California budget stalemate now longest ever [View All]

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Source: San Francisco Chronicle

(09-17) 04:00 PDT Sacramento - --

The impasse over solving California's $19 billion budget deficit reached an inglorious milestone today when it officially became the longest stalemate over the state budget in history, though some lawmakers think it may end soon.

The previous, 78-day record for the Legislature passing a late budget was reached in 2008, and Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger signed the spending plan seven days later.

Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/09/17/MN411FF3P5.DTL

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This year, Proposition 25 seeks to make a simple majority vote enough to pass a budget or amend taxes and to revoke legislators' pay for every day a budget is late.