Mike Enzi

Senator Comments On Possible Liz Cheney Challenge

HuffingtonPost.com | Ariel Edwards-Levy | Posted 05.08.2012

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WASHINGTON -- Liz Cheney's recent appearances across Wyoming have sparked rumors that the former State Department official and daughter of Vice Presid...

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The Dim World of Light Bulb Politics

David Jenkins | Posted 05.07.2012

Read More: Radicalism, Energy Efficiency, Conservamerica, Ronald Reagan, Mike Enzi, Michael Burgess, Conservation, LED Light Bulbs, Light Bulbs, Conservative, Russell Kirk, Libertarianism, Politics News

When widespread concern about energy waste caused states to start passing light bulb efficiency standards, the manufacturers sought a uniform national standard and got it.

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Another Cheney Eyes The Political Stage

Politico | Posted 05.05.2012

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Liz Cheney has been making the rounds at Wyoming political events this spring and her desire to move back to the state has Republicans from Cheyenne t...

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GOP Anti-Union Measure Fails In Senate

HuffingtonPost.com | Dave Jamieson | Posted 04.24.2012

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WASHINGTON -- In a modest victory for labor groups, a rare measure that would have blocked new federal rules considered favorable to unions failed Tue...

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Republican Sen. Mike Enzi: Gas Taxes Must Be Raised

HuffingtonPost.com | Michael McAuliff | Posted 03.07.2012

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WASHINGTON -- Just hours after Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell argued that the president wants to raise gas prices by hiking taxes, a senior me...

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With Gas Tax Money Vanishing, Transportation Bills Mum On What Comes Next

HuffingtonPost.com | Matt Sledge | Posted 02.16.2012

Read More: Gas Prices, Cbo, Fuel Efficiency, Gas Tax, Cars, Highway Trust Fund, Obama Surface Transportation, Surface Transportation Bill, Ray Lahood, Transportation, Video, Tom Coburn, Mike Enzi, John Mica, Max Baucus, Transportation Bill, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- As both chambers of Congress continued to debate dueling surface transportation bills on Wednesday, Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) announ...

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Coal-State Lawmakers Want To Ignore This Danger

HuffingtonPost.com | Matt Sledge | Posted 12.14.2011

Read More: Coal Plants, Environmental Protection Agency, Ben Nelson, Rob Portman, Mike Enzi, Kent Conrad, Environmental Integrity Project, John Boozman, Coal Ash, Kingston Fossil Plant, Coal Ash Spill, Joe Manchin, Mine Safety and Health Administration, Coal Mining, Tennessee Valley Authority, Green News

Just days before the three-year anniversary of the devastating dike failure at the Tennessee Valley Authority's Kingston Fossil Plant, the Environment...

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Costs Of No Child Left Behind Waivers 'Jaw Dropping"

| John Fensterwald | Posted 01.10.2012

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This story comes to us courtesy of Silicon Valley Education Foundation's Thoughts On Public Education blog, TopEd.org. An ambivalent State Board of...

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No Child Left Behind Revision Moves One Step Closer To Law

HuffingtonPost.com | Hayley Miller | Posted 12.21.2011

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WASHINGTON -- The Senate education committee completed a bipartisan markup revising the No Child Left Behind Act on Thursday evening. After 13 hours o...

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Sen. Rand Paul: Slow Down Education Reform

HuffingtonPost.com | Joy Resmovits | Posted 12.18.2011

Letters and amendments are flying on the eve of the first markup of a comprehensive rewrite of the No Child Left Behind law, providing a glimpse into ...

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Senators Announce Agreement On No Child Left Behind Overhaul

AP | KIMBERLY HEFLING | Posted 12.17.2011

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WASHINGTON — Signaling some unity in the Senate on overhauling the "No Child Left Behind" law, two senators announced Monday an agreement to mov...

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Harkin's Education Bill Draft Shows A Federal Rollback

HuffingtonPost.com | Joy Resmovits | Posted 12.10.2011

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An early draft of a Senate committee's sweeping rewrite of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act rolls back major accountability provisions of th...

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Republican Senators Introduce Bills To 'Fix' No Child Left Behind

Posted 11.15.2011

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Former U.S. education Secretary Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.) and Sen. Johnny Isakson (R-Ga.) announced Wednesday a plan to introduce new legislation...

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Economic Misery Gets A Hearing On The Hill

HuffingtonPost.com | Arthur Delaney | Posted 08.23.2011

Read More: Senate Help Committee, Jobs Crisis, Unemployment, Mike Enzi, American Dream, Tom Harkin, Recession, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- In a vain effort to shift beltway attention away from budgets and deficits to pervasive economic misery, Iowa Democratic Sen. Tom Harkin...

