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Nielsen Receives A Perfect Score As An Advocate Of Small Businesses In California

January 17, 2012
SACRAMENTO (January 17, 2012) - Assemblyman Jim Nielsen (R-Gerber) announced today that the National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB)/California has granted him a perfect score of 100% as a result of his voting record in support of jobs and small business during the 2011 legislative year...

Nielsen Co-authors Fire Tax Repeal Bill

January 13, 2012
Assemblyman Jim Nielsen (R-Gerber) announced today the introduction of Assembly Bill 1506 as a principal coauthor, which would eliminate an unfair State Responsibility Area Fee, a 'Fire Tax' of up to S150 per structure as determined by the Board of Forestry, imposed in rural areas. "Besides being...

CA Budget Fact Check - A Web Site Resource To Empower California Citizens

January 10, 2012
Assemblyman Jim Nielsen (R-Gerber) announced today that in order to better inform Californians about how their tax dollars are being spent by the government, Assembly Republicans are launching www.CABudgetFactCheck.com , an interactive, non-partisan web site, dedicated to provide key budget facts...

Governor Brown's Budget - More Taxes, More Government Spending

January 10, 2012
Last week, Governor Brown released his 2012-13 budget - a full five days ahead of schedule. While I had hoped that the Governor would put forward an honest plan that would help the state continue to make progress in closing its budget shortfall, sadly what we received from the Brown Administration...

Nielsen Statement on Retirement Announcement by Representative Wally Herger

January 10, 2012
SACRAMENTO (January 10, 2012) Assemblyman Jim Nielsen (R - Gerber) this morning released the following statement regarding the announcement by Representative Wally Herger that he would not seek re-election to the United States House of Representatives. "Wally Herger has served the people of...

Governor's Delay in Opening Of Redding Veterans Home Insults Their Service and Sacrifice

January 10, 2012
Budget Vice Chair, Assemblyman Jim Nielsen (R-Gerber) expressed his outrage with Governor Brown's decision in his proposed budget to delay the Redding Veterans Home for yet another year denying those who have served and sacrificed for our nation the care they deserve. "This is just one of a long...

Nielsen Comments On Governor's Proposed State Budget

January 10, 2012
Assemblyman Jim Nielsen (R-Gerber) issued the following statement today following the release of the state budget, previously anticipated to take place on Tuesday, January 10th. This new budget proposal will spend $92.5 billion next year, $6 billion more than the previous budget and assumes voters...

Nielsen Calls Independent Review Panel Report 'Nail In Coffin' For HSR

January 4, 2012
Assemblyman Jim Nielsen (R-Gerber) issued the following statement in response to the report of an independent review panel assessing the High Speed Rail (HSR) project, which was released yesterday. The report recommends to the Legislature that due to many shortcomings of its business plan, the...

Redevelopment Implodes

January 3, 2012
The California State Supreme Court has just affirmed the ending of the rein of Redevelopment Agencies in California. These agencies were eliminated in the budget passed last June. Their elimination became a justified, expedient and fortuitously timed part of last year's budget solution proposed by...

Nielsen Comments on Brown 'Budget Triggers'

December 13, 2011
Assembly Budget Committee Vice Chair, Jim Nielsen (R-Gerber), today released the following statement in response to actions by the Brown Administration to pull so-called "budget triggers" that were included as part of the majority vote budget plan enacted by Legislative Democrats and signed by...

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