sentences:  He later contemplated a run against Senator Carol Liu in State Senate District 25  but opted against it, citing personal reasons.In 2013, Portantino began actively campaigning to fill the seat of Senator Liu, who will be forced out of the District 25 position by term limits in 2016.In May 2019, Portantino, as Senate Appropriations Committee Chair, used a pocket veto to temporarily block Senate Bill 50, a bill that would enact reforms to address the California housing shortage by reducing local control (such as allowing more apartment construction near public transit and in suburbs), from leaving committee to enter the Senate for debate and voting.