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.
Although some news outlets reported that there would be no vote on health care legislation until Sunday, a unnamed House Aide told MSNBC’s First Read that there will be a vote tomorrow in the House on health care reform. One New Mexico Congressman, Harry Teague, says he will vote against the bill.
From MSNBC:
An aide told First Read that “assuming all goes well,” they are aiming for a vote late afternoon/early evening tomorrow. The aide, however, conceded the vote could slip later into tomorrow evening.
A GOP aide told MSNBC that the House GOP will not use procedural delays to push the vote back.
Meanwhile, Republican National Commitee chairman Michael Steele warned Republicans against supporting the health care reform bill or the stimulus.
“So candidates who live in moderate to slightly liberal districts have got to walk a little bit carefully here, because you do not want to put yourself in a position where you’re crossing that line on conservative principles, fiscal principles, because we’ll come after you,” Steele said to ABC News.
FiveThirtyEight.com’s Tom Schaller looked ahead to 2010 and said the big question of 2010 is, “How replicable is Barack Obama’s precedent-setting presidential coalition in an off-year election?”
The White House looks to be trying to answer that problem by “nationalizing” the midterms according to MSNBC.
“Translation: The White House is going to take a page from the 2002 White House playbook, which is to nationalize the midterms and try and do it on your terms,” NBC Deputy Political Director Mike Murray writes.
In the Senate, the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee passed a climate bill despite a Republican boycott. All but one Democrat, Sen. Max Baucus of Montana, voted for the bill. That includes Senator Tom Udall, D-N.M.
Baucus said he is committed to passing the bill through the Senate Finance Committee, where he is chairman, but voted against the Environment and Public Works Committee version of the legislation because of “concerns about the agriculture provisions included in the legislation” according to Politico.
Sen. Jeff Bingaman, D-N.M., sits on the Senate Finance Committee.
And President Barack Obama tweeted out a message asking supporters to “Tweet your rep and ask them to support reform.”
