The Republican befuddlement over energy policies to address the current spike in gasoline prices and the need to devise a rational nationwide energy policy were never more evident than in Congressman Dean Heller’s (R-NV2) in a conference call with reporters. [EDFP]
Attempts [...]
Representative Dean Heller (R-NV2) would have us believe that he “can do little more than make noise about gas prices.” [RGJ] He’s managed the noise part, first writing provocative epistles to Speaker Nancy Pelosi (hardly a format designed to enhance his reputation [...]
Why did the Jill Derby campaign and countless other Democratic congressional campaigns across the United States likely look to Mississippi last night?Ah, the joys of living in Nevada’s 2nd Congressional District, thereby getting a spot on Rep. Dean Heller’s mailing list! We’ve been treated yet again to one of Heller’s glossy (and franked) mailers touting his objections to taxes. The taxpayers who funded the [...]
What does a former Iraq War combat medic have to say about Nevada Congressman Dean Heller (R-NV2) and his lack of support for the New G.I. Bill?
Patrick Campbell: “Heller? The phone line goes silent as he consults the spreadsheet. “I sent him e-mail this very morning.” The note to [...]
Photo: Las Vegas Sun, CATHLEEN ALLISON / NEVADA APPEALIf Representative Dean Heller’s (R-NV2) explanation to the Las Vegas Sun is to be believed, then the ‘logic’ of his vote last week on the energy bill in the House goes as follows: (1) Big Oil companies need tax breaks to keep [...]
Congressman Dean Heller, (R-NV 2d District) voted against a House bill to extend tax credits for renewable energy industries. [Las Vegas Review-Journal]
"The bill, which passed 236-182, would give $8 billion in tax breaks through 2011 to companies that produce new electricity from natural sources like wind, geothermal," [...]
Last August President George W. Bush came to Nevada for the American Legion National convention accompanied by Rep. Dean Heller (R-NV2), and the President visited Nevada three times in 2006, twice on behalf of Heller’s campaign. So, why won’t the Congressman be appearing with Mr. Bush during his appearance in [...]
The U.S. House of Representatives was 13 votes shy of over-riding President Bush’s veto of the SCHIP bill, H.R. 3963, and no one expected Rep. Dean Heller (R-NV2) to cast his ballot in favor of working American families who find themselves unable to afford medical care for their children. Heller, [...]
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Dean Heller, Nevada's 3rd Congressional District representative in Congress, is being asked to help override the veto of SCHIP by George Bush. SCHIP is the children's health insurance legislation. [Lahontan Valley News and Fallon Eagle Standard]
The program was created to provide health [...]
Photo: George and Laura Bush join Alberto Gonzales and his wife for lunch at the Bush ranch in Texas. Notice no poor uninsured children are with them.It is a question whether George Bush or Dick Cheney is the real Darth Vader. Perhaps both are. [...]
Rep. Heller voted to kill (recommit) H.R. 3567 the “Small Business Investment Expansion Act” on roll call 922, and then on roll call [...]
There was one, and only one, member of the Nevada congressional delegation to vote against the Children’s Health Insurance Program Reauthorization Act (H.R. 976) today in the U.S. House of Representatives: Representative Dean Heller (R-NV2). [roll call 906] Representatives Berkley (D-NV1) and Porter (R-NV3) voted in favor of the [...]
Congressman Dean Heller had an embarrassing week last week. He was on a tour of the state, was in a hurry, and asked for a lunch "to go" at a local restaurant. As he was paying for the lunch, he was hungry and started picking at [...] Rep. Dean Heller, R-Nev., said, "Individuals who are elected to a public [...]
The Reno Gazette Journal has, more or less, summarized the accomplishments, or lack thereof, of Nevada Congressman Dean Heller since his election to Congress. Noting that Heller has joined hips with President George W. Bush, the RGJ writes:
President Bush came through for Dean Heller [...]
Nevada Congressman Dean Heller
Do you agree with Dean Heller that the U.S. is now on the right course in Iraq?
The poll has since been taken off the frontpage of the Nevada [...]
Do you agree with Dean Heller that the U.S. is now on the right course in Iraq?
The poll has since been taken off the frontpage of the Nevada [...]
Do you agree with Dean Heller that the U.S. is now on the right course in Iraq?
At this point 520 votes have been cast with only 31.92% answering "yes" and a whopping 68.08& saying "no".
“ Iraq Summer” Campaign to Dean Heller: “We will not be ignored.”
Heller Continues to Ignore Invitation to ‘Iraq Summer’ Campaign’s ‘Take a Stand’ Town Hall on August 28th, Which Provides the Congressman a Golden Opportunity to Explain to Nevadans Why [...]
Heller was unswayed. Despite the anti-war sentiment being sent his way, he said his constituents stand by his decision to continue supporting the [...]
Dean HellerI recently wrote to Congressman Heller urging him to support legislation calling for a withdrawal of our troops from Iraq. In his response, he wrote:
"I want to begin by stating that most Americans, regardless of their opinion of [...]
Heller represents the usually reliable [...]
The Las Vegas Review Journal seems to be tired about the "Heller [...]
Global warming is real. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which is made up of scientists from 113 countries, was created by the U.N. in 1988 and releases its assessments every five or six years.
"Warming of the climate system is unequivocal, as is now evident from observations of increases [...]
Dean Heller's gone AWOL again. Heller could not be reached for comment.
On a recent Nevada Newsmakers the co-host told Heller she was disappointed with his flip-flop on partisanship. She noted that he had been someone who would work across party lines as Secretary of State to get things done but his move to Washington instantly turned [...]
Harry Reid had it right
In a recent letter, John Koster labels Sen. Reid a traitor for having, in my view, accurately portrayed the war in Iraq as lost. Mr. Koster is an example of [...]
Why does U.S. Rep. Dean Heller hate poetry? Heller brought an amendment to try to head off the $7 million expansion of the Carl Sandburg Home Historic Site in North Carolina, saying that when we [...]
Junior Congressman Dean Heller took his show on the road [...]
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