Press Releases

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, Congresswoman Leger Fernández was sworn into the 119th Congress to begin her 3rd term serving the people of New Mexico’s 3rd Congressional district. Read more »

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Leger Fernández released the following statement after voting for a Continuing Resolution that passed the House tonight by a widely bipartisan vote of 366-34-1 and will keep the government open until March 14, 2025. “Today, in time for Christmas, Democrats saved our country from a dangerous government shutdown. We defeated Elon Musk and Donald… Read more »

Washington, D.C. – Today, Congresswoman Teresa Leger Fernández, alongside U.S. Senators Martin Heinrich and Ben Ray Luján, and Representatives Melanie Stansbury and Gabe Vasquez, sent a letter to President Joe Biden urging the designation of the Caja del Rio Plateau as a national monument under the Antiquities Act. This request highlights the urgent need to protect one of New Mexico’s most ecologically, historically, and culturally significant landscapes. Read more »

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Leger Fernández (NM-03) released the following statement after voting against H.R. 10515, which failed to pass the House tonight by a vote of 174-235-1. Read more »

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Representative Teresa Leger Fernández (D-N.M.), Melanie Stansbury (D-N.M.), and Gabe Vasquez (D-N.M.) and U.S. Senator Ben Ray Luján (D-N.M.), and U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) are welcoming today’s announcement that the Bureau of Land Management and the U.S. Forest Service have initiated a two-year segregation period to temporarily withdraw approximately… Read more »

Congresswoman Teresa Leger Fernández issued the following statement after the House vote on the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA). The bill passed the House today 281-140. Read more »

Today, Democratic Women’s Caucus (DWC) Members and Members-elect selected Rep. Teresa Leger Fernández (NM-03) as DWC’s Chair for the 119th Congress. Rep. Leger Fernández served as a DWC Vice Chair in the 118th Congress, and will now lead the largest ever DWC, which will include a record-breaking 96 Members in the 119th Congress. Read more »

Today, U.S. Representative Teresa Leger Fernández (D-N.M.) and U.S. Senators Ben Ray Luján (D-N.M.) and Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) announced President Biden’s disaster supplemental request includes $1.5 billion to help New Mexicans recover from the Hermit’s Peak/Calf Canyon Fire. If President Biden’s disaster supplemental request is approved by Congress, Luján, Leger Fernández, and the New Mexico Congressional Delegation will have secured $5.45 billion to help New Mexicans recover and rebuild since the Hermit’s Peak/Calf Canyon Fire in April 2022. Read more »

CLOVIS, N.M. – U.S. Representative Teresa Leger Fernández (D-N.M.), and U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), a member of the Senate Appropriations Committee, participated in a groundbreaking ceremony to begin construction on a new 21,000 square foot terminal at Clovis Regional Airport (CVN). The new terminal at Clovis Regional Airport is fully funded by a $15.7 million grant and a $3.5 million grant from the Infrastructure Law — legislation passed by Democrats in the N.M. Congressional Delegation — and a Heinrich-led $3.5 million Congressionally Directed Spending award that is advancing in the Fiscal Year 2025 Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies Appropriations Bill that passed out of the Senate Appropriations Committee in July. Read more »

ROSWELL, N.M. – After record rainfall and destructive floods in Roswell and Chaves County, N.M. over the weekend of Oct. 19, U.S. Representatives Teresa Leger Fernández (D-N.M.), Melanie Stansbury (D-N.M.), and Gabe Vasquez (D-N.M.) and U.S. Senators Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) and Ben Ray Luján (D-N.M.) are calling on President Joe Biden to approve a Major Disaster… Read more »