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The speaker presides over the State Assembly in the chief leadership position, controlling the flow of legislation and committee assignments. The speaker is nominated by the caucus of the majority party and elected by the full Assembly.
^1 The First California Legislature was nonpartisan. ^2 Estee was also a Republican, but he was elected to the term in which he was Speaker as an independent. ^3 Young was elected as a Republican during the 40th and 42nd sessions (1913 and 1917), but a Progressive during the 41st session (1915).
Diane Papan (born August 22, 1963) is an American politician who is a Democratic party member of the California State Assembly from the 21st district. Before being elected in 2022, she served as Deputy Mayor of San Mateo.
Toni Gayle Atkins (born August 1, 1962) is an American politician who served as the 51st president pro tempore of the California State Senate from 2018 to 2024. A member of the Democratic Party, she previously served as the 69th speaker of the California State Assembly from 2014 to 2016 and the California State Assembly majority leader from 2012 to 2014. [1]
Abortion rights are not up for a vote in California, but the issue could still affect races across the ballot in November, as it has in other elections since the U.S. Supreme Court's 2022 ruling ...
The speaker also cannot be a cabinet minister or parliamentary secretary, [19] and must resign from those positions prior to being elected as speaker. The speaker is one of the few public sector roles which allow its office-holder to automatically qualify as a candidate in the Singapore presidential elections. [20]
Carlos J. León, Democrat, deputy probation officer. León, a Los Angeles County probation officer and Army veteran, has raised more than $55,000. Other candidates include:
Even as women have reached near-parity in Sacramento, the ranks of female House members from California are shrinking. For the first time in decades, men also hold both U.S. Senate seats.