Update : Stupak passes, only 1 present vote (Shadegg)because the anti-choicers said they'd score a present vote as a no vote. Final vote: 240 to 194, 1 present. Who are the 64 Dems who voted for the wire coat hanger amendment? The roll call vote is here . Shame on Colorado Rep. John Salazar, brother of former Sen. Ken Salazar. Update : Reps. Diana DeGette and Louise Slaughter, co-chairs of the Congressional...
After nearly 100,000 members of the public called for protecting the Grand Canyon from mining, a Pew Environment Group ad (http://www.pewminingreform.org/pdf/WishAd.pdf) today urged Congress to support legislation that would permanently ban new mining claims on public lands surrounding the park. Under the antiquated mining law of 1872, more than one thousand uranium mining claims have been staked...
By Seán Martinfield Sentinel Editor and Publisher Photo by Lynn Imanaka Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar recently joined Secretary of Labor Hilda Solis, bipartisan members of the National Museum of the American Latino Commission and bipartisan Members of Congress to announce the establishment of the Commission and discuss future activities related to the study of the potential [...]
http://tinyurl.com/ygn2bye Obama Official: Immigration Reform Will Be Introduced Once Votes to Pass It Are Assured By Diego Graglia, FI2W web editor The Obama administration will push for immigration reform in Congress once Democrats are certain they have enough votes to pass it, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar said Tuesday in Washington. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar. (Photo: Mike Disharoon/Flickr)...
Ken Salazar, the Interior secretary, signed the construction permits this afternoon on the grounds of the memorial with Harry E. Johnson, the memorial project's chief executive.
The first of three days of hearings about the Boxer-Kerry climate change bill in the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee (chaired by Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.)) went the way opening days often do. The Senators kicked things off with what were essentially position papers, with Sen. Boxer highly favorable to the bill and ranking member Sen. James Inhofe (R. Okla.) highly unfavorable. (Inhofe...
Get ready for some fun this week. Starting tomorrow are the hearings on the Clean Energy Jobs and American Power Act in the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee. Tomorrow's hearing features secretaries Ken Salazar, Ray LaHood and Steven Chu,...
If it burns, it's a fuel. If it's ethanol, it's not new. So I had a problem when BusinessWeek had this headline a few days ago: ENERGY SECRETARY TELLS CEOS NEW FUELS COMING. Well, I'm not sure that's precisely what Interior Secretary Ken Salazar or Energy Secretary Steven Chu said at a meeting in North Carolina. I hope not. Actually, BusinessWeek isn't totally at fault. They simply ran an AP story...
Back in earlier February, in one of his first actions on taking office, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar announced that the cancellation of oil and gas leases on more than 100,000 acres of public land in Utah, the first indication that Salazar might pleasantly surprise us. He's continuing in that vein. Yesterday, he called for an investigation a last-minute regulatory change by the Bush administration...
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If Bill Thompson could draw up the ideal endorsement from President Obama, it probably wouldn't have been worded as Obama delivered it last night . "A great city comptroller, our candidate for mayor, my friend Billy Thompson is in the house," is the entirety of what Obama said, which Thompson then decided to interpret as an endorsement. But even if it wasn't really an "endorsement,"...
Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar has requested an investigation into last-minute changes the Bush administration made to speed up oil-shale development in the Rocky Mountains.
CARY, North Carolina - Secretary of Energy Steven Chu and Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar and U.S. Senator Kay Hagan (D-NC) met today with employees of Southern Energy Management, a home-grown sustainable energy company, and toured the firm's signature project -- one of the largest solar array energy systems in the Southeast.
Demure Delaware was the first state to ratify the Constitution, but since then has not made many waves. It might, however, be part of a political wave a year from now, thanks to a direct descendent of Benjamin Franklin. The great man's great-great-great-great-great grandson, Mike Castle, 70, a nine-term Delaware congressman, will be next year's Republican nominee for the Senate seat Joe Biden held...
Oct 13: U.S. Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA), Chairman of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works, held a press conference and issued a statement regarding further legislative actions on the Boxer-Kerry Clean Energy Jobs & American Power Act (S. 1733) [ See WIMS 9/30/09 ] . Boxer said, "I am here today to bring you up to date on our effort to report a strong clean energy jobs bill...
Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA), chair of the Environment and Public Works Committee, said she's ready to green light debate by month's end on the Senate climate bill she has co-authored with Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chair John Kerry (D-MA). According to Politico : A major Senate climate change bill is written and ready to be debated before the Environment and Public Works committee, the chairwoman...
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