![Sen. Ben Ray Luján, D- NM, shakes a man’s hand at the community listening session regarding a recommendation to close the Las Vegas Community-Based Outpatient Clinic. Photo Credit: Courtesy of Office of Ben Ray Lujan](/images/resized/images/news/2016/369_apr29/12_100_100.jpg)
LAS VEGAS, N.M. – On April 20, Sen. Ben Ray Luján, D-N.M., led a community listening session in partnership with Secretary Sonya Smith of the New Mexico Department of Veterans Services regarding the Department of Veterans Affairs’ recommendation to close the Las Vegas Community-Based Outpatient Clinic at New Mexico Highlands University Student Union Ballroom Building.
The senator heard from Northern New Mexico military veterans and their families on the importance of these clinics and reviewed his advocacy to keep them fully funded, operational, and able to best serve veterans.
Luján has expressed opposition to the recommended closures and written to the President...