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News
Stories Posted 7-24-03:
NM
physician nominated to be HHS Asst. Sec. of Health
Spruce
Complex Fact Sheet
Dry
Lake Fire Use Complex Fact Sheet
News
Stories Posted 7-23-03:
Domenici:
Blight
& wildfires underscore need for new forest policies
News
Stories Posted 7-22-03:
Key
Senate committee considers Bingaman's forest health legislation
News
Stories Posted 7-21-03:
Bill
to
help NM&
West meet stricter arsenic water regs
Lieberman:
12 million kids are
waiting; 157,000 in NM alone
Gila
National Forest Fire Update
News
Stories Posted 7-18-03:
State
Rep. Hamilton to meet with public
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VA
to fill prescriptions
by
non-VA physicians
WASHINGTON, DC - Some veterans waiting
to see Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) physicians for the first time
may be eligible to receive medications from VA mail-out pharmacies that
were prescribed by private doctors, under a new policy announced today.
"This policy should ease the minds
of veterans with pharmaceutical needs who have been waiting too long for
their first appointment," said Secretary of Veterans Affairs Anthony
J. Principi. "This
decision will help these veterans while preserving our ability to serve
others."
To be eligible for the new benefit,
veterans must meet all of the following conditions:
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Have enrolled in VA health care before July 25, 2003;
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Requested their first primary care appointment with VA
before July 25, 2003;
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Must be waiting more than 30 days for their first
appointment with a primary care physician on Sept. 22, 2003.
The first prescriptions will be filled
under the new program on September 22.
Eligible veterans will be unable to get prescriptions filled before
that date.
The period between announcement of the
program (July 24) and filling the first prescriptions (Sept. 22) is
necessary to allow VA to identify and contact eligible veterans and to put
new systems and procedures in place to deliver this benefit.
Principi said the policy is a
short-term measure to assist veterans who were enrolled and waiting for
the appointment before July 25, when details about the new benefit will be
published in the Federal Register.
It will not apply to veterans who are
put on the waiting list after July 24.
VA estimates that 200,000 veterans will be eligible for the
benefit.
"Traditionally, an examination and
a prescription - both by a VA physician - have been required before VA
would provide pharmacy benefits to veterans," Principi said. "By
improving the process of giving veterans the medication they're seeking,
we can enhance their health care treatment and reduce the waiting lists
for everyone."
Veterans covered by the new rule will
receive information by mail from their nearest VA medical facility about
filling prescriptions by mail from non-VA doctors, including information
for the doctors themselves.
Principi credited Reps. John Mica
(R-FL) and Rob Simmons (R-CT) with "playing an important role in
launching this new benefit due to their keen interest in improving
prescription coverage for veterans."
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Albuquerque
physician nominated
to
be HHS Assistant Secretary of Health
WASHINGTON, DC - U.S. Senator Pete
Domenici Wednesday praised President Bush's decision to promote Dr.
Cristina Beato of Albuquerque to the Assistant Secretary of Health within
the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).
The White House on Wednesday announced
the President's intent to nominate Beato, a former dean of the University
of New Mexico Medical School, to the high-level HHS position.
The appointment will require Senate
confirmation.
Domenici said Beato's elevation at HHS
will make her one of the highest-ranking Hispanics in the Bush
administration.
Domenici originally recommended the
Albuquerque physician to the President, who in 2001 appointed her to be
the HHS Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for Health for the Office of
Public Health and Science (OPHS).
"This new promotion is a very big
step for Dr. Beato, and I am very proud of her and her rapid advancement
as a public servant. As the
Assistant Secretary of Health, she will find herself as a key advisor to
Secretary Thompson on some very important issues involving public health
policy," Domenici said.
"As well as she has done in the
deputy principal position, there is no doubt in my mind that she will be
expeditiously confirmed once the nomination is formally submitted to the
Senate," he said.
