Melanie Stansbury

Tribal Nations are at the forefront of protecting our communities—and they deserve the tools and resources they need to prepare for public health emergencies.

If you’re a teacher and you really want to work in a tribal community, whether you are a Native person yourself or not, and you’re looking at the difference of getting paid, let’s say, $50,000 by the federal government versus going and…

So what this bill would do is study the current formula funds that are allocated per student to these tribally controlled schools to evaluate how to increase funding per student, how to address increasing teacher and staff pay, and how to…

Chaco Canyon is not for sale! As one the most sacred places on the planet — the Greater Chaco Landscape has been a sacred landscape for Pueblo and Diné people since time immemorial.

When politicians begin deciding what facts are acceptable, scholarship ceases to be scholarship; it becomes propaganda.

Our veterans in New Mexico have answered the call to serve, and we have a responsibility to ensure they receive the care they deserve.

The service members were killed in a war that never should have happened in the first place.

They initiated tribal outreach during the government shutdown when the Bureau of Indian Affairs was not even staffed and operable,

Which indicates to us that there was no good-faith effort to actually engage tribal leadership.

Slashing reimbursements for home-based care while this administration spends billions on an endless war betrays our nations promises to our veterans.

The answer is YES—and we will keep fighting until it is clear this is the law of the land!

The defenders of Bataan, Corregidor, Guam, Wake Island, Midway, and Java displayed extraordinary courage in the face of impossible odds," said Stansbury.

I think it’s fair to say that there’s probably not a single New Mexican whose life has not been touched in some way by the fentanyl and opioid and addiction crisis in New Mexico.

Too many students leave college before finishing because they face academic, financial, and personal challenges without support,

I think that the NDAA is bloated with the largest amount of spending we’ve ever seen in the history of the United States, and is paying for things that the public does not agree with.

Yesterday's passage of the Albuquerque Indian School Act in the House of Representatives is a major step forward in a decades-long effort to return land to the stewardship of New Mexico’s 19 Pueblos in Albuquerque.

That is not a failure, that is a choice.

Bondi must testify under oath, on camera, for the public to see.

this week the Supreme Court of the United States dealt another devastating blow to the Voting Rights Act of 1965, a law that for nearly six decades has stood as a promise that every American, no matter who you are or where you live, has a…

I am appalled by what is coming before us on the floor today all wrapped up in one big, ugly rule. There are billions for ICE's warrantless searches on Americans and for funds that cut millions of Americans' children's access to food…

today, once again, our Republican colleagues are coming to the House floor to write another blank check to ICE on the backs of the American people. One year ago, Republicans in this Chamber claimed they were going to lower the debt and…

how bad does it have to get for the GOP in this Chamber to do something? Unhinged posts threatening war crimes; an illegal war in the Middle East that has killed thousands and thousands of civilians; 13 U.S. soldiers dead; an illegal…

it is Earth Day tomorrow, and yet here we are today in front of the House Chamber with yet another bill attacking our fundamental environmental health bills. Mr. Speaker, I stand here in strong opposition to H.R. 6387, the FIRE Act, but…

as a cosponsor of this War Powers Resolution, this debate is making me sick: the lies and colleagues who are so weak that they won't enforce the Constitution to rein in a President who is clearly out of control. As we sit here, thousands…