Maine's Democratic House members split their votes on a landmark agreement to cut spending and raise the debt ceiling that cleared the House on Monday night and now is headed for a Senate vote. Reps. Mike Michaud, 2nd District, and Chellie Pingree, 1st District, had not said how they planned to vote on the deal that would raise the $14.3 trillion debt ceiling in return for $2.4 trillion in planned spending cuts over a decade.
GIPPERTOPIA There are fabricated "bipartisan" moments. Then there are the real ones. Two hours of floor time have been reserved in the Senate Thursday to commemorate the 100th birthday of Ronald Reagan, organized by Democratic Sens. Jim Webb of Virginia and Dianne Feinstein of California, plus Sen. Orrin Hatch, Utah Republican. The lawmakers are all members of the Ronald Reagan Centennial Commission, established by Congress in 2009.
By PAUL GOLDMAN LAST YEAR, Democratic Sens. Mark Warner and Jim Webb, along with Republican Rep. Eric Cantor, introduced legislation that would save Norfolk 30 to 40 percent of the cost of modernizing its oldest schools.
WASHINGTON - Three senators are urging the Justice Department and Securities and Exchange Commission to investigate whether News Corp. violated U.S. law as a scandal over phone hacking unfolds in Britain. Democratic Sens. Jay Rockefeller of West Virginia, Barbara Boxer of California and Frank Lautenberg of New Jersey made their requests in letters Wednesday to Attorney General Eric Holder and SEC Chairman Mary Schapiro.
Use stimulus to improve education Republican Rep. Bob Goodlatte and Democratic Sens. Mark Warner and Jim Webb are all opposed to the $51 million stimulus greening of the Poff Federal Building for good reasons (not cost-effective, major disruption to already backlogged services). But even when Democrats and Republicans finally agree on something, they can't stop the waste.
Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney wisely stayed out of the debt-ceiling maelstrom. But New York's struggling Republican State Committee plunged right in, probably pressed into it by some of the GOP's crazies down here. The state committee blasted Democratic Sens. Charles E. Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand last week for failing to "lead" in solving the country's credit rating crisis and for "kicking the can down the road." It might make sense for the state Republican Party to poke at the floundering Democratic president. But tying itself in the People's Republic of New York to Washington's legislative behavior is vacuous.
IT'S always music to the ears of Californians when their governors gripe about the obvious inequity between what citizens of this state pay to the federal government and what they get back. The likes of Ronald Reagan and Jerry Brown, George Deukmejian, Pete Wilson and Gray Davis all argued that California should get more. In recent years, the state has seen 78 cents spent here for every dollar California taxpayers put in, although Democratic Sens. Barbara Boxer and Dianne Feinstein say federal stimulus and recovery spending have lately pushed that figure up.
It's always music to the ears of Californians when their governors gripe about the obvious inequity between what citizens of this state pay to the federal government and what they get back. The likes of Ronald Reagan and Jerry Brown, George Deukmejian, Pete Wilson and Gray Davis all argued that California should get more. In recent years, the state has seen 78 cents spent here for every dollar California taxpayers put in, although Democratic Sens. Barbara Boxer and Dianne Feinstein say federal stimulus and recovery spending have lately pushed that figure up.
At an event that organizers strive to keep civil, tension grew thick Saturday as local state legislators voiced their opinions on the ongoing turmoil at the Statehouse surrounding the month-long boycott staged by House Democrats. Republican Reps. Ron Bacon, Suzanne Crouch and Wendy McNamara, Democratic Rep. Gail Riecken aand Republican Sens. Jim Tomes and Vaneta Becker took turns updating constituents on the progress, or lack thereof, being made in Indianapolis. They spoke at the latest installment of "Meet Your Legislators" at Central Library.
It's always music to the ears of Californians when their governors gripe about the obvious inequity between what citizens of this state pay to the federal government and what they get back. The likes of Ronald Reagan and Jerry Brown, George Deukmejian, Pete Wilson and Gray Davis all argued that California should get more. In recent years, the state has seen 78 cents spent here for every dollar California taxpayers put in, although Democratic Sens. Barbara Boxer and Dianne Feinstein say federal stimulus and recovery spending have lately pushed that figure up.
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