Washington, Feb. 6 -- Representative Gabe Vasquez issued the following press release:
On February 2, 2026, U.S. Representative Gabe Vasquez (NM-02) pushed to make the federal emergency management system more efficient by cutting red tape to help communities impacted by disasters - like Ruidoso - recover and rebuild faster. In a letter (https://vasquez.house.gov/sites/evo-subsites/vasquez.house.gov/files/evo-media-document/letter-to-leadership-re-h.r-4669_final.pdf) to Speaker Johnson and Leader Jeffries, Rep. Vasquez pressured House leadership to bring the bipartisan Fixing Emergency Management for Americans (FEMA) Act, which he is cosponsoring, to the floor for a vote.
In response to recent flooding in Ruidoso and the Salt and South Fork...