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.
Though Jeff Bingaman’s decision not to run for a sixth term in the United States Senate was just announced hours ago, already people are discussing who will run to replace New Mexico’s senior senator.
The Washington Post is reporting that Sen. Jeff Bingaman will announce his retirement today. Earlier this month, Public Policy Polling found the New Mexico Democrat to be a “near lock” for re-election, with an approval rating of 56 percent.
New governor Susana Martinez and both U.S. Senators are both popular among New Mexicans, according to a new poll. The same can’t be said about former New Mexico governor Bill Richardson.
Sen. Jeff Bingaman, who has not yet announced his decision on whether to run for re-election, leads major potential Republican candidates in a poll released by the Democratic polling firm Public Policy Polling. PPP showed that Bingaman had an extremely high approval rating: 56 percent approved of his job performance while just 27 percent disapproved, the fourth highest among senators polled in the last year by PPP.
Sen. Jeff Bingaman, D-N.M., and other Senate leaders said that the current unrest in Egypt shows the need for domestic oil production. Bingaman, who heads the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, noted that the unrest in Egypt is unlikely to have long-term consequences on oil.
“If we can develop a workable clean energy standard that actually continues to provide an incentive for renewable energy projects to move forward, and provide an additional incentive for some of the other clean energy technologies, nuclear being one, I would like to see that happen,” Sen. Jeff Bingaman, D-N.M., told reporters Monday.
President Barack Obama repeatedly said in his State of the Union address that America must “win the future.” This came amid talk about jobs, ending tax breaks for the oil and gas industry and even a joke about smoked salmon.
Former Rep. Heather Wilson is considering a run for Senate next year, according to Roll Call. Wilson told the Washington, D.C., publication yesterday that now that her job heading Susana Martinez’s transition team has ended she can begin thinking about her future.
Former Republican congressional candidate Greg Sowards announced Thursday that he intends to run for the U.S. Senate seat currently held by Sen. Jeff Bingaman. Sowards finished fourth out of five candidates in the Republican primary for New Mexico’s 2nd Congressional District in 2008, losing out to Ed Tinsley.
The deal that extends both the Bush-era tax cuts for all income ranges and unemployment benefits for two years easily passed the Senate today on a 81-19 vote, as expected. Both U.S. Senators from New Mexico voted against the deal because of the tax cuts for Americans making more than $250,000 a year.
The tax cut deal which includes extending tax cuts for Americans making more than $250,000 a year is still going on right now due to inclement weather across the country but it already has more than enough votes to pass. The deal passed the Senate 83-15.
A vote to pass a defense bill failed to pass cloture because of a provision that would have allowed gays to serve openly in the military. Both New Mexico senators, Jeff Bingaman and Tom Udall, were among the 57 senators who voted for cloture which would have brought the bill to an up-and-down vote.
Former Rep. Heather Wilson told Hotline On Call today that she isn’t thinking about another run for U.S. Senate in 2012. New Mexico’s senior U.S. Senator Jeff Bingaman is up for re-election, though he is reportedly weighing retirement.
A Government Accountability Office (GAO) report requested by Sens. Jeff Bingaman, D-N.M., and Max Baucus, D-Mont., shows that between $18 billion and $39 billion in U.S. currency from drug sales travels across the border to Mexico each year, according to National Drug Intelligence Center estimates. Border agents captured just $41 million in cash at land ports of entry.
Sen. Jeff Bingaman (D-NM) is “weighing retirement” for 2012, according to a report from Politico.
A conservative Republican who referred to President Barack Obama as “what literally amounts to an African dictator” officially announced that he will oppose long-time U.S. Senator Jeff Bingaman. Alamogordo resident William S. English says he is opposing Bingaman…
Sen. Jeff Bingaman was cited as a reason against pulling funding for a federal-loan guarantee program according to a leaked memo from the Barack Obama administration. The Wall Street Journal reported that the memo warned against pulling the funding…
On July 21, the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources unanimously approved a bill to designate part of the Organ Mountains in southern New Mexico as wilderness. It was a routine measure — the committee passes several federal land…
New Mexico Sen. Jeff Bingaman has sponsored a renewable energy standard bill that would mandate 15 percent of the country’s electricity come from renewable sources like wind and solar by 2021. The proposal has been co-sponsored by 33 lawmakers, including at least four Republicans. One renewable energy advocate closely involved in efforts to move the RES who is not authorized to speak on the record says backers of the bill remains “laser-focused on the lame duck.”
The New Mexico Department of Human Services has won $1 million to help the state research and plan how to establish and operate a state health insurance exchange, U.S. Senator Jeff Bingaman‘s office announced today.
The health care…
