Ben Ray Lujan

New Mexico Democratic Rep. Ben Ray Lujan has co-signed a House Bill that would add a public option to the recently passed health care reform bill.
As The Washington Independent reported today, House Democrats have returned to a top liberal priority that didn’t make it into the final health care reform bill.
The Congressional Budget Office projects that [...]

Rep. Ben Ray Luján, D-N.M., outraised his Republican opponent once again according to FEC reports. Luján raised $104,000 in the 2nd quarter to Mullins’ $47,000. Luján also has a very large advantage in cash on hand.

Republican Congressional candidate Tom Mullins once again drew attention to his campaign for the wrong reasons — this time reportedly making a comment that “There weren’t too many white faces there in the room” at a religious ceremony at the Kewa Pueblo in January.

Sen. Tom Udall may be coming to a television near you. Udall is now hosting a new TV show that will air on public access and be archived  his website.

In a fundraising appeal sent to supporters ahead of the 2nd quarter fundraising deadline, Republican 3rd Congressional District candidate Tom Mullins bragged that “the most recent Magellan poll has me in a dead heat (43 to 42 percent) with my opponent,” incumbent Democratic congressman Ben Ray Luján.
But that’s not exactly what the poll said. The poll asked: “If [...]

A bill requiring most groups to reveal who paid for political ads has passed the U.S. House Thursday on a near-party line 219-206 vote. All three members of the House of Representatives from New Mexico voted in the majority.
The bill would require most groups disclose the top five donors who contributed to political ads and [...]

The U.S. House voted yesterday to give subpoena power to the commission that is investigating the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. Although President Barack Obama created the group last month, he could not give it the power to compel people to testify or obtain documents from companies involved in the spill.

In the wake of the largest oil spill in American history, British Petroleum has agreed to create a $20 billion escrow fund for claims from the spill. BP has also agreed to halt dividend payments to shareholders for the rest of the year.

Sure, there’s been talk of using unmanned aerial drones to monitor the border, but Republican congressional candidate  Tom Mullins has found himself in a bit of hot water over offering a proposal to put land mines on the United States – Mexico border.

A group that tries to promote “men’s rights” is targeting Rep. Ben Ray Luján over his support for the International Violence Against Women Act. In a press release issued this week the Luján campaign called the group named Abusegate, Investigate “radical domestic violence deniers” and attached the full text of a group’s press release in [...]

Rep. Ben Ray Luján and dozens of other members of Congress sent a letter to Tony Hayward, the CEO of BP, calling on the company to halt a $10 billion dividend payment to stockholders. Luján and the other members of Congress are calling for the dividend not to be paid because of the oil spill, [...]

Steve Pearce and Tom Mullins won the two contested Congressional primaries in New Mexico. Both are Republicans who will challenge Democratic incumbents in the 2nd and 3rd Congressional Districts, respectively.

Congress and the White House have reached a compromise on repealing “don’t ask, don’t tell,” the policy that says openly gay men and women can’t serve in the military. The measure is moving quickly and could soon come to a vote in Congress.
U.S. Senators Tom Udall and Jeff Bingaman and U.S. Reps. Martin Heinrich and Ben Ray Lujan have [...]

Threats on members of Congress increased by 300 percent in the first few months of 2010, an investigation by The Politico has found. According to FBI documents, most of the suspects are men who own guns and have recently undergone stressful events. Some had been treated for mental illness; at least one admitted being drunk when [...]

U.S. Rep. Ben Ray Luján is joining the House Committee on Natural Resources. The freshman Democrat will continue to serve on the House Committee on Science and Technology.