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...insufficient business,” the Faculty Meeting scheduled for Jan. 9, has been canceled by the Docket Committee, the group of three professors who determine the agenda of Faculty Meetings...
...After being sworn in on crutches for his second and final term as California governor today, Schwarzenegger is scheduled to outline a legislative agenda that includes corrections reform and new prison construction, additional spending on infrastructure projects, tougher environmental regulation, and a universal healthcare insurance proposal that includes coverage for children of undocumented workers. And judging from the early reactions, the stiffest resistance to many of those proposals likely will come from members of his own party...
...think about the possible obstacles to getting these things done this year, the word Democratic doesn't come to mind." says Fabian Nunez, state assembly speaker, who so far finds little to object to in Schwarzenegger's agenda. "We established a great working relationship with the Governor last year and I don't see why 2007 should be any different...
...braced for battle. That plank adding the children of illegal immigrants to the healthcare plan? Doomed, they say. Costly programs that rely on new taxes or financial schemes that balloon the current $5 billion structural deficit? Forget about it. "To the extent that he wants to pursue an aggressive agenda that includes profligate spending, he's going to encounter lots of opposition from Republicans," says Jon Fleischman, publisher of FlashReport an online digest of poitical news, commentary and blogs targeted to the California G.O.P...
...providing low-cost prescription drugs to uninsured indigents and putting strict limits on greenhouse gas emissions. It showed voters that the Republican Governor could play well with Democrats. And after a stumbling 2005 in which he alienated voters on all sides of the aisle with his misguided government reform agenda, he subsequently sailed to re-election last November...