Congresswoman Leger Fernández released the following statement after voting for H.R. 9747, the Continuing Appropriations and Extensions Act of 2025, which passed the House tonight by a widely bipartisan vote of 341-82.
“For weeks, extreme Republicans and Trump threatened a government shutdown unless a Continuing Resolution (CR) necessary to keep the government open… Read more »
Washington, D.C. — Congresswoman Teresa Leger Fernández announced that the City of Las Vegas, New Mexico, will receive $98 million from the Hermit’s Peak/Calf Canyon Claims Office to overhaul its water treatment facilities and systems. The Congresswoman and New Mexico Congressional Delegation secured $140 million for this effort as part of the Fiscal Year 2023 appropriations bill signed into law on December 29, 2022. This significant investment is part of the ongoing recovery efforts in the aftermath of the Hermit’s Peak/Calf Canyon Fire, which devastated northern New Mexico in 2022. Read more »
WASHINGTON, D.C. – August 7, 2024 – 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 welcoming $800,000 from the U.S. Department of Labor to support disaster-relief jobs and training services in communities affected by the South Fork and Salt Fires. Read more »
Today, U.S. Representatives Teresa Leger Fernández (D-N.M.), Melanie Stansbury and Gabe Vasquez called on House leadership to fully fund the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s (FEMA) Disaster Relief Fund (DRF). In a letter to House leadership, they emphasized the urgent need for federal disaster relief funding to support New Mexico communities affected by recent natural… Read more »
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, Congresswoman Teresa Leger Fernández (NM-03) announced the release of a comprehensive report by the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) following an investigation into the U.S. Forest Service’s prescribed burn protocols. This investigation, which the Congresswoman secured in June 2022, comes two years in the wake of the devastating Hermit's Peak/Calf Canyon Fire in northern New Mexico, the largest and most destructive in the state's history. Read more »
RUIDOSO, N.M. - U.S. Senators Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) and Ben Ray Luján (D-N.M.) and U.S. Representatives Teresa Leger Fernández (D-N.M.), Melanie Stansbury (D-N.M.), and Gabe Vasquez (D-N.M.) released the following joint statement, announcing that President Joe Biden has approved a Major Disaster Declaration for Lincoln County and the Mescalero Apache Tribe in New Mexico in the wake of severe fires burning in Lincoln County, Otero County, and the Mescalero Apache Reservation. Read more »
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has named Col. Jay Mitchell as the Director of Operations, leading the day-to-day operations for both the Hermit’s Peak/Calf Canyon Claims Office (Claims Office) and Stafford Act wildfire disaster recovery operations based in Santa Fe. Mitchell is expected to begin in May and will be supported in his transition by leadership at FEMA. Read more »
WASHINGTON — 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.) welcomed the expansion of the FEMA Hermit’s Peak/Calf Canyon Claims Office in Mora, N.M. This announcement comes after a January letter from the Delegation calling on FEMA to expedite the claims process for those impacted by the Hermit’s Peak/Calf Canyon Fire and immediately address the backlog of claims. Read more »
WASHINGTON, D.C. – April 6, 2024 – Today, Congresswoman Teresa Leger Fernández issued the following statement on the 2-year anniversary of the Hermit’s Peak Calf Canyon Fire. Read more »
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Yesterday, Congresswoman Teresa Leger Fernández, alongside Senators Ben Ray Luján and Martin Heinrich, wrote a letter to Deanne Criswell, Administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), expressing deep concern over the delay processing decisions to over 100 claimants affected by the Hermit’s Peak/Calf Canyon Fire. The letter, emphasizing the urgency of the situation, calls for immediate action to address the backlog of claims and ensure swift justice for the victims. Read more »
