Darrell Steinberg

Assembly Speaker John Pérez of Los Angeles said early Wednesday that he believes his Democrats have captured a two-thirds majority in the lower house, while Senate Democrats were within striking distance if they could win some races in which they......

California voters will determine whether Democrats get a two-thirds majority in the state Senate...

Gov. Jerry Brown embarked on a five-city swing across California in a last-ditch effort to persuade voters to support Proposition 30...

Democrats were within striking distance of a supermajority in the state Senate late Tuesday, and were drawing near in the Assembly as well, moving the party closer to unilateral power to raise taxes. The potential gains, a result of sweeping changes...

Assembly Speaker John Perez gets vote of confidence to remain as leader...

Skelton hedRight now, California Democrats are riding high after a wave of election victories could give them unprecedented control over Sacramento....

While Democrats and their allies spent Wednesday crowing about clinching supermajorities in both houses of the Legislative for the first time in more than a century, Assembly Speaker John A. Pérez (D-Los Angeles) downplayed the development as little...

Senate leader Darrell Steinberg (D-Sacramento) said Wednesday that his party has captured a supermajority of the upper house if current election results stand, and he plans to use the new power to pursue initiative and tax reform to bring in......

Democrats, already the dominant political force in California, are only getting more powerful in the Golden State. From ballot measures to state legislative races, voting results available Wednesday morning showed the balance of power in the Capitol...

Hiram Johnson, the revered reformer and father of the California "citizens" initiative, must be either crying or laughing. Maybe both. It was 101 years ago that Gov. Johnson, a former San Francisco graft prosecutor, teamed with other do-gooder...

SACRAMENTO -- Gov. Jerry Brown and his fellow Democrats are on the cusp of a coveted supermajority in both the Assembly and Senate, giving them the rare power to raise taxes without any Republican support. No single party has held such a supermajority in...

Republican leaders in the California Legislature are already planning their next steps if voters reject Gov. Jerry Brown's tax-hike plan next week....