Head Start, pre-K, and childcare programs have a profound return on investment, as has been pointed out today.
I hope that we all agree is that the wages that early childhood educators make is very, very low.
Under the leadership of our Governor, Michelle Lujan Grisham, New Mexico has pursued a bold, transformational vision.
These low market rates keep wages low, revenues low, and supply low.
I think that is one show of success when we measure access to these programs and what it means as well.
As a Head Start alumnus, I know the value of high-quality early childhood education and believe that Congress should be strengthening its su...
I had the tremendous opportunity last fall to go join the rest of the delegation and both pueblo and Navajo leaders at Chaco Canyon with Sec...
it is ironic that we are having this conversation in this Committee, because I have sat here for the last several months listening to my col...
We know you traveled at great lengths to get here, and we are really grateful that you are able to be with us.
they are a moral and an actual legal trust responsibility of the Federal Government to make good on our promises to protect these lands for ...
there are thousands of New Mexicans, multi-generational families in New Mexico, who are living with the legacy of cancer, who have died too ...
I always look forward to it when we have the bipartisan support for, including tribes, recognizing them as sovereign nations.
Affordable housing is important everywhere I go in my district.
I personally believe that healthcare is a human right, a fundamental right.
We have talked a lot this morning about the Inflation Reduction Act...
I have spent much of my elected career... fighting to change this broken system.
These for-profit companies are helping to drive more and more care providers out of business.
if we really believe that healthcare is a human right, then it is not just about one hearing, one bipartisan hearing.
