Press Releases

March 27, 2019 Press Release

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Yesterday, Rep. Torres Small denounced the Department of Homeland Security’s immoral family separation policy during a Committee on Homeland Security, Border Security, Facilitation, and Operations Subcommittee, hearing. She also received expert medical and legal testimony on the traumatic effects family separation has on small children.

March 26, 2019 Press Release

Washington, DC – Today, Rep. Xochitl Torres Small (NM-02) announced a $7,892,462 grant and loan financing package awarded to the city of Socorro. The grant amount is $2,942,462 and the loan amount is $4,950,000.

March 26, 2019 Press Release

WASHINGTON, D.C.  – Today, U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) and U.S. Representative Xochitl Torres Small (D-N.M.) introduced the White Sands National Park Establishment Act, a bill to designate White Sands National Monument as New Mexico's newest national park.

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March 26, 2019 Press Release

WHO: Rep. Xochitl Torres Small (NM-02), invites all high school students residing in New Mexico’s 2nd Congressional District to submit their artwork for the 2019 Congressional Art Competition.

March 26, 2019 Press Release

Washington, D.C. – Today, Representative Xochitl Torres Small (NM-02), a member of the House Homeland Security Committee and the House Armed Services Committee, issued the following statement in response to the House’s failed attempt to override President Trump’s veto of the bicameral, bipartisan vote to overturn his national emergency declaration.

March 25, 2019 Press Release

Washington, DC – Today, Representative Xochitl Torres Small (NM-02) released the following statement on Senator Tom Udall’s announcement not to seek re-election to the U.S. Senate:

March 22, 2019 Press Release

Las Cruces, NM – Last week, Rep. Xochitl Torres Small introduced The Resident Physician Shortage Reduction Act of 2019, H.R. 1763, along with her colleagues Reps. Terri Sewell (AL-7), John Katko (NY-24), and Rodney Davis (IL-13).

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March 12, 2019 Press Release

Washington, DC – Today, Representative Xochitl Torres Small (NM-02) issued the following statement on the introduction of H.R. 6, The Dream and Promise Act:

March 8, 2019 Press Release

Washington, DC – Yesterday, U.S. Representative Xochitl Torres (NM-02) spent the day working across party lines to address Customs and Border Protection (CBP) staffing shortages in the most rural regions of our southern border.  First, by introducing the bipartisan U.S. Customs and Border Protection Rural and Remote Hiring and Retention Strategy Act (H.R.

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