New Jersey Senate Republicans » Haines, Addiego & Rudder (R-8)

Committee Approves Haines/Addiego/Rudder Bill Increasing Funding for The Senior Citizen and Disabled Resident Transportation Program

Mon, 17 Nov 2008 07:44:47 -0800

Measure Approved by Senate Budget and Appropriations Committee, Now Awaits Full Senate Vote Legislation co-sponsored by Senator Phil Haines, Assemblywoman Dawn Marie Addiego and Assemblyman Scott Rudder that increases the funding of The Senior Citizen and Disabled Resident Transportation Program has moved closer to becoming law. Senate Bill 1830 unanimously passed the Senate Budget and Appropriations Committee [...]

Assemblywoman Addiego Honored as ‘Legislator of the Year’

Wed, 12 Nov 2008 11:16:29 -0800

8th District Representative Feted at the ‘Beyond the Glass Ceiling Awards Dinner’ Assemblywoman Dawn Marie Addiego (R-8th, Evesham) received the “Legislator of the Year” award Tuesday night, from the South Jersey Chapter of the National Association of Women Business Owners. Assemblywoman Addiego was honored at the “Beyond the Glass Ceiling Awards Dinner” for her accomplishments in the [...]

Assemblywoman Addiego Goes ‘Back to School’ in Marlton

Tue, 11 Nov 2008 08:58:24 -0800

Assemblywoman Dawn Marie Addiego visited with students at H.L. Beeler School on Maple Avenue in Marlton on October 28, as part of the America’s Legislators Back-to-School Program. Addiego, a first-year representative in the Assembly, spoke with 88 fourth-grade students about her career as a legislator, the legislative process and how a bill becomes law. “This is a [...]

Haines, Addiego, Rudder Warn Corzine of Economic Impact of Angioplasty Decision

Fri, 07 Nov 2008 12:35:56 -0800

Senator Phil Haines, Assemblywoman Dawn Marie Addiego and Assemblyman Scott Rudder today sent a letter exhorting Governor Corzine to consider the economic impact of a decision by Health and Senior Services Commissioner Heather Howard. The letter is attched. Community Medical Center in Toms River has applied for inclusion in the Atlantic C-Port Trial Elective Angioplasty Study, [...]

Haines Distressed Cities Reform Measure Passes Committee Unanimously

Mon, 27 Oct 2008 11:46:53 -0700

Reform legislation, sponsored by Senator Phil Haines, was passed unanimously by the Senate Community and Urban Affairs Committee. The bill, S-1869, would bring fairness and transparency to the multi-million dollar, special municipal aid program also known as the distressed cities aid program. The distressed cities program has been operating over the past five years without regulation, [...]

Lance, Oroho & Haines Applaud Council on Local Mandates’ Ruling on Rural Policing

Wed, 22 Oct 2008 10:38:01 -0700

Council Finds Law Charging for Police Coverage Is an Unfair Local Mandate Senator Leonard Lance, the Senate Republican Budget Officer, and Senators Steve Oroho and Phil Haines, members of the Senate Budget and Appropriations Committee, issued the following statement regarding a hearing on rural policing by the Council On Local Mandates: “It was proper and necessary for [...]

Corzine Must Impound Unspent Funds to Address Growing Revenue Shortfall

Tue, 21 Oct 2008 11:41:44 -0700

The Republican members of the Senate Budget and Appropriations Committee issued the following statement calling on Governor Jon Corzine to use his statutory authority to impound unspent monies to cover an expected revenue shortfall in the Fiscal Year 2009 budget. During the 2009 budget discussions, Republicans proposed more than 60 specific line item budget cuts [...]

Addiego, Rudder: Gov.’s Economic Plan Does Little to Help Middle Class Families

Thu, 16 Oct 2008 13:07:13 -0700

Governor Corzine Should Reconsider Republican Proposal for Sales Tax Holiday Assemblywoman Dawn Marie Addiego and Assemblyman Scott Rudder expressed disappointment that Governor Corzine’s economic proposal, outlined today in a speech to a joint session of the Legislature, appears to provide little in the way of immediate relief for middle class families struggling to make ends meet. “Middle [...]

Addiego, Rudder: Gov.’s Economic Plan Does Little to Help Middle Class Families

Thu, 16 Oct 2008 13:07:13 -0700

Haines: Corzine Ignores The Needs Of Middle Class Families

Thu, 16 Oct 2008 10:42:18 -0700

Senator Phil Haines, a member of the Senate Budget and Appropriations Committee, issued the following statement regarding Governor Corzine’s speech on his new spending package: “It defies common-sense to think that New Jersey can tax and spend its way out of the current economic mess. For the past seven years the Trenton Democrats have imposed burdensome [...]

