UPDATE 9:14 a.m.: The Rules Committee hearing has been postponed until Tuesday.
Lieutenant governor nominee Abel Maldonado heads to the Assembly Rules Committee this afternoon for a confirmation hearing, but opposition to his nomination appears to be mounting.
Democratic Assemblymen Pedro Nava, Tony Mendoza and Jose Solorio have scheduled a press conference this morning to recommend that the Assembly not confirm the Santa Maria Republican.
The committee meets this afternoon after the noon Assembly floor session adjourns.
Maldonado got the OK from the Senate Rules Committee last Wednesday. The full Senate is expected to vote on the nomination later this week.
Another Assembly committee meets to review cuts to the Every Woman Counts program, which provides mammograms for low-income women.
Funding cuts have prompted the program to stop providing the screenings to women in their 40s, and to freeze enrollment for the first six months of the year. Nava and Budget Committee Chair Noreen Evans have introduced a bill to reverse the cuts.
Legislators and volunteers, led by Evans and wearing pink aprons, will be selling baked goods to raise money for low-income women in need of breast cancer screenings.
VOTING: Secretary of State Debra Bowen is holding an informational hearing on the future of elections in California. Panelists from across the country will zero in on trends and how new technologies will affect voting systems in the future. Click here for the agenda.
BIRTHDAYS: Happy belated birthday to Assemblyman Pedro Nava, who turned 62 on Saturday.
Saturday also marked the big day for a big name in American politics: late President Ronald Reagan.
While some readers may still be recovering from ringing in Reagan's 99th birthday, one Republican lawmaker is already making plans for next year's bash.
Newly minted GOP Assembly leader Martin Garrick announced Friday that he's introducing legislation to create the Ronald Reagan Centennial Commission, which would be tasked with commemorating the former California governor's 100th birthday -- Feb. 6, 2011.
No taxpayer dollars would be used to fund the commission's work, Garrick says.
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