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                                      Volume 20                   For Publication Date: January 19, 2007             No. 2

Senate President pro Tem Perata Announces Senate Democratic Caucus Leadership and Committee Membership 

On January 17, 2007, Senate President pro Tem Don Perata (D-Oakland) released the following information regarding Senate Democratic Caucus Leadership positions: 

Majority Leader: Senator Gloria Romero (D-Los Angeles)

Democratic Caucus Chair: Senator Carole Migden (D-San Francisco)

Assistant President pro Tem: Senator Leland Yee (D-San Francisco/San Mateo) 

President pro Tem Perata also announced the following Senate committee assignments: 

Appropriations—Torlakson (D-Antioch) (Chair), Cox (R-Fair Oaks) (Vice Chair), Aanestad (R-Grass Valley), Ashburn (R-Bakersfield), Battin (R-La Quinta), Calderon (D-Whittier), Cedillo (D-Los Angeles), Corbett (D-San Leandro), Correa (D-Santa Ana), Dutton (R-Rancho Cucamonga), Florez (D-Shafter), Kuehl (D-Santa Monica), Oropeza (D-Carson), Runner (R-Antelope Valley), Yee (D-San Francisco/San Mateo) 

Budget and Fiscal Review—Ducheny (D-San Diego) (Chair), Hollingsworth (R-Murrieta) (Vice Chair), Alquist (D-San Jose), Cogdill (R-Modesto), Dutton (R-Rancho Cucamonga), Kehoe (D-San Diego), Lowenthal (D-Long Beach), Machado (D-Linden), Margett (R-Arcadia), Padilla (D-San Fernando Valley), Scott (D-Pasadena), Simitian (D-Palo Alto), Steinberg (D-Sacramento), Wyland (R-Carlsbad) 

Subcommittee #1 on Education—Scott (D-Pasadena) (Chair), Margett (R-Arcadia), Simitian (D-Palo Alto) 

Education—Scott (D-Pasadena) (Chair), Wyland (R-Carlsbad) (Vice Chair), Alquist
(D-San Jose), Denham (R-Merced), Maldonado (R-Santa Maria), Padilla (D-San Fernando Valley), Romero (D-Los Angeles), Simitian (D-Palo Alto), Torlakson (D-Antioch) 

Health—Kuehl (D-Santa Monica) (Chair), Aanestad (R-Grass Valley) (Vice Chair), Alquist
(D-San Jose), Cedillo (D-Los Angeles), Cox (R-Fair Oaks), Maldonado (R-Santa Maria), Negrete-McLeod (D-Pomona), Ridley-Thomas (D-Los Angeles), Wyland (R-Carlsbad), Yee (D-San Francisco/San Mateo)

Human Services—Alquist (D-San Jose) (Chair), Harman (R-Orange) (Vice Chair), Cogdill
(R-Modesto), Romero (D-Los Angeles), Yee (D-San Francisco) 

Public Employment and Retirement—Wiggins (D-Arcata) (Chair), Ashburn (R-Bakersfield) (Vice Chair), McClintock (R-Thousand Oaks), Migden (D-San Francisco), Negrete-McLeod(D-Pomona) 

Rules—Perata (D-Oakland) (Chair), Ashburn (R-Bakersfield) (Vice Chair), Cedillo
(D-Los Angeles), Dutton (R-Rancho Cucamonga), Padilla (D-San Fernando Valley) 

Transportation and Housing—Lowenthal (D-Long Beach) (Chair) McClintock (R-Thousand Oaks) (Vice Chair), Ashburn (R-Bakersfield), Cedillo (D-Los Angeles), Cogdill (R-Modesto), Corbett (D-San Leandro), Dutton (R-Rancho Cucamonga), Kehoe (D-San Diego), Oropeza (D-Carson), Simitian (D-Palo Alto), Torlakson (D-Antioch)

—Jamillah Moore, Ed.D., and Theresa Inslee