The Assistant Secretary of Health
oversees the HHS's Public Health Service, which includes these health
agency divisions: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality; Agency for
Toxic Substances and Disease Registry; Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention; Food and Drug Administration; Health Resources and Services
Administration; Indian Health Service; National Institutes of Health; and
Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration.
Before being nominated by President
Bush to serve in his administration, Beato served as Associate Dean for
Clinical Affairs and Medical Director at the University of New Mexico
Health Sciences Center.
While at UNM, Beato also served as
medical director for the New Mexico Youth Diagnostic and Development
Center, Department of Children, Youth, and Families, and as an emergency
room physician at the Veteran's Administration Hospital in Albuquerque.
Beato earned a Bachelor of Science in
Chemistry and Biology from UNM and a Doctor of Medicine from the UNM
School of Medicine in 1984.
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Spruce
Complex Fact Sheet
July
23, 2003
Fire Name:
Spruce Complex; The Spruce Complex consists of the Spruce Fire,
Nabours Fire, and the Silver Fire.
Time/Date Started:
Spruce Fire started July 11; Nabours Fire started July 14; and
Silver Fire started July 11.
Location:
The Spruce and Nabours Fire are about 6 miles east of Glenwood, NM,
in the Gila Wilderness Area on the Gila National Forest.
The Silver Fire is about 3 miles east of Mogollon, NM, on the
Glenwood District of the Gila National Forest.
Cause: Lightning
Fuels: Mixed conifer, ponderosa pine and brush
Size: Spruce Fire—5,694 acres; Nabours Fire—772 acres; Silver
Fire—1,887 acres.
Contained:
0%
Resources Committed:
4 Type I Crews, 4 Type II Crews, 3 Engines, 3 Water
Tenders, 3 dozers, 2 Helicopter, 2 Camp Crews and 113 Miscellaneous
Overhead Personnel for a total of 330 personnel committed to the Fire.
Predicted Weather:
Winds South to Southwest with variable light wind speed.
Temperature in the 80’s with chance of afternoon thundershowers. Wind
accompanying thundershowers could be strong with direction variable.
Summary: Rain on some of
the fire area today. Some showers were moderately heavy. Crews continued
work on the Silver Fire improving and constructing control lines.
Helicopter water drops were used on some portions of the fire where heat
was detected. Smokejumpers deployed to a small fire within the complex and
made good progress in containing the Sacaton Fire.
Concerns:
Lack of access due to steep terrain.
Restrictions:
Highway 159 (Bursum Road) is closed.
Forest Trails 179, 181, 201, 202, 212, 214, 217, 218, 225 and 241
are closed at the Wilderness Boundary.
Cooperating Agencies: Catron County
Sheriff’s Office, NM State Police, NM State Forestry
For
information on fires and Forest closures and restrictions in
Arizona and New Mexico, dial the toll free Fire Information Number @
1-877-864-6985. For information about wildfires on the Gila National
Forest, dial 505 388-8245.
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Dry Lake Fire Use Complex Fact Sheet
Wednesday, July 23, 2003
FIRE
NAME: Dry
Lake Fire Use Complex (Dry Lake, Turnbo, Moonshine and Granny Fires)
CAUSE:
Lightning
SIZE:
The Dry Lake Complex
totals approximately 111,000 acres (Dry Lake: 94,000; Turnbo: 17,000.
STATUS:
Recent high humidity has
led to decreased fire activity on the Dry Lake Complex. Actions necessary
to keep the fire within the pre-determined line have been reduced due to
the decreased fire activity. Resources
and personnel are being decreased as conditions dictate.
As weather conditions become drier, fire activity will increase,
requiring additional actions to keep fire within predetermined areas. This may require an increase in resources and staffing in the
future.
LOCATION:
These four fires are
located in the Gila Wilderness. The Dry Lake, Turnbo and Granny Fires are
about 1 to 3 miles southwest of the Gila Cliff Dwellings and about 27
miles northwest of Silver City, New Mexico.
The Moonshine Fire is roughly 3 miles south of Snow Lake.
RESOURCE
BENEFITS: The Dry Lake Fire is being managed as a suppression fire under a confine
tactic.
