Posts Tagged: Assembly Speaker Anthony Rendon

To Anthony Rendon, happiness is serious business

Assemblymembers Anthony Rendon and James Gallagher. Photo by AP.

by LISA RENNER posted 07.18.2024

A new California Assembly committee is exploring the reasons why some people are happier with their lives than others. Headed by former Assembly Speaker Anthony Rendon (D-Lakewood), the Select Committee on Happiness and Public Policy Outcomes has had two hearings this year.

Nov. 8: The Democrats’ quest for a supermajority

The state Capitol in Sacramento. (Photo: Feoktistoff, via Shutterstock)

by CHUCK MCFADDEN posted 10.31.2016

Asked about the prospect of a Democratic supermajority in the California Legislature after Nov. 8, leaders of both parties are being, well, supercautious. With a Democratic supermajority, which means majorities of two-thirds or greater in each house, Republicans could go from marginalized to irrelevant.