I have traveled to every corner of my district, and New Mexicans are depending on us to defend our democracy and to ensure that we are holding not only those who are committing waste, fraud, and abuse accountable, but ourselves.

So, whose free expression are we protecting at the expense of whose safety, and whose safety are we willing to allow to go to the wind so that people can speak freely?

Our government is failing. The system is failing. We need action.

We should not be playing politics with people's lives. This is serious. People's lives are in the balance.

It is truly a humanitarian crisis, and it is a crisis that has been manufactured, reproduced over and over again.

The system is terribly broken, and that is why we need bipartisan reform.

The Trump administration massively expanded the use of private, for-profit prisons.

It was the humane--inhumane policies of the previous administration that have contributed to this crisis.

our job is to make sure that the American people are represented and we keep this government accountable.

After three decades of bipartisan work, dedicated collaboration by our extraordinary scientists and engineers at NASA, our space industries, and of course scientists across the world, this amazing telescope launched last December.

As a woman in STEM, I want to just note that it's being led by an amazing group of women, including Charlie Blackwell-Thompson, who is the first woman ever in American history to oversee a NASA countdown and launch.

I wish I could say that state and local governments have prioritized the protection of Native women and children, but they have not.