The portion exceeding the wild land fire use management
boundary is called the Turnbo Fire. The remainder of the complex, the Moonshine and Granny fires, are
being managed for resource benefits. Long-term resource benefits include:
reducing dead and down fuels, enhancing wildlife habitat, minimizing
future threats to firefighters, and restoring low intensity fires to the
wilderness.
FUELS:
The Dry Lake and Turnbo
Fires are currently burning in ponderosa
pine and mixed conifer. The Moonshine Fire is burning in the area of the
1997 Lilly Fire. Since
this area was burned before, flammable material in the Moonshine Fire
boundary is generally light. This
area includes small patches of downed dead trees and open forest. The
Granny Fire is burning in scattered brushy areas.
SUMMARY
OF ACTIVITY:
The Dry Lake Complex is active in the Little Turkey Park area,
Brush Canyon, Shelley Peak and Mogollon Creek.
The Turnbo fire is burning from the southern end of Rawmeat Creek
to Cub Mesa. The Moonshine
fire continues to move slowly toward the Middle Fork of the Gila River.
The Granny Fire is burning near the southern edge of the 2000 Bloodgood
Fire north of the Gila River.
TRAIL
CLOSURES: An area closure is in
effect which largely affects the Gila Wilderness area. The area and trails around the fires are closed in order to
ensure public safety.
CONCERNS:
Firefighters, aviation, smoke, and public safety; threatened and
endangered species habitat: Mexican Spotted Owl, Gila Trout, Gila Chub,
Mexican Wolf, Spikedace, Chiricahua Leopard Frog and Loach Minnow; New
Mexico Fish and Game cabin.
RESOURCES:
Gary Cones’ Great Basin
Interagency Fire Use Team took over management of these fires today.
Resources assigned are: one helicopter, three fire use crews and
the management team. Forty
additional personnel are assigned to the fire from USDA Forest Service,
Bureau of Land Management, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, National Park
Service, and U. S. Geological Survey.
DRY
LAKE COMPLEX AND FIRE RESTRICTIONS INFORMATION:
505-388-8245
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Blight
& wildfires underscore need
for new forest
policies, Domenici says
WASHINGTON, DC - U.S. Senator Pete
Domenici said Wednesday testimony at his hearing on wildfire and blight
problems in the national forests only underscores the need for Congress to
act soon to pass legislation to reform forest management policies.
As chairman of the Senate Energy and
Natural Resources Committee, Domenici on Wednesday chaired a hearing to
examine impacts of insects, disease, weather and fires on public and
private forestland and examine processes for implementing forest health
and hazardous fuel reduction projects.
Otero County Commission chairman Mike
Nivison of Cloudcroft and Laura McCarthy of the Forest Trust in Santa Fe
were among those testifying at the hearing.
Domenici has been working with Senate
Agriculture Committee chairman, Senator Thad Cochran (R-MS) to reach an
agreement on who best to move legislation this year to improve forest
health and prevent catastrophic wildfires.
Cochran's committee is expected to
approve a national forest policy bill, based on President Bush's Healthy
Forests initiative, on Thursday.
"The Energy and Agriculture
committees will be closely aligned on how we want to pass a strong healthy
forests bill. Senator Cochran
and I clearly understand that we cannot let another summer of rampant
wildfires claim millions of acres of our forests without moving a reform
bill now," Domenici said.
"We will advance a plan to get
beyond the deadlock we've suffered on this issue. We have been bickering over just about everything but the
land. It is the land and
keeping that land productive and enjoyable for our constituents that we
must focus on," he said.
During the hearing Domenici produced a
graph showing that since 1994 wildfires have burned four times more acres
of the national forest than the trees harvested.
"Despite our debate about timber
harvesting, it has been fires that have been destroying important wildlife
and fisheries habitats. I
hope we will begin to worry about the agents of change that are truly
robbing America of its forests, namely insects, diseases, and fire,"
Domenici said.