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Alabama Nursing Assistants At Center Of National Labor Dispute

HuffingtonPost.com | Dave Jamieson | Posted 07.23.2011

Read More: Boeing, Labor, Nurses, Mike Enzi, Certified Nursing Assistants, Lindsey Graham, National Labor Relations Board, Unions, Labor Unions, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- In late 2008, a small group of certified nursing assistants in Mobile, Ala., made a bid to unionize. Two and a half years later, the nur...

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Boeing Controversy At Center Of Jobs Debate

HuffingtonPost.com | Dave Jamieson | Posted 07.12.2011

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WASHINGTON -- A controversial complaint recently filed by the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) against the Boeing Company became the centerpiece ...

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Do Your Own Damn Taxes

Joseph J. Thorndike | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Turbotax, Taxes, Congress, Mike Enzi, Tax, Turbo Tax, Tax Day, Accountants, Tim Pawlenty, Tax Filing, Taxpayers, 1040, Politics News

Should members of Congress be forced to do their own taxes? Anesthetized by too much tax assistance, politicians aren't motivated to do the hard work of crafting tax reform.

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Six Months After Upper Big Branch Mine Disaster, Republicans Still Obstructing Progress

Jake Blumgart | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Massey Energy, Don Blankenship, Republican Obstructionism, Cry Wolf, Big Business, Mike Enzi, Mine Safety, Mine Explosion, Worker Safety, Upper Big Branch, Politics News

If the Republicans and their industry allies are successful in sinking the Byrd Act, another option for worker safety reform won't present itself again soon, or at least until the next mine explodes.

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How They Passed Health Care: Tri-Com Unity, Climate Change Handicaps And The Offer Max Baucus Should Have Refused

The New Republic | Jonathan Cohn | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Tri-Committee, Charles Grassley, Mike Enzi, Henry Waxman, Hcr, Health Care Reform, George Miller, Max Baucus, Health Care, Health Reform, Charles Rangel, Politics News

It was Henry Waxman, chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, who had tried to get tough with the manufacturers of biological drugs. He wa...

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When Senators Vote for the Big Banks, We Will Name Them

Richard (RJ) Eskow | Posted 05.25.2011

The Senate Budget Committee nearly voted to break up Wall Street's biggest banks. But four Democrats helped pro-Wall Street Republicans kill an important amendment.

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The Deliberation Chamber

Tom Vander Ark | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Arne Duncan, Patty Murray, Mike Enzi, Al Franken, Tom Harkin, Joel Klein, Michael Bennet, Lamar Alexander, Alan Greenspan, Race to the Top, Education Reform, Eduation, Politics News

Who will take the mantle of bipartisan education leadership that Ted Kennedy carried? Breaking with caucus leaders to do the right thing will be uncomfortable but everything is at stake.

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Mike Enzi Butchers 'Blagojevich' In Senate Speech (VIDEO)

Posted 05.25.2011

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Sen. Mike Enzi (R-Wyo.) butchered the pronunciation of disgraced former Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich's name Tuesday. Enzi's flub came during a f...

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What to Give a President for His First Anniversary in Office

Rick Horowitz | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Scott Brown, Ben Nelson, Mitch McConnell, 2010 Elections, Ted Kennedy and Health Care, Olympia Snowe, Mike Enzi, Martha Coakley, Massachusetts Senate Race, Democrats, Ted Kennedy, Unions and Health Care, Susan Collins, Obama and Health Care, Republican Strategy, Edward Kennedy, Congress and Health Care, Nancy Pelosi, Health Care Reform, Harry Reid, Max Baucus, Joe Lieberman, Republicans, Chuck Grassley, Kent Conrad, Gop Strategy, Health Care, Elections 2010, Politics News

What to give a president for his first anniversary in office ... how about a great cosmic joke? Take Kennedy's Senate seat and hand it to someone who promises to be the crucial vote against the central cause of Kennedy's life -- not to mention the central battle of the president's entire first year.

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Why Don't We Have a Surgeon General?

Linda Bergthold | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Regina Benjamin, Mitch McConnell, Mike Enzi, Swine Flu Pandemic, Surgeon General, Humana, H1n1, Obama's Surgeon General, Politics News

There is something terribly wrong when a political minority can hold up a nomination that has the potential to affect a nation's health.

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The GOP vs. Labor Law

Thomas Frank | Posted 05.25.2011

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Outreach is just what understaffed labor agencies need. Yet the menace of outreach is why conservatives objected to the "Wage Watch" program.

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