Today, December 19, 2009, the Democratic Party of New Mexico will be collecting and sorting items donated by New Mexican Democrats from across the state to send to troops overseas who will be away from loved ones this holiday season.
The items will be sorted at the DPNM Headquarters located at [...]
Note: See our previous post on this event for a photo slideshow of the evening and a scorecard on the straw poll voting that took place after candidate presenations.
If you weren't one of the more than 130 Democrats who attended last night's Lieutenant Governor candidate forum and straw poll [...]
Democrats will likely strip the Medicare buy-in from the health care reform bill, various news outlets reported Monday night. The Medicare buy-in proposal would allow those from 55 to 64 to purchase Medicare coverage.
The Wall Street Journal reports:
U.S. Senate Democrats appeared close to dropping a proposal to [...]
A Wall Street reform bill designed to rein in the problem of firms that are “too big to fail,” passed the U.S. House today 223-202. The vote was mostly on party lines, with no Republicans voting for the bill and just 27 Democrats voting against it.
The New Mexico delegation was [...]
Echoing a blog post from yesterday, Senators Tom Udall, Jeff Bingaman and Rep. Ben Ray Luján, all Democrats, issued a statement today saying that the Department of Homeland Security, DHS, has contingency plans in place in case Congress does not pass the PASS ID legislation. These include extending the [...]
Mike AnayaWe are beginning to see the fallout of yesterday’s health care compromise by the Senate Democrats. Some progressive Democrats are against the compromise, which would eliminate a public option but lower the age of eligibility for Medicare, while others are in support. Republicans are not fans. But the compromise [...]
Senator Tom Udall, D-N.M., joined in with ten other Senate Democrats to introduce a package of amendments designed to “encourage innovation and lower costs” in the health care reform bill currently being debated in the Senate.
“Months ago, our freshman class decided that we weren’t going to sit [...]
The U.S. Senate appears to have reached a deal, although the New York Times reported that the agreement isn’t final, according to officials who could not speak on the record. The AP wrote that the officials said “Democrats had technically agreed only on submitting proposals to the Congressional Budget [...]
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The Democratic Party of Bernalillo County is hosting Posole and Politics on December 17 at 6:00 PM at the Plumbers' and Pipefitters' Hall, 515 San Pedro SE in Albuquerque. All Democrats are welcome to attend, and it's' [...]
Earlier today, I wrote that Democrats are complaining about Republicans using all sorts of delaying tactics to avoid votes on a health care reform bill. Well, it looks like the Republican Party is divided on how aggressively to obstruct.
One Republican, New Hampshire Senator Judd Gregg, has [...]
Senate Democrats are growing weary of obstruction and delaying tactics by the Republicans on the health care reform bill that Democrats hope to pass by the end of the year, Talking Points Memo reports.
As Talking Points writes:
After an impromptu caucus meeting on health care, Sen. Bill Nelson (D-FL) [...]
According to a recent poll, which included New Mexico, most Latinos expect both health care and immigration reform legislation to be finished by the 2010 midterms. And if Congress does not pass both, Democrats should expect lower turnout from the reliably-Democratic-leaning demographic.
President Barack Obama also received approval from 74 [...]
Sheriff Gonzales and wife Elaine
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (WDCpix)
Senate Democrats will return to Washington Monday to begin a long-awaited floor debate on the health-reform bill they hope to pass before Christmas. But [...]
From Democrats for Change, Sandoval County Democrats:
Candlelight Vigil
Join Us
Thursday Evening, December 3rd
6:00 PM to 8:00 PM
Nob Hill
To honor the 45,000 Americans
That die every year to due to lack of health care
And the 50 million Americans
Who are without health insurance
Sponsored by Democrats for Change.
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Gather [...]
Cravens
Sen. Kent Cravens, a Republican from Albuquerque, announced yesterday that he will join the race for lieutenant governor, the AP reports. He joins a field already crowded with nearly a dozen other candidates, mostly Democrats. Cravens has become known for his work on DWI laws [...]
The organizers of Democratic Ward 47F invite all Eldorado Democrats for dessert and coffee at 7:00 PM on Tuesday, Novemver 17, at the home of Tom Mauter and Kris Sweden on 20 Casa del Oro Loop.
Santa Fe County Democratic Party Chairman Richard Ellenberg will speak about organizing locally, [...]
