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 chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, Max Baucus, D-Mont., has released the framework for the his committee’s version of a health care reform bill, and it does not include a public option.
Instead, it includes a provision for nonprofit health care co-ops. U.S. Sen. Jeff Bingaman, D-N.M., told Politico that there are “a lot of very good ideas in the proposal,” but that it is “subject to more discussion.”
The proposal warns that it “is not a final product, should not be construed as a Chairman’s Mark and does not include everything that might be in a Mark.”
According to the Glossary of Congressional Terms on TheCapitol.net, a Chairman’s Mark is a “recommendation by committee (or subcommittee) chair of the measure to be considered in a markup, usually drafted as a bill.”
Bingaman is part of the so-called “Gang of Six” senators in the Senate Finance Committee who have been negotiating a bipartisan bill. The group included Baucus, Bingaman, Kent Conrad (D-N.D.), Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), Olympia Snow (R-Maine) and Mike Enzi (R-Wyo.).
