Michelle Lujan Grisham

Clearly, for rural America, it is the next frontier.

I am interested in your opinions about comprehensive immigration reform, which, particularly in a state like mine, provides an immediate return into the pocketbooks of every New Mexican.

The end result has been zero economic growth. No trickle down investments.

The strategy that we have taken in New Mexico... is to invest in huge tax breaks at the top 1 percent and corporate tax breaks.

New Mexico has the highest unemployment in the country, and we are not... seeing real, or any quite frankly, economic growth.

We are, in fact, a disaster using your budget blueprint.

Half the State is on Medicaid with some of the worst healthcare outcomes.

Twenty percent of New Mexicans live in poverty, 28 percent of New Mexico children live in poverty, second highest in the Nation.

I want to talk to you a little bit how I am living that.

If with a want to have kind of a Cadillac growth in the economy and GDP, you want that and you want to get kind of a balanced perspective about who thinks that can happen, do comprehensive immigration reform.

Ten years ago we had a 3.7 unemployment rate. Today, we have the highest unemployment rate in the Nation at 6.7 percent.

I would love a partnership to say we are not going to stand for that as a country.

I would love to have the Department's support on the Lunch Shaming bill.

I introduced a bill in Congress with my colleague and good friend, the Chairman of the Biotech Subcommittee, Rodney Davis.

It is an honor to have you here

New Mexico is the first state in the country to now ban lunch shaming at a state level.

While the lack of needed immigration policy reform is the greatest overarching current threat to America's specialty crop sector, the programs I just mentioned are also critical to addressing other important needs for fruit and vegetable…

Thank you Chairman Davis and Ranking Member Lujan Grisham for the opportunity to provide supplemental comments for the record of the March 9 hearing.

What can we do to help you? What is your team doing to ensure that families of these soldiers and airmen...

I commend people who decide to continue in the Reserves after their discharge.

Without accurate data, we have no way of assessing and reducing radiation exposure health risks, including acute radiation sickness and cancer.

Funding and fielding the items in fiscal year 2018 improves Army readiness, stabilizes the industrial base, and most importantly, protects the safety and welfare of our Nation's soldiers.

It is critical that we provide our men and women with not only the information related to these exposures, but the opportunity to mitigate those and deal with issues for their entire families.

The new system meets the Department of Defense standards and includes a personal dosimeter, which resembles a wristwatch.

This program is critical to the security, safety, and well-being of American servicemembers who are exposed to radioactive weapons systems, devices, and materials on a daily basis.