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.
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.
Here we go again. Last night, Sens. Harry Reid (D-Nev.) and Max Baucus (D-Mont.), the Senate majority leader and the head of the Senate Finance Committee, introduced a new unemployment extension bill. It is not actually strictly standalone: It includes…
Although some news outlets reported that there would be no vote on health care legislation until Sunday, a unnamed House Aide told MSNBC’s First Read that there will be a vote tomorrow in the House on health care reform.…
September has come and gone and no bill has yet come out of the Senate Finance Committee, let alone the Senate. But that doesn’t mean nothing’s happening. Here’s a status report.
This week the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) scored…
In an interview here earlier today, U.S. Sen. Mary Landrieu reaffirmed her opposition to including a public option in a health care reform bill, but said she thinks the Senate can get 60 votes in support of a bill that will accomplish the president’s goals without a public option.
The Gang of Six met Tuesday to look over a health care reform bill pending in the Senate Finance Committee, and even though the bill does not include a public option, Sen. Jeff Bingaman says he will support…
The chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, Max Baucus, D-Mont., has released the framework for the his committee’s version of a health care reform bill, and it does not include a public option.
Instead, it includes a provision for…
The Senate Finance Committee’s “Gang of Six” held a teleconference last night that Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus, D-Mont., said featured “a productive conversation.”
New Mexico’s Jeff Bingaman was on the call as one of the six senators…
U.S. Senator Jeff Bingaman will participate in a teleconference to discuss health care reform legislation with his fellow members of the Senate Finance Committee’s “Gang of Six” according to “sources familiar with the agenda,” Roll Call reports.
U.S. Sen. Jeff Bingaman, D-N.M., has been one of the most influential voices in the health care debate as part of the “Gang of Six” senators who were charged with crafting the Senate Finance Committee’s health care reform bill.
State Senator Dede Feldman, D-Albuquerque, is one of the more vocal advocates of health care reform in the New Mexico Legislature.
The North Valley lawmaker is currently attending a meeting of the National Conference of State Legislatures in…
Though President Barack Obama gave a deadline on when he wanted health care reform legislation to be considered by the Congress, the Senate isn’t going to vote on a reform proposal until after the August recess which begins on August…
American Prospect blogger Ezra Klein has a scoop: Every Democratic member of the Senate Finance Committee got some homework. That includes our own senior U.S. senator, Jeff Bingaman who serves on the Senate Finance Committee.
