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Melanie Stansbury
@melaniestansbury· Democratic · NM· Feb 29, 2024

It is our body, it is our right, and I will not yield. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentlewoman's time has expired. The gentlewoman is no longer recognized. Members are reminded to direct their remarks to the Chair. ____________________

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Teresa Leger Fernandez
@teresalegerfernandez· Democratic · NM· Feb 28, 2024

Recently Speaker Johnson and most House Republicans cosponsored a bill that could ban IVF nationwide and criminalize reproductive healthcare. The Alabama Supreme Court's anti- IVF ruling is consistent with these extreme attempts to steal…

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Teresa Leger Fernandez
@teresalegerfernandez· Democratic · NM· Feb 14, 2024

I will continue to fight for the RICO amendments. We are not giving that up because the uranium mining needs, we need to address that.

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Teresa Leger Fernandez
@teresalegerfernandez· Democratic · NM· Feb 14, 2024

Let's go back to who caused this problem in the first place. It was those Republicans with their Republican tax cut. The Trump tax cut is the one that caused this problem. Let's not forget why we are facing this. Let's not forget, and…

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Melanie Stansbury
@melaniestansbury· Democratic · NM· Feb 14, 2024

I think it was an educational hearing for my colleagues who are newly being introduced to the concept of natural capital.

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Melanie Stansbury
@melaniestansbury· Democratic · NM· Feb 14, 2024

The policies that this Administration is continuing, which were begun decades ago by other administrations, including conservative and Republican administrations, are vital to the modernization of our public lands.

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Teresa Leger Fernandez
@teresalegerfernandez· Democratic · NM· Feb 14, 2024

We have seen the Republicans kill a lot of their own rules. A record number of Republican rules have been killed on the floor of the House. I think it is a little too early to crow about getting this done when you don't know if you are…

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Melanie Stansbury
@melaniestansbury· Democratic · NM· Feb 14, 2024

It seems as though we have three unrelated public lands initiatives that are all designed to increase public participation and transparency and modernize the way that we do our natural resources management as a country.

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Teresa Leger Fernandez
@teresalegerfernandez· Democratic · NM· Feb 14, 2024

I remind everybody here that Democrats offered an amendment in the Rules Committee so that we could have fixed the SALT problem not just for tax year 2023, which is when you pay your taxes now in 2024, but fixed it for 2 years. If…

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Melanie Stansbury
@melaniestansbury· Democratic · NM· Feb 14, 2024

But at the end of the day, it really is a way to value resources that were not previously valued, correct?

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Melanie Stansbury
@melaniestansbury· Democratic · NM· Feb 14, 2024

I especially appreciate Mr. Westerman's comments about how the United States is behind other nations, and needs to standardize the way in which we do economic accounting of our natural resources.

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Teresa Leger Fernandez
@teresalegerfernandez· Democratic · NM· Feb 14, 2024

I thank the gentleman from New York (Mr. Langworthy) for yielding the customary 30 minutes. Mr. Speaker, Republicans called us into an emergency meeting to consider today's rules several weeks ago. Several weeks ago, it is an emergency…

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Teresa Leger Fernandez
@teresalegerfernandez· Democratic · NM· Feb 14, 2024

Give me a break, really. Republicans caused this problem. When Republicans were in complete control, they created the problem that that chart just highlighted. Everybody is paying for that. They created a problem where the middle class--I…

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Teresa Leger Fernandez
@teresalegerfernandez· Democratic · NM· Feb 14, 2024

This report details the massive tax breaks that the Trump and Republican 2018 tax bill primarily benefited the wealthiest Americans, and we constantly hear them want to make it permanent. We constantly hear them say: Oh, those were the…

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