New Hampshire’s minimum wage would eventually increase to $15 per hour, business taxes would be cut by millions of dollars and guns could be taken from people posing an extreme risk under bills that will be considered when legislators return to the.
As director of the Edwin Meese III Center for Legal and Judicial Studies at the Heritage Foundation, I was inundated last week with interview requests regarding President-elect Trump’s “list” of potential Supreme Court justices, and about who from that list was likely to be chosen as his nominee to replace Justice Antonin Scalia.
House Clerk Paul Smith fields calls “pretty frequently” from voters wanting to know their representative’s attendance record. As the election approaches, candidates are now asking the same about their opponents.The answer is complicated enough to make.
How was their attendance at committee meetings, where lawmakers hear from the public? Was their absence from a session day “excused” – granted for illness, “important business” such as a work conflict, or a death in the family? Were they present but missed an important vote to take a call or use the bathroom?