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Senator Abel Maldonado urged members of the State Senate to work together on a compromise to solve the state budget shortfall.

State Senator Abel Maldonado (R-Santa Maria) cast the deciding vote on the state budget solution. The final budget, which was passed February 19, was vital in ensuring the state continued to function. As part of the final budget solution, the senator negotiated the elimination of the gasoline tax increase as well as other reform proposals. (9.7 MB)

Watch the Senate Rules Committee hearing in May 2008 during which senators defend their salaries and complain they need more money to do their jobs. Senator Maldonado defends his bill, SCA 23, against members who complain they don’t receive a pension and that the national economy should not dictate legislative salaries. (22.7 MB)

Says lack of oversight and accountability has cost taxpayers and service providers. (459 KB)

Senator Abel Maldonado (R-Santa Maria) criticizes State Controller John Chiang for requesting $2 million in new office furniture in the middle of a budget crisis. The controller has refused to issue tax refund checks to hardworking Californians while at the same time asking for new furniture. (115 KB)

Senator Abel Maldonado (R-Santa Maria) criticizes State Controller John Chiang for requesting $2 million in new office furniture in the middle of a budget crisis. The controller has refused to issue tax refund checks to hardworking Californians while at the same time asking for new furniture. (136 KB)

Senator Maldonado (R-Santa Maria) comments on the governor’s annual State of the State address. Calling it a “somber” speech, the senator reaffirmed his stance that legislators should not be receiving per diem and other perks in the midst of a budget crisis. (143 KB)

Senator Maldonado participates in the 33rd Annual Capitol Frog Jump.

Senator Abel Maldonado was joined by members of the MISS Foundation to promote SB 850 which will allow parents who have experienced still birth to elect to receive a Certificate of Birth Resulting in Stillbirth.

Senator Maldonado attends Ag Day at the capitol

Left to right: Former Congressman Leon Panetta, Sylvia Panetta, Laura Maldonado, Senator Abel Maldonado.

Senator Maldonado honors his 2007 Woman of the Year Sylvia Panetta.

Standing in an artichoke field in Castroville, Senator Maldonado, who is Chairman of the Senate Agriculture Committee, discusses legislation he has introduced to provide relief for agriculture workers hurt by the recent freezing temperatures that have ravaged California’s produce crops. Standing next to Senator Maldonado is Assemblywoman Anna Caballero, California Farm Bureau Federation President Doug Mosebar, Assemblywoman Nicole Parra, who is Chair of the Assembly Agriculture Committee, local farmworkers, and Monterey County 2nd District Supervisor Louis Calcagno.