Congresswoman Teresa Leger Fernández (NM-03) released the following statement on the passage of the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act and the advancement of the Build Back Better Act. The infrastructure bill includes $550 billion in new federal investments in our roads and bridges, water infrastructure, and broadband.
“The passage of the Infrastructure… Read more »
WASHINGTON – Reps. Teresa Leger Fernández (NM-03) and Victoria Spartz (IN-05) introduced the bipartisan Financial Fitness Act to create a public personal finance education portal within the Department of Education website to help students and families grow their financial literacy skills and better prepare for their future. Read more »
WASHINGTON – Today, Congresswoman Teresa Leger Fernández (NM-03) and Nanette Diaz Barragán (CA-44) introduced the Latina Equal Pay Day Resolution to acknowledge the disparity in wages paid to Latinas and its larger impact on women, families, and the economy. Read more »
WASHINGTON – Today, Congresswoman Teresa Leger Fernández (NM-03) introduced the Pecos Watershed Protection Act to protect the Pecos Watershed from mineral development. Read more »
WASHINGTON – Congresswoman Teresa Leger Fernández (NM-03) led several of her House and Senate colleagues in a letter to the President of Spain to investigate and eliminate the bureaucratic barriers that have caused thousands of rejections under Spain’s Law of Return Read more »
WASHINGTON - Today, Congresswoman Leger Fernández voted for the Women’s Health Protection Act to protect the right to access abortion care throughout the United States, no matter what state they live in. Read more »
Today, the House of Representatives passed the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) that included two of Rep. Teresa Leger Fernández’s (D-NM) amendments. The first encourages the Air Force to use existing authority to acquire property and provide relocation assistance to those impacted by PFAS contamination. The amendment also requires a report detailing contamination… Read more »
WASHINGTON – Today, Congresswoman Teresa Leger Fernández (NM-03) introduced bipartisan legislation designed to extend and expand eligibility under the RECA program to those who have suffered from cancers and other diseases related to fallout from above-ground nuclear weapons testing during the Cold War period of the 1950s and 1960s. Read more »
Associated Press: Drought tests centuries-old water traditions in New Mexico
By Susan Montoya Bryan
September 18, 2021
ABIQUIU, N.M. (AP) — At the edge of a sandstone outcropping, Teresa Leger Fernández looks out on the Rio Chama. The river tracks a diverse landscape from the southern edge of the Rocky Mountains through rugged basalt hillsides, layers of volcanic tuff,… Read more »
WASHINGTON – Congresswoman Teresa Leger Fernández (NM-03) released the following statement following this week’s Natural Resources and Education and Labor Committee markups for the Build Back Better Act: Read more »
