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Senate leader says indicted lawmaker should resign

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Top Democratic lawmaker proposes fuel tax

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GOP lawmakers say convicted senator should resign

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FILE - In this Thursday, Jan. 16, 2014, file photo, State Sen. Roderick Wright, D-Inglewood takes the stand during his perjury and voter fraud trial at Los Angeles Superior court. The state senator convicted of eight felonies this week introduced a bill that would have allowed those in similar circumstances to have their crimes reduced to misdemeanors. Wright apologized Friday Jan. 31, 2014, after he was rebuked by a spokesman for Senate President Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg, a fellow Democrat, and said he will not try to advance the bill through committee, effectively killing it. (AP Photo/The Daily Breeze, Stephen Carr, File) MAGS OUT; NO SALES

Convicted state lawmaker introduces crime bill

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Convicted state senator can keep serving, for now

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FILE -- In this Sept. 9, 2013 file photo is state Sen. Rod Wright, D-Inglewood,at the Capitol in Sacramento, Calif. Wright was convicted of eight counts of perjury and voter fraud by a Los Angeles County Superior Court jury on Tuesday, Jan. 28, 2014. Wright faces up to a eight years and four months in prison when he is sentenced on March 12.(AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli, file)

Calif. lawmaker convicted of voter fraud, perjury

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FILE -- In this Aug. 13, 2013 file photo, actress Jennifer Garner, right, describes how paparazzi aggressively follow her and her three children daily, while she and actress Halle Berry, left, testified before the Assembly Judiciary Committee in support of a bill that would limit the ability of paparazzi to photograph children of celebrities and public figures, at the Capitol in Sacramento, Calif. A related measure by Assemblyman Richard Bloom, D-Santa Monica, would amend the civil prohibition on stalking to prohibit surveillance techniques, including staying outside a persons' home, school or work place with no legitimate purpose. Bloom's measure is one of the hundreds of bills that face an end-of-the-month deadline to pass their house of origin.(AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli, file)

Legislative deadline nears for hundreds of bills

By DON THOMPSON - Associated Press

FILE -- In this Aug. 13, 2013 file photo, actress Jennifer Garner, right, describes how paparazzi aggressively follow her and her three children daily, while she and actress Halle Berry, left, testified before the Assembly Judiciary Committee in support of a bill that would limit the ability of paparazzi to photograph children of celebrities and public figures, at the Capitol in Sacramento, Calif. A related measure by Assemblyman Richard Bloom, D-Santa Monica, would amend the civil prohibition on stalking to prohibit surveillance techniques, including staying outside a persons' home, school or work place with no legitimate purpose. Bloom's measure is one of the hundreds of bills that face an end-of-the-month deadline to pass their house of origin.(AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli, file)

Legislative deadline nears for hundreds of bills

By DON THOMPSON - Associated Press

State Senate President Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg, D-Sacramento, calls for an increase in funding for the state courts during a news conference in Sacramento, Calif., Tuesday, Jan. 14, 2014. In an unrelated development, the Senate Rules Committee, chaired by Steinberg, approved the appointment of Sacramento attorney John Adkisson, to the Unemployment Insurance Appeals Board. Adkisson, a close friend of Steinberg's, will be paid $128,000 a year.(AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli)

Senate leader taps ‘dearest friend’ for $128K job

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