Local lawmakers plan to tackle a variety of issues in 2012, not the least of which may be campaigning for re-election.

Prominent U.S. Congressional Reps. Brad Sherman (D-Sherman Oaks) and Howard Berman (D-Valley Village) will be facing off against each other in an open primary in June. The two Democratic heavy-hitters were drawn into the same district after a citizens’ committee revised legislative district boundaries in California earlier this year.

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