Throughout the state this week, public hearings have been held by the Environmental Improvement Board to discuss their cap-and-trade energy tax proposal. Steve Pearce spoke in opposition to the new tax at the hearing in Hobbs. Below are several articles from newspapers throughout the second district documenting the overwhelming public opposition to this government power grab.

Cap and Trade Unpopular Idea

By: Matthew Arco

September 01, 2010--Roswell Daily Record

Opponents of two petitions going before a state board that aim at regulating greenhouse gases, voiced their anger over the proposed adoption, Tuesday, at a public hearing in Artesia.

The State Environmental Improvement Board heard testimony from local homeowners and employees of the energy industry, who labeled the petitions as job killers and warned of a bleak future if they were enacted. The hearing drew a crowd of at least 150 about one hour after it began and disgruntled residents directed their comments to a hearing officer and a court reporter. No EIB members attended the meeting; however, they are required to read the transcripts.

By: Press

For Immediate Release

September 3, 2010

August Unemployment Climbs to 9.6%

Democrats’ Summer of Recovery a Complete Bust

By: Jamie Estrada

September 2, 2010--Silver City Sun-News

Las Cruces— What's wrong with this picture? With nothing to show for it, Gov. Bill Richardson has just returned from another so-called trade mission to Cuba to meet with the communist regime's dictators. Meanwhile, New Mexico lags behind other states in exports. Clearly, our state needs to get serious about trade, and that requires setting the right priorities in order to create jobs and get our economy growing again.

Congressman Kevin Brady has compiled the following chart, which vividly illustrates the bureaucratic empowerment that comes with Obamacare.

By: Press

For Immediate Release

August 31, 2010

Harry Teague’s Healthcare Hypocrisy

Do As I Say, Not As I Do Mentality of a Typical Politician on Full Display

HOBBS, NM – In Tuesday’s Cibola Beacon, Congressman Harry Teague bragged,  “after building a business, he worked to provide all of his employees with health insurance.”

He neglected to mention that he cut off his own employees’ health insurance last year right before Christmas, after taking a $3 million bonus.

In May, Politico ran a story noting “When he ran for Congress in 2008, businessman Harry Teague boasted that he provided health insurance for all of his employees back home in New Mexico…What Teague didn’t say at the time: At the very moment he was voting against the [healthcare] bill, his own companies were eliminating health care coverage for employees. “

'Harry, am I making this up?' Yes, Mr. President, you are

By: Luis Andres Henao

August 30, 2010-- Reuters

An Argentine company opened Friday the country's first factory to make biodiesel from algae, hoping to use pond scum as a replacement for soy in making biodiesel as part of a push for renewable energy.

Argentina is the world's top exporter of soyoil, but using the edible oil to make fuel is controversial because it cuts into food supplies.

Oil extracted from algae is also seen as an attractive alternative to soyoil and other vegetable oils because it does not use land that could be used for food crops and can absorb carbon dioxide from power plants or factories.

The oil-extraction process also produces a protein-rich paste, which is edible.

"We're not competing with the food supply but generating food, at a low cost and helping the environment because algae grow fast and trap carbon dioxide," said Jorge Kaloustian, president of Oilfox S.A., the company that owns the plant northeast of Buenos Aires.

Editorial--New York Post

August 30, 2010

It was an $800 billion misadventure that will be wreaking havoc on the econ omy for years to come.

No, not the war in Iraq, where an American combat-troop presence officially comes to an end tomorrow.

We're talking about President Obama's economic-stimulus program.

Remember the stimulus? The miracle cure Obama said would boost the economy and save millions of jobs?

Well, the president's panacea turned out to be an $862 billion bottle of snake oil -- and it cost $100 billion more than the entire Iraq campaign to date.

According to the Congressional Budget Office, the total Iraq tab comes to $709 billion this month, a costly engagement in terms of treasure.

But as Randall Hoven points out on the American Thinker Web site and in the nearby chart, the war made up just 3.2 percent of federal spending while the fight raged. Leave it to the feds to make $700 billion look like a drop in the ocean.

And it accounts for less than 15 percent of the overall deficit since it began in 2003.

By: Press

For Immediate Release

August 27, 2010

Teague's Public Schedule Has Open Time

Perfect Opportunity for Debates on the Economy

Will Teague Appear?

By: Garance Burke

August 27, 2010--Associate Press

FRESNO, Calif. — Vice President Joe Biden said this week that the Obama administration "hit the accelerator" toward spending $5 billion under the economic stimulus law to weatherize people's homes, create thousands of jobs, help consumers save money and put the nation on track for energy independence.

Yet the weatherization program the vice president highlighted in his visit Thursday to New Hampshire is widely considered among the least organized spending projects under the $814 billion economic stimulus law and has regularly been targeted for criticism of its slow progress by auditors and outsiders. Biden didn't hint much at its troubles.

Nearly 18 months since it started, the stimulus weatherization program has experienced spending delays, inefficiencies and mismanagement. In Biden's home state of Delaware, the entire program has been suspended since May, and last month federal auditors identified possible fraud.

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EDITOR'S NOTE — An occasional look behind the rhetoric of public officials.

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