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Single Payer Showdown In Senate

Submitted by Jamie Court on Mon, 04/24/2017 - 07:38

The first test for "Medicare for All" in California, the type of universal health care enjoyed by every other nation of similar economic means in the world, takes place Wednesday in the California Senate Health Committee.
 

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Can Lawmakers Handle Drug-Dealing and Dangerous Doctors?

Submitted by Carmen Balber on Sat, 04/15/2017 - 18:39

Democrats in Sacramento are basking in a national spotlight as reporters and pundits pick apart high-profile votes on transportation, cap and trade and immigration and speculate if, and how, they will turn a legislative supermajority into concrete action to resist Trump administration policies. Yet the industries that traditionally rule the roost in the statehouse are not sitting this session out.

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Let State Gasoline Refiners Pay A Gouge Gap Tax To Fix California’s Roads

Submitted by Liza Tucker on Wed, 04/05/2017 - 14:38

California oil companies churning out gasoline have gouged Californians for billions of dollars at the pump for years. That’s why Californians that already pay among the highest prices for gas in the nation should not be stuck with a $52 billion tab for fixing the state’s roads.

Instead, lawmakers should vote no on Governor Jerry Brown’s SB 1 legislation until it puts a Gouge Gap Tax on oil refiners instead of taxing consumers at the pump.

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Tax Oil Refiners’ Windfall Profits, Not Consumers, To Fix California’s Roads

Submitted by Liza Tucker on Mon, 04/03/2017 - 16:15

This morning, Governor Jerry Brown penned another agreement with yet another country—Scotland—on combating climate change. Then he testified before legislative committees on behalf of SB1, his bill to raise gas taxes at the pump to pay for needed road repairs by $52 billion over ten years, and a Senate panel passed it. 

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Let’s Be Honest About Industry Incentives To Slash Greenhouse Gases

Submitted by Liza Tucker on Thu, 03/16/2017 - 11:47

It's time for California to debate the pros and cons of cap-and-trade, the program that caps carbon emissions and lets companies trade any extra pollution allowances to cut them. Jerry Brown wants to extend the program so badly beyond 2020 that he has slipped it into a budget trailer bill. More than 20 advocacy groups, including Food & Water Watch and Consumer Watchdog, are saying not so fast in a letter to an Assembly budget subcomittee.

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