Press Releases
WASHINGTON (March 18, 2022) – U.S. Senators Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) and Ben Ray Luján (D-N.M.) and U.S. Representatives Melanie Stansbury (D-N.M.) and Teresa Leger Fernández (D-N.M.) are calling on the Biden administration to act swiftly to address the inhumane and unsafe conditions at the Torrance County Detention Facility (Torrance) in Estancia, New Mexico.
WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Representatives Melanie Stansbury (N.M.-01) and Joe Neguse (Colo.-02), along with Rep.
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WASHINGTON—Today, U.S. Representative Melanie Stansbury (N.M.-01), Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham, U.S.
WASHINGTON–U.S. Senators Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) and Ben Ray Luján (D-N.M.) and U.S. Representatives Melanie Stansbury (D-N.M.) and Teresa Leger Fernández (D-N.M.) passed historic funding for New Mexico in the historic bipartisan Omnibus Appropriations Agreement for Fiscal Year 2022. The legislation passed the U.S. House of Representatives on Wednesday, March 9, and the U.S. Senate today, Thursday, March 10. It now heads to President Joe Biden’s desk to be signed into law.
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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.
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.