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Issues

CD-1 Candidates on "New Mexico in Focus"

See the candidates discuss the issues on the May 2 edition of "In Focus" by following this link to The New Mexico Independent.

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Education

America's future rests on the small shoulders of our youngest citizens. We have a clear and undeniable responsibility to educate our children, preparing them to be competitive in our increasingly interconnected world.

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Economic Security, Energy & the Environment

Our economic security is inextricably intertwined with our energy policy and preservation of the environment. The past seven years have seen record profits in the oil industry while gas prices have skyrocketed. Meanwhile, Bush and the Republican Party have forced taxpayers to subsidize the industry with billions in tax breaks.

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Health Care

Universal access to affordable health care should be a right, not a privilege, in our country.  It is shameful that 45 million Americans, including 400,000 New Mexicans, go without health insurance. Many of them are children - the most vulnerable among us.

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Iraq and Foreign Policy

The war in Iraq must end. Bush's war has cost us more than 460 billion dollars, thousands of our brave servicemen and women have been injured or killed, and we are less safe today as a nation as a result of this action.

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