Heather Wilson
Heather Wilson
Heather Ann Wilsonis President of the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology in Rapid City, South Dakota. She is a former Republican member of the United States House of Representatives representing New Mexico's 1st congressional district from 1998 to 2009. She was the first female military veteran elected to a full term in Congress...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth30 December 1960
CountryUnited States of America
Heather Wilson quotes about
agency ahead forest laboratory los national santa
Los Alamos National Laboratory and the Santa Fe National Forest told your agency not to set the fire, ... I'd like to know why they went ahead and did it.
dried junk people stopped
Junk faxes dried up after that. People stopped doing it,
leadership
I have told the leadership I am opposed,
ethics responding violations
I don't think we are doing well in detecting, investigating and responding to ethics violations when they occur.
continue expensive expertise fail four graduate history mathematics nation people spend students teaching
Many of our young people spend four years getting very expensive college degrees. But our universities fail them and the nation if they continue to graduate students with expertise in biochemistry, mathematics or history without teaching them to think about what problems are important and why.
support immigration legal-immigration
I support legal immigration.
issues safety borders
Border security is a safety issue.
independent issues important
I've got a bit of an independent streak. I'm not afraid of bipartisan compromise on issues that are important to the nation.
fighting pro-life second-amendment
Primaries are a family fight. I'm a pro-free enterprise, pro-Second Amendment, pro-life Republican.
claims clock july knew last month problem seen staff time uncovered until
We've seen claims in the last month that they didn't know until July of this year, and now you're working around the clock to find out what's wrong, ... That's rubbish. You knew you had a problem a long time ago. You had recalls in 18 countries. This committee's staff has uncovered memos going back to 1997 where you knew you had a problem and you didn't do anything about it.