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.
Last week, New Mexico Senator Tom Udall and six of his fellow Democratic colleagues proposed an amendment to the U.S. Constitution that would allow Congress to regulate the campaign finance system.
Today, Rep. Martin Heinrich, another longtime advocate of campaign…
Last week, New Mexico Senator Tom Udall, along with six of his fellow Democratic colleagues, proposed an amendment to the U.S. Constitution that would allow Congress to regulate the campaign finance system. Long an advocate of campaign finance reform, Udall…
New Mexico’s two U.S. senators want to expand the zone within New Mexico in which Mexican nationals who hold Border Crossing Cards, or “laser cards,” can travel inside.
While some consumer groups are shaking their heads at yesterday’s Federal Communications Commission decision to encourage but not force wireless companies to be more forthright with extra usage fees, the senator who tried to reign in the industry isn’t crying defeat.
Wireless service companies are being asked by the Federal Communications Commission to warn customers when they will begin incurring extra costs for going over their allotments for data and phone minutes.
Rep. Ben Luján (D-N.M.) and other Democratic members of the New Mexico congressional delegation are asking the Obama administration to open a regional United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) in central New Mexico.
The U.S. Senate approved Tuesday the debt deal, the Budget Control Act of 2011, by a vote of 74-26, with 45 Democrats and 28 Republicans voting yes, including New Mexico Democratic Sens. Jeff Bingaman and Tom Udall.
Sen. Tom Udall, D-N.M., released a video Tuesday announcing that he will support legislation that would effectively repeal the Defense of Marriage Act. The legislation, called the Respect for Marriage Act, is sponsored by Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., and progressive groups have been pressuring their senators to cosponsor the legislation.
President Barack Obama called for immigration reform, including a path to citizenship for illegal immigrants, in a speech in El Paso, Texas, on Tuesday. It was Obama’s first trip to the border as president.
Sen. Tom Udall, D-N.M., and Rep. Ben Ray Lujan, D-N.M., announced today they are leading efforts to expand compensation for those exposed to radiation.
Sen. Tom Udall, D-N.M., said Thursday that a federal government shutdown would have dire effects on New Mexico by increasing the unemployment. New Mexico’s unemployment as of February is 8.7 percent.
New Mexico Sens. Tom Udall and Jeff Bingaman, both Democrats, said today that they want members of the military to continue to be paid in the event of an increasingly likely shutdown of the federal government.
Sen. Tom Udall, D-N.M., and his cousin Sen. Mark Udall, D-Colo., announced today the introduction of legislation that would require utilities to use renewable sources to generate 25 percent of their energy by 2025.
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.
“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.
Local politicians responded to the Saturday shooting of Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, D-Ariz., and others in Arizona. Giffords survived the shooting but at least six others died, including federal judge John Roll.
Sen. Tom Udall, along with Sens. Tom Harkin (D-Iowa) and Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.), introduced a resolution to change the filibuster in the U.S. Senate yesterday. A vote on the rules change was put on hold until the Senate returns from a recess after the Martin Luther King, Jr. holiday.
The National Journal reports that all of the returning members of the Democratic caucus in the U.S. Senate signed onto a letter that supports filibuster reform, an issue Sen. Tom Udall has been championing.
Sen. Tom Udall continues to advance his cause of changing the Senate rules to reduce the role of the filibuster and the ability of a minority of senators to delay legislation from being voted on — in some cases indefinitely — in the Senate.
