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Source: California Culture Chronicle

The Assembly Speaker runs the lower house of California's legislature: the gavel, the flow of bills, and the committee assignments that decide which bills live. The office's own appointment page adds state boards and commissions, with more than 200 seats to fill. The job now belongs to Democrat Robert Rivas of the 29th district, elected by the full Assembly. That is a wide reach, and it still has edges. The Speaker leads one of several power centers in the Capitol, beside the governor, the Senate, and the parties' own floor leaders, and the limits show most clearly in what the office cannot do. Seeing both sides of the ledger explains how a bill really moves in Sacramento. Who Is the Speaker and How Does One Get the Job? Majority politics puts the person in the chair.

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