William Redmond: “it is with deep sadness we mourn the loss of our fellow New Mexican, Congressman Steve Schiff. Steve was highly…”

This bill was introduced on January 9, 1997, by my predecessor in the Third District of New Mexico, the Honorable Bill Richardson, current Ambassador to the United Nations. If passed, this bill would provide two simple land conveyances…

This bill is truly a people bill. We had a rough draft of the bill, we took it to the community. There were about 100, 150 land grant heirs that met at the de Onate Center north of Espanola. They looked at the bill, I asked them is this…

Well, the land grants that were lost to the Federal Government, to the inventory of government land, were lost in various ways. There is not a single way in which the land was lost. But let me give my colleague an example. When New Mexico…

again I would like to stand in support of the rule on this bill for both the Bandelier National Monument expansion and also the Route 66 designation. And, Mr. Speaker, you are aware that in America there are a number of symbols in our…