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Speaker Pérez Previews Calif. Legislature's Final Day


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CPR file photo/Andrew Nixon
CPR file photo/Andrew Nixon    

If there’s any last-minute wheeling or dealing on this final day of the California legislative session, Democratic Assembly Speaker John Perez will surely be involved. We ask him about the Middle Class Scholarship, pensions and workers compensation.


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(Sacramento, CA)
Friday, August 31, 2012
The speaker's top priority is a pair of bills he calls the "Middle Class Scholarship."  They would raise $1 billion by ending a tax break for out-of-state businesses and put that money towards helping some families pay for college. The California legislature faces a midnight deadline to finish its work for the year.
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