I am writing today to announce the closure of the New Mexico Independent. After three and a half years of operation in New Mexico, the board of the American Independent News Network, has decided to shift publication of its news…
While environmental activists played their part yesterday during demonstrations at the capitol building, going so far as to dress up as solar panels and to sing the tune of “You Are My Sunshine,” their counterparts, the anti-cap-and-trade contingency who has…
Roughly one quarter of University of New Mexico students are unimpressed with the state’s flagship public school, according to a survey that questioned college students about their higher education experiences.
The Senate Finance Committee’s “Gang of Six” held a teleconference last night that Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus, D-Mont., said featured “a productive conversation.”
New Mexico’s Jeff Bingaman was on the call as one of the six senators of the bipartisan group working to write the Senate Finance Committee’s version of the health care reform bill.
The Washington Post reports the call lasted 90-minutes and they spoke about how to further reduce costs from a current price tag of $900 billion over the next decade. Despite recent statements by some Democrats, including some in the White House, that Democrats may seek to work out health care legislation without Republicans, the Senate Finance Committee “remain[s] committed to continuing our path toward a bipartisan health care reform bill,” according to Baucus.
The senators agreed to speak again on September 4, just four days before the Senate is back in session after the August recess.
Bingaman, a Democrat, also sits on the Senate Health, Education Labor and Pensions Committee (commonly known as the “HELP committee”) which passed its own version of health care legislation earlier this year.
The other members of the “Gang of Six” besides Bingaman and Baucus are ranking member Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, Kent Conrad, D-N.D.,and Mike Enzi, R-Wy., and Olympia Snowe, R-Maine.
