11.   Opposition legislators have taken a similar line, and they boycotted a session of Congress Thursday at which lawmakers discussed investigations into the bribery videotape and the proposed elections.

12.   Several legislators have taken web technology further.

13.   She said if legislators do not take action to spend that money, it will be automatically transferred into the fund next September.

14.   So far no legislator has taken up the challenge.

15.   State legislators take a different view, arguing that other factors than their supposed inaction are at work.

16.   Still, legislators took some credit Thursday for getting the deal scrapped.

17.   The court needs to provide guidance on the degree to which legislators can take race into account in drawing district lines.

18.   The main agenda item of the day after legislators took their oaths of office was the election of Bustamante, D-Fresno.

19.   The new legislators take office in late August.

20.   The maneuver allowed legislators to take credit for passing bills that they privately knew would die in legislative limbo, and often rescued governors from awkward political binds.