SACRAMENTO - With the speaker fight in the Assembly resolved (Willie Brown is still speaker but the Republicans will chair half of the 26 committees in the lower house), the Committee on Labor and Employment has a new chairman. He is first-termer Wally Knox of Los Angeles. The AFL-CIO News describes him as a long-time labor union lawyer.In the Senate, Hilda Solis of El Monte was named earlier to chair the Senate Industrial Relations Committee. She, like Knox, is a Democrat with strong labor support
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