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Legislators introduce bipartisan HALT Fentanyl Act

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WASHINGTON D.C. — Sens. Martin Heinrich, D-N.M., Bill Cassidy, R-La., and Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, introduced the bipartisan Halt All Lethal Trafficking of Fentanyl Act to permanently classify fentanyl-related substances as Schedule I drugs under the Controlled Substances Act Jan. 30. This permanent scheduling will give...

Legislation to increase K-12 salaries heard in first committees

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Dear Editor,

The House Education Committee began to hear bills during the morning of Feb. 3 after spending the prior week in orientation sessions and hearing presentations on the various budgetary proposals impacting public education in New Mexico’s schools.

The members of the Committee heard two main bills of importance to our members, House Bill 63 and House Bill 156.

House Bill 63 is the product of a task force which was established to review the Student Equalization Guarantee and make recommendations to the Legislature on how the SEG can better serve our schools’ needs.

The bill better classifies and funds English Language learners who have become proficient, modernizes...

House Republicans champion bipartisan solutions to New Mexico's crime crisis

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SANTA FE — The New Mexico House Republicans are proud to announce tough-on-crime legislation built from a collaboration with Democrat District Attorney from Bernalillo County Sam Bregman and introduced by Rep. Andrea Reeb, R-Clovis.

As the 9th Judicial District Attorney for over 25 years, Reeb has a deep personal understanding of just how out of control New Mexico's juvenile crime crisis has become. Her professional experience as a New Mexico prosecutor led Reeb to the conclusion that New Mexico's Delinquency Act is in dire need of reform.

The New Mexico House Republicans are proud to announce that the bill introduced by Reeb has bipartisan cooperation, signaling the same point that...

Letter to the Editor: 180 days of Project 2025

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Dear Editor,

The recently installed Republican GOP U.S. "president" has long been fascinated with American control of Greenland and taking control of the Panama Canal, spanning from his interest in buying the country in 2019, to his recent refusal to rule out taking both targets of acquisition by military force. Now that America is no longer a trusted partner with our historical allies, the 574 "federally recognized" native tribes should take notice.

If military force is a side option, economic force is applied first. The yearly monetary scraps that are doled out to Treaty tribes gets smaller and the conditions get stricter. The Rule of Strength is now the Institution and any opposition...

Delivering emergency price relief for American families, defeating the cost-of-living crisis

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Over the past 4 years, the Biden Administration’s destructive policies inflicted an historic inflation crisis on the American people.  The Biden Administration not only exploded government spending, artificially and unsustainably stimulating demand, but it simultaneously made necessary goods and services scarce through a crushing regulatory burden and radical policies designed to weaken American production. Hardworking families today are overwhelmed by the cost of fuel, food, housing, automobiles, medical care, utilities, and insurance.

In particular, the assault on plentiful and reliable American energy through unnecessary and illegal regulatory demands has driven up the cost of...

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