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From Wildfire Safety to Insurance Protections, These Measures Deserve the Governor's Approval. Assembly Bill 1945 - This important bill by Assemblyman Hector…
Sep 30, 2008Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has vetoed a bill that would have enacted into law intellectual property policy provisions covering research funded by the…
Sep 29, 2008In a statement, Consumer Watchdog said Aetna's announcement "does not sufficiently protect current and future policyholders" because it doesn't clarify the legal…
Sep 29, 2008Bills passed by the Legislature this session and awaiting the governor's signature or veto take aim at what critics call some of…
Sep 27, 2008Public Citizen and Consumer Watchdog have also called on Congress to increase regulation of financial institutions and establish strict accountability for firms…
Sep 27, 2008The state's Little Hoover Commission, an advisory body to the governor and Legislature, said yesterday that it will examine the structure and…
Sep 27, 2008Yesterday, the Governor vetoed AB 1830 (Lieu), a bill that would have banned the kind of predatory mortgages that are at the…
Sep 26, 2008The California stem agency board barely mustered a quorum at its meeting in San Diego...
Sep 26, 2008California's Little Hoover Commission voted at its meeting this week to examine the state stem cell agency's governance structure and oversight committee.…
Sep 26, 2008Sacramento, CA -- Consumers whose health insurance policies were cancelled after they got sick urged Governor Schwarzenegger today to ignore insurance industry…
Sep 26, 2008Economist David K. Levine says: "I suspect that part of what we're seeing in the freezing up of lending markets is strategic…
Sep 26, 2008Americans are sounding off in record numbers to Congress with strong disapproval of the proposed federal bailout of Wall Street, at taxpayer…
Sep 26, 2008I just got back from Washington D.C. where congressional lawmakers were in the process of surrendering $700 billion of the public’s money…
Sep 25, 2008Board is Meeting in San Diego Today Several scientists and Santa Monica-based Consumer Watchdog questioned whether this was the proper way for…
Sep 25, 2008A bill that would have allowed pharmacies to sell patient prescription and medical information to third-party companies narrowly passed the California State…
Sep 24, 2008Over the past few days, we have witnessed Congress readying to approve possibly the most reckless and certainly the most costly bailout…
Sep 24, 2008A few hours from now and a few miles away, lobbyists and members of Congress will crowd into a hearing room to…
Sep 24, 2008The three-page, $700 billion bailout plan presented to Congress by the Bush Administration last Friday is an appallingly superficial response to years…
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