Four years ago, the then head of the San Francisco Federal Reserve Bank and now the president’s nominee to succeed Ben Bernanke as chair of the Federal Reserve, invited me to a lunch in Phoenix that she was attending. The featured speaker that day was Daniel Tarullo, a member of the Fed’s board of governors.…
Read MoreHere is my formula for ending the budget impasse: Republicans should relent on adding strings to the funding bill to keep open all of the federal government operations and should pass a “clean” continuing resolution (“CR”). For his part, the president should negotiate on legislation to raise the debt ceiling.Let me elaborate. The flaw in…
Read MoreGov. Brewer yesterday declared October Arizona Manufacturers Month in Arizona at the Governor’s Economic Development Conference in Flagstaff co-hosted by the Arizona Commerce Authority and the Arizona Association of Economic Development Conference. On the national side, the National Association of Manufacturers heralds Oct. 4 as National Manufacturing Day. We are proud to be NAM’s state…
Read MoreThe federal Health Insurance Exchanges opened yesterday, amid much anticipation and less than stellar results. The website encountered glitches throughout the day, and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid declined to say if any Arizonans even managed to get signed up. While it remains to be seen if the exchanges will have any impact on coverage or affordability, one…
Read MoreThe Arizona Supreme Court last week issued a final ruling in a case that will permanently impact K-12 education funding in the state of Arizona. The justices unanimously found that the year 2000 voter-approved Proposition 301 requiring the Legislature to make annual inflation adjustments to the K-12 budget is constitutional. The Court also held that Proposition…
Read MoreThe Arizona Chamber has signed onto a letter spearheaded by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce calling on Congress and the president to come to a deal on the federal budget. If the government shuts down, so called non-essential services will be unavailable. In Arizona, that means a closure of our national parks, including the Grand…
Read MoreThe U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) earlier this week released some preliminary premium prices for health insurance plans that will be available on the federal exchange. Supporters lauded these as “lower than anticipated” and pointed out that Arizona’s expected exchange premiums are among the lowest in the country. That’s like being the…
Read MoreThe Arizona business community is fully supportive of this critical bipartisan project By Glenn Hamer Imagine you could deliver 3,700 jobs and $61 billion of economic impact to the state of Arizona simply by saying “yes.” It might seem too good to be true, but Congress can take the first step to make it happen…
Read MoreThe latest entry from Glenn Hamer, who is traveling with a bipartisan delegation to Mexico City. Our delegation on Wednesday visited with Mexican senators to discuss the unique relationship between the U.S. and Mexico and, more specifically, Arizona and Mexico. Our discussion with the five senators lasted almost two hours. The state of our shared…
Read MoreThe latest entry from Glenn Hamer, who is participating in a trade mission to Mexico City led by Arizona Speaker Andy Tobin. As part of a historic bipartisan delegation to Mexico, Arizona House Members and business community stakeholders on Tuesday headed to Mexico’s House of Representatives, the Cámara de Diputados. Arizonans should be proud of…
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