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16 hours ago ago from Earthfinds: Green Solutions
The Oklahoma Deposit Beverage Container Recycling Act has been introduced in both the State House (HB 2916) and Senate (SB 1896). Such a bill would promote recycling. As a child I remember the Sunday drive to Grandma’s house. We’d stop every so often and one of us would hop out of the car and pick up a soda bottle. By the time we got back from Grandmas we usually had enough to turn in in order to get everyone a drink. Sure ...
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14 hours ago ago from Simply Left Behind
...it's up to you, New York, New York: 1) An embattled Gov. Paterson yesterday strongly denied rampant rumors of extramarital affairs and drug use as he blasted the media for printing callous and sleazy allegations. (ed. note Mind you, he came to office acknowledging he has an open marriage, with his wife standing at his side when he said that) 2) Capital rife with rumors of Paterson's political demise Because nothing says ...
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9 hours ago ago from Okie Pundit
Senate Bill 1597 , authored by State Senator Gary Stanislawski, passed a divided General Government Committee by a vote of 5-4. The bill would place term limits on members of boards and commissions. Members would be able to serve a maximum of 12 years per board or commission. Currently, only state legislators and the governor are subject to term limits. Voters will decide in November whether to place term limits on other statewide elected ...
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8 hours ago ago from KVII - KVII News
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) - A Senate committee has approved a bill to eliminate the sales tax on groceries once state revenues return to where they were before the economic downturn. The Senate Finance Committee voted 10-4 on Tuesday for the bill by Durant Democrat Jay Paul Gumm. With the state facing an estimated $1.3 billion shortfall, Gumm acknowledged now is not the time to eliminate the tax, which would cost the state an estimated ...
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7 hours ago ago from The Rose Report
By votes of 47-1 and 45-3, the Indiana State Senate approved two significant redistricting reform bills on January 28. The bills, SB-80 and SB-136, now move to the Indiana House of Representatives. The first bill establishes key guidelines for drawing districts, while the second establishes a study committee to look into the possibility of further reform. Currently, Indiana’s state code delegates redistricting power to the state ...
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Senate jobs bill: What's missing
1 hour, 54 minutes ago ago from CNN Money
Senate jobs bill: What's missing By Tami Luhby , senior writer February 9, 2010: 9:14 PM ET NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- Senate Democrats' draft plan for job creation, circulated Tuesday, contains a couple of employment measures and a lot of leftover business. What's not included in the $85 billion draft legislation is additional funds for states or stimulus money for infrastructure, which Republicans have said they will not support. ...
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23 hours ago ago from Washington Post - Politics
RICHMOND The Virginia Senate passed a bill Monday that would make it illegal to discriminate in the state workforce, including on the basis of sexual orientation, marking the first time such legislation has passed either chamber of the Virginia General Assembly. This Story The bill, which passed on a 23-to-17 largely party line vote in the Democratic-controlled Senate, will almost certainly die in the ...
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15 hours ago ago from Huffington Post
Congressional Democrats are sending strong signals that they want to see more leadership from the President on health care reform. But progressive groups, Democrats and unions also haven't coalesced behind a clear strategy to move now-stalled health care reform forward, or to convince cowed Senate Democrats to take on the sort of large-scale jobs creation programs needed for America's 27 million jobless and underemployed. The upshot of ...
Related contentRichard Greener: We Have A Crisis, Mr. Vice-President
5 hours ago ago from Huffington Post
Nearly 100 years ago President Woodrow Wilson pegged the Senate filibuster for exactly what it was. Wilson asserted that the filibuster served only to enable "a little group of willful men, representing no opinion but their own," to debase the Senate and turn it into "the only legislative body in the world which cannot act when its majority is ready for action." Who is to blame for the filibuster? The answer is: those who are the Senators. ...
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11 hours ago ago from Huffington Post
The Denver Post : The Colorado Senate gave initial approval to a package of bills removing tax breaks on candy, soda, software, junk mail and other items Monday night. After more than 11 hours of debate on the bills Monday, the Senate approved the package just before 11:30 p.m. and only after a last-minute partisan dust-up nearly led to an all-night filibuster. The Senate started on the measures Friday, debating them for four hours. ...
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