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118th Congress

March 12, 2024

McALLEN, Texas (Border Report) — Over two dozen House Democrats in Washington on Tuesday announced the formation of a new Democratic border security caucus they say is aimed at changing the narrative from Republicans about how life really is at the border and what border communities need.

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U.S. Capitol
March 12, 2024

WASHINGTON, D.C. – On Wednesday, March 6, U.S. Representative Gabe Vasquez (D-N.M.-02) secured $13.3 million for 14 projects in New Mexico’s second congressional district.

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Vasquez at Press Conference
March 12, 2024

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, March 12, 2024, U.S. Representative Gabe Vasquez (D-N.M.-02) joined the Democrats for Border Security Task Force to affirm his commitment to addressing the challenges the United States faces at the border. Vasquez represents the third-longest border district and has extensive experience with border security. 

March 6, 2024

WASHINGTON — U.S. House lawmakers cast a broadly bipartisan vote Wednesday to approve a six-bill government funding package, marking one of the few consequential votes on major legislation that chamber has taken since Republicans took the majority more than a year ago.

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Bipartisan SW Caucus
March 5, 2024
U.S. Congressmen Gabe Vasquez (D-NM-02) and Juan Ciscomani (R-AZ-06), co-chairs of the Bipartisan Southwest Caucus, co-led new legislation today to expand access for rural veterans in need of transportation to Veterans Affairs (VA) health care facilities.
March 4, 2024

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.), are welcoming nearly $43 million of Bipartisan Infrastructure Law funding from the U.S.

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U.S. Capitol
March 1, 2024
U.S. Representative Gabe Vasquez (D-N.M.-02) announced Treva Riley, an educator for Laguna Pueblo, as his guest for the State of the Union address. Riley has taught at Laguna Elementary School for ten years and would directly benefit from Vasquez’s Parity for Tribal Educators Act that provides teachers and staff at Tribally-controlled schools the same federal retirement benefits as teachers at Bureau of Indian Education (BIE) schools.
February 29, 2024

U.S. Representative Gabe Vasquez, a Democrat representing New Mexico’s 2nd Congressional District, announced Thursday that Laguna Pueblo educator Treva Riley will be his guest at President Joe Biden’s State of the Union Address on March 7.

Riley teaches at Laguna Elementary and has done so for 10 years.

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Vasquez Presents Check to SVEDC

As your representative, I’m fighting to bring much-needed federal dollars back to New Mexico through Community Project Funding (CPF).


February 28, 2024

U.S. Rep. Gabe Vasquez, a New Mexico Democrat, is teaming up with the former secretary of the U.S. Department of the Interior and current Republican U.S. Rep. Ryan Zinke of Montana to sponsor legislation aimed at preventing the sale of public lands.