Press Releases

WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Representative Melanie Stansbury (N.M.-01) secured over $10.5 million in funding for Community Projects in New Mexico’s First Congressional District.

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WASHINGTON — Today, U.S. Representative Melanie Stansbury (N.M.-01) joined a bipartisan group of 112 lawmakers in the U.S. House of Representatives and U.S. Senate in a letter to the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Secretary Tom Vilsack asking the Department to increase access to healthy food under the Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) program that provides nutrition assistance to more than 33,500 New Mexicans.

WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Representative Melanie Stansbury (D-N.M.) joined a bipartisan, bicameral group of lawmakers to introduce legislation to prevent private interim nuclear waste storage sites from becoming de facto permanent nuclear waste storage facilities. The legislation, led by U.S. Senators Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) and Ted Cruz (R-Texas) in the Senate and U.S.

WASHINGTON — Today, U.S. Representative Melanie Stansbury (N.M.-01) voted to pass landmark bipartisan legislation to fulfill the country’s obligation to provide health care to veterans by treating toxic exposure as a cost of war.

WASHINGTON—Today, U.S. Representative Melanie Stansbury (N.M.-01) released the following statement after voting to pass a resolution in the House of Representatives in support Ukraine and after President Biden’s State of the Union address last night: 

WASHINGTON—As Russia continues its invasion of Ukraine, U.S. Representative Melanie Stansbury (N.M.-01) led a letter with Rep. Mike Quigley (Ill.-05) and bipartisan co-chairs of the Congressional Ukraine Caucus to the Biden administration calling for Temporary Protected Status (TPS) to be granted to Ukrainians living in the United States.

WASHINGTON—Today, U.S. Representative Melanie Stansbury (N.M.-01), a member of the House Committees on Natural Resources and Science, Space, and Technology issued the following statement on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s (IPCC) report on climate resilience and adaptation that warns of widespread and catastrophic impacts: