🎉 The 2024 Albany Power 100 list is out, highlighting influential figures in state government driving significant policy changes all year long. We're elated to see that our very own VP of Public Affairs Loren Amor has been recognized. As the former top adviser to state Senate Majority Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins, Loren spearheaded our efforts with the Empire State Local News Coalition, leading to the groundbreaking local media payroll tax credit passed in the latest state budget—a first-of-its-kind achievement. https://lnkd.in/emh7Qjxq
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Members of the #House and #Senate returned to their #districts for August #recess July 25 and August 2, respectively. Their departure leaves the FY25 #Appropriations bills #unresolved. The Senate’s focus on bipartisan funding bills allowed them to pass 11 out of 12 FY25 Appropriations Bills out of committee before August recess with broad bipartisan support. Notably, they intended to pass the twelfth bill, Department of Homeland Security Appropriations, out of committee before leaving as well, but in light of pf the shooting of President Trump at a recent campaign event, they are taking time to review the budget for the Secret Service. None of the Senate appropriations bills have made it to the floor for full consideration. The House of Representatives, though much further along in the appropriations process, with five of the twelve bills passed by the full House, have hit a roadblock in their funding process. House members left for August recess a week earlier than scheduled due to lack of feasibility of Appropriation bill passage. Some of the content within the House Appropriations bills is viewed to be partisan, which is where the lack of support comes from. Furthermore, it is notable that upon his appointment to the Speaker’s chair, Speaker Mike Johnson pledged to have all twelve bills passed before members left for August recess. Failure to pass Appropriations bills was recognized as a reason that the House Freedom Caucus ousted Speaker Kevin McCarthy during October of last year. The House and Senate both need to pass their budget bills and come together to pass joint legislation by September 30 to avoid a government shutdown. It is believed that there will be a continuing resolution passed to get through the election or even as far in the future as the next congress.
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Leading Passage of the Voters Voice Amendment (VVA) VVA.US. The VVA is a proposed U.S. Constitutional amendment for voter initiatives to create and pass federal laws. BobBrown@VVA.US
Another US Federal Government Shutdown? Really? Here we are again. October 1st is around the corner, and that is the first day of the new federal fiscal year. Today, days away, and the political parties are still messing around, some representatives threatening to shut down the government. Now, the very rich don't care if the government is functioning, so long as the military is not furloughed. That's their only big concern. It's the rest of us, you know, that need those government services. We need our Social Security checks on time. We need the Department of Education, we need Health and Human Services, we need Department of Labor, etc. When you shut down for any period-of-time, it costs US a LOT of money, it doesn't any have to be a long shutdown. The game has to stop. One way you can make that happen is with the proposed Voter's Voice Amendment (VVA.US). Congress has two main jobs. That's all they must do. One of them, is to confirm nominees for various government positions. But the big one is passing the Federal budget. They've got the whole year to make it happen. With the VVA in place, Citizens would be able to pass federal level ballot initiatives. One ballot initiative idea that would prevent the Budget fight shutdowns is; if we are two weeks before the next federal fiscal year, and no FULL year fiscal budget has passed Congress with the President’s signature, then next year’s budget equals the current fiscal year budget, with automatic increases equal to the cost of living from the previous year, applied to each of the budget categories. That will comprise the full year, next fiscal year federal budget. So, if they don't get their act together two weeks prior to the start of the next fiscal year, this rule kicks in automatically. No government shutdowns. No time, or our tax money, wasted restarting everything. If Congress can't get the job done, we'll do it for them. Purpose BEFORE Politics and Power The Party of We Democracy 2.0 Pic courtesy of incharge.org #BISC #democracy #choices #VVA #PttP #biden #Harris #trump #breaking #AI #work #workworkwork #rfkjr #influenceisyoursuperpower #shutdown
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When are we voters going to let Republicans know that we are DISGUSTED with the mess in the House because of their political gamesmanship. Congress has NEVER been this flamingly USELESS. All because the repugnicans are kowtowing to an ex-president's wishes - ALSO unprecedented. 27 bills passed during ALL of 2023 that were signed into law - lowest since the Great Depression. More TEMPORARY budget bills - NEVER have I seen such a jury-rigged approach to funding the government. VOTE BLUE and show these pettifoggers that we voters have had it. The truly AMAZING aspect of their mess is that President Biden has still managed to keep our country running fairly smoothly despite a DO-NOTHING House. Stock market at an all-time high. Lowest unemployment in 50 years. Terrific job creation numbers. AND he'd have better results at the border IF the House hadn't tabled the BI-PARTISAN immigration bill that #PO1135809 wanted aborted. Biden just keeps keeping on - working on greedflation, working on reducing the economic burdens of the working class, including taking on credit card company abuses.
House passes funding bills to avert partial government shutdown
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Where Power Rivals Power The Founders felt that by having a wholesome balance between the federal and state governments, the people would have recourse to one or the other in case of usurpation or abuse by either. Commenting further on this, Hamilton said: They Founders Would Have Frowned on the 17th Amendment But would the states be able to protect themselves from the might of the federal government if the Congress began legislating against states' rights? Originally, the states could protect themselves because U.S. Senators were appointed by the state legislatures, and the Senate could veto any legislation by the House if Representatives which they considered a threat to the rights of the individual states. Unfortunately, the protection of states' rights by this means was completely wiped out by the passage of the Seventeenth Amendment in 1913. That amendment provided that Senators would thence forth be elected by popular ballot rather than appointed by the state legislatures. This meant the states as sovereign commonwealths had lost their representation on the federal level, and their Senators would be subject to the same popular pressures during an election campaign as those which confront the members of the House of Representatives. Since that time, there has been no veto power which the states could exercise against the Congress in those cases where a federal statute was deemed in violation of states' rights. The Senators who used to be beholden to their state legislatures for their conduct in Washington are now beholden to the popular electorate. Federal funds appropriated for a state are generally a source of popular acclaim, and Senators, like Congressmen, usually hasten to get them approved. Too often it has been of little consequence that those funds might be expended in violation of basic powers reserved to the state. Sometime in the not-too-distant future, the people may want to take another look at the present trend and consider the advantages of returning to the Founders' policy of having state legislatures in the United States Senate. It might give us another generation of Senators like Daniel Webster, John Calhoun, and Henry Clay. What do you think. Repeal the 17th amendment... Term limits... No retirement system and the people set the salaries. Maybe we. Luke get some men and women who represent we the people not me and my pocketbook ???
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How are Select Committee chairs appointed? 🗳 With parliament returned from the summer recess, the important business of choosing Select Committee chairs starts in earnest. Before the summer, parties decided which committees would be chaired by an MP from each party. Labour will now chair 18 select committees, the Conservatives get just 5, and the Liberal Democrats get 3. Nominations for chair will run until 4pm on 9th September with results due on 11th September. Select Committees have evolved over time, and are no longer in the ‘gift’ of party whips as they once were, instead being elected by all MPs. This means that the agenda, personality, and wider appeal of those going for chairmanship of select committees matter, and raw partisan politics doesn’t tend to see through, particularly for the important committees such as public accounts, Treasury, and Home Affairs. Once chairs are in place, the wider committee will be elected based on the broad make up of the House of Commons. Committee inquiries will begin quickly with lots of government legislation and wider current affairs to scrutinise and assess. Next week, we’ll look at who has been elected and what it might mean, and then a look at what it is like to give evidence to a committee and how to prepare for one. #Blakeney #PublicAffairs #SelectCommittees
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The Debate Trump vs Harris pt 1: Trump vs Harris 2024 debate highlights Q: When it comes to the US Economy Are we better off 4 years ago? Trump: Debates on how our economy was not kept to a proper minimum/standard that it should. Makes repeated promises to tariff other countries for supply and demand of daily needs for the US Citizens. (factual claim and has reduced prices previously before Biden admin party took over in 2023.) this effected Electronics , appliances , and other items produced by companies outside of the US via China industrial companies owned by US owners, and China owners. percent of these tariff's were 30% - 50% increase for outside of US to pay out of pocket and subtract our National Deficit. Claims that a lot of "our jobs" wide vague term used for most jobs are more racial profiling using a ATS system to equal out in a political standard view of acceptance. Companies catering to outside labor from people outside of US. this may include future citizens from Mexico, Ukraine , and outside of US soil. mentioned that citizens feel that companies prefer cheap labor rather than focus on local citizens in the US. Harris: aware of Cost of living. Explains self that they are "middle class". States that Cost of living is too high for the demand in resources. Claims that Young families is in Demand for cost of living to be lowered for the future of the US. promises a Tax cut for young families of 6k (child tax credit.) Claims of supporting small family companies/Mom and Pop shops. Promises 50k tax deduction on small companies to support local store Start ups across the US. Makes claim saying that trump has ruined the US under his term but factcheck.org mentions not all of trumps doing was at fault. [Sources?]: Public Financial report and party funded organizations for the Harris party and factcheck.org for trumps term of presidential role. Harris also encouraged immigration policy even though they spent over 66 billion of illegal immigrants even though US vets only got 3 billion by the federal government in 2023.. more will be posted once we evaluate all claims and factchecking both sides. Stay Tuned.
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Business leaders, want to know how your elected representatives voted on issues affecting you? Here is your 2024 legislative session recap, highlighted with key bills and votes cast by legislators in the 40th and 42nd districts: https://lnkd.in/gRXjEbMh
News - Whatcom Business Alliance
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Governor Lamont unveils his budget plan and legislative agenda today. Senate Democrats have released their priority caucus bills for the upcoming session, addressing a wide range of issues from mental health to artificial intelligence, net neutrality, drug affordability, and paid sick days. Meanwhile, Republicans have made affordability and fiscal discipline the centerpiece of their priority list. Check out the details here. #CTPolitics #LegislativeSession
From taxes to seltzers: Key priorities for CT lawmakers in 2024
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Executive Director at High Pay Centre | Author 'Enough - Why it's Time to Abolish the Super Rich' (published 20 March 2024)
Some interesting bits and pieces in the Liberal Democrat manifesto. On corporate governance, they propose that companies should produce a formal statement of corporate purpose and to report formally on their social and environmental impact (High Pay Centre called for this in our recent submission to the Corporate Governance Code consultation https://lnkd.in/eAc8-JM7). However there's nothing on worker representation on company boards, which was in their previous two manifestos On tax, they commit to reforming capital gains tax (40% on gains over £50k and 45% over £100k) and pushing for a global minimum of 21% corporation tax - though don't say anything about the complementary initiative to ensure global co-ordination of more effective taxation of super-rich individuals. There are also a host of employment policy including a new 'Worker Protection Enforcement Agency' to enforce rights like the minimum wage, plus a higher minimum wage for workers on zero hours contracts. But no mention in the entire document of anything to do with trade unions https://lnkd.in/eZCfSAvK
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