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 Senate plans to vote Thursday morning on the DISCLOSE Act — which would require organizations involved in political campaigning to disclose the identity of large donors and would bar foreign corporations, large government contractors, and TARP recipients from making political expenditures. The outcome is uncertain.
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…
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.
With Senator Joe Lieberman, I-Conn., saying yesterday that he would filibuster any health care bill that he doesn’t agree with, Congress watchers have been thrown for a loop.
And Lieberman says he will not vote for a bill…
Health care reform legislation took another big step today when Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., announced that the Senate version of health care reform will include a public health insurance option — with an opt out clause.
The 2nd Congressional District race between Harry Teague, D-N.M., and Steve Pearce, R-N.M., is now considered a “tossup” according to CQ Politics.
“What little edge Teague had, as a Democratic freshman in a Republican-leaning district, fled when his Republican…
The final health care reform bill passed Tuesday in the Senate Finance Committee with a 14-9 vote. Senator Jeff Bingaman, D-N.M., voted for the bill.
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.
The Hill, a newspaper written for and about Congress, asked every member of the Senate “which member of the opposing party they most enjoyed partnering with on legislation.” They also asked, on a not-for-attribution basis, which member of the opposing…
The U.S. House passed the final version of the economic stimulus bill today with no Republican support. The bill now heads to the Senate for a vote, which is expected tonight.
The U.S. Senate passed the stimulus bill a day after voting to invoke cloture. This time, the vote was 61-37, with Sen. Judd Gregg, R-N.H., not voting. Minnesota got only one vote, as former Sen. Norm Coleman’s lawsuit…
