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.
Don’t worry, no Tiger Woods news here, just a roundup of some tidbits from Washington today.
Yesterday, Harry Teague floated an idea to end funding for TARP and use the money to pay down part of the national debt. There is another idea, however, for the unused TARP money — use it for a new jobs bill. The bill would cost between $291 billion and $299 billion.
We mentioned a possible “war tax” to pay for the war in Afghanistan in yesterday’s version of the Congressional Roundup. But that doesn’t look like it is going anywhere — Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., said she isn’t a fan of the proposal.
“I am not in support of the proposal,” Pelosi told reporters. So that’s that.
A USA Today/Gallup poll showed that a narrow majority of Americans supported the increase of troops to Afghanistan. A Harvard poll (pdf) shows that 66 percent of 18 to 29 year olds oppose sending more troops to Afghanistan.
For more on the public opinion of the Afghanistan war, a good blog post is available from Mark Blumenthal from yesterday.
Pelosi thinks that a Wall Street tax could be a good idea.
On the health care front, Senator Jay Rockefeller, D-W.Va., hinted at a public option compromise that could be forthcoming.
Ben Nelson, D-Neb., Bill Nelson, D-Fla., is working on an abortion amendment that he previously said would be similar to the Stupak Amendment in the House. If the amendment is not in the final bill, Nelson said he would filibuster the bill.
Meanwhile, the liberal blog Think Progress finds video of Senator Judd Gregg, R-N.H., objecting to “obstruction for the purpose of obstruction” in 2006. Now, as we showed yesterday in the Roundup, Gregg is leading the charge on obstructing the health care bill.
On the electoral front, the liberal base isn’t happy with President Barack Obama or Congress which could hurt Democrats in the 2010 midterm elections.
