Press Releases
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Congresswoman Michelle Lujan Grisham introduced legislation today to create a permanent source of funding for opioid treatment, prevention and research.
WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senators Tom Udall and Martin Heinrich and U.S. Representatives Ben Ray Luján and Michelle Lujan Grisham announced that a bipartisan measure to expedite reimbursements to Tribal, local and state governments for costs incurred in responding to the Gold King Mine spill has passed both Houses of Congress as an amendment to the Water Resources Development Act (WRDA).
WASHINGTON – Today, the members of New Mexico's U.S. Senate and U.S. House delegation hailed final passage of the Protection of the Right of Tribes to stop the Export of Cultural and Traditional (PROTECT) Patrimony Resolution (House Concurrent Resolution 122). The bipartisan resolution was introduced by U.S. Senator Tom Udall and U.S.
WASHINGTON D.C. – Congresswoman Michelle Lujan Grisham, who represents New Mexico’s 1st District, was elected as the chairwoman of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus. She will serve a two-year term, succeeding U.S. Rep. Linda Sánchez, as the leader of the prominent group of Hispanic members of Congress.
WASHINGTON D.C. – Congresswoman Michelle Lujan Grisham sent a letter today urging the U.S. Department of Justice to send federal monitors to North Dakota to stop the violence at Standing Rock. I also asked for an investigation into the aggressive and unwarranted tactics being used against peaceful protestors.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Michelle Lujan Grisham joined more than 120 colleagues in the House today to send a letter to President-elect Donald Trump, urging him to reconsider his appointment of Steve Bannon to be his White House chief strategist.
The text of the letter is below:
Dear President-elect Trump:
WASHINGTON — Today, U.S. Sens. Tom Udall and Martin Heinrich and U.S. Reps.
ALBUQUERQUE – Congresswoman Michelle Lujan Grisham today expressed outrage after learning that the New Mexico VA failed to notify many patients about positive test results indicating they could have colorectal cancer.
WASHINGTON — Rep. Michelle Lujan Grisham (D-NM) and Rep. Vern Buchanan (R-FL) sent a letter to the Department of Interior Secretary opposing a recommendation to exterminate or put up for sale 45,000 wild horses in the western United States.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – In a letter to the President of the United States, U.S. Senators Tom Udall and Martin Heinrich and U.S. Representatives Steve Pearce, Ben Ray Luján and Michelle Lujan Grisham expressed support for Navajo Nation President Russell Begaye’s request for a major disaster declaration in response to August flooding that occurred on the Navajo Nation in Shiprock.