Pete Domenici

Republican gubernatorial candidate Susana Martinez gained in stature at today’s Republican Party preprimary nominating convention. Allen Weh did what he needed to do. And Pete Domenici Jr. is down but not necessarily out. That’s how Albuquerque pollster Brian Sanderoff analyzed the results following today’s vote.

A slideshow by Talking Points Memo about political legacies showed Republican gubernatorial candidate Pete Domenici Jr., the son of former Sen. Pete Domenici, but did not show Sen. Tom Udall, the son of former Secretary of the Interior and Congressman Stewart Udall.
The slideshow followed the announced retirement of Sen. Evan Bayh, D-Ind., the son of [...]

The nuclear commission to which former U.S. Sen. Pete Domenici was recently named is getting flak from the left and right, according to the Wall Street Journal.

Secretary of Energy Stephen Chu named former U.S. Senator Pete Domenici to a panel to study alternatives for nuclear waste disposal. The Blue Ribbon Commission on America’s Nuclear Future “will provide recommendations for developing a safe, long-term solution to managing the Nation’s used nuclear fuel and nuclear waste” according to Peter St. Cyr.

U.S. Army veteran and former Congressman Max Cleland has a book coming out about his life and included in the book is an anecdote about former Senator Pete Domenici—which isn’t favorable to the retired long-serving New Mexico Senator.

Former U.S. Sen. Pete Domenici, R-N.M., had little to say when asked today about two high-profile federal investigations. One is the ongoing investigation into whether any crimes were committed during the process that led to the 2006 firings of New Mexico’s David Iglesias and several other U.S. attorneys. The other is the probe into allegations of [...]

In in interview today in Las Cruces, Domenici said he sees a trend toward greater government involvement in people’s lives as a serious problem that is understandably leading to many of the emotional outbursts coloring the debate. He believes a spirit of bipartisanship and respect will be necessary to address the debt and other problems.

The 2009 Domenici Public Policy Conference will be held today and Thursday at New Mexico State University, and among the high-profile officials scheduled to speak is U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano.

Senator Jeff Bingaman and former Sen. Pete Domenici are among the “some 92 past and present Senators” who will likely attend the funeral of Sen. Ted Kennedy, Roll Call reports.

E-mails released today may appear to indicate that someone in the White House had the race between former U.S. Rep. Heather Wilson, R-N.M., and Democratic challenger Patricia Madrid in mind when discussing former U.S. Attorney David Iglesias’ job performance in the weeks before he was fired.

Former U.S. Sen. Pete Domenici has been out of office for half a year, but some of his earmarks are still making their way through the Senate and into appropriations bills.

According to the Albuquerque Journal’s Michael Coleman, former U.S. Sen. Pete Domenici is undergoing “major shoulder surgery” in Baltimore, Maryland today.
The 77-year-old New Mexico GOP icon retired from the Senate last year after he was diagnosed with a degenerative brain disease.

Roll Call, a Washington D.C. newspaper, looked at the style of U.S.Sen. Jeff Bingaman when it comes to running the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee. The committee, which was chaired by former New Mexico Republican Sen. Pete Domenici, is in the forefront of all decisions about climate bills and the new energy bill.

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 start of the 11th Congress.
New Mexico, in fact, had the largest drop in clout of any [...]

It appears that a documentary about the U.S. attorney scandal that plagued the Bush administration is going to be quite revealing — or salacious, depending on your point of view.