Governor Schwarzenegger made the right decision to sign into law significant improvements to a significant civil rights law, the Unruh Act, making clear for businesses and customers that discrimination in any form is unacceptable,

I am very hopeful. I think we're very close. It's just fleshing out the absolute final details and making sure everyone from every caucus is on board.

clarify and reinforce that all businesses that provide services, goods or accommodations to the public cannot discriminate based on sexual orientation, gender identity or marital status.

I just think I was sent up here to vote,

It?s a new computer system and a lot of people, so it?s going to take some time,

Everybody's lined up at the starting line. Is the governor really going to shoot the gun and start the race? It's one thing to propose, it's another thing to sit every day across the table and actually negotiate a conclusion by deadline.

There will be a devastating ripple effect for current and future generations of middle class college students in California. The goal should be how to reduce the financial burden for students in order to invest in our future, rather than how to add to students? debt load in order to reduce the current federal deficit.

Proposition 76 would override the voter protection on local government funding, ... Nothing else would allow anyone to dip into those funds.

What happened to our Senate Central Coast district was a massive injustice for the region and for Fred,

I think there were just a few things that were unresolved Friday night. Things were about 90 percent of the way there, and I think the weekend allowed us to potentially fill that last gap.