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.
New Mexico Democratic Rep. Ben Ray Lujan has co-signed a House Bill that would add a public option to the recently passed health care reform bill.
As The Washington Independent reported today, House Democrats have returned to a…
According to the Progressive Change Campaign Committee (PCCC), Senator Jeff Bingaman, D-N.M., has expressed support for passing the public option through reconciliation if it comes up for a vote on the Senate floor. Bingaman is among the 30 Senators…
While he hasn’t signed on to a letter being circulated in the Senate urging the use of reconciliation to include the public option in a health care bill, Sen. Jeff Bingaman told radio reporters yesterday that the public option…
A spokesman for Sen. Tom Udall, D-N.M., told The Independent that Udall is on board with a letter that calls for Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., to use reconciliation to pass the public option on health care reform.
The health care reform bill that was recently introduced by the U.S. House of Representatives “would result in a net reduction in federal budget deficits of $104 billion over the 2010–2019 period” if enacted, the Director’s blog at the…
Much of the news coming out of Washington D.C. today is, unsurprisingly, about health care reform, after the House version of health care reform was unveiled this morning. Two of the three Representatives from New Mexico issued press releases talking…
The U.S. House of Representatives is expected to introduce a health care reform bill on Thursday, the Washington Post says. The bill will include a public option, as many had expected.
Rep. James Clyburn, D-S.C., says the whip count list that showed that Congressman Harry Teague as a “no” on the public option is not authentic, The Hill reports today.
An internal poll of Democratic members of Congress, leaked to The Hill, shows Rep. Harry Teague is a “no” vote on the most robust version of the public option the paper says.
Despite claims by the liberal advocacy group Democracy for America (DFA), a spokeswoman for Representative Harry Teague, D-N.M., indicated that he is undecided on whether or not to vote for a public health insurance option. Meanwhile, a…
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…
Congressman Ben Ray Luján spoke on the House floor this morning and said “we must demand a public option,” referring to a public health insurance option. Congressional Democrats and President Barack Obama hope to pass health care reform legislation by…
According to a study by Health Care for America Now (HCAN), the Senate Finance Committee version of the health care reform bill would cost New Mexicans more than the health care reform bill that passed out of the Senate…
Senator Tom Udall, D-N.M., has signed on to a letter asking Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., to include a public health insurance option into any health care reform legislation, according to our sister site the Washington Independent. Udall…
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…
Martin Heinrich was one of 49 signatories on a letter (pdf) to Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., and House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, D-Md., asking them to include a public option provision in any health care reform bill…
Yes, that’s the claim made today by Media Matters, which says: “A recent New York Times/CBS News poll found that 65 percent favored a public option, with only 26 percent opposed to it; To put that number in perspective: a 2007
Two public option amendments offered by Sens. Jay Rockefeller, D-W.V., and Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., failed in the Senate Finance Committee because of unanimous opposition by Republicans and some opposition by Democratic senators. New Mexico’s Sen. Jeff Bingaman, D-Silver City, voted…
According to a live blog of the Senate Finance Committee’s markup of the health care reform bill, New Mexico Senator Jeff Bingaman, D-N.M., does not support a public option that is tied to Medicare for two years, as Senator Jay…
