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January 22, 2024
WASHINGTON, D.C. - Earlier this month, Congresswoman Teresa Leger Fernández (D-NM), Congressman Jay Obernolte (R-CA), and Congressman Ted Lieu (D-CA) introduced the Creative Workforce Investment Act in the House, a transformative, bipartisan piece of legislation aimed at empowering the creative workforce and expanding access to the arts across communities nationwide. The companion bill was introduced in the Senate by Senator Ben Ray Luján (D-NM) on January 10.

January 11, 2024
WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) and Ben Ray Luján (D-N.M.) and U.S. Representatives Gabe Vasquez (D-N.M.), Teresa Leger Fernández (D-N.M.), and Melanie Stansbury (D-N.M.) are welcoming nearly $68 million in competitive federal grant funding from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law’s Charging and Fueling Infrastructure Discretionary Grant Program to build major new electric vehicle (EV) charging networks throughout New Mexico.

January 10, 2024
WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, Congresswoman Teresa Leger Fernández (D-NM), Congressman Jay Obernolte (R-CA), and Congressman Ted Lieu (D-CA) introduced the Creative Workforce Investment Act in the House, a transformative, bipartisan piece of legislation aimed at empowering the creative workforce and expanding access to the arts across communities nationwide. The companion bill was introduced in the Senate by Senator Ben Ray Luján (D-NM) today.

December 19, 2023
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, Congresswoman Teresa Leger Fernández and House Veterans' Affairs Committee Ranking Member Mark Takano led a letter of 59 Members of Congress to call on Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Secretary Denis R. McDonough to prevent veterans from losing their homes.  
Issues:Veterans

December 18, 2023
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Last Thursday, Congresswoman Teresa Leger Fernández, the Ranking Member of the Subcommittee on Indian and Insular Affairs, was appointed to the Board of Directors of the Institute of American Indian Arts (IAIA) by House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries.

December 14, 2023
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Teresa Leger Fernández issued the following statement after the House passed the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) today:

December 12, 2023
Washington, D.C. – Today, Congresswoman Teresa Leger Fernández renewed her call for a ceasefire in the Gaza War after the temporary ceasefire in Gaza expired and Prime Minister Netanyahu resumed a much-criticized offensive.

December 7, 2023
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Teresa Leger Fernández issued the following statement after the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) Conference Report failed to include the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act (RECA).
Issues:RECA

December 5, 2023
WASHINGTON – Today, Congresswoman Leger Fernández and Senator Luján introduced Technical Corrections to the Northwestern New Mexico Rural Water Projects Act, Taos Pueblo Indian Water Rights Settlement Act, and Aamodt Litigation Settlement Act. 

November 19, 2023
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Leger Fernández released the following statement regarding the negotiations in the Israel-Hamas war: