After escaping felony convictions on a domestic violence charge, New York Senator Hiram Monserrate of Queens is having a tougher time with some fellow lawmakers. A committee weighing his punishment could be preparing to oust him from the state Senate.

NEW YORK, N.Y. -- After escaping felony convictions on a domestic violence charges, Senator Hiram Monserrate is having a tougher time with some fellow lawmakers. A committee weighing his punishment could be nearing in on ousting him from the state senate.

The draft report is the product of this secret committee. Its nine members met for more than three hours Tuesday behind closed doors but what's becoming clearer is they're unsparing in criticism of Hiram Monserrate.

We have learned their report attacks not only his credibility, but that of his girlfriend, Karla Giraldo, whose testimony was key to his acquittal earlier this month on all but one count that he slashed her in a jealous rage.

Sources say the report draws repeated distinctions between Karla Giraldo's comments before trial, including to a grand jury, and what she said on the stand.

And it finds that far from being concerned with Giraldo's welfare, Monserrate was intent on protecting himself when he hurried her, bleeding, to a long island hospital instead of a closer medical facility.

Monserrate was sentenced to community service and probation. Punishment from the committee could lead to his ouster, though the chairman said no decision is reached.

"It depends on what the other members of the committee want to do and until we have a final vote by the members of the committee, there's really nothing that we can say because it's subject to change," said Eric Schneiderman, the Senate Special Committee Chairman

Monserrate's attorneys had earlier said they expected to cooperate, but in the end didn't... a fact also not lost on the committee. One of his attorneys, in a phone interview, questioned the group's impartiality and said that the committee appears to be nitpicking statements Giraldo made to the grand jury and what she said later.

Giraldo's attorney didn't return a call.

The report is the first of its kind in the state senate, but with other lawmakers in trouble, it may not be the last. And that possibility has the potential to reshape the state's political map.

Monserrate's colleague Kevin Parker is also facing charges he assaulted a news photographer. If both he and Monserrate were ousted, it would leave the State Senate tied, a position it in was during this summer's coup, when Monserrate defected to the Republican side.