State Auditor Hector Balderas plans to push legislation in January that would make it a crime to intentionally hinder an audit and would suspend state appropriations to government agencies that don’t complete required annual audits.
The auditor announced on Tuesday that he plans two bills in the legislative session that [...]
Today, New Mexico Auditor Hector Balderas announced at the interim committee on Courts, Corrections, and Justice that he would introduce two bills this upcoming legislative session. The first bill would amend the Audit Act to make it unlawful to make a false, misleading or [...]
The U.S. Senate introduced its version of health care reform Thursday night. Senate majority leader Harry Reid said that he expects the battle over health care reform will be a long one.
“We all know that this legislation is tremendously important,” Reid said at the news conference according to the [...]
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid tonight unveiled the Senate version of health care reform legislation as an amendment to H.R. 3590, and named it the "Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act" (pdf). According to the CBO score (pdf), the bill would spend $849 billion over 10 years to [...]
Here is the statement from President Barack Obama on the introduction of health care reform, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, legislation in the Senate:"Today we" [...] The American Clean Energy and Security (ACES) Act, which passed the House in June, is actually much cheaper [...]
New Mexico is bracing for the worst but hoping for the best.
And right now all the hope appears to be focused on Washington, D.C., although it’s way too early to tell if it’s a mirage or the real thing.
Health reform legislation approved last week [...]
Help to states might be on the way. Tucked within the U.S. House’s version of health reform legislation last week is a $23.5 billion pot of money meant for states to pay for six more months of extra Medicaid funding, The Washington Post reports. State officials across the land [...]
New Mexico Lt. Governor Diane Denish released the following statement this afternoon in response to budget actions taken yesterday by Governor Bill Richardson on the legislation passed at last month's special session of the Legislature:
"The national recession has hit New Mexico hard and difficult times require difficult decisions to" [...]
Today's the deadline for Governor Bill Richardson to act on legislation passed at the New Mexico Legislature's special session, which ended on October 23. Yesterday, his office sent out a press release announcing he'd be appearing at a Noon press conference today at the Roundhouse to reveal his' [...]
The New Mexico Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice today expressed outrage that an amendment included in health care legislation passed by the U.S. House of Representatives on Saturday could mean the loss of abortion coverage for millions of women whose health insurance now covers it.
“Major Christian and Jewish [...]
From the New Mexico Independent:Gov. Bill Richardson signed today legislation that cuts $110 million from various state funds to help plug this year's budget [...]
Gov. Bill Richardson signed today legislation that cuts $110 million from various state funds to help plug this year’s budget shortfall, but he vetoed a provision that would have taken more money from the state auditor.
“Without the money, the auditor would not have been able to conduct effective [...]
This is a post by contributing writer, Stephen Jones, who is a progressive political activist and a resident of Las Cruces, New Mexico.
For any of us who have been watching the health reform legislation creak along through the Congress, the old saying that watching legislation being passed is like watching [...]
After hours of debate, the U.S. House of Representatives passed a version of a bill designed to reform the health care system. The bill passed by a 220-215 vote with one Republican voting for the bill. Thirty nine Democrats, including New Mexico Congressman Harry Teague, voted against the bill
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"Six principles have guided my work here and determined my vote on this legislation: health insurance reform must create stability, contain" [...]
Although some news outlets reported that there would be no vote on health care legislation until Sunday, a unnamed House Aide told MSNBC’s First Read that there will be a vote tomorrow in the House on health care reform. One New Mexico Congressman, Harry Teague, says he will [...]
PNM Resources has joined a group that is designed to aid passage of a climate bill through Congress. This comes after PNM dropped out of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce because of the Chamber’s anti-climate change legislation stance.
PNM joined the American Businesses for Clean Energy [...]
PNM joined the American Businesses for Clean Energy (ABCE), the [...]
The office of Senator Tom Udall (D-NM) released a statement today to report that the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee approved S.1733, the Clean Energy Jobs and American Power Act. Udall, a member of the committee, voted to pass the legislation so that broader, bipartisan cooperation and [...]
You may recall that GOP Senators have been on a mission to delay or quash legislation to extend unemployment benefits to those suffering in a struggling economy characterized by continuing job losses. They've been stalling and trying to add unrelated amendments about things like ACORN, immigration and stimulus' [...]
Senator Tom Udall (D-NM) today delivered remarks on the impact of clean energy and climate change legislation on Indian Country during a gathering of representatives of the nation’s 564 federally-recognized tribes.
“Indian Country represents 5 percent of the nation’s land base and contains 10 percent [...]
