Rep. Guinta casts deciding vote on Ryan Budget
Yesterday, Congressman Frank Guinta cast the deciding vote to pass the Ryan Budget out of the Budget Committee by a vote of 19-18. Among other proposals, The House Budget continues the Bush tax cuts...
View ArticleThe Bill O’Brien I know
(Background: I was asked by my school newspaper to offer the democratic perspective on Bill O'briens budget forum at Saint Anselm College. Here's what I wrote). The Speaker O'brien that came to Saint...
View ArticleAyotte: We’re not spending enough on nukes
In a Politico piece authored with Jon Kyl and Bob Corker: President Barack Obama’s fiscal year 2013 budget request to modernize our nation’s aging nuclear weapons and laboratories falls about $370...
View ArticleThe governor’s budget & New Hampshire’s reactionary policy-making
One aged man—one man—can’t fill a house, A farm, a countryside, or if he can, It’s thus he does it of a winter night. –Robert Frost, “An Old Man’s Winter Night” From my perspective, Gov. Hassan’s...
View ArticleKuster charts a ‘bipartisan’ course
2nd District Congresswoman Ann Kuster is one of six House Agriculture Committee Democrats who voted with the Republican majority and approved legislation last week that would deregulate Wall Street...
View ArticleNH Senate Flip-Flops On Voter ID Provisions. Advocate Spending $1 Million...
Senate Republicans change position on expensive camera provision at the polls, whether student identification cards are an acceptable form of Voter ID Advocate to spend $1 million dollars on Voter ID...
View ArticleSad Day In The NH HOUSE For NH Workers
Today the NH House voted to kill the expanded gambling bill, SB 152. SB152 was a bill about creating new jobs. The same jobs that many of these House members campaigned on. This also means that NH is...
View ArticleBrace Yourself This May Hurt: NH Senate Moved Forward With Job Killing Budget
Yesterday labor leaders from throughout New Hampshire stood in the Legislative Office Building urging NH Senators to restore the proposed cuts to the NH Budget. Well as you have probably already heard...
View ArticleNH Senate Play Parliamentary Politics With Your Paycheck
Last week we reported on how the NH House killed two bills (SB 100, SB 153) that were directly targeted at the NH Public Workers. In a sneaky parliamentary trick the Senate added both these bills as...
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6-10-13 AFT-NH Legislative Update By President Laura Hainey. Included SB100,...
LET THE GAMES BEGIN This past Thursday the State Senate attached SB 100: AN ACT authorizing electronic payment of payroll to HB 357: AN ACT prohibiting an employer from using credit history in...
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Working Families Can’t Afford Another Shutdown Style Crisis (by Richard...
By Mark MacKenzie and Richard Trumka Last month, we saw Washington at its worst. Driven by the Tea Party, Republican leaders, including Senator Ayotte, recklessly shut down our government and brought...
View Article“It’s a pretty large number and I think we have to do something about it.”
That’s why a Rep from Virginia thinks the federal deficit has to be reduced and the people who have earned their retirement nest egg and health care have to foot the bill. The MMT (Modern Monetary...
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Senator Ayotte says (unofficially): Balance the budget on the backs of...
Balance the budget on the backs of….. This week the Senate will vote on the bi-partisan budget deal that was crafted by Rep Paul Ryan and Senator Patty Murray. Everyone has a bone to pick with this...
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Pres. Obama’s Budget Puts Working Families And Education First
President Obama released his 2015 budget last week. He calls it “A Roadmap for Growth, Opportunity, and Fiscal Responsibility.” Image by Pete Souza White House Images The White House says that “the...
View ArticleCrazier than Trump
You didn’t think That was possible? On Capitol Hill it is. So, what’s the point? Congress has suddenly discovered that their control of the public purse, which they have been pretending not to value,...
View ArticleCongressional House Members Split On Omnibus Bill
This week has been very busy in Washington as Congress created yet another manufactured crisis with threats to shut down the government over a divisive continuing resolution. The good news is that,...
View ArticleWhy I Voted No On The “CROmnibus” Spending Bill By Carol Shea-Porter
By Carol Shea-Porter Last week, Congress passed a 1,600-page funding bill, known as the “CRomnibus,” which was packed with provisions that favored moneyed special interests over middle-class Americans....
View ArticleSenator Shaheen Push For Legislation To Move US Government To A Biennial Budget
View Senator Shaheen and Senator Isakson reintroduce this legislation on the floor of the Senate WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) and Johnny Isakson (R-GA), today reintroduced the...
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Through Rain, Sleet, and Snow The Mail Must Go Through, So Why Is Congress...
(image by Mark Turnauckas FLIKR) As Letter Carriers put their health and safety at risk each day in this especially brutal winter we can take solace in the fact we have enabled the Postal Service to...
View ArticleFACT CHECK: Senate GOP’s False Excuses for Voting to Kill Bill to Ensure...
Concord, N.H. – After voting to kill SB 233, a fiscally responsible bill to help ensure the state ends FY 2015 with a balanced budget, Jeanie Forrester and Chuck Morse issued false statements...
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