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May 27, 2020 Press Release
Albuquerque, N.M. – Congresswoman Deb Haaland (NM-01) will host a telephone town hall with experts on Thursday, May 28th to update New Mexicans on housing, rental, and utility assistance and a safe, responsible reopening.
 
May 27, 2020 Press Release

WASHINGTON—Today, U.S. Senator Tom Udall (D-N.M.), vice chairman of the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs, along with Senators Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) and Kyrsten Sinema (D-Ariz.) and U.S. Representatives Ben Ray Luján (D-N.M.), Deb Haaland (D-N.M.), Xochitl Torres Small (D-N.M.), Raúl M.

May 26, 2020 Press Release

Albuquerque, N.M. – Today, Tuesday, May 26, 2020 at 4 p.m. ET / 2 p.m. MT Congresswoman Deb Haaland (NM-01) will join New York Times editor Monica Drake and Girls Who Code founder Reshma Saujani for a conversation entitled Women in the Public Spotlight

May 22, 2020 Press Release

Albuquerque, N.M. – In a letter to the CDC and FEMA, Co-Chair of the Congressional Native American Caucus Deb Haaland (NM-01) and Chair of the House Natural Resources Subcommittee for Indigenous Peoples of the United States Ruben Gallego (Ariz.-07) pressed for services and funds be delivered to Indian Country immediately.

May 21, 2020 Press Release

Albuquerque, N.M. – Congresswoman Deb Haaland (NM-01), Vice Chair of the House Natural Resources Committee, released the following statement after the Bureau of Land Management made the announcement that they would extend the comment period on the management plan for oil and gas leases near Chaco Canyon.

May 21, 2020 Press Release

Albuquerque, N.M. – Congresswoman Deb Haaland (NM-01) congratulated Albuquerque Academy student Zachary Auster, New Mexico’s 2020 Presidential Scholar from New Mexico’s First Congressional District. The student was announced when the U.S. Department of Education released the list of the 56th class of U.S. Presidential Scholars this afternoon.

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May 20, 2020 Press Release

Albuquerque, N.M. – Today, Congresswoman Deb Haaland (NM-01) filed a bicameral, bipartisan amicus brief against unprecedented action to remove Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe’s land from tribal trust status. The brief, signed by 25members of Congress, was filed in Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe v.

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July 27, 2019 In The News

U.S. Rep. Deb Haaland, who represents New Mexico's first district, encouraged Native Americans from across North America  to participate in politics during the Saginaw Chippewa Indian Tribe's 35th annual Powwow.

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July 22, 2019 In The News

Last week President Trump told four of my colleagues to “go back” to where they came from — even though all are American citizens, and only one is an immigrant. But Mr.

July 10, 2019 In The News

The Green New Deal is one of the most progressive legislative proposals from the federal level in recent years. At a time of accelerating climate change, even with all its limitations the proposal remains the only serious national response to climate change put forth by either side of the legislative political divide.

June 28, 2019 In The News

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Taxpayers and patients in the U.S. could save millions of dollars a year if they were able to pay what people in other countries do for insulin and other medications required by diabetics, a lawmaker said Friday.

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June 26, 2019 In The News

(KRQE)- Congresswoman Deb Haaland is introducing new legislation to rescind Medals of Honor for some U.S. troops. U.S. soldiers got the medals after participating in the 1890 Wounded Knee massacre when hundreds of Lakota Sioux men, women, and children were killed.

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June 26, 2019 In The News

BISMARCK– In 2016, Debra Haaland cooked green chili and tortillas at the Standing Rock Sioux camps pitched against the Dakota Access Pipeline. Bringing food was her traditional way of contributing to the fight against the $3.8 billion pipeline.

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June 25, 2019 In The News

On a day the first Medal of Honor was bestowed on a living Iraq War recipient, lawmakers and members of the Sioux nation announced their plan to take away those awarded for what became known as The Wounded Knee Massacre.

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June 25, 2019 In The News

To be awarded a Medal of Honor in the United States, a person must display “great personal bravery or self-sacrifice.” For the past 129 years, that stipulation has effectively included the mindless slaughter of Indigenous people.

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June 23, 2019 In The News

U.S. Rep. Debra Haaland said her portrait session with Bismarck ambrotypist Shane Balkowitsch was amazing, amazing, amazing.

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