This is a step in the right direction. Below is a table highlighting the number of bills introduced in the first year of past sessions. Lawmakers can represent their constituents better, communicate with them more easily, and be better lawmakers if there are fewer bills. Fewer bills mean less government regulation and restriction. Republicans believe that government already intrudes into our lives too much, and we believe that over-regulation actually limits our personal freedom.
Fewer bills permit legislators to spend more time their districts and less time in Sacramento.
Therefore, since I am asked to cast over 3,000 votes in committee and on the Assembly floor, your input is important. Please feel free to contact me on any issues and bills that may interest you or come before the legislature. In one of the most highly anticipated decisions of his young administration, Gov. Gray Davis declared the gasoline additive MTBE a threat to the environment and ordered that it be phased out in California. Developed by the Arco oil company, it was first used as an octane booster to replace lead starting in 1979. CSU Faculty Authorize Strike Kenneth Hoover San Francisco Chronicle Delegates for the union representing 20,000 California State University faculty members voted to authorize a first-ever strike over an administration proposal to increase the importance of merit pay.