'Kick the can' budget moves ahead

SACRAMENTO -- The state Assembly on Thursday passed the main bill in a legislative package aimed at ending California's record budget impasse and closing a $19 billion deficit.AP in the Daily News.

Lawmakers voted 54-1 in favor of the measure, SB870, getting just enough support in the 80-member house to reach the required two-thirds vote threshold. The bill moved to the state Senate, where lawmakers were expected to take it up later Thursday.