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 Wall Street reform bill being debated in the Senate may not be able to survive a filibuster. Sen. Russ Feingold, D-Wisc., announced today that he will vote to block the legislation from getting an up-and-down vote. The announcement is the latest complication in the passage of the bill that many thought would be passed this week.
“As I have indicated for some time now, my test for the financial regulatory reform bill is whether it will prevent another crisis,” Feingold said in a statement. “The conference committee’s proposal fails that test and for that reason I will not vote to advance it.”
Scott Brown, R-Mass., is having second thoughts on the bill despite securing deals that would exempt banks and insurance companies in Massachusetts. Sen. Maria Cantwell, D-Wash., also has not said if she will vote for the bill or not.
With the death of Robert Byrd, the long-serving Senator from West Virginia, the bill does not have the 60 votes necessary to break a filibuster, even if Brown and Cantwell vote to break the filibuster.
This version of the bill would be a compromise with the House; the Senate version of the legislation passed without Feingold or Cantwell’s votes, but had the votes of three Republicans: Brown, Susan Collins, R-Maine, and Olympia Snowe, R-Maine.
