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Mexican President Vicente Fox will address a joint session of the California Legislature and meet with Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger on Thursday. It will be Schwarzenegger's first meeting with Fox since he became governor in 2003, although the two have met before. Fox and members of his cabinet also will meet in private with Assembly Speaker Fabian Nunez, D-Los Angeles, and attend a reception and dinner hosted by Schwarzenegger, according to the San Diego Union-Tribune. The Mexican president is visiting California to promote trade with Mexico, as part of a four-day trip that starts Tuesday in Utah and includes Washington state....

WASHINGTON - Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and the GOP could suffer politically if they're on the wrong side of the federal debate over immigration, California Assembly Speaker Fabian Nunez said Wednesday. Nunez, D-Los Angeles, visited Capitol Hill as the Senate prepared to take up a sweeping immigration bill that would allow guest workers and give illegal immigrants a path toward citizenship. He criticized Schwarzenegger for not taking a stronger stance in the wake of get-tough House legislation that would turn illegal immigrants into felons and wall off hundreds of miles of the border with Mexico. That bill, which Nunez called racist,...

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) - Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and legislative leaders agreed Tuesday on a state budget that adds money for schools and road projects without resorting to the deficit spending that has plagued California in recent years. ``This is a terrific budget,'' the governor said. ``It's a budget that moves California forward.'' The agreement on the roughly $116 billion spending plan comes five days after the start of the new fiscal year and after a weekend of negotiations between the governor and leaders of both major parties. Democratic Assembly Speaker Fabian Nunez said Schwarzenegger had brought Republicans and Democrats together,...

Arnold Schwarzenegger's conservative fans have been waiting for Arnold the candidate to sound like Arnold the private citizen. Much of what he has been saying has no doubt been lost in the hubbub over the recall process, but he has not really emerged as the powerful spokesman for free enterprise and unlimited opportunity that we expected to hear. Until now. In this morning's Wall Street Journal, Arnold knocks it out of the park with a ringing endorsement of Friedmanesque economics as applied to California governance: "I have often said that the two people who have most profoundly impacted my thinking...

Austrian born Arnold Schwarzenegger is still a long way from being elected California's Governor, but proposed Constitutional amendments that would allow foreign born citizens such as the action movie star to become President will be debated in Congress this autumm. One of the proposals, by Schwarzenegger political friend, Senator Orin Hatch, Republican Utah, would allow anyone who has been a US citizen for 20 years, and has resided in the country for 14 years, to be elected President. Schwarzenegger was naturalized in 1983. The other proposal, by a bi-partisan group in the house, whose ranks include conservative Representative Darrell Issa,...

<p>August 1, 2003 -- OK, so The Terminator finally terminated his political ambitions. We've all heard how Arnold Schwarzenegger wanted to run for governor of California and how he threatened to run and how he actually toyed with a run and how, now, suddenly, he backed out of running to support his friend, former L.A. Mayor Richard Riordan for the job of ousting the incumbent Gov. Gray Davis on the Oct. 7 recall election. Arnold's a Republican, Riordan's a Republican, Davis is Democrat.</p>