry of bills from a measure protecting abortion rights to  the DREAM Act for undocumented immigrants and long overdue voting reforms.

The two houses were working so closely together, Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie told the New York Times that he and Senate Majority Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins were "The Wonder Twins."

But since then, things have slowed down. This week, both houses passed the same bill making President Trump's State tax returns available to Congress.

It was the first time since late February the two leaders passed a big piece of legislation on the same day and had a big joint press conference to celebrate. On that day, it was a bill making revenge porn illegal.

Both leaders are downplaying whispers they are no longer working closely together.

"We got off to such a quick start that people shouldn't have the expectation that we were always going to do everything at the same time at the same pace. And always together," said Speaker Carl Heastie.

There are still some big outstanding issues that could get done this year including legalizing marijuana and renewing and expanding rent regulations. But in contrast to how they handle some issues, the two houses are holding separate hearings on the rent laws.

"Now, obviously as we get deeper into the weeds of some of these topics we're not necessarily running at the same pace. But what I've also said is that for many of these things we definitely want the same end," said Senate Majority Leader Andrew Stewart-Cousins.

A spokesperson for Speaker Heastie says so far they have passed 162 house bills this year with the Senate.

In 2017, a comparable legislative year when the Senate was controlled by Republicans, they had passed just 59 two house bills.