Nivison, who is the Otero County Land
Use Planner, testified to the need for getting federal forest health
funding to the local level, full funding for the National Forest County
Partnership Restoration program, and policies to promote jobs.
He questioned why federal forest policy
makers do not look to the Mescalero Apache Tribe.
"What is it that Native Americans
understand that cannot be implemented by the federal government?
In the Lincoln National Forest, the Mescalero Tribe has shown us
the way to manage the forest effectively.
Using best management practices, the Mescalero Tribe is restoring
their forest and is doing so with the same laws that exist on the national
forest land," Nivison said.
"Current rules and policies do not
allow us to act in a timely fashion.
We need to maintain the integrity of the law but streamline and
re-think policies to be effective. We
have 130,000 NEPA compliant acres on the Lincoln but cannot treat because
of lack of funding or lengthy process," he said.
Domenici said he expects a Senate-House
conference committee to complete its negotiations on a $2 billion
emergency supplemental appropriations package that will pour more money
into forest firefighting this summer.
The Senate last week passed a
supplemental package that provides for federal forest firefighting
expenses this year.
A conference committee agreement will
allow the House and Senate to give final passage to the emergency funding,
which is attached to the FY2004 Legislative Affairs Appropriations Bill.
The overall bill would then go to the
White House to be signed into law.
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7-23-03)
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Key
senate committee considers
Bingaman's
forest health legislation
WASHINGTON, DC - The Senate Energy and
Natural Resources Committee today held a hearing on legislation U.S.
Senator Jeff Bingaman wrote to expedite forest-thinning projects on
millions of acres of national forest service lands in the state and
throughout the West.
With the fire season underway, the
Senate has begun to discuss what actions Congress can take to reduce the
threat of wildfire in national forests.
In June, Bingaman introduced a
comprehensive measure that would significantly reduce fire risk in the
West by addressing funding shortages and guaranteeing that the vast
majority of forest thinning projects be performed near communities or
municipal watersheds.
The Energy Committee discussed
Bingaman's legislation, along with two other forest health bills.
"No one knows better than New
Mexicans how devastating wildfires can be. Congress has no choice but to
take immediate action to reduce the threat of fire by removing brush and
small-diameter trees from our national forests," Bingaman said.
"The legislation I introduced
would guarantee adequate funding for forest thinning projects and push
these projects ahead in a timely fashion," he said.
Bingaman's legislation does the
following:
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Expedites forest-thinning projects by categorically
excluding fuel reduction projects on 20 million acres conducted in high
fire risk areas from environmental review and appeals. Specifically, the bill would exempt from National
Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) review forest thinning projects located
near communities or in municipal watersheds that remove up to 250,000
board feet of timber or 1 million board feet of salvage timber. The
measure also prohibits administrative appeals on these projects.
Additionally, the measure eliminates judicial review granted under
NEPA for thinning projects within one-half mile of at risk communities or
certain municipal watersheds. The result is that forest thinning projects
could move ahead up to 18 months faster;
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Protects communities by requiring that 70 percent of
hazardous fuels reduction funds be spent on projects within one-half mile
of communities or municipal watersheds;
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Protects the environment by protecting municipal watersheds,
protecting old and large trees and preventing new road construction in
"roadless areas";
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Requires that 30 percent of hazardous fuels funds be spent
on projects that benefit small businesses;
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Provides $25 million annually to establish an insect
infestation research program in cooperation with universities;
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Prevents the damaging practice that has allowed the Forest
Service to dip into forest restoration funds to fight fires.
Instead, if the Forest Service needs additional fire fighting
funds, it would have to borrow from the U.S. Treasury.
Bingaman's measure also takes the major
step of creating a $100 million program that would provide grants to carry
out thinning projects on non-federal lands, including the Bosque in
Albuquerque as well as tribal lands.
Two New Mexicans testified at today's
hearing: Laura McCarthy of Forest Trust in Santa Fe and Mike Nivison,
chairman of the Otero County Commission.
