john bruiner created all the desks you see. there's 80 of them. there are 40 in the senate.we still use them today. our legislature since the 1960s has been full-time. prior to that, it was part-time. but because of that, we had many people be able to be re-elected over and over again. by the 1990s, people thought that it might not be a good thing to have career politicians. so in the 1990s, through a proposition that was voted directly by the california voters, we became a state of term limits. here in the assembly, after 1990, the assembly members would serve two year terms and they could repeat that three times, six years total. in the senate, it was two four-year terms. in 2012, the voters made a decision again and term limits was changed. between 1990 and 2012 many attempts were made but all were voted down. in 2012, the voters decided that each length lgilegislator could years. one served 15 years as speaker. the speaker of the assembly or the house in other states is elected by the members themselves. a gentleman named willy brown, who was raised with a single mom in