A proposal to shift the borders of New Mexico’s three congressional districts will be debated by the full state Senate now that two committees, Rules and Judiciary, have approved it.
Rep. Andy Nuñez accused Speaker Ben Luján of slowing down Gov. Susana Martinez’ controversial special session agenda, reports the Santa Fe New Mexican:
Four bills related to Gov. Susana Martinez’s biggest priorities haven’t even been printed.
They’ve all been sent to a committee of the House of Representatives that
The House voted Friday to block federal funding to Planned Parenthood, passing 240 to 185.
The amendment, sponsored by Rep. Mike Pence (R-Ind.), has been added to the Continuing Resolution (H.R. 1) to fund the federal government through September.
Dan Benishek, a Republican favored to win the congressional seat in Michigan’s First District, has loads of ideas for reducing the federal deficit. “The Department of Energy was created in the 1970s to make us energy independent, and look at us now,” he said. “So what is its purpose, then?” More…
It turns out the special ethics committee meeting scheduled for 1 p.m. has, like so many Washington events, been pushed back, at least temporarily.
The House today passed two oil spill response bills, but a larger oil spill response package — a compilation of a number of bills — is expected to be unveiled next week, according to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.).
According to Pelosi:
And next week, our efforts will continue
On Tuesday, the Treasury Department announced that the country’s deficit had hit the $1 trillion mark just nine months into the fiscal year. Fear of the deficit had already led Congress to kill or delay an administration-backed jobs bill, a federal extension of unemployment benefits, a war More…
House Minority Leader John Boehner has always been enthusiastic about the GOP’s chances for victory in November. In an April interview on NPR’s Morning Edition, Boehner answered “at least 100″ when asked how many seats were in play. But as the election approaches and the landscape stabilizes, Boehner has More…
Yesterday, we reported that in response to pressure from the National Rifle Association and other groups, House Democrats decided to exempt the NRA and some other large organizations from the DISCLOSE Act, which will require corporate funders of campaign ads to attach disclosure messages to the ads.
It seems More…
As House Democratic leaders raced to round up votes before the Memorial Day recess for a pivotal economic aid bill, trimming it by more than $70 billion to avoid a revolt by members of the conservative Blue Dog Coalition, the party made another concession on its agenda to far More…
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