Antitrust & Competition Policy Blog (Free subscription) | 08/18/2008
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Harry First of NYU Law School offers his thoughts on Making the Best of a Good Situation: Modernizing State Antitrust Enforcement. ABSTRACT: In 2001 Congressman F. James Sensenbrenner introduced the bill that would eventually result...
Legal Theory Blog (Free subscription) | 08/08/2008
Harry First (New York University - School of Law) has posted Making the Best of a Good Situation: Modernizing State Antitrust Enforcement (Antitrust Bulletin, Forthcoming) on SSRN. Here is the abstract: In 2001 Congressman F. James Sensenbrenner introduced the bill...
JFActivist (Free subscription) | 06/18/2008
From the Office of Congressman F. James Sensenbrenner, Jr.(R-WI): House Judiciary Committee Unanimously Passes Sensenbrenner/Hoyer Bill June 18, 2008 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Raj Bharwani (202) 225-5101 (WASHINGTON, DC) – Earlier today, by a vote of 27 to 0, the...
trucks world news (Free subscription) | 06/10/2008
As costs rise for the trucking industry, our costs rise Milwaukee,WI,USA - The Milwaukee Small Business Times, by F. James Sensenbrenner -June 9, 2008: -- ... Commercial traffic is vital to the American economy, and no industry is more affected by rising energy costs... The additional price of the truckers' fuel raises the price of our food, health care, manufacturing, retail, waste removal and other...
Sensenbrenner Watch (Free subscription) | 05/20/2008
Last year, Wisconsin legislators raised the driver's license fee by $10 to pay for state compliance with Real ID, the national ID law authored by Congressman F. James Sensenbrenner. The fee, which raised Wisconsin taxes by $22 million, will now be used to balance the Wisconsin state budget. Now Congressman Sensenbrenner is mad. He calls the deal, negotiated by Assembly Speaker Mike Huebsch (
Dad29 (Free subscription) | 04/30/2008
We're happy to announce that Jim Sensenbrenner got the hint . Congressman F. James Sensenbrenner, Jr. (R-Menomonee Falls) is a cosponsor of HR 5911, the Remove Incentives to Produce Ethanol Act of 2008 (RIPE Act), introduced this week by Representative Jeff Flake of Arizona. This bill will repeal the legislative provisions responsible for the artificial demand for ethanol by: Repealing the renewable...
Government Bytes (Free subscription) | 04/29/2008
Congressman F. James Sensenbrenner (WI-5) is a consistent Taxpayers’ Friend Award winner. In fact, this year’s award is his sixteenth in a row! Since 1992, Rep. Sensenbrenner has had an average Ranking of 4.81, making him one of the best crusaders for the Taxpayers! It is also worth nothing that Rep. Sensenbrenner had the highest Rating in the Wisconsin Delegation. He received a 91%, compared with...
Sensenbrenner Watch (Free subscription) | 04/10/2008
F. James Sensenbrenner makes an appearance in Jack Lohman's blog, Moneyed Politicians: My recent visit to Jim Sensenbrenner’s Town Hall meeting would have been comical were it not so sad. Sensenbrenner gets very offended when you imply that we have a corrupt political system. Like, this is the first time he’s heard about it? “The system is working,” Jim says in his defense. “People are in jail
Boots and Sabers (Free subscription) | 01/14/2008
This should be interesting. Congresswoman Tammy Baldwin, Congressman F. James Sensenbrenner Jr., and former Federal Energy Regulatory Commission Chair James Hoecker will highlight a “Coping with Climate Change” conference on Monday, Feb. 11. The half-day conference at the Monona Terrace Convention Center in Madison will bring together energy experts with Wisconsin, Midwest and Washington, D.C. perspectives...
Sensenbrenner Watch (Free subscription) | 09/28/2007
"A decade after Kyoto, it is clear to me that the [Kyoto] treaty produced far too few results; it is a failure." -- Rep. F. James Sensenbrenner. Do you think it might have produced more results if the US had participated? Sensenbrenner, of course, has a long, bad record on global warming. He calls himself a veteran of the climate wars, but it's hard to tell on which side.
Sensenbrenner Watch (Free subscription) | 09/24/2007
"I care that the taxpayers' money is being spent in a prudent manner."That was Rep. F. James Sensenbrenner defending himself against charges that he was heartless or uncaring, after he voted against any federal assistance for victims of Hurricane Katrina. Spending $51.8-billion was "throwing money at the problem," he said, and a lot will be wasted, pointing to reports of previous mismanagement
CQ Politics (Free subscription) | 07/25/2007
Fifteen-term Rep. F. James Sensenbrenner Jr., a Wisconsin Republican, has rarely faced a serious challenge during a long House career in a stretch of suburban Milwaukee where Republican voters dominate. But Sensenbrenner, in the 2008 campaign, is being double-teamed by Republican Jim Burkee and Democrat Jeff Walz, friends and teaching colleagues at the district's Concordia University — who are staging...
Madison NORML (Free subscription) | 07/05/2007
Posted by Gary Storck Wednesday, July 4, 2007 I was recently perusing the online version of Milwaukee's Shepherd Express and came across an article in espresso detailing where right-wing Wisconsin Republican Congressman F. James Sensenbrenner's wealth lies. When I read...
The ITT List (Free subscription) | 06/15/2007
Jesse Lee at The Gavel reports: Chairman Brad Miller and Ranking Member F. James Sensenbrenner of the Science Subcommittee on Investigations and Oversight urged the Department of Justice today to investigate and possibly prosecute Michael Wholley, the general counsel of NASA, for obstruction of justice and destruction of government records. Subcommittee Chairman Miller and Ranking Member Sensenbrenner...
