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 »
WASHINGTON, D.C. – July 3, 2024 – U.S. Representative 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 announced nearly $39 million in federal funding for transportation infrastructure upgrades across New Mexico. The investment will help fund projects to improve roads, create sidewalks, modernize the I-40 corridor, and upgrade aging bus fleets. The funding was made possible by the Rebuilding American Infrastructure with Sustainability and Equity (RAISE) program that was established by the Infrastructure Law. 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 »
U.S. Representative Teresa Leger Fernández (D-N.M.) and U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) introduced legislation to approve the water rights settlement of Ohkay Owingeh and participating non-Tribal parties for water in the Rio Chama Basin. U.S. Senator Ben Ray Luján (D-N.M.) and U.S. Representative Melanie Stansbury (D-N.M.) are original cosponsors.
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WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, Congresswoman Leger Fernández and 9 of her House colleagues introduced the Home of Your Own Act to create national one-time, $30,000 homeownership grants to help New Mexicans and Americans across the country become first-time homeowners. Read more »
June 11, 2024 - WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Representatives Teresa Leger Fernández (D-N.M.), Melanie Stansbury (D-N.M.), and Ben Ray Luján (D-N.M.) and U.S. Senators Ben Ray Luján (D-N.M.) and Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) are welcoming preliminary terms between the U.S. Department of Commerce and SolAero by Rocket Lab, an Albuquerque, N.M.-based manufacturing company, for the U.S. Department of Commerce to provide up to $23.9 million in direct funding under the CHIPS and Science Act, which is projected to create over 100 direct manufacturing jobs in Albuquerque. Read more »
Congresswoman Teresa Leger Fernández reintroduced the Financial Fitness Act to create a public personal finance education portal on the Department of Education website to help students and families grow their financial literacy skills and better prepare for their future.
“Students and families face substantial and difficult financial decisions when they choose to pursue higher… Read more »
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.), a member of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, and Ben Ray Luján (D-N.M.), are announcing $60 million from the Inflation Reduction Act to help Doña Ana and Sierra County residents and farmers with drought… Read more »
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 $11,855,081 in federal funding from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development’s (HUD) Capital Fund Program to support 21 public housing authorities across New Mexico.… Read more »
WASHINGTON, D.C. –Today, U.S. Representative Teresa Leger Fernández (D-N.M.) and U.S. Senator Ben Ray Luján (D-N.M.) introduced the New Mexico Land Grant-Mercedes Historical or Traditional Use Cooperation and Coordination Act to provide greater cooperation between the federal government and land grant communities. There are 27 community land grant-mercedes that are recognized as political subdivisions under New Mexico law. Read more »
