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
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Junk faxes dried up after that. People stopped doing it,
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I have told the leadership I am opposed,
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I don't think we are doing well in detecting, investigating and responding to ethics violations when they occur.
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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.
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If the government takes your land, they should pay for it,
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We have to have to address this issue, whether it's in this bill or another bill. These organizations are operating outside of the rules.
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We have to start from the facts and the place to get those facts is the House Intelligence Committee. This is the beginning of a series of questions and engagement.
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Children tease each other because you're short or you're tall or you're a redhead or because you're ugly or because you're smart or because you're dumb or all kinds of differences and as parents we have to deal with that and strengthen our children to be comfortable with themselves and also to show empathy and acceptance towards others.
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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.
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A comprehensive national energy policy is critical to our nation's economy and our national security. Energy expenditures account for about 7% percent of our total economy and influence pricing in the much of the rest of the economy.
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I support legal immigration.
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Border security is a safety issue.
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I've got a bit of an independent streak. I'm not afraid of bipartisan compromise on issues that are important to the nation.
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Primaries are a family fight. I'm a pro-free enterprise, pro-Second Amendment, pro-life Republican.