WASHINGTON, June 27 -- Sen. Ben Ray Lujan, D-New Mexico, issued the following news release: * * * After Republicans Gave ICE, CBP $70 Billion in New Funding Bill, Agencies Continue to Sit on $95 Billion from Previous Funding Bill * As of the End of May, ICE and CBP Still Have $95 Billion in Unobligated Funding Washington, D.C. - After President Trump signed into law a Republican funding bill that gave Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs and Border Protection (CBP) nearly   more

WASHINGTON, June 27 -- Sen. Ben Ray Lujan, D-New Mexico, issued the following news release: * * * CHC Senators: Supreme Court's Decision is a Betrayal of TPS Recipients * Washington, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senators Ben Ray Lujan (D-N.M.), Catherine Cortez Masto (D-Nev.), Alex Padilla (D-Calif.), and Ruben Gallego (D-Ariz.) released the following statement after the Supreme Court's decision in Mullin v. Doe et al., which allows the Trump Administration to revoke Temporary Protected Status (TPS) f  more

WASHINGTON, June 27 -- The Government Accountability Office has dismissed three bid protests filed by Oready LLC, Las Vegas, Nevada, challenging the terms of solicitations issued by the U.S. Department of the Interior Bureau of Indian Education for therapy services at two schools in New Mexico. The protests involved requests for quotations seeking commercial occupational therapist and certified occupational therapist assistant services at T'iis Ts'ozi Bi'Olta'/Crownpoint Community School in Cro  more

WASHINGTON, June 27 -- The Hidalgo Soil and Water Conservation District, Lordsburg, New Mexico, has submitted a public comment letter to the U.S. Bureau of Land Management regarding proposed revisions to grazing regulations. The conservation district letter, signed by John Samuel, President and Members of the Board of Supervisors, endorses broader application of land health standards across all BLM programs, highlighting the need for balanced management of rangeland health factors including wi  more

WASHINGTON, June 27 -- Sen. Ben Ray Lujan, D-New Mexico, issued the following news release: * * * Lujan Statement on Four Years Since SCOTUS Overturned Roe v. Wade * Washington, D.C. - U.S. Senator Ben Ray Lujan (D-N.M.) issued the following statement on the fourth anniversary of the extremist conservative Supreme Court majority overturning Roe v. Wade in the disastrous Dobbs decision: "Today marks four years since the extremist conservative Supreme Court majority overturned Roe v. Wade, u  more

WASHINGTON, June 27 -- Sen. Ben Ray Lujan, D-New Mexico, issued the following news release: * * * Lujan, Agriculture Committee Democrats Statement on Senate Republicans' Farm Bill Discussion Draft * Washington, D.C. -U.S. Senator Ben Ray Lujan (D-N.M.), a member of the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry, alongside Agriculture Committee Democrats released the following joint statement on Senate Republicans' Farm Bill discussion draft. "Senate Agriculture Committee Demo  more

WASHINGTON, June 27 -- Sen. Ben Ray Lujan, D-New Mexico, issued the following news release: * * * Lujan, Kelly, Colleagues Introduce Bipartisan Legislation to Remove Wildfire Fuel from New Mexico's Forests * Washington, D.C. - U.S. Senators Ben Ray Lujan (D-NM), Mark Kelly (D-AZ), Adam Schiff (D-CA), John Curtis (R-UT), and Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-MS) introduced the bipartisan Hazardous Fuels Transportation Assistance Act to help communities and forest managers remove woody biomass-material left  more

WASHINGTON, June 27 -- Sen. Ben Ray Lujan, D-New Mexico, issued the following news release: * * * Lujan, Slotkin, Warnock, Booker, Bennet, Fetterman Introduce Legislation to Strengthen Support for Specialty Crop Growers * Supports America's Specialty Crop Growers Who Produce Trademark Crops from Pecans to Chile Washington, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senators Ben Ray Lujan (D-N.M.), Ranking Member of the Subcommittee on Food and Nutrition, Specialty Crops, Organics, and Research, Elissa Slotkin (D-  more