Our guest Jennifer Barrera has been President and CEO of the California Chamber of Commerce since 2021. The venerable institution - founded in 1890 as the California State Board of Trade - advocates for pro-business policies and investments. Barrera is well known and well respected in the capitol community, and has been an effective messenger for the CalChamber's many causes, including reform of the Private Attorneys General Act (PAGA). She spoke with us about the Chamber's approach to the state's affordability crisis, the increasing calls to tax the ultra-rich and a ballot measure to reform CEQA. 

1:27 What's on Capitol Weekly?

4:00 February 25, 1942: The Battle of Los Angeles

5:30 Jennifer Barrera

6:08 Thoughts and expectations for 2026

8:10 Affordability

10:28 CEQA ballot measure

19:29 Ballot measure process

24:39 PAGA reform

31:49 AI - Boon or bubble?

35:42 Taxing the ultra-rich

41:13 #WWCA

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