In the November 7, 2006 general election she was re-elected to her third and final term in the assembly, beating her Republican opponent Roger Riffenburgh by 68.8% to 31.2%.

After graduating from high school, Lieber worked restoring Victorian houses[2] and specialized in hanging historical wallpapers.

[4] After they married in 1993, Lieber moved to the peninsula and transferred to Foothill College, where she started going to school full-time and became involved in student government.

Lieber announced in December 2006 that she would be running for the Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors, District 5 in the 2008 election against Liz Kniss.

She has authored legislation that includes efforts increasing pupil immunizations, creating an independent sentencing commission, and improving the living conditions of inmates in California's overcrowded prisons.

[citation needed] Lieber has authored legislation providing for a death penalty moratorium, advocating for the rights of pregnant inmates in state prison (allowing them to have prenatal vitamins, providing larger clothes as they got larger with pregnancy, anti-shackling during childbirth), fighting for victims of human trafficking and battling toxic-dumping corporations.

She begged for money, and collected cans and bottles, in order to buy food on the streets of Mountain View and San Jose.

[citation needed] In 2004, Lieber introduced extremely controversial legislation regarding the State vehicle Emission test cycle, which was signed into law by Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger.

The bi-ennial test previously exempted vehicles over 30 years old, while Lieber's legislation fixed the cutoff date at 1976 in perpetuity.

Car collectors, including Jay Leno, noted that this legislation imposed severe penalties for negligible benefit.

[8] Lieber was in the press in January 2007 by announcing she was planning on introducing a bill that will make it illegal in California to spank a child three years-old or younger.