Manuel Lujan: “I certainly appreciate that. To our Ranking Member, it is good to be with you again, sir.”

When asked his opinion of Lincoln's performance, former slave and abolitionist Frederick Douglass replied: It was a sacred effort. Let me be the first to say this is a sacred effort, Senator Booker, and I am proud to stand alongside you…

I especially want to start by giving thanks to our colleague from Hawaii for asking us to come together and have a conversation with the American people. I am a proud Senator from the State of New Mexico--from a small, rural community in…

I very much appreciate that and agree with that.

78 years ago, 4-year-old Anastacio was living in Tularosa, NM, a city 40 miles away from the Trinity test detonation site. Now, little Anastacio didn't know it at the time--none of the families there did--but the world they were living in…