Energy future needs sustained federal support
By Brian Moore Pete Domenici and Jeff Bingaman are more than just United States senators from New Mexico. They are also national leaders on energy policy with more than 30 years of experience on...
View ArticleN.M. Senators: Eastern New Mexico pipeline bill moves ahead in Senate
Freedom New Mexico WASHINGTON — A key Senate committee approved a bill today authorizing the federal government to build a pipeline that will carry water to several communities in Curry and Roosevelt...
View ArticleState senators win unopposed
Freedom New Mexico Stuart Ingle of Portales and Gay Kernan of Hobbs were unopposed in their re-election bids for the New Mexico state Senate. “It’s hard to lose (when you’re unopposed), but I’m...
View ArticleSenators hear from former death-row inmate
By Steve Terrell: The New Mexican About six weeks before he was to be executed by the state of Illinois, Randy Steidl’s mother went to a cemetery and purchased a burial plot for him. “That’s something...
View ArticleNews release: Senators press for drought declaration for seven N.M. counties
WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Jeff Bingaman and Tom Udall today urged U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack to quickly approve New Mexico’s request for a natural disaster declaration for seven counties...
View ArticleVA not ready to back disabled pay
By Tom Philpott: Military update Monthly compensation the Department of Veterans Affairs pays to veterans with service-connected disabilities is intended to replace average earnings loss due to...
View ArticleLetters to the editor: Illegal immigrants danger on road
Illegal immigrants danger on road It is my opinion that our senators have forgotten whom they are supposed to be working for and protecting. They have the mistaken idea that the illegal immigrants are...
View ArticlePress release: NM senators want military paid if government shutdown happens
WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Tom Udall and Jeff Bingaman joined a bipartisan group of senators today in cosponsoring the Ensuring Pay for Our Military Act of 2011 (S. 724) to assure that military...
View ArticlePress release: Republican senators comment as legislative session
Press release: Republican senators comment as legislative session Santa Fe — The 30 day Legislative Session ended at noon today and concluded a month full of debate, discussion and ended with a new,...
View ArticleSenators aim to protect GI benefits
What if the military gave every service member an expensive car as a reward for honorable service, but they could take delivery only at night and the headlights didn’t work? Many of those gift cars...
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