<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><atom:link href="http://cbs5.com/politics/resources_rss.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><title>CBS 5  - San Francisco Bay Area's source for news, weather, traffic and sports</title><link>http://cbs5.com/politics</link><description><![CDATA[CBS 5  - San Francisco Bay Area's source for news, weather, traffic and sports]]></description><language>en-US</language><copyright><![CDATA[(c)  MMIX, CBS Broadcasting Inc. All Rights Reserved.]]></copyright><pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 22:38:21 GMT</pubDate><ttl>5</ttl><item><title><![CDATA[Newsom Breaks Silence; Budget Crisis Looms]]></title><guid>http://cbs5.com/politics/sf.budget.newsom.2.1322667.html</guid><link>http://cbs5.com/politics/sf.budget.newsom.2.1322667.html</link><description><![CDATA[San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom on Thursday called the city's $500 million-plus deficit "staggering." In his first extensive interview since dropping out of the California governor's race, Newsom wanted to talk solely about the city's budget plight, but CBS 5 pushed him to answer questions about his uncharacteristic absence from the public limelight since ending his gubernatorial bid.<br />
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 19:06:24 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Test Vote Set For Senate Health Care Bill]]></title><guid>http://cbs5.com/politics/health.care.reform.2.1323961.html</guid><link>http://cbs5.com/politics/health.care.reform.2.1323961.html</link><description><![CDATA[A wavering centrist Democrat said Friday he'd stand with Senate
Democratic leaders on a crucial weekend test vote on their sweeping
health care bill amid indications other moderates would fall in line. The
announcement from Sen. Ben Nelson, D-Neb., came as Senate leaders
pushed ahead toward the make-or-break vote with no margin for rebellion
on President Obama's signature issue.<br />
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 20:11:25 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[No Punishment For Sen. Burris' False Statements ]]></title><guid>http://cbs5.com/politics/roland.burris.ethics.2.1324395.html</guid><link>http://cbs5.com/politics/roland.burris.ethics.2.1324395.html</link><description><![CDATA[The Senate Ethics Committee has concluded that U.S. Sen. Roland Burris,
D-Ill., broke no laws, but blasted him for providing "incorrect,
inconsistent, misleading or incomplete information to the public" about
his appointment to office.<br />
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 20:11:57 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Schwarzenegger After-School Program Ties Up Budget]]></title><guid>http://cbs5.com/politics/after.school.program.2.1323713.html</guid><link>http://cbs5.com/politics/after.school.program.2.1323713.html</link><description><![CDATA[With California facing another mammoth budget deficit, the state's nonpartisan legislative analyst says voters should reconsider some of the billions of dollars tied up in ballot measures they have approved in recent years. Among the suggestions from Legislative Analyst Mac Taylor is an after-school measure that costs $550 million a year and helped launch Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's political career. 
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 06:09:20 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[AG Brown Lets Commission Cut Calif. Officials' Pay]]></title><guid>http://cbs5.com/politics/california.pay.commission.2.1323698.html</guid><link>http://cbs5.com/politics/california.pay.commission.2.1323698.html</link><description><![CDATA[Attorney General Jerry Brown has decided that an independent state pay commission can reduce the salaries of California elected officials during the middle of their terms in office. His decision, issued Thursday, reverses a legal opinion his office issued last June in response to an inquiry from the California Citizens Compensation Commission. 
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 05:40:55 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Group Loses Bid To Defend Prop. 8 In Federal Case]]></title><guid>http://cbs5.com/politics/prop.8.lawsuit.2.1323691.html</guid><link>http://cbs5.com/politics/prop.8.lawsuit.2.1323691.html</link><description><![CDATA[A traditional-values group lost a bid to a U.S. appeals court in San Francisco on Thursday to become an official party defending California's same-sex marriage ban against a federal lawsuit. The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals rejected an appeal in which the Sacramento-based Campaign for California Families sought to become an intervenor, or party, in a lawsuit filed by two same-sex couples in May. 
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 05:32:54 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sources: Giuliani To Run For Senate, Not Governor]]></title><guid>http://cbs5.com/politics/rudy.giuliani.senate.2.1323053.html</guid><link>http://cbs5.com/politics/rudy.giuliani.senate.2.1323053.html</link><description><![CDATA[It looks like former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani will be running after all, but it turns out it won't be for governor, sources told CBS station WCBS-TV on Thursday. Giuliani has set his sights on running for the United States Senate, sources said.<br />
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 22:20:45 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fiorina Says Health Reform Bill Too Complex]]></title><guid>http://cbs5.com/politics/fiorina.health.reform.2.1321577.html</guid><link>http://cbs5.com/politics/fiorina.health.reform.2.1321577.html</link><description><![CDATA[Carly Fiorina has advice for Washington lawmakers as they tackle issues such as health care and immigration reform: Don't take on so much at once. The newly announced candidate for the U.S. Senate in California used the nearly 2,000-page health care bill recently passed by the House to make her point before a group of reporters Wednesday. She said the sheer scope of the undertaking has made people wary about how it will affect their access to care and their pocketbooks. 
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 06:34:04 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[California Faces $20B Deficits For Years To Come]]></title><guid>http://cbs5.com/politics/california.budget.deficit.2.1320707.html</guid><link>http://cbs5.com/politics/california.budget.deficit.2.1320707.html</link><description><![CDATA[Despite multiple attempts to balance California's budget, the state can still expect to confront shortfalls approaching $20 billion during each of the next five years, according to a long-range forecast released Wednesday. The report by the nonpartisan Legislative Analyst's Office warned that the nation's most populous state will face huge fiscal challenges even as the national economic outlook begins to improve and the state economy heads toward a recovery in a year or two.  
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 05:13:48 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Report: Senate Health Bill To Cost $849B]]></title><guid>http://cbs5.com/politics/reid.health.care.2.1319997.html</guid><link>http://cbs5.com/politics/reid.health.care.2.1319997.html</link><description><![CDATA[The political stakes enormous, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid launched long-awaited health care legislation Wednesday estimated to extend coverage to 94 percent of eligible Americans at a cost of $849 billion. Initial maneuvering on the Senate floor was expected later in the week on the measure, bitterly opposed by Republicans eager to deny President Barack Obama a victory on his top domestic priority.<br />
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