Red Orbit (Free subscription) | yesterday
By Journal Staff Report Eastern New Mexico University at Portales has been awarded $957,967 to allow the school to make technological upgrades to its computer, telecommunications and multi-media classrooms. The grant derives from an earmark secured by Sen.
The Onion (Free subscription) | 07/05/2008
WASHINGTON, DC— Sen. Pete Domenici (R-NM), ranking Republican on the Senate Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development, revealed Monday that the group is "less a Senate subcommittee than a big family. "[Senator] Harry [Reid (D-NV)] isn't just chairman of our subcommittee. He's more like a dad to us," Domenici said. "We can talk to him about anything that's troubling us, even if it has nothing to...
Biofuels Digest (Free subscription) | 07/03/2008
In Texas, it was previously reported in Biofuels Digest that a $100,000 donation by Pilgrim’s Pride co-founder Bo Pilgrim to the Republican National Governors Conference, chaired by Governor Rick Perry of Texas, was closely followed by Governor Perry’s request for an ethanol waiver. An in-depth article in the Houston Chronicle said that Governor Perry proceeded with [...]
Red Orbit (Free subscription) | 07/02/2008
By Rosalie Rayburn Journal Staff Writer A new clinic slated to open next year will give local veterans im]proved access to health care.
New West Network Cities: Idaho Nort (Free subscription) | 07/01/2008
Heath Haussamen at NM Politics reports Senator Pete Domenici's chief of staff, Steve Bell, blames the New Mexico Wilderness Alliance (NMWA) for causing gridlock surrounding wilderness designations in Doa Ana County. Bell states "You don't have to be a genius to figure out that we have absolutely entered gridlock and nothing can happen because there's too much at stake politically, Bell said. ... The...
Political Cortex (Free subscription) | 07/01/2008
The topic below was originally posted on my blog, the Intrepid Liberal Journal. David Iglesias...
The New Mexico Business Weekly (Free subscription) | 06/30/2008
U.S. Senators Jeff Bingaman, D-NM, and Pete Domenici, R-NM, will conduct a field hearing for the Energy and Natural Resources Committee in Albuquerque in July 2.
Business Wire (Free subscription) | 06/26/2008
WASHINGTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The Freedom Prize Foundation and the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today unveiled the Freedom Prize, the first competition of its kind that will direct more
Biofuels Digest (Free subscription) | 06/25/2008
In Washington, the EPA received a total of 15,000 comments on the proposed waiver of the Renewable Fuel Standard. The agency said that, following the waiver request by Governor Rick Perry of Texas, said that many of the responses came from a website set up by the Grocery Manufacturers Association. Governor Perry said that he [...]
Democracy for New Mexico (Free subscription) | 06/20/2008
National political curmudgeon Robert Novak, a venomously right-wing Republican, presents a decidedly pessimistic picture for GOP candidates in federal races this year in New Mexico. He reports that Pearce has big odds to beat in the U.S. Senate race: New...
Why Now? (Free subscription) | 06/19/2008
Republicans, especially Reagan, liked to talk about the waste represented by “welfare queens”, mythical urban dwellers in “liberal” states who were soaking the Federal budget dry. Of course this ignores what a truly tiny portion of the Federal budget is spent on assistance and the the fact that the largest group that receives the [...]
Belfast Telegraph (Free subscription) | 06/17/2008
John McCain should have been fundraising in the Texas oil patch yesterday alongside his good friend Clayton Williams. In the town of Midland, Republican heavy-hitters were lined up to sign some equally weighty cheques for their man's presidential campaign.
The Rothenberg Political Report (Free subscription) | 06/13/2008
By Nathan L. Gonzales The Republicans just chose their Senate nominee in New Mexico, but Rep. Tom Udall (D) is on the air with his third television ad. The Democratic nominee to replace retiring Sen. Pete Domenici (R-N.M.), Udall didn’t face primary opposition on June 3, but during the last three weeks of the primary campaign, he still ran a 60-second bio ad as well as a 30-second ad on improving veterans’...
TexasFreds (Free subscription) | 06/10/2008
WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Republicans blocked a proposal Tuesday to tax the windfall profits of the largest oil companies, despite pleas by Democratic leaders to use the measure to address America’s anger over $4 a gallon gasoline. The Democratic energy package would have imposed a tax on any “unreasonable” profits of the five largest U.S. oil [...]
Nevada Thunder (Free subscription) | 06/10/2008
H. JOSEF HEBERT ¦ AP via huffingtonpost.com Senate Republicans blocked a proposal Tuesday to tax the windfall profits of the largest oil companies, despite pleas by Democratic leaders to use the measure to address America’s anger over $4 a gallon gasoline. The Democratic energy package would have imposed a tax on any “unreasonable” profits of the five largest [...]
