Tagged: Charlie Bass

Congressman Charlie Bass's is denying the allegation by the  New Hampshire attorney general's that his campaign violated the state's push polling law.

The attorney general says Charlie Bass’s campaign deliberately avoided identifying itself as being behind a 2010 poll that included negative information about Democrat Ann McLane Kuster. The AG’s suit against the Bass campaign cites 400 calls. Under state law, each one of those calls could trigger a $1000 fine. But Congressman Bass says he doesn’t expect his committee will end up paying up.

“I think a close reading of the law will show that the campaign did not conduct a push poll and that this was a poll that was essentially the same as any other poll that might have been run by any other campaign.”

Congressman Charlie Bass will hold a town meeting in Berlin Saturday, February 11th, from 11 a.m. to noon in Berlin’s City Hall.

“Constituents with questions, comments, or those in need of assistance on a federal matter are welcome to attend,” according to a news release from Bass’ office.

Congress broke a record this year, but hitting the lowest approval rating of all time isn’t what the region’s lawmakers had hoped to accomplish.

Correspondent Matt Laslo talked with the New Hampshire congressional delegation and has a look back at this year’s wild ride in Washington.

Republicans took over the lower chamber at the start of the year…hoping to drastically slash the federal debt. But it now sits at more than $15 trillion dollars.

To address that problem, lawmakers created the so-called super committee designed to slash a trillion dollars from the debt but it devolved into partisan bickering and eventually failed.

That gridlock and other factors have many polls showing less than ten percent of the public approving of Congress.

The congressional “super committee” is only tasked with cutting one point two trillion dollars from the federal debt. But Second District Republican Congressman Charlie Bass is asking the panel to cut even deeper, even if it taxes are thrown into the mix.

Bass is joining ninety nine of his colleagues from both sides of the aisle in asking the “super committee” to set four trillion dollars in budget cuts as its target. In a letter the group says it can support big budget cuts even if it includes increasing federal revenue – a position that’s anathema to most of the G-O-P. Bass has pledged he won’t support any net tax increases. But he says he doesn’t mind risking a primary challenge for supporting this bi-partisan effort.