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Domenici
renews bill to create
grant
program
to
help New Mexico
&
West met stricter arsenic water regs
WASHINGTON, DC - With the clock ticking
toward the 2006 implementation of strict new arsenic drinking water
standards, U.S. Senator Pete Domenici today reintroduced legislation to
create a multi-billion dollar grant program to help communities in New
Mexico and throughout the country comply with the new federal regulations.
Domenici on Monday introduced the
Community Drinking Water Assistance Act to create a grant program to
assist disadvantaged communities, tribes and water associations in meeting
the new arsenic drinking water standards set by the Environmental
Protection Agency (EPA).
The bill would authorize $1.9 billion a
year from FY2004 through FY2009 for the grant program.
In 2006, the EPA will begin imposing its
new 10 parts per billion (ppb) arsenic water standards, a level sharply
lower than the current 50ppb standard.
"The EPA is forcing communities to
comply with new drinking water standards that many believe will not
dramatically increase public health.
The least we can do is help them meet the burden of what is
essentially another un-funded federal mandate," Domenici said.
"Arsenic is indeed a poison when
ingested in high amounts. It
is also naturally occurring in much of the ground water throughout the
nation,” he said.
“New Mexico's geology results in high
levels of arsenic in groundwater. Despite
that fact, New Mexicans have not experienced higher levels of diseases
associated with arsenic. Be
that as it may, the standard is in our near future and many small
communities will not be able to meet the financial burden," he said.
"I believe it is important to aid
communities, especially those very small towns with small water systems
and limited resources," the senator said.
The Domenici bill stipulates that grants
would be awarded to disadvantaged communities with less than 200,000 in
population. At least 20
percent of the grant monies would be directed to towns with less than
50,000 people. All grants
require a 10 percent non-federal cost-share.
To assist larger cities in areas with
naturally-occurring arsenic in groundwater - such as Albuquerque - the
bill will allow the grant to communities in Bernalillo and Sandoval
counties, NM, El Paso County, Texas; Mesquite and Washoe counties, NV, and
Scottsdale, AZ.
The Domenici bill was cosponsored by
Senators Jeff Bingaman, D-NM, and Chuck Hagel, R-NE.
"Communities around New Mexico will
be financially affected by the new drinking water standard, and I firmly
believe that Congress needs to lend a hand in helping them absorb those
costs. I have been working to
secure support from a variety of federal sources to help our communities
comply, and this bill would provide an important additional source of
funds," Bingaman said.
In introducing the bill, Domenici
highlighted the fact that it could cost New Mexico communities an
estimated $370 million to $440 million to improve water treatment systems,
plus another $18 million annually in operating costs.
About one in four New Mexico water
systems have naturally occurring arsenic and will be forced to upgrade
their systems.
"Albuquerque, which has
naturally-occurring arsenic levels of about 13 parts per billion, may have
to spend up to $150 million to come into compliance.
Rio Rancho is facing $60 million in improvements.
Many smaller communities in New Mexico and throughout the West
could see increases in their water bills of $50 to $90 a month per
individual. I know there are
a lot of people who cannot afford such an increase," Domenici said.
Domenici said the increased compliance
costs are related to the advanced technologies required to upgrade the
systems.
"Most of the technology needed for
these upgrades will require a significant increase in the level of
training and expertise for public water system operators.
This legislation will help these communities upgrade their systems
and train their people," Domenici said.
As chairman of the Senate Energy and
Water Development Appropriations Subcommittee, Domenici is again providing
Energy Department funding to advance more affordable arsenic removal
technologies. Some of this research is being carried out at Sandia
National Laboratories in Albuquerque.
At Sandia, scientists have used
supercomputing technology to develop new materials, called Specific Anion
Nanoengineered Sorbents (SANS), which would help attract and sift out
arsenic compounds in drinking water.
The FY2004 Energy and Water Development
Appropriations Bill, which awaits Senate debate, has $6 million for
arsenic removal research. Domenici
provided $4 million for this work in FY2003.
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U.S.
