WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Faced with an $8 billion budget shortfall, California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger will visit the nation's capital Thursday, with a bipartisan group of state legislators in tow, to lobby for a larger piece of the federal pie for the Golden State.
The cross-party effort, which is being billed as "unprecedented," puts the actor's star power to work with fellow Republicans who control the levers of power in Washington.
California leaders have long complained their state gets a smaller share of federal money, based on the amount contributed to federal coffers, than almost any other state. State Democrats plan to wear lapel stickers Thursday reading "79c," designed to draw attention to their estimate that the nation's most populous state gets only 79 cents for every dollar it sends back to Washington, D.C.
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