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Teresa Isabel Leger Fernandez is an American attorney and politician currently serving as the U.S. Representative for New Mexico's 3rd congressional district, a position she has held since January 3, 2019. A member of the Democratic Party, she has focused on issues such as healthcare, education, and environmental protection during her time in office. Leger Fernandez has been an advocate for the needs of her constituents, emphasizing the importance of compassion and justice in her public service.
Indeed, it is marvelous when we come together on these bipartisan bills. I would recognize the work of Ranking Member Grijalva and Chairman Westerman in bringing these kind of bipartisan bills that we have had all day long today, and the…
H.R. 5015, Seedlings for Sustainable Habitat Restoration sponsored by Representative Leger Fernandez, will help.
It sounds like with the 2022 renegotiated memorandum that the Biden administration did make huge gains.
This weekend, Oppenheimer is expected to win multiple Oscars. In the film, we watched the pain and guilt in J.R. Oppenheimer's face when he heard what the atomic bomb did to the people of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. What the film didn't…
As we begin Women's History Month, we must remember something historic that has happened to women and to women's freedoms. For 50 years, women enjoyed limited but certain reproductive freedoms. A Trump-packed Supreme Court overturned that…
The flexibility that compacting provides and the flexibility within the IHS system, in terms of the multiple sources of revenue really makes a difference.
Thank you, President Harvier, for pointing out how much your tribe actually provides to carry out the functions that the Federal Government, in its trust responsibility, is supposed to be doing.
Recently Speaker Johnson and most House Republicans cosponsored a bill that could ban IVF nationwide and criminalize reproductive healthcare. The Alabama Supreme Court's anti- IVF ruling is consistent with these extreme attempts to steal…
We have seen the Republicans kill a lot of their own rules. A record number of Republican rules have been killed on the floor of the House. I think it is a little too early to crow about getting this done when you don't know if you are…
Let's go back to who caused this problem in the first place. It was those Republicans with their Republican tax cut. The Trump tax cut is the one that caused this problem. Let's not forget why we are facing this. Let's not forget, and…
I thank the gentleman from New York (Mr. Langworthy) for yielding the customary 30 minutes. Mr. Speaker, Republicans called us into an emergency meeting to consider today's rules several weeks ago. Several weeks ago, it is an emergency…
This report details the massive tax breaks that the Trump and Republican 2018 tax bill primarily benefited the wealthiest Americans, and we constantly hear them want to make it permanent. We constantly hear them say: Oh, those were the…
Give me a break, really. Republicans caused this problem. When Republicans were in complete control, they created the problem that that chart just highlighted. Everybody is paying for that. They created a problem where the middle class--I…
I will continue to fight for the RICO amendments. We are not giving that up because the uranium mining needs, we need to address that.
I remind everybody here that Democrats offered an amendment in the Rules Committee so that we could have fixed the SALT problem not just for tax year 2023, which is when you pay your taxes now in 2024, but fixed it for 2 years. If…
Reasonable Republicans and even The Wall Street Journal editorial board have written that this impeachment does not qualify as high crimes and misdemeanors. The board wrote: ``Grandstanding is easier than governing, and Republicans have to…
Last Saturday marked the National Day of Remembrance for Downwinders. The movie ``Oppenheimer'' reminded the Nation that New Mexico is where the government first detonated an atomic bomb. The story that remains untold and the justice that…
As we know, listening to the need for Black Hills to be restored is something that we all should constantly remember on this Committee.
I think that is the most efficient program you have seen, and I think that that is a testimony to the fact of how bad things were and how important it was to finally address it.
We are peeling back the layers of what happened to the tribes, and how we reacquire the land is going to take an awareness and acknowledgement of those things.
Today's Republican bills are part of their extreme agenda to create a Federal abortion ban. The first bill, H.R. 6918, would divert Federal funding used to help feed and house poor families and give it to anti-abortion centers. The…
Nobody wants to leave the beautiful islands... but they feel that they must to seek health care.
There definitely has to be some reconciliation, because what we do not want to experience is becoming wards of our state.
Republicans are just at it again, aren't they? They keep bringing up bills that protect big corporations and banks instead of helping Americans and protecting working families. We saw it when Republicans tried to cut funding for the…
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