Representative Joe Pitre
Main Street Relief Fund -- Small Business Grants
Jeb Bradley May 18th, 2020
Main Street Relief Fund -- Small Business Grants
Jeb Bradley May 18th, 2020
Late last week Governor Sununu approved funding for various entities throughout New Hampshire including health care providers, non-profits, a small business relief fund, colleges, and food banks. The funding announced was $595 million which is on top of nearly $250 million already allocated by the Governor. This funding comes from the CARES ACT which was passed by Congress and signed by President Trump in late March and can be used for Covid-19 related expenses by the state as well as cities and towns. These federal funds cannot be used to cover expected state or local revenue shortfalls however.
New Hampshire received $1.25 billion in CARES funding that Governor Sununu is authorized to allocate for Covid-19 related purposes. He had previously allocated $250 of this funding for hospitals, other health care providers, stipends for front-line long-term care workers and first responders, and local and county government’s Covid-19 costs.
Edmund Burke, Speech to the Electors of Bristol
Edmund Burke, Speech to the Electors of Bristol
Edmund Burke, Speech to the Electors of Bristol
3 Nov. 1774 Works 1:446--48
I am sorry I cannot conclude without saying a word on a topic touched upon by my worthy colleague. I wish that topic had been passed by at a time when I have so little leisure to discuss it. But since he has thought proper to throw it out, I owe you a clear explanation of my poor sentiments on that subject.
He tells you that "the topic of instructions has occasioned much altercation and uneasiness in this city;" and he expresses himself (if I understand him rightly) in favour of the coercive authority of such instructions.
Certainly, gentlemen, it ought to be the happiness and glory of a representative to live in the strictest union, the closest correspondence, and the most unreserved communication with his constituents. Their wishes ought to have great weight with him; their opinion, high respect; their business, unremitted attention. It is his duty to sacrifice his repose, his pleasures, his satisfactions, to theirs; and above all, ever, and in all cases, to prefer their interest to his own. But his unbiassed opinion, his mature judgment, his enlightened conscience, he ought not to sacrifice to you, to any man, or to any set of men living. These he does not derive from your pleasure; no, nor from the law and the constitution. They are a trust from Providence, for the abuse of which he is deeply answerable. Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays, instead of serving you, if he sacrifices it to your opinion.
My worthy colleague says, his will ought to be subservient to yours. If that be all, the thing is innocent. If government were a matter of will upon any side, yours, without question, ought to be superior. But government and legislation are matters of reason and judgment, and not of inclination; and what sort of reason is that, in which the determination precedes the discussion; in which one set of men deliberate, and another decide; and where those who form the conclusion are perhaps three hundred miles distant from those who hear the arguments?
To deliver an opinion, is the right of all men; that of constituents is a weighty and respectable opinion, which a representative ought always to rejoice to hear; and which he ought always most seriously to consider. But authoritative instructions; mandates issued, which the member is bound blindly and implicitly to obey, to vote, and to argue for, though contrary to the clearest conviction of his judgment and conscience,--these are things utterly unknown to the laws of this land, and which arise from a fundamental mistake of the whole order and tenor of our constitution.
Parliament is not a congress of ambassadors from different and hostile interests; which interests each must maintain, as an agent and advocate, against other agents and advocates; but parliament is a deliberative assembly of one nation, with one interest, that of the whole; where, not local purposes, not local prejudices, ought to guide, but the general good, resulting from the general reason of the whole. You choose a member indeed; but when you have chosen him, he is not member of Bristol, but he is a member of parliament. If the local constituent should have an interest, or should form an hasty opinion, evidently opposite to the real good of the rest of the community, the member for that place ought to be as far, as any other, from any endeavour to give it effect. I beg pardon for saying so much on this subject. I have been unwillingly drawn into it; but I shall ever use a respectful frankness of communication with you. Your faithful friend, your devoted servant, I shall be to the end of my life: a flatterer you do not wish for.
The Founders' Constitution
Volume 1, Chapter 13, Document 7
http://press-pubs.uchicago.edu/.../documents/v1ch13s7.html
The University of Chicago Press
The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke. 6 vols. London: Henry G. Bohn, 1854--56.
Please click on the title to find out the great influence parents can have on their child's education
As a sponsor of Senate Bill 193 - universal education savings accounts and I wanted to update you on the status.
We "retained" the bill in the House Education Committee. We did not have the votes on the committee to get an "Ought to Pass" recommendation so we will keep working to improve the bill.
We will keep you updated as we are going to need your help to get SB193 passed - and the help of your friends.
We have the opportunity to change education in New Hampshire and put parents in charge of their children's education.
As Thomas Sowell said, "the basic question is not what is best, but who says what is best".
Kindergarten: Beneficial or Harmful
Kindergarten: Beneficial or Harmful
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