Posted by admin on March 8th, 2012 ~ Comments Off
CONCORD, NEW HAMPSHIRE – Representative Donna Schlachman, Democratic member on the Commerce Committee, issued the following statements on the House vote of HB 1297, which prohibits the state of New Hampshire from planning, creating, or…
Posted by admin on March 7th, 2012 ~ Comments Off
CONCORD, NEW HAMPSHIRE – Representative Sandra Keans issued the following statements on the passage of HCR 41, which would urge the U.S. Congress to find a grant to Planned Parenthood of Northern New England unconstitutional…
Posted by admin on March 7th, 2012 ~ Comments Off
CONCORD, NEW HAMPSHIRE – House Democratic Leader Terie Norelli, Policy Leader on Constitutional Review Committee Representative Chris Serlin, and Representative Jennifer Daler issued the following statements on passage of House Bill 1546, that would undermine…
Posted by admin on March 7th, 2012 ~ Comments Off
CONCORD, NEW HAMPSHIRE – Representatives Terie Norelli, House Democratic Leader and Representative Lucy M. Weber, issued the following statements regarding the passage of HB 1718, legislation regarding judicial review of electoral districts. “In mandating this…
Posted by admin on March 6th, 2012 ~ Comments Off
House Democratic Leader Terie Norelli held a press conference to discuss several bills that would negatively impact women’s health care in New Hampshire. These reckless bills will be coming before the full House for a…
Posted by admin on March 2nd, 2012 ~ Comments Off
March 2, 2012 In their column asking us all to support the state Senate’s version of a constitutional amendment on education funding (“Finally a school amendment everyone should like,” Monitor Opinion page, Feb. 25), Martin…
Posted by admin on February 24th, 2012 ~ Comments Off
For the third time in the last month, House Republicans called a press conference to announce “jobs” as their top priority for the upcoming legislative session. If this prioritization sounds like news to you, it’s…
Posted by admin on February 22nd, 2012 ~ Comments Off
CONCORD, NH – House Democratic Leader Terie Norelli today mourned the passing of Representative James Powers, (D – Portsmouth), who died this morning. “Jim was the kind of person for whom the word citizen meant…
Posted by admin on February 21st, 2012 ~ Comments Off
Monitor editorial Contraception attacks must be rejected February 21, 2012 Can the culture wars in Washington and at the State House get any more bizarre? It is, of course, 2012, but you’d never know it…
Posted by admin on February 20th, 2012 ~ Comments Off
Anti-evolution bills should be defeated February 20, 2012 It’s been a century and a half since the publication of Charles Darwin’s On the Origin of Species and 87 years since the Scopes trial produced a…