Political Quotes

I think in the Beltway and in Congress, all too often, particularly when I was there in the Minority, if you have people suffering, it becomes a way to produce more partisan efforts.

Our great thanks goes out to NMED and Secretary Kenney, to the EPA Air Enforcement teams in Washington and Dallas, to our entire New Mexico Delegation and their staffs, and especially to Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham, for their dedication, and patience, to hold Federal and state agencies, and oil companies, accountable for the methane emissions that have been impacting our state for almost 100 years and have left us with a methane hotspot visible from space.

To know that you are trying, to know that Governor Grisham, Secretary Cottrell Propst, to know that your heart lies not in the defense of an industry that has caused so much harm but instead with those of us that suffer that harm every day, that gives us strength.

And when you pointed to younger women and minority women, I will tell you that Native American and Hispanic and African-American women in New Mexico were critical to our ability to repeal an antiquated criminalization of abortion and abortion care services just last year in anticipation of reductions to Roe v. Wade protections.