California Budget Proposal Finally Debated By Full Legislature
The state Senate and Assembly are scheduled to vote on a budget Thursday that does not raise taxes or charge new fees.
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The state Senate and Assembly are scheduled to vote on a budget Thursday that does not raise taxes or charge new fees.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi projected an air of supreme confidence as she campaigned in San Francisco Wednesday, refusing to entertain even the possibility that she could lose her speakership on November 2.
California lawmakers got their first look during brief committee hearings Wednesday at a proposal that attempts to end the state's record-long budget impasse and close a $19 billion deficit, primarily through targeted spending cuts and a large dose of creative accounting.
In a nondescript Mission District apartment building, in a tiny room, lives a David who has taken on a Goliath.
GOP Senate candidate Carly Fiorina on Wednesday called Democratic Sen. Barbara Boxer a hypocrite for attacking Fiorina over her record of outsourcing as chief of Hewlett-Packard and challenged her to return any campaign contributions she has received from businesses who also outsourced jobs.
Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele swept through California's economically hard-hit Central Valley on Wednesday to rally conservative voters behind GOP candidates in competitive congressional races.
There is some mud slinging going on in Richmond politics as representatives of both police and firefighters unions made some strong accusations against the mayor as she runs for re-election.
The deal designed to end California's record-long budget stalemate includes more deep spending cuts for the schools and social services and a delay in a corporate tax break.
New campaign finance figures in the California attorney general's race show Republican Steve Cooley out-raising Democrat Kamala Harris during the past three months.
Republican Meg Whitman has spent more than $140 million on her campaign for California governor so far, nearly $40 million of it during the last three months, she reported Tuesday.
With major contributions from the oil industry, supporters of a ballot initiative to suspend California's landmark greenhouse gas emissions law reported a fundraising tally Tuesday of more than $5.2 million in the past three months.
San Francisco supervisors Tuesday fell one vote short of overturning a mayoral veto on a proposed fee on alcohol.
The campaigns for and against a California ballot measure that would legalize the recreational use of marijuana reported little cash on hand Tuesday as they headed into the race's final month.
San Francisco's Board of Supervisors has voted to approve a nonbinding term sheet for hosting the 34th America's Cup in 2013.
Some California lawmakers are looking to get answers from banks when it comes to mortgages and foreclosures.
