California Lawmakers Face Tough Budget Choices

California's top lawmakers on Sunday focused on cost-saving reforms to social welfare programs and how deeply to cut an array of state services as they dove into the complex task of closing the state's $26 billion deficit.

Lawmakers on both sides warned that deep cuts to many state programs were unavoidable. But they also seemed more optimistic than they have been in weeks that they could find a way out...

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