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.
Sen. Tom Udall discussed his plan for filibuster reform on The Rachel Maddow Show on MSNBC last night. Udall calls his plan to reform the rules using a simple majority on the first day of the 112th Congress the “Constitutional option” and says that it would reveal who “is holding up the show on these particular bills.”
Udall has not been deterred from his filibuster reform plan despite the electoral losses suffered by Democrats earlier this month. The Democratic majority in the Senate has been greatly reduced and Republicans took the House, making Democratic attempts to pass legislation even less likely.
“I think that it should be done at the beginning of every Congress and it doesn’t matter who is in the majority,” Udall told guest host Chris Hayes. “It makes us more accountable. You can imagine if you go through two years and you adopt rules and they’re not working and you know that they can be changed if you’re abusing them, you’re more accountable.”
Udall discussed this at the America’s Future Now! conference this summer.
