Mystery Cloaks Powerful Committees' Final Actions on Bills

It's two weeks and counting before the California Legislature shuts down for the year. This week saw a major milestone at the state Capitol: hundreds of bills faced a live-or-die decision by the powerful appropriations committees. But few actions in the Legislature are more of a mystery than the final ones taken by those committees. Most of the work happens behind closed doors -- and in many cases, the bills are re-written in private.