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. Jay Rockefeller, the powerful chairman of Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation, wants more details of the company’s intentions to drop a health care plan that could leave 30,000 employees uninsured, The Wall Street Journal reports.
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The state will receive $104 million in extra Medicaid dollars thanks to federal legislation projected to clear Congress in the next few days, New Mexico state officials said Wednesday.
The funding contained in the $26 billion federal legislation for…
Federal legislation that would help New Mexico cleared an important congressional hurdle Wednesday, the Washington Post is reporting.
The U.S. Senate voted 61 to 38 to avert a GOP filibuster of legislation that would send $16 billion in extra…
Republicans realize their efforts to overturn the nation’s health care law are a long shot. So GOP candidates this year are resorting to a new message they hope resonates with voters: Help us retake Congress so we can choke…
This week, Senate Democrats will attempt to push through a jobs bill that has stalled in the chamber for seven weeks. If Congress does not pass the bill, hundreds of thousands will lose their federally extended unemployment insurance. Doctors will take a 21 percent cut in Medicare reimbursement rates, and states will see less money for Medicaid.
This afternoon representatives from the U.S. House and Senate are meeting discuss regulation of the financial industry. You can follow the progress RIGHT NOW with the Sunlight Foundation’s Sunlight Live program.
The open government group is pairing CSPAN coverage…
The U.S. has 5 percent of the world’s population but a quarter of its of its prisoners, according to a new report on the economic impact of the corrections industry released to lawmakers Tuesday by the Congressional Research Service (CRS). Few facets of the national economy are untouched by the burgeoning prison industry, the report concludes.
In an e-mail sent to constituents, Senator Jeff Bingaman reviewed the 2009 accomplishments of Congress and said despite the fact that health care reform has yet to pass, overall, it was “a productive year.”
As hard as the Senate debate promises to be, many of the thorniest conflicts will likely be re-contested when Democratic leaders in both chambers meet to iron out the differences between their bills.
According to the Pew Research Group, the number of people who would like to see their own U.S Representative re-elected has reached a low point — the same type of low point seen in the 1994 and 2006 midterms…
Friday is traditionally the day when politicians release potentially embarrassing stories. The theory is that nobody’s really paying attention on Friday afternoon, and by Monday the news will already seem old (especially in the days of 24/7 cable news networks…
The U.S. House voted Thursday afternoon “to eliminate billions of dollars in federal subsidies to private insurers offering low-rate student loans.” All three New Mexico Representatives, all Democrats, voted for the student loan reform bill.
U.S. House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer praised three fellow Democrats — including U.S. Rep. Martin Heinrich — for their work on the major climate change bill passed on Friday.
Though he was recently in Las Cruces to discuss immigration and border issues, U.S. Sen. Jeff Bingaman — New Mexico’s senior senator — said renewable energy and health-care reform will be Congressional priorities this year.
Because U.S. Sen. Pete Domenici retired after 36 years of service and all three representatives left their positions, Roll Call has New Mexico’s congressional clout dropping from 19th at the start of the 110th Congress to 29th at the…
Over the next couple of weeks, Congress will debate the American Recovery and Reinvestment Bill of 2009, otherwise known to all of us as the federal stimulus plan billed as a way to help the nation’s tottering economy.
And out with an outline of priorities is the House Appropriations Committee, which released a 13-page report of priorities Thursday, giving the public a glimpse into what our federal lawmakers are thinking. More …
New Mexico transportation officials are quietly hoping Congress quickly passes a federal economic stimulus plan that includes billions for road and bridge construction.
If that happens, the state could see north of $100 million in much-needed funds for roads and…
It looks like there may be an agreement to bail out Wall Street to the tune of $700 billion. This means that the government is going to buy the bad debt from financial firms on the skids. But it faces…
