News Source: San Francisco Chronicle
| 12 months ago
Here are snapshots of various proposals to close California's $11.2 billion budget deficit. Schwarzenegger proposed closing the deficit through the fiscal year that ends June 30 through a combination of tax increases and spending cuts: Tax increases:...
News Source: Los Angeles Times
| 12 months ago
Governor orders the new Legislature in to work on its first day of the session to deal with California's dire finances...Democratic legislators again dismissed some of Schwarzenegger's proposals to ease labor rules on business in order to boost the...
News Source: CNN
| 12 months ago
I am wasting no time in calling a fiscal emergency special session," Schwarzenegger said in a news release. Under the state's Proposition 58, lawmakers will have 45 days to pass measures on resolving the fiscal crisis, and if at the end of that time...
News Source: The Orange County Register
| 12 months ago
New state lawmakers are being sworn in today as the 2009-10 legislative session officially convenes at noon. I’d say it’s a “back to school” sort of day, but the Legislature never really left. What I’m referring to, of course, is...
News Source: Sacramento Bee
| 12 months ago
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger greeted the newest legislative class today with two immediate special sessions dealing with an $11.2 billion budget shortfall and the state's economic slowdown. With California facing severe declines in tax revenues this...
News Source: The Californian
| 12 months ago
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's office has issued the following press release declaring a fiscal emergency for California and calling a special session of the legislature to address the budget crisis: After the previous legislature's inaction in both...