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Congresistas y líderes que representan a organizaciones latinas criticaron enérgicamente el viernes el fallo de la Corte Suprema que bloqueó el plan del presidente Joe Biden para condonar la deuda estudiantil de millones de universitarios, porque los latinos y las personas de otras minorías en Estados Unidos serán los más afectados.
WASHINGTON — U.S. Senators Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), Ben Ray Luján (D-N.M.) and U.S. Representatives Teresa Leger Fernández (D-N.M.), Melanie Stansbury (D-N.M.), and Gabe Vasquez (D-N.M.) are announcing $26,270,968 from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law to the City of Albuquerque and North Central Regional Transit District (NCRTD) to enhance public transportation services and accelerate the transition to an American-made clean energy future.
NEW MEXICO (KRQE) – New Mexico state Representative Gabe Vasquez is co-sponsoring a bill in Washington to prevent stock trading for Congress. The bill is called the “T.R.U.S.T Act” which stands for Transparent Representation Upholding Service and Trust.
Fights over diversity training, COVID-19 and LGBTQ+ troops dominated the House Armed Services Committee's yearly markup of its annual defense policy bill as lawmakers debated on into the night Wednesday.
But Republicans and Democrats on the panel ultimately agreed to several bipartisan measures that improve bread-and-butter issues for service members. The bill includes new bonuses for junior troops and one of the highest military pay raises in recent history.
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U.S. Rep. Gabe Vasquez, D-N.M., and U.S. Rep. Juan Ciscomani, R-Arizona, announced in a June 15 news conference in Washington, D.C. that they have created the Bipartisan Southwest Coalition.
Through the coalition, Vasquez said the two representatives will work together “on Issues that are important to the Southwest,” including border security, economic opportunity and the protection of public lands.
The two have “different political ideologies,” Vasquez said, but can work together to “represent the country that we love so much.”
(The Center Square) - The Federal Aviation Administration is providing six grants worth $10.9 million to fix infrastructure at six airports in New Mexico.
The New Mexico congressional delegation welcomed the news, praising the FAA's decision.
U.S. Senator Ben Ray Luján, D-New Mexico, said the state's airports play a vital role in its economy.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Senators Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) and Ben Ray Luján (D-N.M.) and U.S. Reps Teresa Leger Fernández (D-N.M.), Melanie Stansbury (D-N.M.), and Gabe Vasquez (D-N.M.) announced a total of $10,916,787 in Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) grants to repair the infrastructure at six airports in New Mexico.
President Joe Biden signed into law Saturday a bill that raises the federal debt ceiling, a high-stakes compromise passed by the U.S. House of Representatives on Wednesday night and by the Senate on Thursday. Once a pro forma vote allowing the government to borrow money as needed to pay for enacted legislation, this year, after contentious negotiations and concessions from the White House, lawmakers pushed to get a bill to President Biden, who signed it with just two days before the nation faced its first-ever default.
WASHINGTON – Tribes and counties could keep revenue from timber projects on federal lands under a bill that’s gaining momentum in the House of Representatives, after several Washington Democrats backed legislation first introduced by two Idaho Republicans.