President Barack Obama sent a message to Congress Tuesday: He
plans to use his power whenever he can to move his agenda forward. "We
are not just going to be waiting for a legislation in order to make
sure that we’re providing Americans the kind of help that they need,"
Obama said before a Cabinet meeting. "I've got a pen and I’ve got a
phone -- and I can use that pen to sign executive orders and take
executive actions and administrative actions that move the ball
forward." Obama said he told members of his Cabinet the need to
use all the tool available, not just legislation, to advance his
mission. Items on the agenda in the future: adavancing manufacturing, college affordability and hiring the long-term unemployed...more
Issues of concern to people who live in the west: property rights, water rights, endangered species, livestock grazing, energy production, wilderness and western agriculture. Plus a few items on western history, western literature and the sport of rodeo... Frank DuBois served as the NM Secretary of Agriculture from 1988 to 2003. DuBois is a former legislative assistant to a U.S. Senator, a Deputy Assistant Secretary of Interior, and is the founder of the DuBois Rodeo Scholarship.
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