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New Assembly Speaker John Pérez (D-Los Angeles) will call for a 15% cut in the Assembly's operating budget in a speech in Los Angeles on Friday.
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In his veto message, Schwarzenegger wrote that the bill, ABX82, "does not actually implement spending reductions" to help close the state's $19.9 billion budget gap over the next 18 months. Among the bill's major provisions: slicing prison health care by $811 million and the state's payroll by $450 million.
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The reforms will be consolidated into at least one constitutional amendment that would require a two-thirds majority of the Assembly and Senate to qualify for the ballot, meaning at least a handful of GOP votes in each house.
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Targeting California's bitter budget fights, Democratic legislative leaders proposed a wide-ranging overhaul Thursday that would allow lawmakers to pass budgets by a simple-majority vote and would require them to forfeit pay if they are late in passing a spending plan.
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If you are a citizen who cares about California, you might feel a bit like Alice right now. Your state has fallen into a deep rabbit hole. Nearly everywhere you go in the Capitol, you encounter a strange cast of characters who can't seem to work together and who distort reality. You keep asking serious questions, but all you get back are riddles.
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