[Source: Los Angeles Times] Members of Congress will have to pay out of their own pockets to settle sexual and other harassment claims made against them under a compromise approved Thursday by the Senate and House. Currently taxpayers cover the cost of settling harassment claims made against elected officials. The new policy is a bipartisan Read More…
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Three resignations have cost Democrats their supermajority
[Source: Los Angeles Times] Both houses of the California Legislature will convene Wednesday afternoon for the formal beginning of an eight-month session to craft a state budget and consider hundreds of proposed laws. And they will do so with three fewer lawmakers, two having resigned after being accused of sexual harassment. The national conversation over Read More…