Nebraska Legislative Watch

A PROJECT OF NEBRASKA TAXPAYERS FOR FREEDOM

EXPLANATION & OBJECTIVES:

NTF believes that the people of Nebraska have a right to know how their state legislators vote on important legislative issues that have an impact on the fiscal health of taxpayers, government intervention in private life and business, and law and order.  This project affords Nebraskans a broad and deep analysis of how their state senators vote on current, crucial issues.  Members lobby and carefully monitor votes and voting patterns of state senators.  NTF annually publishes a Legislative Voting Record incorporating annotations of bills and resolutions monitored, a grid graph illustrating actual votes, and a percentage voting score for every state senator.  We distribute copies to NTF members and the media.

GENERAL DIRECTIONS:

  • Study the enclosed multi-page Legislative Watch packet.
  • Gather the tools/supplies you will need to proceed as mentioned in outline.
  • To proceed conscientiously, continually consult media, legislative, and NTF sources that show progress of legislation.
  • If you have questions, call (402) 551-0921.
  • Furnish your work to NTF by August 1 following end of legislative session:
  1. Numbers, titles, and sponsor(s) of bills you monitored.
  2. Copies of your notes.
  3. Copies of correspondence with your state senator.
  4. Copies of your notes pertaining to state senator discussions during committee hearings and floor       debate.
  5. Copies of news clippings and other background material regarding your bills and resolutions.
  • Read our NTF Legislative Voting Record published annually.
  1. Make copies and distribute generously to friends and neighbors.
     

Here are issues in the Nebraska Legislature that NTF is watching:

LOBBY AGAINST MEDICAID EXPANSION

NTF Issue paper: legwatch113.doc.  3-13. NEBRASKA TAXPAYERS FOR FREEDOM ISSUE PAPER: STOP MEDICAID EXPANSION IN NEBRASKA. BACKGROUND.  Liberal state senators have introduced several Medicaid expansion bills in the 2013 legislative session.  Their purpose is to either impose ObamaCare offerings on Nebraska or to simply expand Medicaid to include more people, making more citizens dependent upon Read more »

HELP STOP OBAMACARE IN NEBRASKA

NTF Issue paper: legwatch113.doc.  3-13. NEBRASKA TAXPAYERS FOR FREEDOM ISSUE PAPER: STOP MEDICAID EXPANSION IN NEBRASKA. BACKGROUND.  Liberal state senators have introduced several Medicaid expansion bills in the 2013 legislative session.  Their purpose is to either impose ObamaCare offerings on Nebraska or to simply expand Medicaid to include more people, making more citizens dependent upon Read more »

Unicameral Voting Records 2012

Nebraska Taxpayers for Freedom has produced its annual report on the conservative voting of members of the Nebraska Unicameral during the 2012 session.  NTF rates senators based on their fiscal responsibility, intervention into the private lives of Nebraska citizens, and their positions on legislation dealing with law and order.   NTF rates state senators based Read more »

Lobbying Against Taxpayers in the Legislature: 2012

NEBRASKA TAXPAYERS FOR FREEDOM ISSUE PAPER: BACKGROUND. Numerous lobbyists seek to persuade our state senators to vote a particular way or support or oppose a specific cause. However, the large number of lobbyists who lobby on behalf of liberal groups and state/local taxing authorities explains much of the reason why state senators have not offered Read more »

Good Bills and Bad Bills in the 2012 Nebraska Legislature

GOOD RESOLUTIONS: LR 40CA: Pirsch. That the state constitution would guarantee the right to hunt, trap, and fish. Radical animal rights groups are attempting to curtail these sporting rights in states. Radicals have banned mountain lion hunting in California, bear hunting in New Jersey, and curtailed pheasant and dove hunting in Illinois, Wisconsin, Minnesota, New Read more »

Reform the CIR

This issue currently is before the Nebraska Legislature.  Encourage your state senator to support the amendment supported by Governor Heineman and business leaders. Read more »

Here are relevant historical issues:

Contract with Nebraska Taxpayers
Hogs at the Trough-State Senator Subsidies
Scrutinize State Investments
Nebraska Vehicle Taxes
Senators who increased our state gas tax