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ASCAP President Paul Williams, Congressman Doug Collins, Congressmember Karen Bass, songwriter Priscilla Renea, and General Counsel, ASCAP Clara Kim speak onstage at 'Music Licensing Reform: The Fight for Your Rights' during the 2017 ASCAP 'I Create Music' EXPO on April 14, 2017 in Los Angeles. A miracle seemingly happened at yesterday's ASCAP I Create Music Expo legislative panel: Two congressional legislators from opposite sides of the aisle, Congressman Doug Collins, a Republican from the red state of Georgia, and Representative Karen Bass, a Democrat from blue state of California, actually agreed on something.
For the first time, on the day of March 23, 40 percent of Californian grid power between 11 a.m. and 2 p.m. was generated by utility-scale solar plants. This proportion was a seasonal effect but not a fluke, and it certainly points to what will be routine in the very near future.
Thank you very much but I'm already quite aware of drivers texting and making non-hands free calls, so much that I now spend as much time looking in my rear view mirror as I do looking forward. Which of course leads to problems of their own.
SAN BERNARDINO >> A proposed ballot initiative that would have banned undocumented immigrant children from attending Yucaipa-Calimesa Joint Unified schools is something that only the California legislature can do, according to San Bernardino County's elections chief. “The state constitution vets the legislature with sweeping and comprehensive powers in relation to public schools,” an April 11 letter to Joseph Turner from Registrar of Voters Michael J. Scarpello reads in part.
Neil M. Gorsuch joins the Supreme Court today, just in time to cast potentially significant votes in cases that pit religious liberty against gay rights, test limits on funding for church schools and challenge California's restrictions on carrying a concealed gun in public. Such issues arise either in appeals filed by conservative groups that have been pending before the justices for weeks or in cases to be heard later this month.
Congressional Republicans returned this weekend to their districts to get another earful about ObamaCare, while giving mixed statements about how close they are to replacing the health care law and suggesting that avoiding a looming government shutdown is now the priority. California GOP Rep. Tom McClintock again held a town hall event in which residents expressed concerns about the GOP-led Congress repealing and replacing ObamaCare with more expensive and less comprehensive coverage.
California Gov. Jerry Brown returns to his office after meeting with the Senate Democratic Caucus to urge them to approve a transportation plan, Thursday, April 6, 2017, in Sacramento, Calif. Brown and top legislative leaders pressed all week to convince fellow Democrats to support the measure that would place a $5-billion-a-year boost in California's gas and vehicle taxes to pay for major road repairs.
Twenty states already offer cheaper in-state college tuition to students who are in the United States illegally. Legislation making its way through the Tennessee Legislature would make that state the 21st.
Communities for a Better Environment organizer Alicia Rivera tries to get shoppers interested in a protest march. It did not begin well for Alicia Rivera, who carried a stack of fliers as she made her way around the parking lot of a Wilmington shopping center.
How much is one vote worth in the California state Senate? A half-billion dollars, if it's linked to a big tax hike to pay for overdue road repairs. The key vote to raise gas taxes and vehicle fees came late Thursday from Sen. Anthony Cannella, a little-known Republican and the only GOP member of the heavily Democratic Legislature to vote for the bill.
Often, advocates could not raise enough money for signature gathering, advertising and other costs of an initiative campaign. Some of the most promising efforts, however, ran into a different kind of obstacle: an official summary, written by the state attorney general, that described the initiative in terms likely to alienate voters.
Vermontian to the marrow, soaked in the ethos of direct democracy, playful and yet thoughtful enough to have won the enthusiastic approbation of George Kennan and John Kenneth Galbraith, these Green Mountain Boys and Girls didn't achieve divorce, but they did give us an alluring glimpse of the shape that hope takes in a darkening empire. The new Republican president has also catalyzed an independence movement, this one in the Golden State, though so far it lacks the intellectual seriousness, rooted radicalism, and wit of the Vermonters.
A new state analysis released Wednesday shows that California would lose almost $6 billion in federal Medicaid funding in 2020, growing to $24.3 billion annually by 2027 if the Republican health care plan proposed to dismantle the Affordable Care Act passes. The report landed one day before Congressional Republicans in Washington, D.C., are poised to vote Thursday on the American Health Care Act, despite key concerns from several GOP factions that the proposal either goes too far - or not far enough- to replace parts of the current health care law, better known as Obamacare.
Gov. Jerry Brown speaks to reporters in Washington, D.C., Tuesday after a meeting with Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao. As the leader of a state that seems more a country of its own in its isolation from the Republican revolution, Gov. Jerry Brown saw his visit to Capitol Hill on Tuesday play out like that of any foreign ambassador to the nation's capital.
Less than two days before they are scheduled to vote, a handful of California's 14 Republican members of Congress say they are still weighing how to vote on the GOP plan to undo and replace parts of the Affordable Care Act. California's 38 House Democrats have lined up pretty firmly against the bill, as have most of the chamber's Democrats, so Republicans are on their own to pass the bill.
Reps. Adam Schiff , left, and Devin Nunes , leaders of the House Intelligence Committee. As Congress moved hesitantly in the last few months toward investigating Russia's interference in the 2016 election, a question has loomed: Could lawmakers bridge their deep partisan divide sufficiently to produce an inquiry a broad range of Americans would accept? In the House, the answer is largely in the hands of a pair of soft-spoken Californians: the chairman and ranking minority member of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, Devin Nunes , a Republican former dairy farmer from Tulare, and Adam B. Schiff , a Democratic former federal prosecutor from Burbank.
President Donald Trump, back center, meets, Secretary of Veterans Affairs David Shulkin, second from left, with his wife Merle Bari, left clockwise, Trump, Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross and his wife Hilary Geary, right, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and his fiancee Scottish actress Louise Linton, together with other members of his cabinet and the White House staff, Saturday, March 11, 2017, at the Trump National Golf Club in Sterling, Va. WASHINGTON -- The House Intelligence Committee asked the executive branch to provide by Monday any evidence to support President Donald Trump's claim that his phones were tapped at Trump Tower during the election, a senior congressional aide said Saturday.
This Feb. 17, 2017 satellite image released by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration shows a powerful storm beginning to move into California. Many scientists warned that the deep cuts at NOAA could hurt safety as well as academic programs.