{"id":4177,"date":"2009-01-27T13:26:00","date_gmt":"2009-01-27T19:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/2009\/01\/house-subcommittee-to-study-webcasting\/"},"modified":"2009-01-27T13:26:00","modified_gmt":"2009-01-27T19:26:00","slug":"house-subcommittee-to-study-webcasting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2009\/01\/house-subcommittee-to-study-webcasting\/","title":{"rendered":"House subcommittee to study webcasting"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The House Rules and Order of Business Committee<\/a> decided today to create a subcommittee to study the issue of whether to allow webcasting of House proceedings.<\/p>\n

The vote to do that followed discussion of House Resolution 2<\/a>, a proposal from Majority Leader Ken Martinez<\/a>, D-Grants, and Minority Leader Tom Taylor<\/a>, R-Farmington, that would explicitly allow webcasting of committee meetings — but only if the chair of the committee in question allows it.<\/p>\n

The Rules Committee gave no timetable for its subcommittee to report back on webcasting, so the move effectively stops the Martinez\/Taylor bill in its tracks for the time being.<\/p>\n

The move comes after Rep. Janice Arnold-Jones<\/a> webcast live audio and video from the House Taxation and Revenue Committee<\/a> on Monday.<\/p>\n

Today\u2019s creation of the subcommittee, according to The Santa Fe New Mexican\u2019s Kate Nash<\/a>, came after an hour of debate, with some members arguing that webcasting creates openness and others saying the video could be used for political purposes.<\/p>\n

Arnold-Jones released a statement after the committee meeting expressing support for the Martinez\/Taylor proposal.<\/p>\n

\u201cI am extremely disappointed the Rules Committee failed to come to a conclusion about broadcasting legislative sessions,\u201d Arnold-Jones said. \u201c\u2026 Broadcasting committee meetings and sessions allow those unable to physically come to the Capital to still be a part of the political process. I commend my colleagues who support HR 2 and hope they continue the fight for more access and transparency.\u201d <\/p>\n

At today\u2019s meeting, House Speaker Ben Lujan<\/a> said he\u2019s not opposed to webcasting. The reality is this: Though the Legislature appropriated capital outlay funds in 2005 for the purpose of purchasing and installing the equipment to webcast, the House portion of that appropriation expired last year — three years later — without having been spent.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Senate leaders — most of them openly opposed to webcasting — spent their portion of the funding and have the equipment on hand, though they currently refuse to begin webcasting.<\/p>\n

Who controls the House? The speaker, of course.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The House Rules and Order of Business Committee decided today to create a subcommittee to study the issue of whether to allow webcasting of House proceedings. The vote to do that followed discussion of House Resolution 2, a proposal from Majority Leader Ken Martinez, D-Grants, and Minority Leader Tom Taylor, R-Farmington, that would explicitly allow […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4177","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4177"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4177\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}