What makes people happy? California lawmakers want to find out

California Assemblyman Anthony Rendon likes to spend his spare time away from the Capitol in Sacramento with his 4-year-old daughter back home near Los Angeles. “Those are the types of things that make me happy,” he said this week in an interview outside the state Assembly chambers, where he's served as a lawmaker for a dozen years. Now Rendon, a Democrat who was one of the longest-serving Assembly speakers in California history, is spending his last year in office trying to make happiness more central to policymaking.