House passes Energy
and
Water Development Bill
Pearce
secures more than
$38 million for NM projects
WASHINGTON, DC - Congressman Steve
Pearce announced Friday he has succeeded in including language that will
protect New Mexico's water rights in the Energy and Water Development
Appropriations Bill.
Rep. Pearce, R-NM, worked with the
Energy and Water Appropriations Committee to make sure his language was
included in the bill and funding was available for New Mexico's projects.
The House on Friday passed the Energy
and Water Development Act of 2003 by a vote of 377 to 26.
Pearce's language reaffirms state's
ownership of water by prohibiting federal acquisition or lease in the
Middle Rio Grande or Carlsbad Projects in New Mexico unless the
acquisition is in compliance with existing State law.
"Protecting New Mexico's water
rights has been a top legislative priority and it is exciting to see it
become a reality," Pearce said.
"Water is owned by the states
according to the United States Constitution. Water should be controlled by
the states - not the federal government. New Mexico has the right to
decide how water is used - not a federal judge," Pearce said.
"I believe we have a responsible
and bipartisan bill that will improve the status of our nation's energy
and water resources. We are truly at a historic crossroads in respects to
both our energy needs and water resources, and I think this bill will help
us make a great deal of progress," Pearce said.
The Energy and Water Development
legislation provides a total of $27.1 billion in new discretionary
spending authority for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers for water and
flood control projects, the Department of Interior including the Bureau of
Reclamation, the Department of Energy, and several Independent Agencies.
This bill is $942 million above fiscal
year 2003 and $134 million above the President's budget request.
Many of the specific appropriations in
the bill will affect New Mexico directly.
Congressman Pearce secured funds for
the following water and flood control projects for Southern New Mexico in
Fiscal Year 2004:
Corps
of Engineers:
Project
Studies:
1.
East Mesa, Las Cruces, $130,000
2.
Rio Grande Basin, NM, TX, CO,
$164,000
3.
Navajo Nation, AZ, NM, UT, $250,000
(Studies
must be completed before beginning construction on these projects.)
Construction:
1.
Alamogordo, $3,500,000
2.
Central New Mexico, $2,000,000
3.
Middle Rio Grande Flood Protection Bernalillo to Belen, $600,000
Section
205 (Small Flood Control Projects):
1.
Hatch Project, $200,000
2.
Hobbs Project, $100,000
Section
206 (Aquatic Ecosystems Restoration)
1.
Bottomless Lakes State Park,
$100,000
2.
Las Cruces Wetlands Restoration,
$300,000
Section
1135 (Project Modifications for the Improvement of the Environment):
1.
Pecos River Restoration (Chavez,
NM), $150,000
Bureau
of Reclamation:
1.
Carlsbad Project, $3,092,000
2.
Middle Rio Grande Project,
$17,388,000
3.
Pecos River Basin Water Salvage
Project, $127,000
4.
Rio Grande Project, $3,982,000
5.
Tucumcari Project,
$108,000
Total:
$38,786,000
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7-21-03)
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Lieberman
to Bush: 12 million kids
are
waiting; 157,000 in NM alone
With
child tax credit checks set to go out Friday,
Lieberman
launches campaign to include low-income families
ARLINGTON, VA - As President George W.
Bush prepares to hold a series of photo-ops on the printing and mailing of
more than 25 million child tax credit checks later this week, Joe
Lieberman today launched a national petition drive urging Bush not to
leave behind the 12 million kids who were shut out by his plan, 157,000 of
whom live in New Mexico.
"Our message is to President Bush
is strong and simple," Lieberman said.
"Don't treat low-income families
like second-class citizens. Don't leave 157,000 children behind in New
Mexico. Don't leave 12
million children behind nationwide," he said.
The Bush tax cut passed earlier this
year included a $400 increase in the child tax credit, but excluded 6.5
million low-income working families and the 12 million kids in those
households from receiving it.
As many as 89,000 New Mexico families
with 157,000 children receive no benefit - that is 36 percent of all the
families with children in New Mexico, Lieberman said.
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