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How Will Jerry Brown Govern California?
California's Governor-elect will be back in business tomorrow after taking a week to rest up from a grueling campaign. Jerry Brown will be Attorney General until he's sworn in next month, but already he's talked with legislative leaders of both parties more than once. Also, another report on "personalized medicine," one of Southern California's fastest developing high-tech industries. On our rebroadcast of To the Point, Obama foreign policy and the new GOP-dominated Congress.
By Warren Olney • • 51m ListenCalifornia's Governor-elect will be back in business tomorrow after taking a week to rest up from a grueling campaign. Jerry Brown will be Attorney General until he's sworn in next month, but already he's talked with legislative leaders of both parties more than once. How big is the mess? Will he take on the public unions? Also, another report on "personalized medicine," one of Southern California's fastest developing high-tech industries. On our rebroadcast of today's To the Point, many presidents have diverted attention from domestic defeats by focusing on foreign policy. We hear why that option may not be available to Barack Obama.
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Jerry Brown has taken a week off to rest from a long campaign, during which he made no promises about what he’ll do as Governor, except that he won’t raise taxes unless there’s a mandate from the people of California. With a likely deficit of $19 billion, that’s led to a lot of deep thinking by political pros.
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The Constitution gives the President authority to conduct foreign policy, but the President still needs Congress to appropriate money and the Senate to ratify treaties. New Republican committee chairs in the House take a dim view of foreign aid , climate change, the arms treaty with Russia or reducing troops in Afghanistan.
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