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Legislators typically leave Sacramento after the ceremony to spend the holidays in their districts before returning at the start of the year.

Since a 2020 law Newsom signed, schools have had the power to limit or prohibit smartphone use with some districts forging ahead.

“When you are a tightly constrained city like ours is, actually bursting at the seams, you need your surrounding districts to collaborate with you to get the housing that you need,” she said.

The first reason is that even Republicans do not want “large numbers of laid-off civil servants in their districts.”

That inevitably distorts the national totals because few votes, sometimes none at all, were cast for non-incumbents in those districts.