Ben Ray Luján
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Ben Ray Luján is an American politician serving as the junior United States senator from New Mexico since January 3, 2021. A member of the Democratic Party, he previously represented New Mexico's 3rd congressional district in the U.S. House of Representatives from 2009 to 2021. Luján has focused on various issues during his tenure, including economic development, healthcare, and tribal food security, advocating for policies that support New Mexico's diverse communities.
Dilution is not the solution; and that is what the EPA's term of cleanup is.
Does--do members of Congress have to seek Freedom of Information Act requests to Federal agencies to get data?
Medicaid is a critical program across the Nation, and especially in my home State of New Mexico.
I believe deeply in Medicaid's mission of improving access to health care, better health outcomes, greater financial security.
Telecommunications policy has a long history of being made on a bipartisan basis, and I would hate to see the polarization that defined so many of our policy debates dominate our efforts on this Subcommittee.
The authorization provided to the Secretary by this legislation will not only resolve certain preference right lease applications, but will also help resolve a tribal trust obligation to the Navajo Nation that has been unresolved for four…
We appreciate their efforts and hope that this committee will act on the legislation before the end of this Congress.
H.R. 5176, that authorizes the Secretary of the Interior to retire coal preference right lease applications for which the Secretary has made an affirmative commercial quantities determination.
I appreciate the subcommittee's willingness to hold this important legislative hearing on H.R. 5176, a bill I have sponsored with Representative Cynthia Lummis.





