San Francisco  - California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger issued 20,000 layoff notices and halted work on the state's remaining 276 public projects as intransigent Republican lawmakers continued to stonewall efforts to pass a budget.

The budget impasse prompted legislative leader to hold parliamentarians in their chambers Tuesday until they reached an agreement.

San Francisco  - More than 200,000 state workers were forced to take unpaid leave Friday, in a bid by California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger to preserve the state's rapidly dwindling cash reserves.

Schwarzenegger's order requires the state employees to take two Fridays off without pay every month, a move that is designed to save some 1.4 billion dollars through June 2010, the end of the next fiscal year.

Sacramento  - With California facing a cash crunch, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger on Thursday urged legislators to set aside partisan differences and forgo their salaries until passing a long- overdue plan to address the state's looming 40 billion dollar deficit.

London, Dec 23: California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has admitted that he would like to be President of the United States if the Constitution was changed.

The president of the United States must be an American-born citizen, according to the Constitution.

As the Governor of California, the Austrian-born former body-builder has been in charge of one of the largest economies in the world since 2003, The Telegraph reported.

But with only two years remaining in his maximum eight-year run as Governor of California, he will be out of a job in two years.

Los Angeles - Former action movie star Arnold Schwarzenegger has not satiated his political ambitions by serving as California governor.

The Austrian-born superstar revealed in an interview on 60 Minutes late Sunday night that he would "absolutely" like to be United States president if the Constitution could be changed to allow foreign-born Americans to run for the White House.