Previous Next |
|
House Votes to Save Doña Ana Cotton Ginning Research Lab
May 24, 2006
-
By an overwhelming bipartisan vote of 378 - 46 last night, the U.S. House of Representatives approved an agricultural appropriations measure that restores more than $1 million in funding for the Southwestern Cotton Ginning Research Laboratory in Las Cruces. The Bush Administration’s budget r...
More
|
|
Pearce Hails Passage of Over $18 Million in Dedicated Funding for 2nd District Agricultural Priorities
Oct 27, 2005
-
U.S. Rep. Steve Pearce today hailed the passage in the U.S. House of Representatives of the House-Senate Conference Report on H.R. 2744, the Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2006. This legislation, which passed by a solid biparti...
More
|
|
Legislation to Diminish Potash Royalties
Oct 7, 2004
-
The U.S. House on Monday approved the addition of language to a bill that would reduce the royalties potash companies pay the federal government.
The language would reduce the royalty rate on the output from federal lands of potassium and potassium compounds from the mineral sylvite to 1 percent fr...
More
|
|
House Passes Pearce’s Potash Revitalization Language
Oct 5, 2004
-
Yesterday, the U.S. House of Representatives passed Congressman Steve Pearce’s potash revitalization language as part of S. 1521. The language passed by the House is identical to the text of H.R. 4984, the Potash Royalty Reduction Act, which would revitalize the potash industry and help save more th...
More
|
|
Pearce Works to Reopen Border for Local Businesses
Sep 24, 2004
-
Congressman Steve Pearce worked to reopen the New Mexico-Mexico border which was recently shut down by the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) because of a Mediterranean fly found in a shipment in Tijuana, Mexico.
“As soon as I heard about this situation, we immediately called the USD...
More
|
|
House Committee Passes Pearce’s Land Exchange Bill
Sep 15, 2004
-
Today the House Committee on Resources unanimously passed H.R. 4808, authored by Rep. Steve Pearce, which would provide a land exchange between the Bureau of Land Management and a local land owner in the vicinity of Holloman Air Force Base.
“We need to make sure Holloman is safe from encroachment...
More
|
|
Lawmakers Ask Feds to Mend Fences with Livestock Producers
Sep 10, 2004
-
With the resolutions of the Kit Laney case at hand, U.S. Sen. Pete Domenici, R.N.M., are urging the U.S. Forest Service to work toward rebuilding cooperative working relationships with the state's livestock producers.
The Catron County rancher reportedly will plead guilty to lesser charges stemming...
More
|
|
Hearing Held on Pearce’s Potash Revitalization Bill
Sep 9, 2004
-
Today the House Committee on Resources held a hearing on H.R. 4984, the Potash Royalty Reduction Act, authored by Rep. Steve Pearce which would reduce by one percent the amount of royalties paid to the federal government.
“This bill will have a significant impact in New Mexico by revitalizing th...
More
|
|
Pearce Secures Funds for Southern New Mexico Agriculture and Rural Communities
Jul 13, 2004
-
The U.S. House of Representatives today passed the Fiscal Year 2005 agriculture appropriations bill which provides almost $17 billion for our nation’s farmers, ranchers and rural communities. Upon passage of the bill, Congressman Steve Pearce (R–NM) said this legislation will help protect the intere...
More
|
|
House Passes Interior Appropriations Bill
Jun 17, 2004
-
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The U.S. House of Representatives today passed H.R. 4658, the Fiscal Year 2005 Interior Appropriations bill. Congressman Steve Pearce (R-NM) said he is pleased that the bill secured funding for a number of New Mexico priorities that he requested.
“The funding contained within ...
More
|
|
|
Previous Next |