And in California, a Republican state lawmaker has resigned after inadvertently broadcasting sexually explicit remarks during an Assembly hearing. Assemblyman Mike Duvall of Orange County was videotaped making the comments during an Assembly Appropriations Committee hearing in July. Duvall didn’t realize he was being recorded when he privately discussed his sexual exploits with two different women, neither of them his wife. One of the women is a lobbyist for the major energy firm Sempra. Until his resignation, Duvall was vice-chair of the Assembly Utilities Committee, which deals with Sempra’s business.