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California faced another budget gap for 2010, [8] with $72 billion in debt. [9] California faced a massive and still-growing debt. [10] In June 2009 Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger said "Our wallet is empty, our bank is closed and our credit is dried up." [11] He called for massive budget cuts of $24 billion, about 1 ⁄ 4 of the state's budget. [11 ...
The debt now stands at about $21 billion and growing, an increasing burden for state deficit fighters and for the businesses that pay into the jobless insurance program.
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The California Little Hoover Commission (LHC), officially the Milton Marks "Little Hoover" Commission on California State Government Organization and Economy, [1] is an independent California state oversight agency modeled after the Hoover Commission and created in 1962, that investigates state government operations and promotes efficiency, economy and improved service through reports ...
News reports and commentators have cited the state's various legislative supermajority requirements as a contributing factor to the state budget crisis. [23] [24] The state has a long history of supermajority requirements with a 1933 state ballot measure mandating a two-thirds supermajority to pass the state budget and California Proposition 13 (1978) mandating another two-thirds supermajority ...
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Temperate North America. This one in Jedediah Smith Redwoods State Park, Del Norte County, California. 180 feet (55 meters). [43] [44] This is the longest root climber. This one was climbing a Coast Redwood and was three inches (7.6 cm) thick. Nepenthes hispida (Nepenthaceae). Sarawak and Brunei in Malaysian Borneo. 165 feet (50 meters), [45]
The Big Five is an informal institution of California state government, consisting of the governor, the Assembly speaker, the Assembly minority leader, the Senate president pro tempore, and the Senate minority leader. Historically, members of the Big Five met in private to negotiate California's state government budget.