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Caroline Cournoyer

Senior Web Editor

Caroline Cournoyer -- Senior Web Editor. Caroline covered federal policy and politics for CongressNow, the former legislative wire service for Roll Call, has written for Education Week's Teacher Magazine, and learned the ins and outs of state and local government while working as an assistant editor at WTOP Radio.

Who Said That
To the members in the majority I say: Don’t be arrogant. Don’t overreach. To the members in the minority: Don’t be angry. Don’t obstruct.
GOP Gov. Bob McDonnell of Virginia, where Republicans seized control of an equally divided Senate on the first day of the legislative session. Republicans now also hold a majority in the House, giving the party sway over the General Assembly and the governor’s mansion for only the second time since the Civil War.
January 12, 2012
 · Caroline Cournoyer
News in Numbers
More than 20,000
The number of public comments, which are the most that New York officials have ever received on any issue, about the proposed regulations to allow hydrofracking of natural gas in the state.
January 12, 2012
 · Caroline Cournoyer
Who Said That
If the ACA does not cross the line, no act of Congress ever will.
Attorney Paul Clement, who is representing 26 states that have asked the Supreme Court to overturn the health care reform law’s mandatory state expansion of the Medicaid program, wrote in a brief.
January 11, 2012
 · Caroline Cournoyer
News in Numbers
7,373
The number of New York City subway riders who were fined $50 for taking up more than one seat last year. Some were putting their feet up, while others were punished for putting a bag on another seat.
January 11, 2012
 · Caroline Cournoyer
Who Said That
The government needs to send a clear and unambiguous message that tanning beds are not safe. We do that already with cigarettes and alcohol.
Samantha Guild of a skin cancer research group that pushed for the new California law banning teenagers from using tanning beds. At least seven other states are also considering bans.
January 10, 2012
 · Caroline Cournoyer
News in Numbers
$2,000
The most that people in Pennsylvania can have in savings and assets before becoming ineligible for food stamps as of May 1. Pennsylvania will be one of only 11 states with the low-threshold $2,000 asset test.
January 10, 2012
 · Caroline Cournoyer
Archive
States Consider Following Calif.'s Suit and Banning Tanning
Several states may soon join California, which at the start of this year became the first state to make it illegal for teenagers to use cancer-causing tanning beds.
January 10, 2012
 · Caroline Cournoyer
Health care costs
Archive
America Hits the Brakes on Health-Care Spending
Health spending stabilized as a share of the nation's economy in 2010 after two back-to-back years of historically low growth.
January 10, 2012
 · Caroline Cournoyer
Who Said That
There aren’t many words that I have left for what I feel about Congress -- particularly the leadership -- and maybe the president too.
Advocate John Drew, who is unhappy with Congress' decision to cut the Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program, which provides states with the funding to help poor people pay their heating bills.
January 09, 2012
 · Caroline Cournoyer
News in Numbers
$14 million
The amount of state funding that the Tucson Unified School District could lose if it doesn't revamp or end its controversial Mexican-American studies classes. A new state law bans classes that promote the overthrow of the government, encourage resentment toward a race or class of people, are designed solely for students of a certain ethnic background and advocate ethnic solidarity.
January 09, 2012
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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