Addiego and Rudder Support Plan for End-of-Year Sales Tax Holiday

Wed, 15 Oct 2008 07:15:43 -0700

Proposal Would Give State a Much-Needed Economic Boost During the Critical Holiday Shopping Season In an effort to provide a boost to the state’s economy, Assemblywoman Dawn Marie Addiego and Assemblyman Scott Rudder today said they are supporting an Assembly Republican proposal to cut the state sales tax in half for the crucial holiday shopping season [...]

Addiego and Rudder Support Plan for End-of-Year Sales Tax Holiday

Wed, 15 Oct 2008 07:15:43 -0700

Haines, Addiego, Rudder: Corzine Toll Hikes Will Make Economy Worse

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 12:37:45 -0700

Higher Transportation Costs Will Eliminate Jobs and Drive Up the Cost of Living Senator Phil Haines, Assemblywoman Dawn Addiego and Assemblyman Scott Rudder said they are greatly concerned that the new toll hikes pushed through today by Governor Corzine and the Trenton Democrats will hurt the state’s fragile economy and force big trucks on to local [...]

Rudder and Addiego Urge Broad Changes to Improve NJ’s Business Climate

Mon, 06 Oct 2008 08:25:43 -0700

New Jersey Has the Worst Business Climate and the Worst Property Taxes, According to The Tax Foundation Assemblyman Scott Rudder and Assemblywoman Dawn Marie Addiego today called for sweeping changes in State tax laws in response to a report by The Tax Foundation that New Jersey ranks last in the nation in the State Business Tax [...]

Rudder and Addiego Urge Broad Changes to Improve NJ’s Business Climate

Mon, 06 Oct 2008 08:25:43 -0700

Haines/Addiego/Rudder Bill Exempting Renewable Energy Systems from Property Taxation Signed into Law

Thu, 02 Oct 2008 12:53:06 -0700

A bill sponsored by Senator Phil Haines, Assemblywoman Dawn Marie Addiego and Assemblyman Scott Rudder and signed into law Wednesday by Governor Jon Corzine, will help reduce energy consumption, and advance investment and development of sources of renewable power. “This legislation is born of an initiative that started last year in Medford, when I was the mayor. [...]

Haines, Addiego & Rudder: Towns Handcuffed by Lack of Data as Police Decision Deadline Looms

Mon, 29 Sep 2008 10:49:53 -0700

Municipalities Have Until Dec. 15 to Agree to Pay for State Police Patrols or Make Alternative Plans, but Statistical Data Crucial to the Decision-Making Has Been Unavailable from the State Senator Phil Haines, Assemblywoman Dawn Marie Addiego and Assemblyman Scott Rudder have called on Gov. Corzine to assure that towns contending with the prospect of paying [...]

The Case Of The Remarkable Toll Hike Coincidence; Haines: “What About The Sunshine Law”?

Mon, 29 Sep 2008 08:16:21 -0700

Senator Phil Haines (R-Burlington) called upon the Corzine Administration to explain the circumstances under which the commissioners of the New Jersey Turnpike Authority agreed to fund a rail tunnel project and increase tolls by $1 billion apparently without complying with the provisions of the “Senator Byron M. Baer Open Public Meetings Act,” N.J.S.A. 10:4-1 et [...]

Addiego Calls On Legislature To Address Accountability/Oversight Of State Colleges

Mon, 22 Sep 2008 12:09:37 -0700

Calls For Hearings And Suggests Review Of State College Autonomy Act In the wake of recent news stories questioning fiscal controls and management at Rutgers University, Assemblywoman Dawn Marie Addiego today sent a letter to Assembly Speaker Joseph Roberts and Assembly Higher Education Committee Chairman Patrick Diegnan asking that they convene hearings to have the Legislature [...]

COAH Law Discourages Economic Development

Thu, 18 Sep 2008 12:45:06 -0700

New Law Encourages Sprawl, Congestion and Higher Property Taxes Senator Phil Haines, Assemblywoman Dawn Marie Addiego and Assemblyman Scott Rudder today questioned provisions of the recently enacted legislation to revise the State’s affordable housing laws that may impose a 2.5% tax on economic development project throughout the state; a tax that will ultimately be borne by [...]