Seattle Times (Free subscription) | yesterday
U.S. Rep. Jay Inslee helped broker a bipartisan solution to prevent disastrous royalty-fees increases for radio stations using the Internet.
Gristmill (Free subscription) | 10/03/2008
By Kate Sheppard In late April, Rep. Ed Markey (D-Mass.), chair of the House Select Committee for Energy Independence, joined with Henry Waxman (D-Calif.) and Jay Inslee (D-Wash.) to put out a statement of principles for climate legislation. Their framework for future climate bills calls for emissions reductions of 80 percent below 1990 levels by 2050, the establishment of near-term targets, and the...
Why Now? (Free subscription) | 10/02/2008
Time looks at the reaction to the House bill in Why Main Street Is Mad: Scenes from a Financial Crisis. The article includes remarks from Jay Inslee, the only Washington State Democrat to vote against the bailout in the House: The correspondence from his constituents fell into three camps, Inslee says. The first group thinks [...]
The Industry Standard (Free subscription) | 10/01/2008
Congress has cleared the way for a potential agreement intended to save the emerging Internet radio market from a crippling hike in copyright royalty rates. The measure, which was sponsored by Rep. Jay Inslee, D-Wash., and now heads to the president, would green-light an anticipated deal between Webcasters and SoundExchange, a nonprofit that collects royalties for recording copyright owners from Internet...
San Fransisco Chronicle (Free subscription) | 10/01/2008
Congress has cleared the way for a potential agreement intended to save the emerging Internet radio market from a crippling hike in copyright royalty rates. The measure, which was sponsored by Rep. Jay Inslee, D-Wash., and now heads to the president, would...
HorsesAss.Org (Free subscription) | 10/01/2008
U.S. Rep. Jay Inslee (D-Bainbridge Island) was one of just 95 Democrats who broke ranks and voted against Monday’s $700 billion Wall Street bailout . Inslee was the only member of the Washington State Democratic delegation to vote against the bill. Indeed, one of his Democratic colleagues, Rep. Adam Smith (D-Tacoma), said: “Failure to act by Congress could turn a severe economic slowdown into a panic—a...
The Industry Standard (Free subscription) | 09/30/2008
Congress is close to passing legislation that would buy extra time to finalize an agreement intended to save the emerging Internet radio market from a crippling hike in copyright royalty rates. The House on Saturday unanimously passed a bill sponsored by Rep. Jay Inslee, D-Wash., that would greenlight an anticipated agreement between Webcasters and SoundExchange, a nonprofit that collects royalties...
HorsesAss.Org (Free subscription) | 09/29/2008
Rep. Jay Inslee was the only Democratic member of WA’s congressional delegation to vote against today’s Wall Street bailout bill. Here is his statement: WASHINGTON, DC — Today, U.S. Rep. Jay Inslee (D-Wash.) voted against the $700 billion bailout package for troubled American financial markets in what he called “a vote of conscience.” “The initial plan by Secretary Paulson was completely unacceptable,...
Northwest Progressive Institute (Free subscription) | 09/29/2008
NPI has received statements from the offices of Representatives Brian Baird and Jay Inslee explaining their respective "yes" and "no" votes on the Bush administration's bailout proposal. Here is Brian Baird's: This wasn’t a perfect bill, but the economic situation is daunting. In the past few days, Congress was able to take an unacceptable proposal, and mold it into something that would have made the...
Northwest Progressive Institute (Free subscription) | 09/28/2008
A couple of hours ago, the U.S. House of Representatives voted to approve H.R. 7084, (a bill sponsored by Washington's own Representative Jay Inslee) that will allow the performance fee collector SoundExchange to negotiate an alternative royalty agreement before the end of 2008 with any Internet radio service. SoundExchange - which is the only organization designated by the federal government to collect...
HorsesAss.Org (Free subscription) | 09/28/2008
A Rep. Jay Inslee bill (H.R. 7084) to prevent a dramatic increase on the fees that Internet radio sites like Pandora pay to the recording industry passed the House today. Back in 2007, the federal Copyright Royalty Board passed a ruling raising the fees that webacsters had to pay—the rates would have gone up by as much as 300 percent, which would have crashed Internet radio. SoundExchange, the group...
Into the Breach (Free subscription) | 09/19/2008
Congressman Jay Inslee endorses Candidate George Fearing Inslee, a Champion of Alternative Energy and Hanford Clean-up, first elected to US House of Representatives from the 4th District RICHLAND, WA: Central Washington's Congressional Candidate, George Fearing, received the formal endorsement of Congressman Jay Inslee (D-WA). Inslee defeated incumbent Republican Doc Hastings in 1992. Now
HorsesAss.Org (Free subscription) | 09/17/2008
Teacher’s Pet How Dave Reichert’s C Grade Voting Record Turned Into an NEA Endorsement By Josh Feit Apparently the National Education Association grades Republicans on a curve. Consider: Suburban Washington state Democratic U.S. Reps. Jay Inslee (D-1, WA) and Adam Smith (D-9, WA) earned A’s for their 2007 voting records. Makes sense. Inslee voted the union’s way over 90 percent of the time and Smith...
Book Calendar (Free subscription) | 09/17/2008
Short list of Environment, Alternative Energy, and Clean Tech Books. Occassionally I like to summarize some of the books I have read on this subject and reviewed here. Apollo's Fire: Igniting America's Clean Energy Economy by Jay Inslee and Bracken Hendricks (This book is about a progressive alliance called the Apollo Alliance). The Citizen Powered Energy Handbook -- Greg Pahl The book describes solar...
Slog (Free subscription) | 08/29/2008
Jay Inslee is quite the dancer. But Jim McDermott does not like Steve Wonder! He preferred to talk to a veteran's group during Wonder's performance.
