Teresa Leger Fernandez

I stand in firm solidarity with the QC and its mission to protect the rights of all New Mexicans--regardless of who they are or who they love.

The vote is precious. It is almost sacred. It is the most powerful nonviolent tool we have in a democratic society.

If my Republican colleagues really cared about stopping China's dominance, they would vote for the motion to recommit.

What is worse is their bill blocks the Federal Government from monitoring States' use of TANF dollars for those anti-abortion clinics. They don't want accountability on those clinics. I would tell my Republican colleagues not to lecture us…

Mr. Speaker, I want to go back to the issue of the forever wars that President Trump is leading us down into. As I said in my opening, he says it is to combat drug trafficking, and I agree, we should be arresting and putting these drug…

H.R. 3628 does not address the fact that energy prices are rising. They are 13 percent higher since Trump took office. Trump has called the affordability crisis a Democratic hoax. He insults our intelligence once again every time we open a…

We only lose the fight if we give up the fight.

Every patient you help is a defiant act of love, compassion, and justice.

They'd rather shut down Congress than vote to release the files. What are they hiding?

The public will remember who stood with Big Bird and who strangled him.

The Epstein files concern the abuse of women and the abuse of children. Why are they not just releasing them?

Every Republican on this committee should be able to easily vote 'yes.'

They didn't let us in that building because they don't want Americans to know what they are doing. Mr. Speaker, I ask you and all my Republican colleagues: Would you let Elon Musk and his interns rummage through your savings account, your…

Those violent criminals whom Trump described as peaceful and loving are being released into our communities. We have seen the videos of the attacks, the shouts, and the pounding of Officer Fanone, and so many others, and their cries for…

This will have a significant impact on the delivery of health services in Indian Country.

We thank Representative Leger Fernandez for raising workforce issues.

I completely agree with you with regards to that, because we cannot be letting this requirement... sap resources from the rest of IHS.

During the Biden administration, we have had historic oil and gas production with many more leases coming online, and so this kind of legislation is precisely needed to make sure that we get the royalty revenues to where they should go…

At a time when women demand that we have reproductive freedoms, Republicans instead brought us a bill to give refrigerators freedom. Republicans say that it is overreach to regulate home appliances, but they will regulate women's bodies…

Madam Chairwoman, thank you.

We need to make sure that our forest fighters and the people who not just fight the forests, but who care for the forests have housing, addressing mental health, and the well-being of our Federal firefighters.

Because of Republican cuts you are operating on an $8.2 billion budget, and that is a 25 percent cut from 2022.

We invested $10.8 billion in the Forest Service, we got 400 percent back as a return on investment.

We are not living by all of the recommendations, or not living by everything that you have committed to me.

I think I am going to be asking you for a commitment to implement what the GAO has identified.