Assemblyman Nielsen (R-Gerber), who currently serves as the Vice-Chair of the Assembly Budget Committee, was named by Assembly Speaker John Perez this week to the Budget Conference Committee. The 10-member committee consists of 5 Senators and 5 Assembly-members, who are tasked with reconciling the...

With today marking 50 days until the June 30 end of the state's fiscal year, Assemblyman Nielsen joined his Assembly Republican colleagues at a Capitol press conference to reject Democrat calls for new taxes and instead urged them to pass job creation measures in order to increase revenues. "...

Chelsea King now joins Polly Klass, Bill Reagan and thousands of other Californians who have been and will be the victims of ill founded, short sighted sentencing and parole policies. Decisions of governors, legislators, ivory tower criminal justice intellectuals and particularly the California...

Assemblyman Jim Nielsen today called on California's Attorney General Jerry Brown to join 14 other states (and counting) in suing the federal government over the health care takeover bill that Congress passed last Sunday. Noting that the plan is unconstitutional because Congress cannot force people...

AB1644, authored by Assemblyman Jim Nielsen (R-Gerber), passed unanimously out of the Assembly Judiciary Committee yesterday. The bill allows veterans organizations, such as the Missing in America Project, to go into mortuaries across California in order to locate and identify the unclaimed...